Cultural Region/British
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Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics
$12.99 Read moreA repackaged edition of the revered author’s first book–a collection of poems, written in the wake of World War I, in which the young intellectual and soldier wrestles with the perplexing polarities
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0062643614
- Language: English
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The Essential T.S. Eliot
$25.99 Add to cartA selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the twentieth century’s major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay Seshadri
T.S. Eliot was a towering figure in twentieth century l
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 006297811X
- Language: English
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The Female Quixote
$17.00 Read moreBeautiful and independent, Arabella has been brought up in rural seclusion by her widowed father. Devoted to reading French romances, the sheltered young woman imagines all sorts of misadventures that… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Lennox, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0140439870
- Language: English
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Instructions for a Heatwave
$17.00 Read moreAn unforgettable narrative–from the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait and Hamnet–of a family falling apart and coming together with hard-won, life-changing truths about who … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: O’Farrell, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0345804716
- Language: English
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Jane Eyre
$9.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Diane Johnson
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Grea
Commentary by G. K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Rigby, George Saintsbury, and Anthony Trollope- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Brontë, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: November 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783326
- Language: English
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Seven Types of Ambiguity
$16.95 Read moreRevised twice since it first appeared, it has remained one of the most widely read and quoted works of literary analysis. Ambiguity, according to Empson, includes “any verbal nuance, however slight, w… [more below]
- Author: Empson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 17 1966
- ISBN10: 081120037X
- Language: English
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Symposium
$16.95 Read moreOne October evening five posh London couples gather for a dinner party, enjoying “the pheasant (flambe in cognac as it is)” and waiting for the imminent arrival of the late-coming guest Hilda Damien, … [more below]
- Series: New Directions Classics #1053
- Author: Spark, Muriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0811216594
- Language: English
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Victory to Defeat: The British Army 1918-40
$35.00 Read moreA compelling history of the decline of an army from the triumph of victory in 1918 to defeat in 1940 and why this happened. A salutary warning for modern Britain.
‘Both [authors] are former soldiers,- Author: Dannatt, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1472860861
- Language: English
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Aquatic Plants of Northern and Central Europe Including Britain and Ireland
$191.67 Read moreThe first comprehensive guide to the aquatic plants of the region
Beneath the surface of bodies of freshwater–springs, streams, rivers, ponds and lakes–there is a world of plants of great variety an- Series: Wildguides #118
- Author: Schou, Jens Christian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0691251010
- Language: English
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The Strangers’ House: Writing Northern Ireland
$30.00 Read moreA penetrating study and celebration of Northern Irish literature–telling the region’s story through the extraordinary novels and poetry produced by decades of conflict.
Northern Ireland is one hundr- Author: Poots, Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 153870157X
- Language: English
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Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of the Children’s Ship
$19.99 Read moreFrom award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII.
- Author: Heiligman, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1627795545
- Language: English
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How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts
$18.99 Read moreWith this “impeccable” (BBC History) chronicle, acclaimed popular historian Ruth Goodman reveals a Renaissance Britain particularly rank with troublemakers. From snooty needlers who took aim with a cu
- Author: Goodman, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1631496247
- Language: English
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Persuasion
$14.99 Read moreNow on Netflix! Jane Austen’s wickedly satirical final novel, starring Dakota Johnson, Henry Golding and Richard E. Grant.
Complete and unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series o- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1909621706
- Language: English
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With No One as Witness: A Lynley Novel
$19.99 Add to cart“Delicately textured. . . achingly compassionate. . . gripping. . . . It’s one of George’s best, and that’s saying something.” —Seattle Times
The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s chilling 13th n
- Series: Lynley Novel #13
- Author: George, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0062964194
- Language: English
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Tales from Watership Down
$17.00 Add to cartThe “utterly captivating” (People) sequel to the beloved classic Watership Down, which introduced millions of readers to an extraordinary world of rabbits. – “It’s grand to see Mr. Adams’s characters … [more below]
- Author: Adams, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0307950190
- Language: English
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Home by Nightfall
$19.00 Read moreIt’s London in 1876, and the whole city is abuzz with the enigmatic disappearance of a famous foreign pianist. Lenox has an eye on the matter – as a partner in a now thriving detective agency, he’s a … [more below]
- Series: Charles Lenox Mysteries #9
- Author: Finch, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 1250093643
- Language: English
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A Fashionable Fatality
$26.00 Read moreSet in the Downton Abbey era of post-WW1 England, Alyssa Maxwell’s latest historical mystery finds sleuthing duo Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady’s maid, Eva Huntford, investigating a murder at a hous… [more below]
- Series: Lady and Lady’s Maid Mystery
- Author: Maxwell, Alyssa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1496734912
- Language: English
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Death of an Art Collector: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
$16.99 Read moreAn art hoarder’s suspicious death paints a nasty picture for Nero Wolfe.
No matter how fabulously he’s being courted, infamously dour “art hog” Arthur Wordell isn’t keen on favoring the new Guggenhei- Series: Nero Wolfe Mysteries #14
- Author: Goldsborough, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1504057546
- Language: English
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Dove Descending: A Journey Into T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets
$16.95 Read moreThroughout the world, many consider T.S. Eliot to be the most important and influential poet of the 20th century, and Four Quartets to be his finest poem and greatest literary achievement. Dove Descen… [more below]
- Series: Sapienta Classics
- Author: Howard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 02 2006
- ISBN10: 1586170406
- Language: English
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Telling Tales
$20.00 Read moreSHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015
Tabard Inn to Canterb’ry Cathedral,
Poet pilgrims competing for free picks,
Chaucer Tales, track by track, it’s the remix
From below-the-belt base to the topnot- Author: Agbabi, Patience
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 16 2015
- ISBN10: 1782111573
- Language: English
