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O Sullivan s memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited Gaelic-speaking island off the Atlantic coast of Ireland. The only book ... More

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1501: the turbulence of Henry VIII's reign brings passion and pain to the Morlands as they achieve ever greater wealth and prestige. Paul, great ... More

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The Mitfords were one of the 20th century's most intriguing and controversial families--glamorous, romantic, and especially in politics, extreme. ... More

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With his magisterial and ingenious re-creations of the lives of Chaucer, Dickens, T.S. Eliot, William Blake, and Sir Thomas More, Peter Ackroyd has ... More

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In 1483, Tavis Stewart, Earl of Dunmore, abducts beautiful Lady Arabella Grey, cousin of King Richard III, as she is about to marry Sir Jasper Keane. ... More

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Henry Yorke led a double life, under his own name as the managing director of an engineering company, and as Henry Green, the author of some of the ... More

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In The Days of Queen Victoria is the story of Queen Victoria, the woman who became queen at eighteen and for nearly 64 years wore the crown of Great ... More

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It is 1560, and the newly crowned Elizabeth I is about to become romantically involved with Robert Dudley when an old woman appears bearing a diary ... More

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Gerry Adams, a Sinn Fein activist who led sit-ins, marches, and protests in Northern Ireland, was imprisoned without benefit of a trial. He suffered ... More

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Parliament member and the trusted confidant of Charles II, Pepys details the Great Fire of London, the horrors of the Plague, the display of the head ... More

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are ... More

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William Fylbrigge is a young idealist who finds himself in a position to bring a voice of reason to an otherwise unreasonable world, when he is named ... More

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A celebration of the life, times and work of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte,

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"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important ... More

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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles ... More

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A celebrated British biographer has researched letters, journals, newspaper dispatches, and other historical sources to illuminate the life of Thomas ... More

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Adam Smith (1723 - 1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneering political economist. One of the key figures of the intellectual movement ... More

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Princess Elizabeth of England is trying to teach her golden pony to jump over a stone wall -- but no matter what she tries, he won't budge! After ... More

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A brilliant work that covers various aspects of Gladstone's life. From his all-engaging activities in politics to his books and private life, the ... More

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A brilliant piece of work by Robert Louis Stevenson. This historic novel describes the battle fought among three powerful Western countries - United ... More

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Set against the background of the 1960s--Sharpeville, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam--"Youth" is a remarkable memoir of an artistic and sexual ... More

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This study of the first and major phase of Scott's career as a novelist reconsiders his act of secession from his own literary past and examines the ... More

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The story of Charles Dickens as told by his cat.

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