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Written by the author of "Those Barren Leaves" and "Antic Hay", this is the story of Anthony Beavis, who discovers that the liberty he has achieved - ... More

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'Jocelyn Brooke's writing is imaginatively unique ...a great writer' - Elizabeth Bowen. Flowers and fireworks, botany and pyrotechny: these were the ... More

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Written in America while Trocchi was working on a scow on the Hudson River, "Cain's Book" is an extraordinary autobiographical account about a junky ... More

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In Maria, Wollstonecraft pursues in fictional form themes set forth in 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.'

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Celia works at the Ministry in the post-war England of 1949 and lives in a London suburb with her beloved Aunt. Witty, fragile, quixotic, Celia is ... More

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Taking as its point of departure the remarkable increase in the production of fictional autobiographies in Britain and Ireland over the last thirty ... More

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The eighth volume of "A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight", "A Test to Destruction" begins during the final year of Great War. After the harsh winter of ... More

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The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is ... More

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ... More

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The sequel to "Empire of the Sun", this story follows the travels of Jim, as he leaves Shanghai after the war and tries to settle firstly in England ... More

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In my youth...I had an overwhelming passion to be like other people. Other people were a whole romantic race, miles beyond my reach. Not now. I don't ... 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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P.G. Wodehouse is recognized as the greatest English comic writer of the twentieth century, rightly admired throughout the world and translated into ... More

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A fictional autobiography, this is the story of the son of a British adviser to an Indian princeling - his life at school, during World War II, his ... More

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Set in a near future (the novel was first published in 1961 and is set in the period 1970-73), this is Angus Wilson's most allegorical novel, about a ... More

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This novel offers a compassionate portrait of an elderly - and frustrated - woman adjusting to new town life and finding a new purpose in living. ... More

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Francis King's 1970 novel "A Domestic Animal" is the story of Antonio Valli, a brilliant young Italian philosopher, who arrives to do a year's ... More

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'For money', wrote Balzac, 'people fight and devour one another like spiders in a pot'. In "House of All Nations", the pot is an exclusive private ... More

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A brilliant portrait of a young girl's coming of age, "The Lost Traveller" tells of Clara, the beloved daughter of a devoted though authoritarian ... More

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