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During the reign of Charles II, London was a city in flux. After years of civil war and political turmoil, England's capital became the centre for major advances in the...

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Author: Charles WilliamsBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber & Faber, London, 1948Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAn occultist invades Europe at the head of an African army. His goal--the conquest...

On the wintry afternoon of Monday 28 November 1768, an architect and three artists were granted an audience with George III at St James's Palace; their mission, the foundation of...

In his introduction, Dennis Walder discusses Dickens's social commentary and view of London, and places the Sketches in the tradition of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century reportage. Charles Dickens's first published book,...

Author: Charles DennisBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, London, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Scuffed front end paper.The Next-To-Last Train Ride presents a gripping mystery that unfolds on a...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA masterwork of Victorian literary journalism, The Uncommercial Traveller presents a vivid...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodFew cities have ever been so intimately bound to a writer's imagination as London was to Charles Dickens, and Dickens' London presents a masterfully...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Set against the turbulent backdrop of the French Revolution, A Tale...

Author: H. Charles Tomlinson And H. M. TomlinsonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Cassell and Company., 1934Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks:...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Oliver Twist is one of Charles Dickens' most celebrated...

Author: Charles DickensBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron BooksCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsOliver Twist chronicles the harrowing journey of an orphan navigating the brutal underbelly of 19th-century London. This classic work of...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact. A compelling work of travel...

This edition is based on the first one-volume publication of Barnaby Rudge, reproducing all the original illustrations. Appendices include a map of London at the time of the Gordon Riots...

An illuminating biography of a republican convicted of regicide, drawing on the letters he wrote from within the Tower of London. Henry Marten-soldier, member of parliament, organizer of the trial...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew novels in the English language have captured the turbulent passage from innocence to experience with the raw emotional power of Great Expectations. Charles...

Oliver Twist- orphan, trainee pickpocket, good boy. Elbow your way through the streets of Victorian London with Dicken's most enduring child character 'Look here! Here's a jolly life! What's the...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: Ex-library. Binding condition: Binding intact. A magnificent compendium of the living world, Natural History stands...

Author: Charles WilliamsBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1949Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis novel tells a story about the interconnectedness of human experiences...

All great cities inspire great literature but no other city has so consistently stimulated the literary imagination as London. Over the centuries writer, poets, historians, artists, and simple observers have...

Author: Charles DickensBinding: HardbackPublished: HERON BOOKS, LONDON, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis collection presents two distinct facets of Charles Dickens's literary genius. Master Humphrey's Clock chronicles an ambitious, early...

From Barnet to Richmond, explore the history of London's Metro-Land A Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land is your essential pocket guide to the modernist architecture of London's suburbs. Inspired by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the shadow of the Second World War, An Interlude in Spain presents a gripping account of exile, captivity, and survival, set...

Author: Charles DrummondBinding: HardbackPublished: Gollancz, London and Boston, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Odds On Death by Charles Drummond plunges readers into a gripping world of suspense...

When the brilliant classical architect Charles Barry won the competition to build a new, Gothic, Houses of Parliament in London he thought it was the chance of a lifetime. It...

Author: Ann SaundersBinding: HardbackPublished: David & Charles, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: noticeable wear to paper dust cover; stamped on inside cover...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsIn this masterful and deeply engaging historical biography, noted scholar John Tregenza delivers Professor of Democracy, the definitive chronicle of...

Author: John ChancellorBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld and Nicolson LondonCondition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling biography, Great Lives Charles Darwin, chronicles the extraordinary life and groundbreaking scientific contributions of...

Author: Charles DickensBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron BooksCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling Victorian novel, Dombey & Son II, continues the intricate saga of a proud shipping magnate and his ill-fated...

Author: Charles DickensBinding: HardbackPublished: Chancellor Press, 1993Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis collection presents two seminal works by Charles Dickens, offering a profound look into the social fabric of Victorian...

The story of Tom-All-Alone's takes place in the 'space between' two masterpieces of mid-Victorian fiction: Bleak House and The Woman in White - overlapping with them, and re-imagining them for...

Author: C. R. AshbeeBinding: HardbackPublished: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON : HUMPHREY MILFORD, 1918Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Minor wear...

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Please, sir, I want some more.' An...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. In the grimy underworld of Victorian London, a young...

Author: Charles ReadeBinding: PaperbackPublisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, LONDON, 1986Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA compelling array of dramatic works...

Dickens' last completed novel portraying a dark, macabre London Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees, young John Harmon, presumed...

Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street...

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound...

By turns witty, insightful, self-deprecating and philosophical, in these essays Lamb offers an unusually warm, human glimpse of life in a circle that included such luminaries as Coleridge, Wordsworth and...