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The Poems Of Francis Thompson
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew voices in the Victorian literary canon burn with such desperate, luminous intensity as that of Francis Thompson — a poet who transformed personal...
The Poems Of Francis Thompson
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Author: Francis ThompsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press,, 1948Condition:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis collection, The Poems Of Francis Thompson, presents the profound and often mystical verse of a significant late...
Colonial Improver: Edward Deas Thomson 1800-1879
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Author: S. G. FosterBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical biography chronicles the life and influence of Edward Deas Thomson, a pivotal...
The Essays Of Elia
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew voices in English literature possess the warmth, wit, and tender eccentricity of Charles Lamb, and The Essays of Elia stands as the supreme...
Documents That Shaped Australia: Records of a Nation's Heritage: 1516-2008
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E.V. Thompson Omnibus: "Somewhere a Bird is Singing", "Singing Spears"
SOMEWHERE A BIRD IS SINGING Sally is an orphan living in Plymouth's Barbican, where a vile trade flourishes in young girls, duped and shipped off to the brothels of Europe....
The Short Oxford History of English Literature
"The Short Oxford History of English Literature" provides, in a single volume, a comprehensive beginner's guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present...
Edward Thomas
Edward Thomas, poet, essayist, and critic, with some thirty books to his name, was thirty-nine when he was killed in the Arras offensive on Easter Day, 1917. F.R. Leavis singled...
Representations of the Intellectual
Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests or do they have a larger responsibility? In these wide-ranging essays, one of our most brilliant and fiercely independent public thinkers addresses...
A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson
Gentle, modest and handsome, a fine poet, proficient in nine languages, eccentric Englishman Frank Thompson made an unlikely soldier. The elder of two sons of a formidable family of writers...
Capitalism And Antislavery: British Mobilization In Comparative Perspective
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Author: Seymour DrescherBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press., 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCapitalism And Antislavery: British Mobilization In Comparative Perspective presents a rigorous historical...
The Golden Treasury; With A Fifth Book Selected By John Press
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Author: Francis Turner PalgraveBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1980Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThe Golden Treasury presents a curated collection of literary works. This volume...
The Bond Of Poetry: A Book Of Verse For Australasian Schools
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersA cornerstone of Australasian literary...
Five Poems 1470-1870: An Elementary Essay On The Background Of English Literature
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: worn/faded, chipping and tears but still structural (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few scholars...
Cyclopaedia Of English Literature; A Historical, Critical And Biographical, Of British Authors, From The Earliest To The Present Times. (Two-Volume Set)
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Author: Robert ChambersBinding: HardbackPublished: WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS, 1844Condition:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Rare first edition in...
Utopias: Papers From The Annual Symposium Of The Australian Academy Of The Humanities
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Author: Eugene KamenkaBinding: HardbackPublished: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work meticulously examines the multifaceted concept of utopia throughout history. It critically analyzes the...
The Penny Cyclopaedia Of The Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge (14 vols.)
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodCondition remarks: fragile and in poor-to-fair antiquarian condition. Spines: Cracked, rubbed and chipped, with splits and loss at the head and tail of several volumes. Lettering...
Common or Garden: Encounters with Britain's 50 Most Successful Wild Plants (SIGNED)
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Author: Ken ThompsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Profile Books, 2023Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: SignedThis book explores the extraordinary splendour of Britain's most common wild plants, highlighting their key characteristics and how they...
Three Essays On Thucydides
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Author: John FinleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvard University Press, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Discoloured DJ spine. Chipping and light...
Imperial Vanities: The Adventures of the Baker Brothers and Gordon of
'A Victorian drama of three intertwined lives set against a backcloth of the greatest empire the world has ever seen. By degrees heroic, poignant, whimsical and tragic, Brian Thompson's wonderful...
The Oxford Book of London
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...
Edwardian Radicalism 1900-1914: Some Aspects Of British Radicalism
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the dawn of the twentieth century, Britain stood at a crossroads — caught between the dying embers of Victorian...
The Life of Samuel Johnson
A landmark in Boswell and Johnson studies In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a...
Restoration, Revolution, Reaction: Economics And Politics In Germany, 1815-1871
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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the turbulent half-century between the Congress of Vienna and the unification of Germany, a...
The Poetical Works Of John Milton
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew poets have shaped the English literary tradition as profoundly as John Milton, and The Poetical Works of John Milton...
A Study Of The Prose Works Of John Donne
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Author: Evelyn M. SimpsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1948Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsE. M. Simpson's...
An Edwardian Youth
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Author: L. E. JonesBinding: HardbackPublished: MACMILLAN & CO LTD; ST MARTIN'S PRESS, 1956Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsAn Edwardian Youth chronicles the formative years of an...
Professor Of Democracy: The Life Of Charles Henry Pearson 1830-1894 Oxford Don And Australian Radical
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Author: John TregenzaBinding: HardbackPublisher: Melbourne University Press., 1968Edition: First Edition.Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and...
Young's Night Thoughts; With Life, Critical Dissertation, And Explanatory Notes
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Author: Edward Young, Rev. George GilfillanBinding: HardbackPublished: James Nichol ; James Nisbet and Co. ; W. Robertson , Edinburgh ; London ; Dublin, 1853Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some...
Major Thompson And I: British Passport, United Kingdom Britain And Northern Ireland
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Author: Pierre Daninos; Translated from the French by W. Marmaduke Thompson. with Drawings by Walter Goetz.Binding: HardbackPublished: London, Jonathan Cape, 1957Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings:...
John Donne in the Nineteenth Century
In 1906, having been assigned Izaak Walton's Life of Donne to read for his English class, a Harvard freshman heard a lecture on the long disparaged 'metaphysical' poets. Years later,...
Economic Appraisal Of Health Technology In The European Community
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Author: M. F. DrummondBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis academic work, Economic Appraisal Of Health Technology In The...
The Complete Poetical Works Of Oliver Goldsmith
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Tear along binding spine - still structural. A landmark collection in English literary history, The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver...
The Craft Of Letters In England: A Symposium
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA landmark gathering of mid-century literary minds, The Craft of Letters in England presents a rich and authoritative symposium on the state of British writing in...
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature contains 23 newly commissioned essays by major philosophers and literary scholars that investigate literature as a form of attention to human life. Various...
Encyclopaedia Londinensis; Or, Universal Dictionary Of Arts, Sciences, And Literature.
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Author: John WilkesBinding: HardbackPublished: J. Adlard, 1810Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Some moisture damageMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards are fully detached, the binding...
The Victoria History of the County of York. The City of York.
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Author: R.B. PughBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, London, 1961Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a detailed historical overview of York, specifically focusing on the City...
The Oxford Companion To English Literature
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Wear and tear, some fading. Page Condition: Good. Markings: previous owner. Binding: Intact. No stickers or labels visibly present. The Oxford Companion to English Literature...
The Oxford Book of Ages
This anthology of quotations is a selection of reflections about each year of life by a wide range of authors, including American and Continental writers, though without trying to do...
The Life And Letters Of Sir Edmund Gosse
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Author: The Hon. Evan Charteris, K.C.Binding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann Ltd, 1931Condition:Book: Fair, ex-libraryJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Small stamps on prelims, otherwise internally sound. This...
The Diversity Of Life
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Author: Edward O. WilsonBinding: PaperbackPublished: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,, 1992Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis seminal work in natural...
The Eternal Present: The Beginnings Of Art; A Contribution On Constancy And Change
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Author: S. GiedionBinding: HardbackPublished: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1962Condition:Book: Good, ex-libraryJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: chipped along edges of dust jacket and...