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The Satires of Horace and Persius
Both works have had a powerful influence on later Western literature, inspiring poets from Ben Jonson and Alexander Pope to W. H. Auden and Robert Frost. The Satires of Horace...
The English Horace: Anthony Alsop and the Tradition of British Latin
The subject of this entertaining and readable study is Anthony Alsop (d. 1726), the author of elegant and brilliantly witty Latin odes in the manner of Horace. His topics were...
The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings
A comprehensive new selection of the great satirist's prose and poetic works, edited by Leo Damrosch Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights...
The Collected Stories of Rumpole
Twenty of the best stories of the irrepressible pillar of the British legal system, Horace Rumpole. For the first time in Penguin Modern Classics, this is a new selection of...
Classical Literary Criticism
Recently updated and expanded volume of the landmarks of ancient literary criticism The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world- they...
Rumpole of the Bailey
New to Penguin Modern Classics, the very first selection of stories featuring the irrepressible Rumpole Horace Rumpole, the old boy committed to defending the apparently indefensible, trusting of a jury,...
Horace's Ars Poetica: Family, Friendship, and the Art of Living
A major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manualFor two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served...
Horace Plunkett, Co-operation and Politics
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Horace Jones: Architect of Tower Bridge
Sir Horace Jones (1819-1887) was the architect of Tower Bridge, designed in collaboration with John Wolfe Barry. But while some of his surviving buildings are world famous, Jones himself is...
Horace Jones: Architect of Tower Bridge
Sir Horace Jones (1819-1887) was the architect of Tower Bridge, designed in collaboration with John Wolfe Barry. But while some of his surviving buildings are world famous, Jones himself is...
The Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole
ASBOs may be the pride and joy of New Labour, but they don't cut much ice with Horace Rumpole - he takes the old-fashioned view that if anyone is going...
Horace & Bunwinkle: The Case Of The Fishy Faire
The final book in a young middle grade mystery-adventure series about Horace, an anxious Boston Terrier, and Bunwinkle, an exuberant potbellied pig, who team up to solve crimes in their...
The Poems Of Catullus
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Author: Horace GregoryBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson, 1956Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has wear, light staining and tear (notably one small hole in middle of spine...
State Crimes
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Author: Horace KingBinding: HardbackPublished: J. M. Dent., 1967Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some tears and creases to DJ, page edgeds discolored from tanning and...
The Castle of Otranto
The original Gothic novel On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His calculating father Manfred fears that his dynasty...
Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson was one of the world's greatest literary minds. During the reign of James I his literary prestige was at its height, and, during his lifetime, Jonson's contemporary literary...
Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?: A powerful true story of love and survival
Author: Horace Greasley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Horace 'Jim' Greasley was twenty years of age in the spring of 1939 when Adolf Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and latterly Poland....
Cwl:Campaigning with Grant (R)
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Travellers In Europe: Private Records Of Journeys By The Great And The Forgotten; From Horace To Pepys
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA rich and captivating anthology of travel writing, Travellers in Europe: Private Records of Journeys by the Great and the...
Campaigning with Grant
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Three Gothic Novels
The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings. This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario...
The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse
A window onto the past, full of fire and life- two immortal traditions as the English language has never seen them before SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR...
The Old Guard Surrenders
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Spine label has largely disintegrated, boards remain intact despite some...
Rumpole a la Carte
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Riding And Hunting
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Author: M. Horace Hayes, F.R.C.V.S.Binding: HardbackPublished: HURST & BLACKETT LTD., 1948Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Cut on fep....
Rome's Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas
Author: Emily Gowers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 488 The story of Maecenas and his role in the evolution and continuing legacy of ancient Roman poetry and culture An unelected...
Years May Pass On...: Caulfield Grammar School 1881-1981
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Author: Horace WebberBinding: HardbackPublished: Caulfield Grammar School, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive historical account, Years May Pass On...: Caulfield Grammar School 1881-1981, chronicles a century of...
Years May Pass On: Caulfield Grammar School 1881-1981 (SIGNED)
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Author: Horace WebberBinding: HardbackPublished: The Centenary Committee Caulfield Grammar School, Melbourne, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Chipped and torn DJ with...
Points Of The Horse
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingA cornerstone of equestrian literature since its first publication in the late 19th century, Points of the Horse stands as the definitive...
Camellias In America
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Author: H. Harold HumeBinding: HardbackPublisher: J. HORACE MCFARLAND COMPANY, 1946Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Remainder markCamellias In America presents a comprehensive guide to the cultivation and appreciation of...
Nationalism & Socialism: Marxist And Labor Theories Of Nationalism To 1917
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Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son
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Edition: colonial ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards - some moisture damage. Internally sound. A beloved classic of American humorous literature, Old Gorgon...
The Second Rumpole Omnibus
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Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
John Mortimer's Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders sees our eponymous hero tackle his first ever case. It is just after the war and two RAF heroes are found shot...
Rumpole
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Author: John MortimerBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1998Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Yellowed spine. Clean text. Rumpole presents the captivating world of a curmudgeonly Old Bailey barrister,...
The Outline Of Literature
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Author: John Drinkwater; Revised By Horace ShippBinding: HardbackPublished: George Newnes Limited, 1953Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Cracked hinges with...
Herrick
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew poets of the seventeenth century captured the fleeting beauty of life with such sensuous precision...
The Keepers #3: The Portal and the Veil
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In the third book of Ted Sanders' Keepers series, Horace and his friends discover their talismans of power may be dying out. Now the race is on to save their...
Rumpole
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Slipcase: WornPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Foxed spine. A beloved classic of British legal fiction, Rumpole chronicles the adventures of Horace Rumpole, a rumpled, claret-loving...
Horsie
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books What can you say, when a man asks you to dance with him? I most certainly will not dance with you....
The Box and the Dragonfly
Author: Ted Sanders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 A boy, a girl, an ancient puzzle, and a House of Answers, Artefacts, Miseries and Mysteries. From the moment Horace F....
Dialogues and Letters
A selection of dialogues and letters of one of the most eloquent - and influential - masters of Latin prose. A major writer and a leading figure in the public...