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Using a variety of unpublished and little-known sources, Taylor paints a portrait of William Makepeace Thackeray as an endearing, exasperating and paradoxical individual. This biography sets out to redefine Thackeray...

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Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these...

No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?' No one...

Author: William Makepeace ThackerayBinding: HardbackPublished: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1892Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Minor marks...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Chipped DJ with some loss. This classic of English literature, Vanity Fair, presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis insightful biography chronicles the complex life of a prominent Victorian literary figure, presenting a nuanced examination of his personal...

Author: Ann MonsarratBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis insightful biography chronicles the complex life of a prominent Victorian literary figure, presenting a nuanced...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThe historical essay collection The Four Georges chronicles the reigns of the four King Georges, offering...

Author: William Blake Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 'To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the...

Author: R. MacGregor Dawson; H. Blair NeatbyBinding: HardbackPublished: Methuen, 1958; 1963Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markings This two-volume official biography covers the life and political career of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew writers of the eighteenth century captured the warmth, wit, and gentle irony of English life as...

Named a BOOK OF THE YEAR by The Times and Sunday Times, New Statesman, Spectator, Prospect, and New Yorker . 'Undoubtedly Hoare's masterpiece' Olivia Laing 'Queer in all senses of...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. At the turn of the twentieth century, Dublin stood at the crossroads of...

Author: Norman SykesBinding: HardbackPublished: Cambridge at the University Press, 1957Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis distinguished work of historical biography presents the later career of William...

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Author: Vince KellyBinding: HardbackPublished: ALPHA BOOKS, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Wrinkled jacketA Man Of The People...: From Boilermaker To Governor-General chronicles the remarkable...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards: fair with some marks and specks; slight discolouration...

Author: J. Mordaunt CrookBinding: PaperbackPublished: John Murray, London, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Extensive pencil underlining of internal pagesThis authoritative volume chronicles the extraordinary career...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedFew names in the history of literature command the reverence and enduring fascination of William Shakespeare, and The...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling biography chronicles the life and times of the Bard, William Shakespeare, offering a meticulous account of...