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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of literary scholarship, Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: With Introductions and Notes presents a carefully curated anthology of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAmong the most ambitious publishing endeavours of the twentieth century, Sacred Writings: In Two Volumes, Volume II stands as an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew collections have shaped the English-speaking world's understanding of its own poetic heritage quite like English Poetry: In Three Volumes — Volume I: From Chaucer to...

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April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain . . . Published in 1922, The Waste...

A collection of insightful and witty essays about the history, practices and eccentricities of British gardening by American gardener and author Charles Elliott. The diverse subjects include Frank Kingdon-Ward's search...

Penguin Classics Relaunch. Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and...

Author: Matthew Hollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The Waste Land is said to be the greatest poem of the age. It is thought to describe the moral decay...

George Eliot's last novel is a richly textured portrait of British society and the Jewish experience within it As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Usual shelf-wear. Faded spine. Few authors...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owner annotations in margins / underlining - all in pencilFew poets have so thoroughly reshaped...

This extraordinary trove of previously unpublished early works includes drafts of poems such as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" as well as ribald verse and other youthful curios....

A launch title in a major new paperback series: the Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot If life had...

Volume 4 of the letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents a period of anxious and fast-moving professional recovery and...

An exceptional new biography that shows how George Eliot wrestled with the question of marriage, in art and life When she was in her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into...

Felix Holt, austere, idealistic, and passionate, is pitted against the self-satisfied local landlord Harold Transome in this story set in a Midland borough at the time of the Great Reform...

One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels and the one she thought her best One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance...

Published on the centenary of his birth, this volume of the correspondence of T.S.Eliot covers the period from his childhood in St Louis, Missouri, until the end of 1922 -...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodOne of the most celebrated works in all of Western literature, Don Quixote of the Mancha chronicles the tragicomic adventures of Alonso Quixano, a Spanish gentleman...

Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: good; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and secure. Usual shelf-wear. Few poets have provoked as fierce, as sustained, and...

When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Few figures in Victorian literature cast as long a shadow as Mary...

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Author: T.S. Eliot; [Valerie Eliot, Hugh Haughton and John Haffenden]Binding: HardbackPublished: Faber & Faber, 2009; 2012Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis collection features the correspondence of T.S. Eliot...

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With wide format pages to give generous margins for notes, the editor presents the latest George Eliot scholarship in an introduction, and also includes notes, text summary, selected criticism and...

Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T. S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts,...

Author: C.P. SnowBinding: HardbackPublished: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1970Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsC.P. Snow's Last Things concludes the monumental Strangers...

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Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire's son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted...

'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' Ted HughesPoet, dramatist, critic and...

Condition remarks: Jacket: Fair to Good. Pages: Stable; light age-toning typical of 1930s-era paper stock; edges are generally clean. Markings: Previous owner In this seminal collection of lectures, T.S. Eliot...

Driven out of the religious community to which he belongs on a false charge of theft, Silas Marner takes refuge in the village of Raveloe. He is a lonely man,...

Edition: reset ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears; price clipped. Jacket protected by mylar sleeve. Page Condition: good; foxing on book block . Markings: whiteout and inscriptions...

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This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, is intended as an introduction to the main body of his poetry prior to Four Quartets, which is available separately in Faber...

As a poet, editor and essayist, T.S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most...

Author: Mary TrevelyanFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 266g, 320 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2023'Completely fascinating, revelatory . . . A classic of its kind.' - WILLIAM BOYD'Compelling ....

As Maggie Tulliver approaches maturity she enters into conflict with family and community over her desire to be more than just average. Eliot's exploration of Maggie's dilemma makes this novel...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWidely regarded as the greatest novel in the English language, Middlemarch immerses the reader in the intricate social...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: dj: worn edges with small chip and sticker residue. Binding - remains tight. Clean and bright...