3430 books (172 pages) in this category
by Virginia Woolf
Outwardly a novel about life in a country-house in whose grounds there is to be a pageant, <i>Between the Acts</i> is also a striking evocation of English experience in the months leading up to the Second World War. <BR><BR>Through dialogue, ...
ISBN: 9780241372500
Binding: Paperback
by Virginia Woolf
<p>WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY JACKIE KAY AND LISA JARDINE</p> <p>A village pageant is to take place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for time beyond memory. Written and directed by the energetic Miss La Trobe, the pageant will ...
ISBN: 9781448139071
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eBookby Aravind Adiga
The dazzling new book from the winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize: Aravind Adiga brings to life a chorus of distinctive Indian voices, all inhabitants in the fictional town of Kittur. ...
ISBN: 9781848871236
Binding: Paperback
by Arthur Conan Doyle
<p>This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1892 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. It was between 1876 and 1881, while ...
ISBN: 9781473369894
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eBookby HERMAN MELVILLE
Cheerful, hardworking, and handsome, Billy is pressed into naval service aboard a British ship during the Napoleonic wars. The innocent and lovable young man quickly wins the hearts of all his comrades, save one: Claggart, the implacably bitter ...
ISBN: 9780486813639
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales
by Herman Melville
<p>`Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.' So wrote Melville of Billy Budd, Sailor, among the greatest of his works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. As the critic E. L. Grant Watson writes,
ISBN: 9780191504518
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eBookand other stories
by A. A. Milne
<p>A collection of fifteen short stories by A A Milne published together for the first time in 1950. Here’s an anthology on varied and various themes – from a children’ birthday party, to an accidental encounter with murder to a case of ...
ISBN: 9781760557140
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eBookby Anna Sewell
Black Beauty is a young black colt and loves roaming Farmer Gray’s fields with his mother but as he grows into a handsome stallion, he is trained into the use of a saddle and whip and sold to Squire Gordon of Birtwick Hall. Here, he makes many ...
ISBN: 9781760270490
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eBookby Anna Sewell
'I have heard men say, that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing.' Anna Sewell's famous 'Autobiography of a Horse, published in 1877, is one of the bestselling novels in English. It was written not for children, but to
ISBN: 9780191635786
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eBookby Anna Sewell
“Where we saw people who loved their neighbors, and were kind to man and beast, we might know that was God's mark.” -Anna Sewell, Black Beauty Anna Sewell's 1877 classic, Black Beauty, is considered to be one of the foremost works ...
ISBN: 9781626862579
Binding: Paperback
Black Jade (The Ea Cycle, Book 3)
by David Zindell
<p>The third book in the Ea Cycle, BLACK JADE is as rich as Tolkien and as magical as the Arthurian myths Valashu Elahad rescued the Lightstone from the dark hell of the enemy's own city, only to have his triumph overturned. Once more the Lord ...
ISBN: 9780007387717
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eBookby Evelyn Waugh
<p>"Black Mischief" was Evelyn Waugh's third novel, published in 1932. The novel chronicles the efforts of the English-educated Emperor Seth, assisted by a fellow Oxford graduate, Basil Seal, to modernize his Empire, the fictional ...
ISBN: 9781479443215
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eBookOr, The Pirate of Roanoke
by B. Barker
<p>Blackbeard was one of the most feared and notorious of the historical pirates. His legend still resonates some three hundred years after his bloody and courageous end. Here is his fantastic story of piracy, loyalty, and betrayal.</p> ...
ISBN: 9781515400882
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eBookby Harold Bindloss
Although he is well liked in his community, many members of which remember him fondly as a young man, Richard Blake's stint in the Canadian military is shrouded in a miasma of mystery -- and according to some, dishonor. Will he be able to ...
ISBN: 9781776596492
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eBookby Charles Dickens
<p><strong>'Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex ...
ISBN: 9780141974262
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eBookby Charles Dickens
A enthralling story about the inequalities of the 19th-century English legal system Bleak House is one of Charles Dicken's most multifaceted novels. Bleak House deals with a multiplicity of characters, plots and subplots that all weave in and ...
ISBN: 9781775410683
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eBookby George Manville Fenn
Settle in for a pulse-pounding read with this fast-paced Victorian mystery from author George Manville Fenn. With the unexpected arrival of a beautiful and mysterious visitor, a physician finds himself thrust into the middle of a very strange ...
ISBN: 9781776593255
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eBookby HENRY D STACPOOLE
Love blossoms amid a tropical paradise in this tale of two children stranded on a remote South Pacific island. Richard and Emmeline escape from a burning ship and learn to fend for themselves, as they fish, swim, dive for pearls, and explore ...
ISBN: 9780486493008
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by Kurt Vonnegut
From the author of Slaughterhouse 5. In Rabo Karabekian's fictional autobiography, Vonnegut creates an impeccably funny satirical piece, through the reflections of a seventy-one-year-old man. ...
ISBN: 9780008264338
Binding: Paperback