Colors of the Soul— $16.95
This is Poetry book. 30 pages long and soft-covered first edition. There are 24 poems.
"I wrote these poems because of my personal experience considering the matters of relationships of all sorts and the emotions I have put inside them. Everyone has a different opinion but it's always good to have another view outside a personal one. It makes...
This is Poetry book. 30 pages long and soft-covered first edition. There are 24 poems.
"I wrote these poems because of my personal experience considering the matters of relationships of all sorts and the emotions I have put inside them. Everyone has a different opinion but it's always good to have another view outside a personal one. It makes life richer and more interesting. This also brings a lot of experience. The personal prism of the soul's colors of life is unique. Closed emotions scatter when there is too much hiding and running away from hard situations. That also makes the person stronger and makes him believe there is nothing to fear or lose"' - About the book
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4 books in 1 (Readers Digest Collection)— $21.81 (Save 49%!)
Reader's Digest Collection (4 Books in 1)!
Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
Folly by Alan Titchmarsh
The Pyramid by Henning Mankell
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Personally, I love the novel by Mary Ann Shaffer. Folly comes in a close second.
In 1946, Guernsey is just emerging fom German occupation....
Reader's Digest Collection (4 Books in 1)!
Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
Folly by Alan Titchmarsh
The Pyramid by Henning Mankell
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Personally, I love the novel by Mary Ann Shaffer. Folly comes in a close second.
In 1946, Guernsey is just emerging fom German occupation. Food and books are scarce, and the members of a book club, formed to outwit the Germans, are hungry for contact with the outside world, Enter Juliet Ashton, a budding London based author. In an exchange of letter with the islanders, she hears stories hilarious, moving and tragic, which draw her to a new and joyous life on the island.
This is the first and last novel to be published by Mary Ann Shaffer, who was prevented from finishing it when she fell ill in 2007. It was taken up and completed by her devoted niece, Annie Barrows, also a writer, and on publicationn it swiftly became a bestseller in several countries. Charming and distinctive.
Harry Ballantyne and Richard King, key players in the world of fine art dealing, started out as friends at Oxford, then became rivals and, finally, arch enemies. It was all to do with a beautiful woman, Eleanor, who once posed on horseback for a bewitching equestrian portrait by the famous English painter, Alfred Munnings. The feud between Harry and Richard's decendents might have gone on forever, except for fate - their grandchildren, James and Artemis, fall in love. This beguiling saga about lost love and family inheritance unravels a mystery that begins when three students make a visit to the Essex countryside in 1949...
For the other two novels, you have to buy this book first to find out!
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Audiobook on CD "The Flying Saucers" Science Fiction Old-Time Radio Broadcast— $5.99 (Save 70%!)
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With the popularity of Audiobooks, experiencing Old-Time Radio again is exciting. Instead of listening to an Individual...
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AUDIOBOOK PUBLISHED BY THE AGAIN SHOP (2009)
The Flying Saucers
From The Old time Radio Show - 2000 Plus
From its earliest time, radio had always been interested in science fiction. The depression years during which dramatic radio would get its first wind offered escape in the form of foreign or strange other places or worlds. Everything was either black or white with little room for gray.
With some exceptions, radio took its cue from the pulps and the comics when it turned to dramatic science fiction. With a few exceptions, science fiction was still in its infancy getting its content from the fantastic rather than the scientific. Pulps such as Air Wonder and Amazing Stories offered the kind of dramatic material from which radio developed its plays. Characters leapt from the Sunday comics into the living rooms of many a radio listener. It is not coincidental that radio pioneer Hugo Gernsback was also considered the father of science fiction as well as one of the first publishers in 1926 of a science fiction magazine. His Amazing Stories magazine opened up new worlds for youngsters and radio carried on that tradition fleshing out the characters that appeared in the stories.
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Audiobook on CD of an Old-Time Radio Show in MP3 Format Sound. Instead of just being read aloud, this Audiobook was performed by actors for radio broadcast.
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30 Volume Charles Dickens' Works [Hardcover]— $325.00 (Save 78%!)
VERY RARE COMPLETE 30 VOLUME SET PUBLISHED BY E. B. HALL & CO., Incorporated CHARLES DICKENS' WORKS includes: Vol. I-II: Pickwick Papers Vol. I-II: Nicholas Nickleby Vol. I-II: Martin Chuzzlewit Vol. I-II: Dombey & Son Vol. I-II: David Copperfield Vol. I-II: Little Dorrit Vol. I-II: Bleak House Vol. I-II: Christmas Books Vol. I-II: The Old...
VERY RARE COMPLETE 30 VOLUME SET PUBLISHED BY E. B. HALL & CO., Incorporated CHARLES DICKENS' WORKS includes: Vol. I-II: Pickwick Papers Vol. I-II: Nicholas Nickleby Vol. I-II: Martin Chuzzlewit Vol. I-II: Dombey & Son Vol. I-II: David Copperfield Vol. I-II: Little Dorrit Vol. I-II: Bleak House Vol. I-II: Christmas Books Vol. I-II: The Old Curiosity Shop with Hard Times in Vol. II Vol. I-II: Barnaby Rudge Vol. I-II: Our Mutual Friend Oliver Twist and Hunted Down Great Expectations Sketches by Boz A Tale of Two Cities and Master Humpfreys Clock Uncommercial Traveller and Pictures from Italy Miscellanies and American Notes Childs History of England No Thouroughfare and Reprinted Pieces
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1893 Hardcovers Two Volume Set "Shirley" by Currer Bell (Charlotte Bronte)— $25.99 (Save 74%!)
Vintage Collectible Two Volume Hardcover Set published in 1893 by J.M. Dent and Company in London
SHIRLEY
Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period...
Vintage Collectible Two Volume Hardcover Set published in 1893 by J.M. Dent and Company in London
SHIRLEY
Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against a backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry.
The novel's popularity led to Shirley becoming a woman's name. In the novel, Shirley Keeldar, the title character was given the name that her father had intended to give a son. Before the publication of the novel, Shirley was an uncommon – but distinctly male – name and would have been an unusual name for a woman. Today it is regarded as a distinctly female name and an uncommon male name.
written by Charlotte Bronte (Currer Bell)
Charlotte Brontë ( /ˈbrɒnti/; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters, whose novels are English literature standards. She wrote Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Bell.
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Uncle Remus Returns [Hardcover] Author:Joel Chandler Harris, Publisher: Houghton Mifflin 1918— $20.00 (Save 75%!)
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Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1845 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent the majority of his adult...
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Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1845 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent the majority of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution.
Harris led two significant professional lives. Editor and journalist Joe Harris ushered in the New South alongside Henry W. Grady, stressing regional and racial reconciliation during and after the Reconstruction era. Joel Chandler Harris, fiction writer and folklorist, recorded many Brer Rabbit stories from the African-American oral tradition and revolutionized children's literature in the process.
Uncle Remus is a fictional character, the title character and fictional narrator of a collection of African American folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, published in book form in 1881. A journalist in post-Reconstruction Atlanta, Georgia, Harris produced seven Uncle Remus books.
Uncle Remus is a collection of animal stories, songs, and oral folklore, collected from Southern United States blacks. Many of the stories are didactic, much like those of Aesop's fables and the stories of Jean de La Fontaine. Uncle Remus is a kindly old slave who serves as a storytelling device, passing on the folktales to children gathered around him.
The stories are told in Harris's version of a Deep South slave dialect. The genre of stories is the trickster tale. At the time of Harris' publication, his work was praised for its ability to capture plantation negro dialect.
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The Holly-Tree [Hardcover] by Charles Dickens Publisher: Henry Altemus Co., Phila; 1904— $20.00 (Save 75%!)
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Publisher: Henry Altemus Co., Phila; 1st THUS edition (January 1, 1904)
Charles John Huffam Dickens ( /ˈtʃɑrlz ˈdɪkɪnz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters....
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Publisher: Henry Altemus Co., Phila; 1st THUS edition (January 1, 1904)
Charles John Huffam Dickens ( /ˈtʃɑrlz ˈdɪkɪnz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters.
Many of his novels, with their recurrent concern for social reform, first appeared in magazines in serialised form, a popular format at the time. Unlike other authors who completed entire novels before serialisation, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialized. The practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by cliffhangers to keep the public looking forward to the next installment. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print.
His work has been praised for its realism, mastery of prose, and unique personalities by writers such as George Gissing, Leo Tolstoy and G. K. Chesterton; though others, such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf, criticized it for sentimentality and implausibility.
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The Garden Party and Other Stories [1927 Hardcover] by Katherine Mansfield— $19.99 (Save 66%!)
"The most frequently anthologized of Katherine Mansfield's works, 'The Garden Party' has long enjoyed a reputation for near-perfection in the art of the short story." In her time, Mansfield was seen as one of the prime innovators of the short story form. After Mansfield's death in 1923, Virginia Woolf would remark in her diary, "I was jealous of...
"The most frequently anthologized of Katherine Mansfield's works, 'The Garden Party' has long enjoyed a reputation for near-perfection in the art of the short story." In her time, Mansfield was seen as one of the prime innovators of the short story form. After Mansfield's death in 1923, Virginia Woolf would remark in her diary, "I was jealous of her writing—the only writing I have ever been jealous of." Even though it has enjoyed a fine reputation, critics and readers alike have puzzled over what they see as an unsatisfactory ending—an ending that, as Warren Walker remarks, "leaves readers with a feeling of dissatisfaction, a vague sense that the story somehow does not realize its potential."
CONTENTS: AT THE BAYTHE GARDEN PARTYTHE DAUGHTERS OF THE LATE COLONELMR. AND MRS. DOVETHE YOUNG GIRLLIFE OF MA PARKERMARRIAGE A LA MODETHE VOYAGEMISS BRILLHER FIRST BALLTHE SINGING LESSONTHE STRANGERBANK HOLIDAYAN IDEAL FAMILYTHE LADY'S MAID *** AT THE BAYI VERY early morning. The sun was not yet risen, and the whole of Crescent Bay was hidden under a white sea-mist. The big bush-covered hills at the back were smothered. You could not see where they ended and the paddocks and bungalows began. The sandy road was gone and the paddocks and bungalows the other side of it; there were no white dunes covered with reddish grass beyond them; there was nothing to mark which was beach and where was the sea. A heavy dew had fallen. The grass was blue. Big drops hung on the bushes and just did not fall; the silvery, fluffy toi-toi was limp on its long stalks, and all the marigolds and the pinks in the bungalow gardens were bowed to the earth with wetness. Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves. It looked as though the sea had beaten up softly in the darkness, as though one immense wave had come rippling, rippling–how far? Perhaps if you had waked up in the middle of the night you might have seen a big fish flicking in at the window and gone again. . . . Ah-Aah! sounded the sleepy sea. And from the bush there came the sound of little streams flowing, quickly, lightly, slipping between the smooth stones, gushing into ferny basins and out again; and there was the splashing of big drops on large leaves, and something else–what was it?–a faint stirring and shaking, the snapping of a twig and then such silence that it seemed some one was listening. Round the corner of Crescent Bay, between the piled-up masses of broken rock, a flock of sheep came pattering. They were huddled together, a small, tossing, woolly mass, and their thin, stick-like legs trotted along quickly as if the cold and the quiet had frightened them. Behind them an old sheep-dog, his soaking paws covered with sand, ran along with his nose to the ground, but carelessly, as if thinking of something else. And then in the rocky gateway the shepherd himself appeared. He was a lean, upright old man, in a frieze coat that was covered with a web of tiny drops, velvet trousers tied under the knee, and a wide-awake with a folded blue handkerchief round the brim. One hand was crammed into his belt, the other grasped a beautifully smooth yellow stick. And as he walked, taking his time, he kept up a very soft light whistling, an airy, far-away fluting that sounded mournful and tender. The old dog cut an ancient caper or two and then drew up sharp, ashamed of his levity, and walked a few dignified paces by his master's side. The sheep ran forward in little pattering rushes; they began to bleat, and ghostly flocks and herds answered them from under the sea. "Baa! Baaa!" For a time they seemed to be always on the same piece of ground. There ahead was stretched the sandy road with shallow puddles; the same soaking bushes showed on either side and the same shadowy palings. Then something immense came into view; an enormous shock-haired giant with his arms stretched out. It was the big gum-tree outside Mrs. Stubbs' shop, and as they passed by there was a strong whiff of eucalyptus. And now big spots of light gleamed in the mist. The shepherd stopped whistling; he rubbed his red nose and wet beard on his wet sleeve and, screwing up his eyes, glanced in the direction of the sea.
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Yankee Doodles - A Book of American Verse - Edited by Ted Malone 1941— $19.99 (Save 80%!)
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Seller Notes: “Hardcover, no dust cover. Top of outside spine frayed. Pages yellowed. All pages intact. Original owners name inside front cover.”
Binding: Hardcover
Country of Manufacture: United States
Subject: History
Year Printed: 1941
Origin: American
Collectible Hardcover
Publisher: Whittlesey House New York,...
Item specifics
Seller Notes: “Hardcover, no dust cover. Top of outside spine frayed. Pages yellowed. All pages intact. Original owners name inside front cover.”
Binding: Hardcover
Country of Manufacture: United States
Subject: History
Year Printed: 1941
Origin: American
Collectible Hardcover
Publisher: Whittlesey House New York, London
McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc.
Contents:
Preface
Songs
Patriotism
History
Laughter
Stories
Whimsy
Satire
Philosophy
Index
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1893 Hardcover Volume 7 The Works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte "The Professor" by Charlotte— $19.99 (Save 60%!)
1893 Hardcover in very good condition for its age.
Volume 7 of the Twelve Volume Set of
The Works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte
"The Professor"
The Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Brontë. It was originally written before Jane Eyre and rejected by many publishing houses, but was eventually published posthumously in...
1893 Hardcover in very good condition for its age.
Volume 7 of the Twelve Volume Set of
The Works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte
"The Professor"
The Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Brontë. It was originally written before Jane Eyre and rejected by many publishing houses, but was eventually published posthumously in 1857.
The book is the story of a young man, William Crimsworth, and is a first-person narrative from his perspective. It describes his maturation, his loves and his eventual career as a professor at an all-girl's school.
by Currer Bell (Charlotte Bronte)
Charlotte Brontë ( /ˈbrɒnti/; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters, whose novels are English literature standards. She wrote Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Bell.
Published by J.M. Dent and Company, London at Aldean House in Great Eaftern Street, E.C.
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The Egyptian Jukebox: A Conundrum— $18.95
48 Pages, Hardcover.
Solve the Mystery of the Missing Millionaire
Enter the fantastic world of Hamilton Hasp, eccentric millionaire-gone-missing. Before his disappearance, Hasp constructed an "Egyptian Jukebox" in which he placed a collection of artifacts from his life and world travels.
Each drawer is filled with objects from a specific...
48 Pages, Hardcover.
Solve the Mystery of the Missing Millionaire
Enter the fantastic world of Hamilton Hasp, eccentric millionaire-gone-missing. Before his disappearance, Hasp constructed an "Egyptian Jukebox" in which he placed a collection of artifacts from his life and world travels.
Each drawer is filled with objects from a specific geographic location, and has a corresponding story from Hamilton's life, crossing boundaries other than the strictly topographical. We are told that his sole surviving heir, daughter Tanis Hasp, has now agreed to the creation of this book in an attempt to discover what might have become of her father, and we are invited to tease our minds into uncovering clues buried in the stories and hidden among the curios, to fill in blanks that form "maps" pointing the way toward decoding cryptic inscriptions.
Written in what fans of the acclaimed Griffin & Sabine trilogy have come to identify as the characteristic Bantock style, The Egyptian Jukebox is full of mystery and elusive references that leave you wondering what's real and what's imagined. Whichever, or indeed if either, of these possibilities is true in the strictest sense,
here's a genuinely museum worthy, sophisticated, intriguing picture-cum-puzzle book. There is a challenge for each story-- clues lead to clues toward a final solution-no code-cracking possibility can be left unconsidered.
This book has something for all: literati, archeologists, rock & roll aficionados, metaphysicians, puzzle freaks, travel buffs, mystery lovers, artists, Egyptologists, or trendoids. The Egyptian Jukebox is vintage Bantock, and it will instantly appeal to anyone possessed of a sense of wonder and an open imagination. Those not so endowed be warned: your life may soon change!
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Vintage Hardcover 1895 "Middlemarch" (A Study of Provincial Life) by George Elliot— $14.99 (Save 83%!)
Book is in good condition for its age. Outside Hardcover spine is frayed and cracked on edges. Binding is intact.
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son...
Book is in good condition for its age. Outside Hardcover spine is frayed and cracked on edges. Binding is intact.
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion George Henry Lewes. During the following year Eliot resumed work, fusing together several stories into a coherent whole, and during 1871–72 the novel appeared in serial form. The first one-volume edition was published in 1874, and attracted large sales.
Subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life," the novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during the period 1830–32. It has multiple plots with a large cast of characters, and in addition to its distinct though interlocking narratives it pursues a number of underlying themes, including the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism and self-interest, religion and hypocrisy, political reform, and education. The pace is leisurely, the tone is mildly didactic (with an authorial voice that occasionally bursts through the narrative), and the canvas is very broad.
Despite the fact that it has some comical characters (Mr. Brooke, the "tiny aunt" Miss Noble) and comically named characters (Mrs. Dollop), Middlemarch is a work of realism. Through the voices and opinions of different characters we become aware of various broad issues of the day: the Great Reform Bill, the beginnings of the railways, the death of King George IV and the succession of his brother, the Duke of Clarence (who became King William IV). We learn something of the state of contemporary medical science. We also encounter the deeply reactionary mindset within a settled community facing the prospect of what to many is unwelcome change.
The eight "books" which compose the novel are not autonomous entities, but merely reflect the form of the original serialisation. A short prelude introduces the idea of the latter-day St. Theresa, presaging the character Dorothea; a postscript or "finale" after the eighth book gives the post-novel fates of the main characters.
In general Middlemarch has retained its popularity and status as one of the masterpieces of English fiction, although some reviewers have expressed dissatisfaction at the destiny recorded for Dorothea. In separate centuries, Florence Nightingale and Kate Millet both remarked on the eventual subordination of Dorothea's own dreams to those of her admirer, Ladislaw; however, Virginia Woolf gave the book unstinting praise, describing Middlemarch as "the magnificent book that, with all its imperfections, is one of the few English novels written for grown-up people." Martin Amis and Julian Barnes have cited it as probably the greatest novel in the English language/
Mary Anne (Mary Ann, Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight.
She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure her works be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot's life, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances. An additional factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived for over 20 years.
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The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen (1st Edition Hardcover 1949)— $14.99 (Save 75%!)
Hardcover: 372 pages
Publisher: A.A. Knopf; 1st edition (1949)
No Dust Jacket, Normal age discoloration
This book was my introduction to the writing of Elizabeth Bowen. Her work has been described as a combination of Jane Austen and Henry James, and I think that sums her writing up pretty accurately.
The Heat of the Day tells the story...
Hardcover: 372 pages
Publisher: A.A. Knopf; 1st edition (1949)
No Dust Jacket, Normal age discoloration
This book was my introduction to the writing of Elizabeth Bowen. Her work has been described as a combination of Jane Austen and Henry James, and I think that sums her writing up pretty accurately.
The Heat of the Day tells the story of Stella Rodney and the people she is connected with, by blood, by love, by fate, or all three. The story is set in London during World War II, with a friend telling her that Robert, her lover, is giving information to the Germans.
The novel describes Stella's experiences in the succeeding months as she visits with her son, home on leave from the war; goes with Robert to his family home in the South of England; and travels to the home in Ireland which her son has inherited from an uncle. Throughout all this Stella is processing the information she received, and eventually acts on it. The outcome is not so much the point of the story as is the description of what Stella feels and remembers about her experiences, in the present and in the past.
Bowen's language is elegant and poetic. Her descriptions of physical events, in nature or in the world of man-made objects, endow these events and objects with a life we know is there yet never notice. Her penetrating observation of the effect of physical objects and events manifests itself in another way as her awareness of the motives and causes of human behavior, the subatomic flickers that speak volumes in human interactions. Each of the characters the reader encounters is developed with astonishing subtlety, complexity and depth. The women and the men alike emerge as full human beings.
In The Heat of the Day, as in many of her other novels, the reader becomes aware of the subtle forces in operation in the most commonplace of human experiences.
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The Dark Flower [Hardcover] by John Galsworthy, Published by Charles Scribner's Sons 1927— $14.99 (Save 57%!)
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Covering almost 30 years in the life and loves of Mark Lennan, The Dark Flower opens in 1880 with 18-year-old undergraduate Mark studying art at Oxford, and ends 30 years later with Mark ostensibly happily married, yet torn between his wife and a beautiful teenage girl—the last and most disturbing manifestation...
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Covering almost 30 years in the life and loves of Mark Lennan, The Dark Flower opens in 1880 with 18-year-old undergraduate Mark studying art at Oxford, and ends 30 years later with Mark ostensibly happily married, yet torn between his wife and a beautiful teenage girl—the last and most disturbing manifestation of the "dark flower" of passion. Within a dozen pages, Galsworthy establishes his mastery of compelling narrative and sketches an irresistible plot. Much of his achievement lies in the mixture of pathos and humor that he derives from characters little able to express their feelings. There is much else to admire, from Galsworthy’s impressionistic descriptions and eye for detail to the subtle symmetry he creates between his characters, emphasizing the cyclical nature of the story. Published in 1913, the story also holds the fascination of a world about to be transformed by war—one in which a love letter could still be delivered by the hand of a discreet manservant, and the residents of Piccadilly kept their horses stabled close by so that they could gallop down to Richmond for fresh air.
John Galsworthy OM (14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906—1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
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1902 Hardcover "Captain Macklin" by Richard Harding Davis— $14.99 (Save 57%!)
1902 Hardcover
"Captain Macklin"
A story of adventure in a Central American Republic. The hero is sprung from several generations of soldiers, and becomes a West Pointer as a matter of course. Unfortunately the discipline of the institution makes a victim of him, and he is dismissed in disgrace for a violation of orders. Determined to be a...
1902 Hardcover
"Captain Macklin"
A story of adventure in a Central American Republic. The hero is sprung from several generations of soldiers, and becomes a West Pointer as a matter of course. Unfortunately the discipline of the institution makes a victim of him, and he is dismissed in disgrace for a violation of orders. Determined to be a soldier somewhere he consults the newspapers, discovers that a revolution is going on in Honduras, and forthwith sets out to offer his sword to the insurgents...
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Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
written by:
Richard Harding Davis
Richard Harding Davis (April 18, 1864 – April 11, 1916) was a journalist and writer of fiction and drama, known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. His writing greatly assisted the political career of Theodore Roosevelt and he also played a major role in the evolution of the American magazine. His influence extended to the world of fashion and he is credited with making the clean-shaven look popular among men at the turn of the 20th century.
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1969 Hardcover "Assignment Basra" by François Ponthier— $14.99 (Save 57%!)
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Condition: Very Good
Seller Notes:"Dust jacket damaged but book in excellent condition with normal age discoloration"
Subject: Action, Adventure
Publication Year: 1969
Topic: World War II
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Special Attributes: First English Language Edition...
Item specifics
Condition: Very Good
Seller Notes:"Dust jacket damaged but book in excellent condition with normal age discoloration"
Subject: Action, Adventure
Publication Year: 1969
Topic: World War II
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Special Attributes: First English Language Edition
Translated from: French
Copyright 1966 in French
First English translation published in 1969
by
David McKay Company, Inc, New York
ASSIGNMENT BASRA
written by
François Ponthier
translated by
J.F. Newcombe
Luftwaffe Lieutenant Hermann Richter handpicks a German Jew, Max Wolf, who is on the way to the ovens in Dachau, for a special commando mission of military espionage that could save or destroy both of them! Full of unpredictables, "Assignment Basra" is a superbly plotted novel of suspense.
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Vintage Hardcover from 1919 by George Bernard Shaw includes "Heartbreak House" "The Great Catherine"— $14.99 (Save 40%!)
Vintage 1919 Hardcover in good condition for its age.
Published by Brentano's, New York
Dramatic Plays written by:
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary...
Vintage 1919 Hardcover in good condition for its age.
Published by Brentano's, New York
Dramatic Plays written by:
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his writings address prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable. Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.
Titles include:
Heartbreak House
Heartbreak House is a play written by George Bernard Shaw, first published in 1919 and first played at the Garrick Theatre (New York) in 1920. According to A. C. Ward, the work argues that "cultured, leisured Europe" was drifting toward destruction, and that "Those in a position to guide Europe to safety failed to learn their proper business of political navigation".
On the eve of World War I, Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesione Hushabye’s infamous dinner parties. Unfortunately, her fiancé is a scoundrel, her father’s a bumbling prig, and she’s actually in love with Hector, Hesione’s husband. This bold mix of farce and tragedy lampoons British society as it blithely sinks towards disaster.
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The Great Catherine
George Bernard Shaw wrote GREAT CATHERINE (WHOM GLORY STILL ADORES) back in the teens, and it is occasionally revived. Not all of his plays get revived. In particular his "short" plays. GREAT CATHERINE is a one act play, and it runs about ninety minutes (short, in comparison to say PYGMALION or MAJOR BARBARA). As it is a historical play, one has to note that Shaw - while he tried to be accurate on his history in his plays - based his history on the current state of knowledge, which was usually not as correct as we now know.
Basically, GREAT CATHERINE is about how a young British officer is sent to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia, one of the most fascinating rulers in Europe in the 18th Century. He is involved not only with her, but with her crafty chief minister, Potemkin (whom the battleship in the classic Eisenstein silent film is named for). The officer attracts her attention because he is handsome, and the British Minister is fully willing to let him see the Empress, as he may hear something of use and he may "ease" Anglo-Russian relations. As it turns out, the young ninny is such a believer in middle class morality that he blows a great opportunity, loses a chance to witness a great figure in world history, and even - unwittingly - so misunderstands things that he accidentally insults her. Only her own sense of values keeps her from taking up an offer from a furious Potemkin to have the young man killed.
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Playlets of the War
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1890 Hardcover "The Gayworthys: A Story of Threads and Thrums" by Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney— $14.99 (Save 40%!)
The Gayworthys: A Story of Threads and Thrums [Hardcover]
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Hurst & Co (1890)
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 4.9 x 1.1 inches
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Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney (Author)
Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (15 September 1824–20 March 1906) was an American poet and writer of books for...
The Gayworthys: A Story of Threads and Thrums [Hardcover]
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Hurst & Co (1890)
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 4.9 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney (Author)
Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (15 September 1824–20 March 1906) was an American poet and writer of books for girls.
Whitney was born Adeline Dutton Train in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of the founder of a line of packet ships between Boston and Liverpool, Enoch Train, and Adeline Train (née Dutton). She was educated at the school of George B. Emerson in Boston from 1837 to 1842. She married Seth Dunbar Whitney (a wealthy merchant who was twenty years older than she was) on 7 November 1843, and went to live with him in Milton.
She started on her writing career in her thirties; after a period producing poems and stories for local journals, she published her first book – Mother Goose for Grown Folks – in 1859. She wrote mainly for young girls, championing conservative values, and purveying the message that a woman's happiest place is in the home, which is the source of all goodness. This proved very popular among parents, and her books sold extremely well throughout her life.
Whitney was a staunch opponent of women's suffrage, though took no part in public life (in accordance with the message of her books). Aside from her writing, she patented a set of alphabet blocks for children. She died in Milton at the age of eighty-one.
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Reigning Cats And Dogs: History Redrawn— $14.95
96 Pages, Paperback.
History Redrawn
Favorite celebrities, founding fathers, and literary geniuses... with four paws? Familiar characters get new lives as cats and dogs in this lively collection of illustrations.
In Reigning Cats and Dogs cartoonist Michael Hingley gives some of history's most well-known personalities new incarnations...
96 Pages, Paperback.
History Redrawn
Favorite celebrities, founding fathers, and literary geniuses... with four paws? Familiar characters get new lives as cats and dogs in this lively collection of illustrations.
In Reigning Cats and Dogs cartoonist Michael Hingley gives some of history's most well-known personalities new incarnations -- as cats and dogs. Each hilarious drawing is accompanied by a brief, revised biography. Finally, we can glimpse the extraordinary lives of four-legged celebrities such as George St. Bernard Shaw, Joe Cocker Spaniel and David Setterman.
About the Author:
Michael Hingley is an illustrator, cartoonist and caricaturist. His work has appeared in textbooks, on comic book covers, and on envelopes to friends all over the world. He has caricatured everyone from celebrities to tourists at holidays resorts. Michael is also a guitar player, songwriter, unicyclist, and struggling juggler.
"Creator of the famous dog detective Shitzu Holmes and his faithful bloodhound Watdog, Canine Doyle leads a life of great adventure, and his exploits and love of life's mysteries helped fuel his writings. In addition to The Adventures of Shitzu Holmes he wrote several historical romances, including The Bite Company."
"Informative, funny, and full of fiber!" -Dave Dalmation, Spots Illustrated
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1910 Hardcover "Down Home with Jennie Allen" by Grace Donworth— $12.99 (Save 62%!)
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Binding: Hardcover
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1910
Topic: Family
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Origin: English
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DOWN HOME WITH JENNIE ALLEN
Country home life fiction written in the local dialect.
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Grace Donworth
Ms...
Item specifics
Binding: Hardcover
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1910
Topic: Family
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Origin: English
104 year old Hardcover
DOWN HOME WITH JENNIE ALLEN
Country home life fiction written in the local dialect.
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Grace Donworth
Ms Donworth was born in Machias, Maine, educated in Boston schools. The text is very interesting as it is either in the dialect of the setting or Ms Donworth really did not know how to spell???
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