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My Double Life
My Double Life
Bernhardt, Sarah
¥19.52
The fantastic memoirs of one of the most famous actresses in history, French stage and early film actress Sarah Bernhardt.
Mugby Junction
Mugby Junction
Dickens, Charles
¥19.52
One of Charles Dickens' light-hearted short works, satirising events in and around Rugby railway station.
Mudfog and Other Sketches
Mudfog and Other Sketches
Dickens, Charles
¥19.52
Charles Dickens' series of funny sketches about the fictional 'Mudfog Society for the Advancement of Everything', a parody of the real-life British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Ice Creams, Water Ices, Frozen Puddings
Ice Creams, Water Ices, Frozen Puddings
Rorer, Sarah Tyson
¥19.52
A fantastic collection of recipes for all sorts of desserts, as well as recipes for snacks and salads. Written by Good Housekeeping editor and pioneer of domestic science Sarah Tyson Rorer.
Jude the Obscure
Jude the Obscure
Hardy, Thomas
¥19.52
Thomas Hardy's last novel, Jude the Obscure, has been enjoyed by readers around the world for over a century. Somewhat autobiographical, the story follows Jude Fawley, a stonemason in the fictional county of Wessex, who moves to Christminster to follow his dream of becoming a scholar. He becomes embroiled in a social scandal which leads to murder and suicide.
Letters from America
Letters from America
Brooke, Rupert
¥19.52
A fascinating collection of letters from English poet Rupert Brooke.Description from the introductory note:The author started in May 1913 on a journey to the United States, Canada, and the South Seas, from which he returned next year at the beginning of June. The first thirteen chapters of this book were written as letters to the Westminster Gazette. He would probably not have republished them in their present form, as he intended to write a longer book on his travels; but they are now printed with only the correction of a few evident slips.The two remaining chapters appeared in the New Statesman, soon after the outbreak of war.
Rachel Ray
Rachel Ray
Trollope, Anthony
¥19.52
A fantastic romantic novel set in mid-19th century England by one of the most prolific and successful writers of the Victorian era, Anthony Trollope.
Old Curiosity Shop
Old Curiosity Shop
Dickens, Charles
¥19.52
Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop has been enjoyed by readers of all ages around the world for 170 years.Follow the story of little orphan Nell Trent, living in her grandfather's curiosity shop in London.
Lady Byron Vindicated
Lady Byron Vindicated
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
¥19.52
A fascinating account of the separation of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron and his wife Anne Isabella Noel Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron, defending her role in the controversy.Lord Byron is best known as a poet, as well as being the father of the world's first computer programmer, Ada Countess of Lovelace.
Hospital Sketches
Hospital Sketches
Alcott, Louisa May
¥19.52
During the American Civil War in 1862-1863 Louisa May Alcott, best known as the author of Little Women, spent six weeks as a volunteer nurse in the Union Hospital at Georgetown in Washington D.C. She later published these sketches based on her experiences at the hospital.
Lady Anna
Lady Anna
Anthony Trollope, Anthony
¥19.52
Anthony Trollope's fantastic novel about love across class divides.
Lieutenant and Commander
Lieutenant and Commander
Hall, Captain Basil
¥19.52
An autobiography of Captain Basil Hall of the Royal Navy in the 1800s. A wonderfully detailed look into the history of the Royal Navy.
Indian Boyhood
Indian Boyhood
Eastman, Charles Alexander
¥19.52
The autobiography of the first 15 years of the life of Charles Alexander Eastman, a Native American man who was active in politics and issues of Native American rights.
Handel
Handel
Dent, Edward J.
¥19.52
A character study and history of one of the greatest musical minds that has ever lived: Georg Friedrich Haendel. A fantastic operatic composer, Handel's name is almost synonymous with the Baroque style. This is a comprehensive guide to the whole of Handel's life and works.
Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit
Dickens, Charles
¥19.52
This classic Dickens novel has been enjoyed around the world for over 150 years.Like much of Dickens' work, Little Dorrit is a social criticism, focusing on the injustices of the debtors' prisons, and of the bureaucracy of the British Treasury.
Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit
Dickens, Charles
¥19.52
This classic novel by Charles Dickens has been enjoyed by readers around the world for over 160 years.Dickens himself once proclaimed this work his best ever, although when it was released it was less popular than some of his other novels had been, and is less well known today.Nevertheless, this remains a fascinating satire, which centres around the members of the selfish Chuzzlewit family.
Tanglewood Tales
Tanglewood Tales
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
¥19.52
A fantastic collection of classic ancient Greek myths retold for children, such as Theseus and the Minotaur and Jason and the Golden Fleece.
Legends of the Middle Ages
Legends of the Middle Ages
Guerber, H. A.
¥19.52
A fascinating study of many traditional myths from the Middle Ages, including tales of Beowulf, Merlin and King Arthur, and the quest for the Holy Grail.
Tales and Fantasies
Tales and Fantasies
Stevenson, Robert Louis
¥19.52
Three fantastic short stories from famed author Robert Louis Stevenson.
How I Found Livingstone
How I Found Livingstone
Stanley, Henry Morton
¥19.52
In 1869, Sir Henry Morton Stanley was instructed by James Gordon Bennett Jr, the son of the founder of the New York Herald, to find the famous explorer David Livingstone, who no-one had seen for years after travelling to explore Africa. This is Stanley's own fascinating account of his search for Livingstone.
Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings
Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
¥19.52
A fascinating fictionalised story of the life of Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, written by bestselling novelist and coiner of such phrases as "e;the pen is mightier than the sword"e; and "e;It was a dark and stormy night"e;, Edward Bulwer-Lytton.