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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.
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.
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.
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.
Tales and Fantasies
Tales and Fantasies
Stevenson, Robert Louis
¥19.52
Three fantastic short stories from famed author Robert Louis Stevenson.
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.
Story of Garfield
Story of Garfield
Rutherford, William G.
¥19.52
A fantastic biography of the 20th President of the United States, James Abram Garfield, written by Scottish scholar William G. Rutherford.
Studies from Court and Cloister
Studies from Court and Cloister
Stone, Jean Mary
¥19.52
A fascinating collection of studies about religion and politics during the later years of the Middle Ages. Includes essays on many topics, including the influence of Henry VIII, the Tower of London, the various English translations and illuminations of the Bible, and the Society of Jesus.
Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers
Lawrence, D. H.
¥19.52
D. H. Lawrence's novel Sons and Lovers has been enjoyed by readers around the world for almost a century. A semi-autobiographical work, it follows the story of Paul Morel as he grows up and is urged into the world of romance and sexual discovery by his mother.
Inez
Inez
Evans, Augusta Jane
¥19.52
The first novel by Augusta Jane Evans, the famed American Southern author, was written when she was only 15. "e;Inez: A Tale of the Alamo"e; is a sentimental, moralistic, anti-Catholic love story which follows an orphan's spiritual journey from religious skepticism to devout faith.
Road to Damascus
Road to Damascus
Strindberg, August
¥19.52
August Strindberg's classic trilogy of plays entitled To Damascus (also known as The Road to Damascus) is known as his greatest work.A very complex and thought provoking play series, it follows the conversations between two characters: the Stranger and the Lady.An excerpt from the Introduction:The Road to Damascus might be termed a marriage drama, a mystery drama, or a drama of penance and conversion, according as preponderance is given to one or other of its characteristics. The question then arises: what was it in the drama which was of deepest significance to the author himself? The answer is to be found in the title, with its allusion to the narrative in the Acts of the Apostles of the journey of Saul, the persecutor, the scoffer, who, on his way to Damascus, had an awe-inspiring vision, which converted Saul, the hater of Christ, into Paul, the apostle of the Gentiles. Strindberg's drama describes the progress of the author right up to his conversion, shows how stage by stage he relinquishes worldly things, scientific renown, and above all woman, and finally, when nothing more binds him to this world, takes the vows of a monk and enters a monastery where no dogmas or theology, but only broadminded humanity and resignation hold sway. What, however, in an inner sense, distinguishes Strindberg's drama from the Bible narrative is that the conversion itself - although what leads up to it is convincingly described, both logically and psychologically - does not bear the character of a final and irrevocable decision, but on the contrary is depicted with a certain hesitancy and uncertainty. THE STRANGER'S entry into the monastery consequently gives the impression of being a piece of logical construction; the author's heart is not wholly in it. From Strindberg's later works it also becomes evident that his severe crisis had undoubtedly led to a complete reformation in that it definitely caused him to turn from worldly things, of which indeed he had tasted to the full, towards matters divine. But this did not mean that then and there he accepted some specific religion, whether Christian or other. One would undoubtedly come nearest to the author's own interpretation in this respect by characterising The Road to Damascus not as a drama of conversion, but as a drama of struggle, the story of a restless, arduous pilgrimage through the chimeras of the world towards the border beyond which eternity stretches in solemn peace, symbolised in the drama by a mountain, the peaks of which reach high above the clouds.
Secret Life of Helen of Troy
Secret Life of Helen of Troy
Erskine, John
¥19.52
A fictionalisation of the secret life of Helen of Troy, the woman whose beauty caused the fabled Trojan War.
Our Lady Saint Mary
Our Lady Saint Mary
Barry, Joseph Gale Hurd
¥19.52
A fascinating look at the life of Saint Mary by 19th century American minister Reverend Joseph Gale Hurd Barry.
Real Soldiers of Fortune
Real Soldiers of Fortune
David, Richard Harding
¥19.52
A collection of fascinating biographies of six of England and America's greatest heroes and pioneers, including the 'King of Scouts' Frederick Russell Burnham, and Sir Winston Churchill.
Hushed Up! A Mystery of London
Hushed Up! A Mystery of London
Le Queux, William
¥19.52
Hushed Up! A Mystery of London, William Le Queux's classic tale of intrigue and conspiracy in one of the world's greatest cities, has been enjoyed by readers around the world for almost a century.