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History

The history of England, from the accession of Henry III. to the death of Edward III

A narrative history of medieval England spanning the reigns from Henry III to Edward III, a formative age of parliaments, wars and the making of the nation's institutions.

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Adventure

Under the Red Dragon

A Victorian adventure novel of soldiering, love and loyalty, its title carrying the red dragon of a regimental banner into war and romance.

$9.50

Fiction

Robert Elsmere

A landmark Victorian novel of religious doubt, following a clergyman whose faith is shaken by the questions of his age.

$9.50

Fiction

The Entailed Hat

A sprawling historical novel of the old Delmarva country, drawing on the notorious kidnapping trade that preyed on free Black people along the border between slave and free states

$9.50

Horror

Twenty-Five Ghost Stories

by W. Bob Holland

A gathering of short supernatural tales for a shivery evening, hauntings, apparitions and uncanny visitations collected in the classic manner of the ghost-story anthology.

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Fiction

The Dop Doctor

A sprawling wartime novel set against a South African siege, following a disgraced doctor and the woman whose fate crosses his.

$9.50

Non-fiction

Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught: Comprising instructions in the selection and preparation of drawing instruments, element

A practical self-instruction manual in mechanical drawing, guiding the beginner from choosing and preparing drawing instruments through the fundamentals of technical draughtsmanshi

$9.50

Drama

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw's sharp, funny drama of a phonetics professor who wagers he can pass a flower girl off as a duchess by remaking her speech.

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Fiction

Just Around the Corner: Romance en casserole

A collection of warm, humane short stories of ordinary city life and the small dramas of the heart, finding romance and feeling in the everyday corners of the modern world.

$9.50

Fiction

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

by Gaston Leroux

Gaston Leroux’s pioneering locked-room mystery follows Joseph Rouletabille into an impossible crime, a country-house labyrinth, and a duel of reason against deception.

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History

History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4): Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government

The opening volume of the official British history of the South African War of 1899 to 1902, compiled by government direction: the origins, opening moves, and early campaigns of th

$9.00

Children

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter's perfect little book about a naughty rabbit, a forbidden vegetable garden, and a very close escape.

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Children

Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions

by T. W. Doane

A wide-ranging comparative study arguing that many biblical stories echo the myths of older and other religions.

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Fiction

The Long Roll

Mary Johnston's sweeping Civil War novel following Confederate soldiers, including the campaigns of Stonewall Jackson, through the ordeal of the American war.

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Children

Howards End

by E. M. Forster

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Classics

The Consolation of Philosophy

by Boethius

Boethius, awaiting execution, is visited by Philosophy herself, who consoles him with timeless reflections on fortune, happiness, and the highest good.

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Essays

Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and Historical

Anna Jameson's pioneering nineteenth-century study of Shakespeare's heroines, examining the women of the plays, from Portia and Juliet to Lady Macbeth, as fully realized characters

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Art & Design

A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture

by Clara Erskine Clement Waters

Clara Erskine Clement Waters's accessible survey of the great arts — painting, sculpture and architecture — written to guide beginners through the story of human creativity.

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Fiction

The Bishop of Cottontown

A novel of the American South set amid the world of cotton, faith, and community.

$9.50

Non-fiction

Manures and the principles of manuring

A thorough treatise on manures and the science of enriching the soil.

$9.00

Adventure

Adventures of a Young Naturalist

by Lucien Biart

Lucien Biart's account of a boy's natural-history adventures in the wilds of Mexico.

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Non-fiction

Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

Peter Mark Roget's landmark thesaurus organises the English language by idea rather than alphabet, an ingenious map of meaning that has helped writers find the right word for well

$9.50

History

An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church

by Henry C. Lea

Henry Charles Lea's landmark history of clerical celibacy, tracing the long and contested development of the Church's discipline of the unmarried priesthood.

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Mystery

The Murder on the Links

by Agatha Christie

Summoned to France by a frightened millionaire, Hercule Poirot arrives too late to prevent a murder and finds himself matching wits with a proud French detective, in one of Agatha

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