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Vegetable Teratology

A nineteenth-century work of botanical science devoted to the abnormal and monstrous forms plants can take.

$9.00

Non-fiction

Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie

Thomas Tusser's celebrated Tudor manual of farming and household wisdom, set out in memorable rhyming verse.

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Classics

Candide

by Voltaire

Voltaire's Candide is a brisk Enlightenment satire that follows its battered hero across wars, disasters, and absurd philosophies while dismantling easy optimism.

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Camille

by Alexandre Dumas fils

Alexandre Dumas fils turns an affair between a courtesan and a young bourgeois lover into a tragic novel of love, sacrifice, class judgment, and social performance.

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Adventure

Plague Ship

A tense science-fiction adventure aboard a free-trading spaceship whose crew, having landed a rich trading deal, find themselves quarantined and accused of carrying a deadly plague

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Adventure

Tarrano the Conqueror

by Ray Cummings

A fast-moving early science-fiction thriller about tyranny, resistance, and perilous escape in Ray Cummings’s imagined future.

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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

by Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Ludwig Wittgenstein's austere masterpiece on language, logic and the limits of what can be said.

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History

Poine

A short literary work whose title carries the old Greek weight of penalty and requital.

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Crime

The Secret Adversary

by Agatha Christie

Two out-of-work friends advertise themselves as adventurers for hire and stumble into international intrigue, introducing Agatha Christie's beloved sleuthing pair, Tommy and Tuppen

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Children

Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll's dazzling sequel to Wonderland sends Alice through a mirror into a topsy-turvy chessboard world of talking flowers, warring kings, and unforgettable nonsense, where

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Classics

The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle

by Aristotle

Aristotle's foundational inquiry into how a human life should be lived, and what it means to flourish.

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Children

Winnie-the-Pooh

by A. A. Milne

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Non-fiction

The Land of Thor

by Browne, J. Ross (John Ross)

A nineteenth-century traveller's account of journeys through the North, blending observation, incident, and wry humour.

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Children

Undine

by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's exquisite fairy-tale romance of a water spirit who wins a human soul through love.

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Biography & Memoir

A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography

A biographical reference gathering the lives of notable Canadians.

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Children

Anne of the Island

by L. M. Montgomery

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Classics

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

John Milton's towering epic of the fall of humankind, telling of Satan's rebellion, the loss of Eden, and the temptation of Adam and Eve.

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Classics

Complete Short Works of George Meredith

by George Meredith

A gathering of the shorter fiction of George Meredith, the Victorian novelist and poet known for his psychological subtlety and glittering, demanding prose.

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Fiction

The Candidate

A novel that turns its gaze on ambition, public life and the compromises of seeking office or standing.

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Children

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

A clear, orderly retelling of the classical myths, from the gods of Olympus to the heroes and their labours, gathering the ancient stories into one accessible volume.

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History

Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation': From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to t

William Bradford's own history of the Plymouth Colony, printed from his original manuscript, is the foundational eyewitness chronicle of the Pilgrims, their voyage, their first har

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Fiction

The call of Cthulhu

by H. P. Lovecraft

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Fiction

A pair of blue eyes

by Thomas Hardy

One of Thomas Hardy's early novels, a tale of love and social divide set against the dramatic cliffs of the Cornish coast.

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