Every book on the shelf.

A collection of dramatic works gathered in a single volume, offering the pleasures of the stage on the page.

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Aesop's timeless fables in George Fyler Townsend's classic Victorian translation, three hundred brief tales in which animals speak and act out the enduring lessons of human folly,

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A foundational nineteenth-century treatise on poisons, examining their action, detection, and effects in relation to medical jurisprudence, physiology, and medical practice: a land

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A grand nineteenth-century history of food and its preparation in the ancient world, roaming across the tables of Greece, Rome, and beyond.

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A tense mystery of intrigue and hidden danger, in which a young investigator must unravel a deadly conspiracy shrouded in secrecy.

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An Edwardian thriller by E.

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A dramatic tale of love, jealousy and dark secrets in the sensational tradition, its title drawn from the old warning that jealousy is cruel as the grave.

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A witty, affectionate celebration of book collecting and the peculiar breed who pursue rare volumes.

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A novel titled Trial by Water, offered here for readers to discover.

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A young woman witnesses a death in a London Underground station and follows a cryptic clue aboard a liner bound for South Africa, launching one of Agatha Christie's most dashing ea

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José Rizal's darker sequel to Noli Me Tangere, in which a returned exile plots amid corruption and colonial cruelty, hastening a nation toward its reckoning.

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A charming period romance of travel and courtship, in which a journey becomes the setting for misunderstanding, disguise and the slow blossoming of love.

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A scholarly reference to the vocabulary of Middle English, glossing the words of Chaucer's age and beyond.

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A collection of Rudyard Kipling's early supernatural and uncanny tales, set largely in colonial India, where the heat, the isolation and the guilt of the living conjure visitors wh

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A volume from the celebrated series of scholarly yet accessible commentaries on the books of the Bible.

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A historical romance set in old St.

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Thomas W.

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The candid memoirs of Babur, founder of the Mughal empire, in English translation.

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The complete essays of Montaigne, the writer who invented the form: a lifelong, endlessly curious inquiry into himself and, through himself, into what it means to be human.

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

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

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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

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

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

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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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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.

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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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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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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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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Edward Bulwer-Lytton's dramatic novel of a young man drawn into a life of crime as a gentleman highwayman, opening with the most famous stormy night in fiction and building into a

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Erasmus Darwin's ambitious treatise on the laws of organic life, blending medicine, biology, and bold speculation about how living things change.

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A practical joke at a country house ends in death, and the irrepressible Bundle Brimble finds herself chasing a secret society through 1920s England in one of Agatha Christie's bre

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A country-house murder, a locked-room puzzle and an amateur sleuth with a sharp eye and a lighter touch: A.A.

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Lush, longing, unmistakably late-Victorian verse of romance and India, written under the name Laurence Hope.

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John Foxe's famous Book of Martyrs recounts the lives, sufferings and deaths of Christian martyrs, above all the Protestants of the Reformation, a work that shaped English religiou

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A sensational mid-century exposé of the American capital, pulling back the curtain on politics, power, money and vice in Washington.

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Aristophanes' riotous anti-war comedy, in which the women of Greece stage a sex strike to force their husbands to lay down arms.

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A lively small-town tale centered on a colorful local figure and the mystery surrounding a young woman in his care.

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A richly detailed exploration of the lore, legend, and supposed powers of precious stones and amulets.

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A brisk piece of classic science fiction built on the idea of crime that reaches across time itself.

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A meticulous study of how the Roman Republic actually voted.

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William Hope Hodgson's visionary tale of horror and cosmic wonder, in which a remote house becomes the threshold to unimaginable forces.

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Laurence Sterne's gloriously digressive comic novel, forever wandering off the point.

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John Buchan's rousing First World War thriller, the third Richard Hannay adventure, sending its hero undercover through a Britain riddled with espionage on the trail of a dangerous

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