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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, April 21, 2003. Haedback. New/Perfect. Brabd New and Unread: How to Mow the Lawn: The Lost Art of Being a Man, Sam Mart. At about the time men started to get in touch with their feminine sides, hammer sales around the world began to drop off. So begins this witty yet practical guide for men… Read more about this item

Everyman's Library, 2001. Haedback. New/Perfect. A brand new shrink-wrapped copy of the Everyman's library edition of William Langland's Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain And The Green Knight. The pictures in this listing are scans of one of the four book for sale (not stock photos), all are in the same new condition. The magnificent heritage of English poetry before Chaucer is often neglected… Read more about this item

Everyman's Library, 1994. Haedback. New/Perfect. A brand new and unread copy of Framley Parsonage by IAnthony Trollope from the Everyman's Library series. The pictures in this listing are scans of one of the three books for sale, not stock photos. All books are in the same condition, i.e. new, unread and in perfect condition, if you… Read more about this item

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, January 19, 2004. Haedback. New/Perfect. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, January 19, 2004. New. 208 pp.

Faber and Faber, 2003. Haedback. New/Oerfect. Faber and Faber, 2003. New. A spectacular, salacious and scandalous new biography of the celebrated courtesan, who was famously told, by the Duke of Wellington, to 'publish and be damned.' Born in 1786, by the time she was fifteen Harriette Wilson was well on her way to becoming Regency London's most sought-after… Read more about this item

Bloomsbury, 1994. Haedback. New/Perfect. Bloomsbury, 1994. New. A lesbian affair scandalizes the inhabitants of a contemporary rural English village in this novel by the author of The Choir. It tells not only of the complications of a lesbian attachment, but also of the peculiarity of convention and the modern attitudes of a rural community. Source: Publisher 282 pp.

Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, London, July 16, 1992. Haedback. New/Perfect. Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, London, July 16, 1992. New. A new edition of the first novel of an author who has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Combining humour and pity, it creates the atmosphere of The Jerusalem, where old ladies have nothing to do except eat junket… Read more about this item

Everyman's Library. New/Perfect. A hypnotic story of hatred, revenge and catastrophe in which Cousin Bette exacts a terrible price from the rich relations who use and humiliate her This book portrays the world of post-Napoleonic France, where commercial greed and sexual debauchery are rampant among a demoralized ruling classSource: Publisher

Everyman's Library. New/Perfect. This novel uses the hero, Deronda, to come to terms with the English Jews, a society-within-a-society The book's heroine, Gwendolen Harleth, marries for power rather than love, uncovering a vein in human relations that could lead, through the best intentions, to despairSource: Publisher

Everyman's Library. New/Perfect. Brand New shrink wrapped copy of George Elliot's Daniel Deronda from George Eliot's last novel, published in 1876, weaves together two stories, one about Gwendolen Harleth, the spoilt beauty who marries for money, the other concerning the mysterious hero of the title whose search for his true destiny leads him towards Zionism All Eliot's great… Read more about this item

Everyman's Library, 1994. New/Perfect. Brand New, Shrink WrappedTHE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY is probably Edith Wharton's most savage satire on the manners of late nineteenth-century America It is the story of the exquisitely beautiful but brutally ambitious Undine Spragg who marries her way into the high aristocracy of Europe, abandoning several husbands along the way This novel, which… Read more about this item

Everyman's Library. New/Perfect. Brand New beautiful Everyman's Library issue of this classic book The greatest epistolary novel, Les Liaisons dangereuses simultaneously illustrates and perverts the laws of its genre The correspondence born from the libertine wager between the Viscount de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil reveals the false pretenses of aristocratic society and demystifies libertinage like it… Read more about this item

Everyman's Library. Brand New and unreadThe Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is an 1889 novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, focusing upon the conflict between two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745 He worked on the book in Tautira after his health was restored 373 pp

Everyman's Library, 1992. New/Perfect. New, shrinkwrapped copyBoth the novels in this edition deal with division and duality Full of romance, excitement and adventure, they present a sense of moral ambiguity coupled with a deep feeling for Scotland and its historyPublisher 373 pp

Everyman's Library, 1994. Hardback. New/Perfect. Everyman's Library, 1994. New. New (Shrink-wrapped): This volume contains two of the world's great love stories - FIRST LOVE, and SPRING TORRENTS, which show Turgenev at his very best. Simple, direct and tender, they record the pains and glories of youthful infatuation in a style which evokes exactly and in detail what… Read more about this item

Everymsan Library, 1994. Hardback. New. Everymsan Library, 1994. New. Published in 1864, CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? was the first volume in what turned out to be the Palliser sequence of six political novels, serialized on television some years ago. It is in this book that we first meet Plantagenet Palliser, later to become Duke of Omnium, but… Read more about this item

Jonathan Cape, 2002. Hardback. New/Perfect. Jonathan Cape, 2002. New. Felony is about the misdemeanours inherent in writing; theft, false memory, plagarism and greed for celebrity. It demonstrates the embarrassment and shame suffered by those who steal from and exploit others in their quest, but who go on and do it all the same. 190 pp.

Everyman's Library, November 26, 1992. Hardback. New/Perfect. Everyman's Library, November 26, 1992. New. New (Shrink-wrapped): Amy Dorrit's father is not very good with money. She was born in the Marshalsea debtors' prison and has lived there with her family for all of her twenty-two years, only leaving during the day to work as a seamstress for the… Read more about this item

Everyman's Library, September 26, 1991. Hardback. New/Slight Cripming. Everyman's Library, September 26, 1991. New. New – Crimping to Dust Jacket, back, bottom: This book details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Born in Newgate Prison to a picaresque mother, Moll propels herself through marriages,… Read more about this item

Everyman's Library, October 20, 1994. Hardback. New/Perfect. Everyman's Library, October 20, 1994. New. The distinctive combination of manic comedy, bitter satire and fierce melodrama separates this novel from its author's other works. Published in 1844 after Dickens returned from America, the action moves between Britain and United States in ways which highligh the failing of both societies.… Read more about this item