Search Results: Titles starting with R from Ivy Court Books

The Return of the Native is widely regarded as the most representative of Hardy's Wessex novels with the dismal presence and menacing history of Egdon Heath reaching out to touch the lives and fate of all who dwell on it.

"The first introspective account ever published of what it's like to be a field worker among a primitive people."
MARGARET MEAD

'A SUNNY PLACE FOR SHADY PEOPLE'. Somerset Maugham
Sixteen pages of fine black & white photos.

'You will read on, absolutely convinced, thrilled, mesmerised. All the modern novel can do is done here'.
Alan Warner, Guardian

'The bloodstained drama of the last decades of the Roman republic... is told afresh with tremendous wit, narrative verve and insight'. Independent on Sunday

{Handwritten inscription: 'To Daddy, Wishing you a very happy Christmas and New Year. With love, Audrey & Basil. Christmas 1958'.}
[22 fine black & white illustrations]
Alan Moorehead describes the Russian Revolution as "the most important event of modern times, the event which has done more to shape our lives than anything else". This book is a straightforward account of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the events which led up to it.