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Gunner Who ? - Vintage PB 1984( Originally 1974) VOLUME TWO OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Spike Milligan - Mussolini - His Part in my Downfall - Vintage PB 1983 ( Originally 1978) VOLUME FOUR OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view George Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter - VINTAGE PB 1975 ( Originally 1935) Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. 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MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play, by the hopelessness of preaching... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Nadine Gordimer - July's People - Vintage PB -1982 ( Originally 1981) South Africa, 1980. For years, it has been what is called a 'deteriorating situation'. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family - liberal whites - are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Anthony Powell - Venusberg ( Vintage PB 1961, Originally 1932) An English journalist encounters dangerous hijinks on the Baltic Sea in this satirical novel by the author of A Dance to the Music of Time.Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of Anthony Powell... 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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Stone, Brian ( Translator & Editor) - Sir Gawain And The Green Knight ( Penguin Classics - 1962 'Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain;Seek faithfully till you find me ...'A New Year's feast at King Arthur's court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He challenges any one of Arthur's men... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view France Gide, André - If It Die - ( Vintage Penguin PB 1982) ( Si le grain ne meurt) ( Originally 1920 ) This is the major autobiographical statement from Nobel laureate André Gide. In the events and musings recorded here we find the seeds of those themes that obsessed him throughout his career and imbued his classic novels The Immoralist and The... 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In the events and musings recorded here we find the seeds of those themes that obsessed him throughout his career and imbued his classic novels The Immoralist and The... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edel, Leon - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Beerbohm, Max - Zuleika Dobson - Vintage Penguin PB 1983 ( Originally 1911) Originally published in 1911, Max Beerbohm's sparklingly wicked satire concerns the unlikely events that occur when a femme fatale briefly enters the supremely privileged, all-male domain of Judas College, Oxford. A conjurer by profession, Zuleika Dobson... 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MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edel, Leon - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Beerbohm, Max - Zuleika Dobson - Vintage Penguin PB 1983 ( Originally 1911) Originally published in 1911, Max Beerbohm's sparklingly wicked satire concerns the unlikely events that occur when a femme fatale briefly enters the supremely privileged, all-male domain of Judas College, Oxford. A conjurer by profession, Zuleika Dobson... 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MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Dickens, Monica - Mariana - Vintage Penguin PB 1954 ( Originally 1940 ) Monica Dickens, the great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, published Mariana in 1940 when she was only twenty-four years old. A bestseller in its time, Mariana is the often-comical story of a typical English girl growing up in the 1930s.A lively young... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. 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MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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The eruption begins when the socialist mayor decides that he wants to leave... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Laurens Van Der Post - The Lost World of the Kalahari - Vintage PB 1973 ( Originally 1958) Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way of life and... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Stone, Brian ( Translator & Editor) - Sir Gawain And The Green Knight ( Penguin Classics - 1962 'Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain;Seek faithfully till you find me ...'A New Year's feast at King Arthur's court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He challenges any one of Arthur's men... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view France Gide, André - If It Die - ( Vintage Penguin PB 1982) ( Si le grain ne meurt) ( Originally 1920 ) This is the major autobiographical statement from Nobel laureate André Gide. In the events and musings recorded here we find the seeds of those themes that obsessed him throughout his career and imbued his classic novels The Immoralist and The... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edel, Leon - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... 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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Thomas Love Peacock - Nightmare Abbey / Crotchet Castle ( Vintage Penguin PB 1979) Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was an English satirist and author. Peacock was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. He wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting - characters at a table discussing... 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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Dickens, Monica - Mariana - Vintage Penguin PB 1954 ( Originally 1940 ) Monica Dickens, the great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, published Mariana in 1940 when she was only twenty-four years old. A bestseller in its time, Mariana is the often-comical story of a typical English girl growing up in the 1930s.A lively young... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurois, André - Ariel : A Shelley Romance ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939) ( Originally 1924) This book tells the tale of Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose life was singularly interesting and diverse. His friends unanimously testify that his character was one of gentleness, purity, generosity and strong affection. As a poet, he stands in the front rank... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Reid, Forest - Peter Waring ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946) ( Originally 1937) Peter Waring (1937) is a full-scale revision of Reid's earlier Following Darkness (1912) in which Peter, a sensitive boy with literary inclinations, grows up unhappily in the household of his father, a cold village schoolmaster in... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... 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Quick view Anthony Powell - Venusberg ( Vintage PB 1961, Originally 1932) An English journalist encounters dangerous hijinks on the Baltic Sea in this satirical novel by the author of A Dance to the Music of Time.Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of Anthony Powell... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view France Gabriel Chevallier - Clochemerle - Vintage PB Gabriel Chevallier's delightful novel Clochemerle satirizes the titanic confrontation of secular and religious forces in a small wine-growing village in Beaujolais. The eruption begins when the socialist mayor decides that he wants to leave... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Laurens Van Der Post - The Lost World of the Kalahari - Vintage PB 1973 ( Originally 1958) Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. 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MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Stone, Brian ( Translator & Editor) - Sir Gawain And The Green Knight ( Penguin Classics - 1962 'Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain;Seek faithfully till you find me ...'A New Year's feast at King Arthur's court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He challenges any one of Arthur's men... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view France Gide, André - If It Die - ( Vintage Penguin PB 1982) ( Si le grain ne meurt) ( Originally 1920 ) This is the major autobiographical statement from Nobel laureate André Gide. In the events and musings recorded here we find the seeds of those themes that obsessed him throughout his career and imbued his classic novels The Immoralist and The... 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MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Painter, George D - Marcel Proust : A Biography - PB 1983 No biography has ever before thrown so much light on the making of a masterpiece. ' Raymond Mortimer. 'Mr Painter has done his work so well that it is hard to speak in moderate terms of his skill and unobtrusive wit. ' Anthony Powell. 'Brilliant and... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. 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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Thomas Love Peacock - Nightmare Abbey / Crotchet Castle ( Vintage Penguin PB 1979) Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was an English satirist and author. Peacock was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. He wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting - characters at a table discussing... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view McCullers, Carson - The Member of the Wedding - Vintage Penguin PB 1985 ( Originally 1946) The novel that became an award-winning play and a major motion picture and that has charmed generations of readers, Carson McCullers's classic The Member of the Wedding is a 20th century classic American novel. Here is the story of the inimitable... 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MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Dickens, Monica - Mariana - Vintage Penguin PB 1954 ( Originally 1940 ) Monica Dickens, the great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, published Mariana in 1940 when she was only twenty-four years old. A bestseller in its time, Mariana is the often-comical story of a typical English girl growing up in the 1930s.A lively young... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurois, André - Ariel : A Shelley Romance ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939) ( Originally 1924) This book tells the tale of Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose life was singularly interesting and diverse. His friends unanimously testify that his character was one of gentleness, purity, generosity and strong affection. As a poet, he stands in the front rank... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Reid, Forest - Peter Waring ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946) ( Originally 1937) Peter Waring (1937) is a full-scale revision of Reid's earlier Following Darkness (1912) in which Peter, a sensitive boy with literary inclinations, grows up unhappily in the household of his father, a cold village schoolmaster in... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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In the events and musings recorded here we find the seeds of those themes that obsessed him throughout his career and imbued his classic novels The Immoralist and The... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edel, Leon - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Beerbohm, Max - Zuleika Dobson - Vintage Penguin PB 1983 ( Originally 1911) Originally published in 1911, Max Beerbohm's sparklingly wicked satire concerns the unlikely events that occur when a femme fatale briefly enters the supremely privileged, all-male domain of Judas College, Oxford. A conjurer by profession, Zuleika Dobson... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Painter, George D - Marcel Proust : A Biography - PB 1983 No biography has ever before thrown so much light on the making of a masterpiece. ' Raymond Mortimer. 'Mr Painter has done his work so well that it is hard to speak in moderate terms of his skill and unobtrusive wit. ' Anthony Powell. 'Brilliant and... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 ) Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Thomas Love Peacock - Nightmare Abbey / Crotchet Castle ( Vintage Penguin PB 1979) Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was an English satirist and author. Peacock was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. He wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting - characters at a table discussing... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view McCullers, Carson - The Member of the Wedding - Vintage Penguin PB 1985 ( Originally 1946) The novel that became an award-winning play and a major motion picture and that has charmed generations of readers, Carson McCullers's classic The Member of the Wedding is a 20th century classic American novel. Here is the story of the inimitable... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Twenty-Four Hours ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1959 ) ( Originally 1930) Louis Bromfield attained worldwide acclaim in the 1920s as the author of Early Autumn, his third novel and winner of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. At age 29, Bromfield was regarded as one of America's most promising young novelists, compared to... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Dickens, Monica - Mariana - Vintage Penguin PB 1954 ( Originally 1940 ) Monica Dickens, the great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, published Mariana in 1940 when she was only twenty-four years old. A bestseller in its time, Mariana is the often-comical story of a typical English girl growing up in the 1930s.A lively young... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurois, André - Ariel : A Shelley Romance ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939) ( Originally 1924) This book tells the tale of Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose life was singularly interesting and diverse. His friends unanimously testify that his character was one of gentleness, purity, generosity and strong affection. As a poet, he stands in the front rank... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Reid, Forest - Peter Waring ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946) ( Originally 1937) Peter Waring (1937) is a full-scale revision of Reid's earlier Following Darkness (1912) in which Peter, a sensitive boy with literary inclinations, grows up unhappily in the household of his father, a cold village schoolmaster in... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edel, Leon - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Beerbohm, Max - Zuleika Dobson - Vintage Penguin PB 1983 ( Originally 1911) Originally published in 1911, Max Beerbohm's sparklingly wicked satire concerns the unlikely events that occur when a femme fatale briefly enters the supremely privileged, all-male domain of Judas College, Oxford. A conjurer by profession, Zuleika Dobson... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Painter, George D - Marcel Proust : A Biography - PB 1983 No biography has ever before thrown so much light on the making of a masterpiece. ' Raymond Mortimer. 'Mr Painter has done his work so well that it is hard to speak in moderate terms of his skill and unobtrusive wit. ' Anthony Powell. 'Brilliant and... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. 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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Twenty-Four Hours ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1959 ) ( Originally 1930) Louis Bromfield attained worldwide acclaim in the 1920s as the author of Early Autumn, his third novel and winner of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. At age 29, Bromfield was regarded as one of America's most promising young novelists, compared to... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Dickens, Monica - Mariana - Vintage Penguin PB 1954 ( Originally 1940 ) Monica Dickens, the great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, published Mariana in 1940 when she was only twenty-four years old. A bestseller in its time, Mariana is the often-comical story of a typical English girl growing up in the 1930s.A lively young... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurois, André - Ariel : A Shelley Romance ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939) ( Originally 1924) This book tells the tale of Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose life was singularly interesting and diverse. His friends unanimously testify that his character was one of gentleness, purity, generosity and strong affection. As a poet, he stands in the front rank... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Reid, Forest - Peter Waring ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946) ( Originally 1937) Peter Waring (1937) is a full-scale revision of Reid's earlier Following Darkness (1912) in which Peter, a sensitive boy with literary inclinations, grows up unhappily in the household of his father, a cold village schoolmaster in... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view France Gide, André - If It Die - ( Vintage Penguin PB 1982) ( Si le grain ne meurt) ( Originally 1920 ) This is the major autobiographical statement from Nobel laureate André Gide. In the events and musings recorded here we find the seeds of those themes that obsessed him throughout his career and imbued his classic novels The Immoralist and The... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edel, Leon - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Beerbohm, Max - Zuleika Dobson - Vintage Penguin PB 1983 ( Originally 1911) Originally published in 1911, Max Beerbohm's sparklingly wicked satire concerns the unlikely events that occur when a femme fatale briefly enters the supremely privileged, all-male domain of Judas College, Oxford. A conjurer by profession, Zuleika Dobson... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Painter, George D - Marcel Proust : A Biography - PB 1983 No biography has ever before thrown so much light on the making of a masterpiece. ' Raymond Mortimer. 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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Thomas Love Peacock - Nightmare Abbey / Crotchet Castle ( Vintage Penguin PB 1979) Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was an English satirist and author. Peacock was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. He wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting - characters at a table discussing... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view McCullers, Carson - The Member of the Wedding - Vintage Penguin PB 1985 ( Originally 1946) The novel that became an award-winning play and a major motion picture and that has charmed generations of readers, Carson McCullers's classic The Member of the Wedding is a 20th century classic American novel. Here is the story of the inimitable... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Twenty-Four Hours ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1959 ) ( Originally 1930) Louis Bromfield attained worldwide acclaim in the 1920s as the author of Early Autumn, his third novel and winner of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. At age 29, Bromfield was regarded as one of America's most promising young novelists, compared to... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Dickens, Monica - Mariana - Vintage Penguin PB 1954 ( Originally 1940 ) Monica Dickens, the great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, published Mariana in 1940 when she was only twenty-four years old. A bestseller in its time, Mariana is the often-comical story of a typical English girl growing up in the 1930s.A lively young... 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His friends unanimously testify that his character was one of gentleness, purity, generosity and strong affection. As a poet, he stands in the front rank... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Reid, Forest - Peter Waring ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946) ( Originally 1937) Peter Waring (1937) is a full-scale revision of Reid's earlier Following Darkness (1912) in which Peter, a sensitive boy with literary inclinations, grows up unhappily in the household of his father, a cold village schoolmaster in... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... 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One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurois, André - Ariel : A Shelley Romance ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939) ( Originally 1924) This book tells the tale of Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose life was singularly interesting and diverse. His friends unanimously testify that his character was one of gentleness, purity, generosity and strong affection. As a poet, he stands in the front rank... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Reid, Forest - Peter Waring ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946) ( Originally 1937) Peter Waring (1937) is a full-scale revision of Reid's earlier Following Darkness (1912) in which Peter, a sensitive boy with literary inclinations, grows up unhappily in the household of his father, a cold village schoolmaster in... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin) London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Thomas Love Peacock - Nightmare Abbey / Crotchet Castle ( Vintage Penguin PB 1979) Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was an English satirist and author. Peacock was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. He wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting - characters at a table discussing... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view McCullers, Carson - The Member of the Wedding - Vintage Penguin PB 1985 ( Originally 1946) The novel that became an award-winning play and a major motion picture and that has charmed generations of readers, Carson McCullers's classic The Member of the Wedding is a 20th century classic American novel. Here is the story of the inimitable... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Twenty-Four Hours ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1959 ) ( Originally 1930) Louis Bromfield attained worldwide acclaim in the 1920s as the author of Early Autumn, his third novel and winner of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. At age 29, Bromfield was regarded as one of America's most promising young novelists, compared to... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Dickens, Monica - Mariana - Vintage Penguin PB 1954 ( Originally 1940 ) Monica Dickens, the great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, published Mariana in 1940 when she was only twenty-four years old. A bestseller in its time, Mariana is the often-comical story of a typical English girl growing up in the 1930s.A lively young... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurois, André - Ariel : A Shelley Romance ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939) ( Originally 1924) This book tells the tale of Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose life was singularly interesting and diverse. His friends unanimously testify that his character was one of gentleness, purity, generosity and strong affection. As a poet, he stands in the front rank... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Reid, Forest - Peter Waring ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946) ( Originally 1937) Peter Waring (1937) is a full-scale revision of Reid's earlier Following Darkness (1912) in which Peter, a sensitive boy with literary inclinations, grows up unhappily in the household of his father, a cold village schoolmaster in... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... 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Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Painter, George D - Marcel Proust : A Biography - PB 1983 No biography has ever before thrown so much light on the making of a masterpiece. ' Raymond Mortimer. 'Mr Painter has done his work so well that it is hard to speak in moderate terms of his skill and unobtrusive wit. ' Anthony Powell. 'Brilliant and... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935) When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. 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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Twenty-Four Hours ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1959 ) ( Originally 1930) Louis Bromfield attained worldwide acclaim in the 1920s as the author of Early Autumn, his third novel and winner of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. At age 29, Bromfield was regarded as one of America's most promising young novelists, compared to... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... 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Quick view Bromfield, Louis - Twenty-Four Hours ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1959 ) ( Originally 1930) Louis Bromfield attained worldwide acclaim in the 1920s as the author of Early Autumn, his third novel and winner of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. At age 29, Bromfield was regarded as one of America's most promising young novelists, compared to... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Dickens, Monica - Mariana - Vintage Penguin PB 1954 ( Originally 1940 ) Monica Dickens, the great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, published Mariana in 1940 when she was only twenty-four years old. A bestseller in its time, Mariana is the often-comical story of a typical English girl growing up in the 1930s.A lively young... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurois, André - Ariel : A Shelley Romance ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939) ( Originally 1924) This book tells the tale of Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose life was singularly interesting and diverse. His friends unanimously testify that his character was one of gentleness, purity, generosity and strong affection. As a poet, he stands in the front rank... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Reid, Forest - Peter Waring ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946) ( Originally 1937) Peter Waring (1937) is a full-scale revision of Reid's earlier Following Darkness (1912) in which Peter, a sensitive boy with literary inclinations, grows up unhappily in the household of his father, a cold village schoolmaster in... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Snow, C.P - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 ) Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of these families and is beginning to make a name for... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Dickens, Monica - Mariana - Vintage Penguin PB 1954 ( Originally 1940 ) Monica Dickens, the great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, published Mariana in 1940 when she was only twenty-four years old. A bestseller in its time, Mariana is the often-comical story of a typical English girl growing up in the 1930s.A lively young... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 ) Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert. Then, success within his grasp, he faces an agonizing... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911) Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged mediocrity, he fears that an unfavorable comparison to Traill... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Maurois, André - Ariel : A Shelley Romance ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939) ( Originally 1924) This book tells the tale of Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose life was singularly interesting and diverse. His friends unanimously testify that his character was one of gentleness, purity, generosity and strong affection. As a poet, he stands in the front rank... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Reid, Forest - Peter Waring ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946) ( Originally 1937) Peter Waring (1937) is a full-scale revision of Reid's earlier Following Darkness (1912) in which Peter, a sensitive boy with literary inclinations, grows up unhappily in the household of his father, a cold village schoolmaster in... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Menen, Aubrey - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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