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Bretherton: Khaki Or Field-Grey? (Casemate's War Classic) by W. F. Morris
Category: Military | Series: Casemate Classic War Fiction Ser.
Towards the end of the war as the Germans are in their final retreat in November 1918, a British raiding party stumbles across a strange and eerie scene in a ruined chateau, under fire. Following the strains of a familiar tune, and understandably perplexed as to who would be playing the piano in the mid ...Show more
Haunting of Sylvia Path by Toby Miller
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Classic Non-Fiction Ser.
Since her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon. This book addresses why this is the case and what this tells us about the way culture picks out important writers. The author argues that without a concept of fantasy we can understand neither Plath's work nor what she h ...Show more
Isabelle - A Life of Isabelle Eberhardt by Annette Kobak
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Classic Non-Fiction Ser.
She stands between Baudelaire and the Beat Generation, a rebel without a cause...' 'Isabelle Eberhardt, the brilliant young French writer who died at 27 in 1904, found, like T.E. Lawrence, an identity for her complex, sexually ambiguous personality in the desert among the Arab people. She lived experime ...Show more
Landscape for a Good Woman - A Story of Two Lives by Carolyn Steedman
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Classic Non-Fiction Ser.
'This book is about lives lived out on the borderlands, lives for which the central interpretative devices of the culture don't quite work. It has a childhood at its centre - my childhood, a personal past - and it is about the disruption of that fifties childhood by the one my mother had lived out befor ...Show more
Love among the Butterflies - The Travels and Adventures of a Victorian Lady by Margaret Fountaine; W. F. Cater (Introduction by, Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Classic Non-Fiction Ser.
Rejecting her traditional 19th-century upbringing as a country clergyman's daughter and being in possession of a private income, Margaret Fountaine set out on a wild and fearless life which took her all over the world. This volume of her diaries reveals her adventures.
Moby Dick by David Rodriguez; Ignacio Segesso (Illustrator)
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Classic Fiction Ser.
The icy waters of the northern seas hide a creature that is already a legend among all seafarers. The fearsome white leviathan, the chimera of all whalers, Moby Dick. The young Ishmael, along with his faithful friend Queequeg, will board the Pequod, to satisfy their craving for adventure. But soon, he w ...Show more
Mr Britling Sees it Through by WELLS, H G
Category: Classics | Series: Casemate Classic War Fiction
Novel set in WWI Britain; Mr Britling as a writer whose family is caught up in events of the war, and he must re-examine his beliefs and world view. A profound and very human account of the early years of the war, told from the perspective of a father rather than combatants, but no less revealing. Mr Br ...Show more
Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens Charles
Category: Audio | Series: Classic Fiction Ser.
Nicholas Nickleby's father dies unexpectedly after losing all of his money in a poor investment. Nicholas, his mother and his younger sister, Kate, are forced to give up their comfortable lifestyle in Devonshire and travel to London to seek the aid of their only relative, Nicholas's uncle, Ralph Nickleb ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Category: Audio | Series: Classic Fiction S.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." So opens this famous novel which has become Jane Austen's best loved and best known work. It was in this book that all Jane Austen's talents combined to create not only the most wonder ...Show more
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence; Jim Norton (Read by)
Category: Audio | Series: Classic Non-Fiction Ser.
"Seven Pillars of Wisdom is an unusual and rich work. It encompasses an account of the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War alongside general Middle Eastern and military history, politics, adventure and drama. It is also a memoir of the soldier known as Lawrence of Arabia .Lawrence i ...Show more
Suppressed Cry by Victoria Glendinning
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Classic Non-Fiction Ser.
A loving but clear-eyed portrait of a family and an era, this is Victoria Glendinning's first book- unavailable for twenty five years.
Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
Category: Biography | Series: Virago Classic Non-Fiction Ser.
In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the ...Show more