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Excerpt from The Particular Description of the County of SomersetFarewell of Holbrooke on p. 55, would imply that the valley of the Cale had been included, in which case the whole county had been surveyed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to ...

Excerpt from The Grapes of Paradise: Four Short NovelsA great deal of this, I must point out, has changed now. During the war bombs ripped out the entire centre of the collar and you can still see the dirty scars made by Shells on the grassy slopes above the town. But two things remain exactly as they were when I lived with my mother there and, in the long' blistering summer of 1921, when I was eighteen, I first met an officer in the guards, a...

Excerpt from The Enchantress: And Other StoriesOn Mondays Bertha's mother went to the pop-sh0p too, on Saturdays she redeemed whatever she had pawned. It is my guess that she went about in apparently perpetual mourning only because whatever clothes she otherwise possessed were in almost eternal pawn. And they were there because of Bertha.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ...

Excerpt from The Best of H. E. BatesIt was only, a little over a year ago that I came across H. E. Bates' work, up until then, I had never even heard his name, strange as this may sound. I blush now when I read that he is the author Of forty or more books, has been translated into a dozen or more languages, and that 'his reputation in America, Australia and New Zealand equals, and in some cases surpasses, that in his own country.'About the Pub...

Excerpt from Quarter Sessions Records for the Country of Somerset, Vol. 1: James I, 1607-1625The contents of this volume are the record of the work of the Court of Quarter Sessions in the period 1608 - 1625, so far as they relate to the administrative duties, and not to the judicial functions of the Justices of the Peace. It must be supposed that they knew rightly what matters should be the subject of an order and what of a trial but an examin...

Excerpt from Two Cartularies of the Benedictine Abbeys of Muchelney and Athelney in the County of SomersetOn the first discovery of the volume it was at once con' sidered that it must be one of the two very ancient parchment books mentioned by Hearne (see Appendix), as being lent to him by Lord Charles Bruce, son of Thomas Earl of Ailesbury and Elizabeth Seymour. But it is impossible to suppose that Hearne could have overlooked the early chart...

Details the difficulties encountered in defending against night-time intruders.

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Excerpt from The Enchantress: And Other Stories On Mondays Bertha's mother went to the pop-sh0p too, on Saturdays she redeemed whatever she had pawned. It is my guess that she went about in apparently perpetual mourning only because whatever clothes she otherwise possessed were in almost eternal pawn. And they were there because of Bertha. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find mo...

Excerpt from The Best of H. E. Bates It was only, a little over a year ago that I came across H. E. Bates' work, up until then, I had never even heard his name, strange as this may sound. I blush now when I read that he is the author Of forty or more books, has been translated into a dozen or more languages, and that 'his reputation in America, Australia and New Zealand equals, and in some cases surpasses, that in his own country.' About the...

Excerpt from The Grapes of Paradise: Four Short Novels A great deal of this, I must point out, has changed now. During the war bombs ripped out the entire centre of the collar and you can still see the dirty scars made by shells on the grassy slopes above the town. But two things remain exactly as they were when I lived with my mother there and, in the long blistering summer of 1921, when I was eighteen, I first met an Officer in the guards, ...

H. E. Bates was born in 1905 in Northamptonshire. He worked as a journalist and clerk on a local newspaper before publishing his first book, The Two Sisters, when he was twenty. In the next fifteen years he acquired a distinguished reputation for his stories about English country life. During the Second World War he was a Squadron Leader in the R.A.F. The Darling Buds of May (1958), the first of the popular Larkin family novels, was followed b...

Penguin Modern Classic" edition of "perhaps the finest novel of the war... a fine, lovely book which makes the heart beat with pride" "Daily Telegraph".

It was estimated that in 2008, 1, 437, 180 patients would receive a new cancer diagnosisand 565, 650individualswould die of cancer (Jemal et al. 2008).Since the vast majority of patients dying of cancer will have had anticancer therapy, both c- ventional chemotherapy and novel targeted therapy, it can be concluded that these patients are dying with drug resistant cancer. The term multidrug resistance is also apt - in that these patients die af...

Set in Kent, the author returns to those trees of his youth to breath life into the changing character of a single woodland year. He reveals how precious they are to the English countryside.

Die quirlige Miss Bentley ist zwar nicht mehr die Jüngste, hat sich aber ihre Spontaneität und die Lust am Leben bewahrt. Wie jedes Jahr verbringt die unkonventionelle Britin ihren Sommer am Comer See. Anders als sonst, ist sie dieses Mal fast allein vor Ort, bis der etwas steife, aber durchaus sympathische Major Wilshaw anreist. Hals über Kopf verliebt sich Miss Bentley in den angegrauten Offizier, dieser jedoch scheint nur Augen für die blut...

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Three romantic novellas by a master of English literature.

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