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Subtitled, "Or, The Bon Vivant's Companion: The Official Cocktail Guide". The first ever cocktail book published in America, complete with the original illustrations. As well as providing recipes for tipples long forgotten, it also offers a fascinating insight into a different age, where alcohol meant glamour and sophistication, not hangovers and vomit.

This volume presents the complete 1855 Christmas number of Dickens' periodical Household Words, so popular after its original publication that it was immediately adapted for the stage.

A short, accessible biography of the classic 19th century French writer.

At once a dystopian fantasy and a critique of sexual norms, "Mine-Haha" describes a unique boarding institution for girls--part idyllic refuge, part prison--where pupils are trained only in the physical arts of movement, dance, and music, before issuing them into an adult world for which they have (unwittingly) been prepared. The narrator is an old woman recalling her strange childhood and the story is focused through the eyes of her earlier s...

A selection of writings on illusions.

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Perfect for Woolf enthusiasts and newcomers alike, Brief Lives: Virginia Woolf offers a concise, authoritative account of the author's life, and presents an engaging overview of her afterlife in literary history.

When a mysterious stranger arrives laden with paintings, Leandro finds his quiet life instantly and mysteriously disrupted. Awakening locked in a windowless room in a topless tower, he finds himself trapped--the subject in one of the stranger's eerie paintings. Heavily influenced by nonsense literature such as Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and the surrealist movement in South America, "The Topless Tower" features all the typical hallma...

In this new biography, Alan Shelston, founder of The Gaskell Society Journal, sheds light on the life of the woman behind the writing: her literary successes, and also her marriage and humanitarian work.

A brand new, accessible biography of Henry James. Written by British academic and author, Hazel Hutchison, Brief Lives: Henry James examines James' travels through Europe, his settling in England and the close relationships that shaped his life and writings - in particular the women that were to become his most renowned female heroines.

Including topics such as Wikipedia's importance as a global phenomenon, this is a timely consideration of the roles of the guardians and editors of information throughout history Encyclopedias have traditionally claimed to provide absolute knowledge, yet with information now among the world's most valuable commodities, this Brief History is a sensible deliberation on how accurate that claim can ever be. While the omissions and distortions of t...

In this groundbreaking work, Lee Rourke traces the long history of a form currently enjoying a resurgence online and in the works of some of the most talented young authors in print.

By the author of 'The House of Mirth' and 'The Age of Innocence', this early but accomplished work by Edith Wharton, 'The Touchstone' is a tale of money and moral compromise, and foreshadows some of the best novels of her later life.

This new translation of a masterpiece of German literature is described by Storm himself as a 'pearl of German poetry'. 'The Lake of the Bees' is one of his earliest novellas. In it, he explores the bitter-sweet sorrow of memory.

A black comedy of manners and morals, based on the career and crimes of a real-life 18th-century gangland criminal, 'Jonathan Wild the Great' is one of the finest satires in the English language.