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A history of picadilly, an important area of central London, from 1612, when Robert Baker erected the first buildings on what is known as Piccadilly, to the end of the 19th century. This work charts the arrival of the aristocracy in the later 17th century, which led to it being regarded as a very fashionable area from the 18th century onwards.

Finding himself on the German/Russian border on the eve of the First World War, John Morse effects his escape to the Russian lines and becomes embroiled in the fighting while trying to leave the country, serving with the Russian cavalry. He experiences first hand the Russian military machine, a force characterized by individual bravery and tenacity in the face of the enemy, but pitifully ill equipped to face the most modern army on earth. He s...

Phoebe, Junior

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Two novels based largely the author's personal experiences at sea

Patrick Brontë (1777-1861) was the father of the famous Brontë sisters, Anne, Charlotte, and Emily, three of Victorian England's greatest novelists, but he was a fascinating man in his own right and not nearly such an unsympathetic character as Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë would have us believe. Born into poverty in Ireland, he won a scholarship to St. John's College, Cambridge, and was ordained into the Church of England. ...

There were four of us - George, William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.' So begins this comic novel, which tells the tale of a boating expedition on the Thames, undertaken by three friends, to say nothing of the dog, Montmorency. It magnifies their adventures to epic proportions.

A cult college novel on its original publication in 1853

Journal of a Residence Among the Negroes of the West Indies

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The world of Sir John Mandeville was bounded by fantasy, superstition, and dread. For most Europeans, knowledge of other countries was limited to tales brought back by the few people that had travelled beyond their borders. In the England of the 14th century, the vast majority would have viewed a visit to the next village as a major event. Sir John Mandeville was one of the intrepid few who ventured beyond, at least according to his own book. ...

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Legends & Stories of Ireland" is the collected tales of Samuel Lover, renowned Irish writer, musician, and artist. These tales, the "literary bantlings" of the author, have come to life over time, through bar-room legends and fireside fables. It has been Lover's achievement to shape them into the fine point through which they have entered the literary canon. Lover's musical ear for dialogue has here combined with his skilled portraiture--this ...

Illustrated by the author, whose reputation for portraiture has almost exceeded his fame as a writer, "Tales & Legends of the Irish Peasantry" caused no little controversy in its time. Lover's earlier" Legends & Stories" had achieved such popular success that his tales herein collected were arranged by a publisher with scant regard for their author's permission. While Lover was aghast, the work proved immensely popular, and stood as tribute to...

Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Tales" is a collection of 12 of the finest stories from a master of psychological suspense. Le Fanu's pedigree in this genre is undoubted, his novella "Carmella "inspired Bram Stoker's "Dracula, " among others, and he is regarded as the father of the Irish gothic style. As consistently unsettling as they are rewarding, the pleasure with which his stories of the supernatural have been read and re-read has made Le Fan...

A history of Covent Garden

First published in 1836, "Wood Leighton" is as much an evocative and vivid novel by a poet of the first rank, as it is a piece of literary history. Mary Howitt, together with her husband, William, wrote over 100 novels, and translated Hans Christian Anderson into English for the first time. In "Wood Leighton" she has crafted a languid tale from an altogether different age. One of her best-loved novels, this beautifully produced volume is one t...

The little-known story of how a French gun-runner helped the American rebels to defeat the British

The private life of Marie Antionette