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Lost Leaders
Andrew Lang, best beloved for his series of fairy books, has collected here essays on wide ranging topics from golf and shaving to Thackeray…
Vice Chancellor's Welcome
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Sensation
In Silverpoints
Silverpoints is the first collection of poems by John Gray. Some saw Gray as a protégé of Oscar Wilde, who agreed to underwrit…
Love
In The Poems of James Hebblethwaite
James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a …
Centre for the Study of the Book
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Anne McLaren Memorial Lectures
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To L—
In The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas
This is a chronologically arranged collection of poems compiled by the author in his late 40s, after he had discarded the Uranian themes of …
Alumni Voices
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Medieval English
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An Englishwoman in the Philippines
Enid Gambier Dauncey was a travel writer who, with her businessman husband, lived in a provincial city in the Philippines for nine months fr…
The Garret by William Makepeace Thackeray
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 2)
The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, incl…
The Adventure of the Three Garridebs
In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
This final volume of detective stories was Doyle’s effort to put his most famous creation behind him at long last. It includes a variety of …
Oak
In Otherworld: Cadences
English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school…
The Novelette Reader
In Machine-Room Chants
Tom Maguire was a trade union organiser from Yorkshire of Irish descent whose poetry reflects his socialist beliefs. This volume was publish…
Roscoe
In Washington Irving's Visit to England
Famed American humorist Washington Irving published a series of short stories telling of his adventures traveling from America to England. T…
Garrulous Wisdom
In Cobwebs from a Library Corner
This is a book of 57 sections divided into 2 parts. The first part is comprised of 26 poems & the second part concludes with 31 assorted…
Andrew's proposal
In Doxie Dent
Following the short story collections, Clog Shop Chronicles and Beckside Lights, John Ackworth completed the adventures of clogger Jabez Cle…
The Adventure of the Three Garridebs
In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (version 2)
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve (out of a total of fifty-six) Sherlock Holmes short stories by British writer Ar…
Postscript
In Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories
A collection of six ghostly tales by Ralph Adams Cram, ranging from the demonic to the deeply sad. Gruesome apparitions, oppressive atmosphe…
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight, Book 1 - Old English
In Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 12
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…