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The Roots of the Mountains

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William Morris


The Roots of the Mountains was the second in a projected series of three historical novels set in a pre-medieval Germanic world (the third w…

Short stories (Early works 1837-1852)

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


A collection of Elizabeth Gaskell's early short stories. Following the publication of Mary Barton in 1848, Gaskell published many of her sho…

Extracts from a Diary Kept by the Rev. R. Burrows during Heke's War in the Nort…

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Robert Burrows


An eye-witness account of the so-called Flagstaff War, fought between Maori warriors, led by Hone Heke, and British troops between March 184…

Lancashire

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Francis Archibald Bruton


The county of Lancashire in the north-west of England is best known as the engine room of the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution. Stee…

Songs of a Sourdough

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Robert W. Service


Reputedly the best-selling poetry collection of the 20th century, 'Songs of a Sourdough' is best known for Robert W. Service's classic Yukon…

The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets

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William Wordsworth


Located in a part of Cumbria that was once part of Lancashire, the River Duddon rises in the high fells of the Lake District and flows for 2…

Short Stories (All the Year Round, 1859-1863)

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


In 1859 Charles Dickens launched a new weekly journal, All the Year Round, to replace Household Words. Elizabeth Gaskell remained a prolific…

Aladore

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Sir Henry Newbolt


Ywain, a knight bored with his administrative duties, abandons his estate to his younger brother and goes on a pilgrimage to seek his heart'…

Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair

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William Morris


A prose romance set in the forested kingdom of Oakenrealm, where a squirrel can go about from end to end without touching the ground, in whi…

Travels in Lancashire

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Various,William Roscoe


A collection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry on travels in Lancashire, England, with occasional sorties into adjacent counties. - Summary…

The Fates of the Princes of Dyfed

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Cenydd Morus


Cenydd Morus's (Kenneth Morris) imaginative retelling of tales from the Mabinogion, the great work of Welsh literature first recorded in the…

Six lectures on literature

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Charles Harold Herford


C. H. Herford was Professor of English Literature at the Victoria University of Manchester in era when public lectures were published in pam…

Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London

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John Gay


John Gay's Trivia is a satirical guide to walking the streets of London, written in mock heroic style. Learn how to avoid pickpockets, wig t…

Beckside Lights

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John Ackworth


John Ackworth was the pen name of the Rev. Frederick R. Smith, a Methodist minister who was born in Snaith, Yorkshire, but spent much of his…

The Itinerary of John Leland in or About the Years 1535-1543

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John Leland


John Leland's 'Itinerary' was the product of several journeys around England and Wales undertaken between 1538 and 1543. The manuscript is m…

Sonnets on Anglo-Saxon History

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Ann Hawkshaw


The history of Britain up to the Norman Conquest in the form of 100 prose commentaries, each followed by a sonnet. The commentaries set the …

The Master Girl: A Romance

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Henry Marriage Wallis


A stone age romance. Deh-Yun of the Little Moon comes across Pul-Yun of the Sun Disc, who has broken his leg while in search of a woman to k…

Doxie Dent

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John Ackworth


Following the short story collections, Clog Shop Chronicles and Beckside Lights, John Ackworth completed the adventures of clogger Jabez Cle…

Hartmann the Anarchist, or the Doom of a Great City

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Edward Douglas Fawcett


A gem of nineteenth-century science fiction from mountaineer, philosopher and occasional novelist, Edward Douglas Fawcett. Stanley, a wealth…

To the Lighthouse (Version 2)

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Virginia Woolf


Virginia Woolf's classic modernist novel explores the lives and thoughts of the Ramsays and their guests at the family's summer home on the …

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