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NATIONAL GALLERY: The Jungle Books

Book number: 94834 Product format: Hardback Author: Rudyard Kipling

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Contains all 13 books published in 1894. The Jungle Book has become Kipling's most famous work; it was followed by The Second Jungle Book in 1895. The two works contain short stories and poems about the animal world and include Mowgli's Brothers, Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack, Kaa's Hunting, Tiger! Tiger!, Mowgli's Song, Rikki-tikki-tavi, Toomai of the Elephants and Shiv and the Grasshopper among them. We recall fondly the unforgettable tale of Mowgli the man-cub abandoned in the Indian jungle and his animal friends and foes including Bagheera the black panther, Baloo the sleepy brown bear, and murderous tiger Shere Khan, which are some of the most famous and iconic in all of children's literature. Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and spent his first six years of life in India, hence the rich affinity with the country reflected in his words. 327pp.

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ISBN 9781803381077
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PATRICIA HIGHSMITH: Her Diaries and Notebooks

Book number: 94837 Product format: Paperback Author: Patricia Highsmith

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Posthumously discovered in Highsmith's linen cupboard and edited down from 56 thick spiral notebooks by her devoted editor, this one-volume over 1,000 page assemblage of her diaries and notebooks traces the mesmerising double life of one of the 20th century's most conflicted and fascinating novelists. The famously secretive Highsmith refused to authorise a biography during her lifetime but left behind these 8,000 pages of diaries which reveal at last the inscrutable figure behind the pen. They show her unwavering literary ambitions, coming often at huge personal sacrifice, as she reflects on good and evil, loneliness and intimacy, sexuality and sacrifice, love and murder. We feel her euphoria writing 'The Price of Salt' (later adapted into the film Carol) one of the first mainstream novels to depict two women in love, and we watch her in Positano, gleefully conjuring Mr Ripley, the psychopathic and anti-hero that would cement her reputation. She describes her tumultuous romantic relationships alongside her sometimes dizzying social life involving Jane Bowles, Peggy Guggenheim, Carson McCullers, Arthur Koestler and W. H. Auden. In her skewering of McCarthy-era America, her prickly disparagement of contemporary art, and ever-percolating prejudices, we see Highsmith revealing the roots of her psychological angst and acuity. Written in her inimitable and dazzling prose and offering all the pleasure of her novels, these are one of the most compulsively readable literary diaries to be published in generations - unfiltered and an unforgettable picture of this enigmatic trailblazing author. They comprise one of the most observant and ecstatic accounts by one of the finest writers in the English language who died in 1995. 1000 page paperback, 15 x 23cm.

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ISBN 9781474617604

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CINDERELLA LIBERATOR: A Fairy Tale Revolution
Book number: 93905 Product format: Paperback Author: REBECCA SOLNIT
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DARK QUEENS: The Bloody Rivalry
Book number: 93910 Product format: Hardback Author: SHELLEY PUHAK
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MARGARET DRABBLE: Set of 6
Book number: 94860 Product format: Paperback Author: MARGARET DRABBLE
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PEARL: A New Verse Translation

Book number: 93030 Product format: Hardback Author: SIMON ARMITAGE

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Presented alongside the original text, and overseen by renowned medievalist James Simpson, Pearl is a spellbinding new translation of a classic medieval work. Remaining faithful to the intricate structure of the original, one of our most ingenious interpreters of Middle English Simon Armitage transforms this allegory of grief and consolation into a story that feels hauntingly immediate. Armitage, the acclaimed poet who brought Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to vivid life in "an energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited version" (New York Times Book Review), turns his attention to another beloved medieval English masterpiece believed to have been penned by the same author who wrote Sir Gawain and housed in the same original fourteenth-century manuscript. Pearl describes a heartbroken father mourning the loss of his beautiful and precious daughter "Perle." Returning to the garden where she first disappeared, he observes the verdant shades of late summer, a cruel reminder of the grief that shadows his every waking thought. Succumbing to the afternoon heat, and tormented by images of death and decay, he falls into a trancelike sleep and dreams of a radiant apparition that closely resembles his Pearl. Standing before him across an unfordable stretch of water, the maiden reassures her father that she has been granted a home in heaven alongside Christ. At first overjoyed, then incredulous at the maiden's exalted stature, the dreamer is ultimately convinced of her providence by a series of tense, sorrowful arguments as she, much like Dante's Beatrice, leads him through the throes of grief toward a vision of paradise and divine redemption. At the brief, teasing glimpse of the kingdom of heaven, the dreamer rushes forward to join the maiden, only to be struck awake, his dream shattered and his irreplaceable Pearl lost once more. A beautifully written story with an amazing ending. 153 pages.

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ISBN 9780871407184
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IRREPRESSIBLE ADVENTURES WITH BRITANNIA

Book number: 94539 Product format: Hardback Author: EDITED BY WILLIAM ROGER LOUIS

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A remarkable collection of interpretations by outstanding writers on the literature and history of modern Britain: Prince Albert, John Spurling on one man's Raj, editing the English Historical Review, Andrew Roberts on Michael Roberts and the BBC, Jeremy Lewis on David Astor and the Observer, Ferdinand Mount on John Keats, Anthony Trollope, readers, writers and reputations, Robert Graves's war poems, Paul Levy on Bloomsbury Reassessed, Edmund Gosse and R. J. Ackerley, Ivy Compton-Burnett, the world of Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, Harry Potter, the Black Hole of Calcutta, the breakup of Britain, A. J. P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper, Margaret Thatcher's impact on historical writing, Tony Benn, and Geoffrey Wheatcroft on Lady Thatcher and Max Hastings on Elizabeth II, the book concludes with British studies at the University of Texas 1975-2013. We are taken on an excursion through British life and intellectual biography covering personalities, politics and culture in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, but also the interaction of British and other societies throughout the world. 400 pages, illus.

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ISBN 9781780767970
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WITCRAFT: The Invention of Philosophy In English

Book number: 94541 Product format: Paperback Author: JONATHAN RÉE

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'We English men have wits,' wrote the clergyman Ralph Lever in 1573, and, 'we have also framed unto ourselves a language.' The book is a fresh and brilliant study of how philosophy became established in England, challenging what Rée calls the 'condescending smugness' of traditional histories of philosophy. He sees it as a mass of individual stories showing endurance, inventiveness, bewilderment, anxiety, impatience and good humour from men and women from many walks of life, engaged with the debates and cultures of their age. He includes celebrated British and American philosophers such as Hume, Emerson, Mill and James and also literary authors such as William Hazlitt and George Eliot and an overlooked past of priests and poets, teachers, servants and crofters, thinking for themselves about religion, politics, art and everything else. The book adopts a novel structure examining its subjects at 50 year intervals from the 16th century to the 20th - puritans, comedians, politicians, libertarians, and a collection of nonsense and folly, ethics in wartime and the prophets of the death of metaphysics. Wide ranging, fascinating. 746pp in heavyweight illustrated softback.

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ISBN 9780300255386
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COLUMBIAN ICONOGRAPHY NUOVA RACCOLTA COLOMBIANA

Book number: 94693 Product format: Hardback Author: GAETANO FERRO, LUISA FALDINI

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Let us go back to Christopher Columbus, to his diary of his first journey, as well as some of his other writings. The originality of the sites confronting the Discoverer, new landscapes, a flora and fauna never seen before, and even human beings different from Europeans, seems to often excite the senses of the Navigator and his mates, but it was hard to convey. His observation is striking. Gerbi wrote that through Columbus's eyes America had 'emblematic parrots and lizards. Myriads of singing birds fill the sky while the ocean is teeming with shoals of playful, multi-coloured fish.' Landscape and nature, portraits, feather-dressed natives, pygmies fighting cranes, depictions of the fountains of youth, engravings, ink, watercolour, gold and silver on paper illustrations plus woodcuts, there is even iconography on cannibalism. 655 pages on special watermarked Italian paper, profusely illustrated, much in colour. Printed on special watermarked paper (as in all this series) in Rome, 1996 First Edition.

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ISBN 9788824002707

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SHIPS OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS NUOVA RACCOLTA COLOMBIANA
Book number: 94700 Product format: Hardback Author: FRANCO GAY & CESARE CIANO
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GENOESE CARTOGRAPHIC TRADITION AND CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS:
Book number: 94694 Product format: Hardback Author: GAETANO FERRO
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WORLD BRAIN

Book number: 94702 Product format: Paperback Author: H. G. WELLS

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Mostly remembered as a writer of science fiction, H. G. Wells was also a prolific non-fiction author. Here is a collection of his speeches collected into five main sections, based on different slices of his overall vision. At its heart was an encyclopaedia of all modern knowledge that would be constantly updated by thousands of experts. The talks and essays were given in 1937 and H. G. Wells proselytized for what he called a 'World Brain' as manifested in a World Encyclopaedia, a repository of scientifically established knowledge which would spread enlightenment around the world and lead to world peace. He was imagining something like the Internet, and a pre-digital Wikipedia. Behind the technology was the vision of Wells the internationalist who believed the nation state must pass away to bring world peace and that universal access to the truth would enable the uneducated masses to move towards this goal. It was a way for professionals to share information, a fact-based system for the school curriculum and a World Encyclopaedia containing true facts about everything from history to physics. These speeches were delivered when Wells was 70 years old and shows his idealism for an enormous political transformation and his anticipation of the Information Age. 129 page paperback.

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ISBN 9780262542562
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ROSAMUNDE PILCHER'S CORNWALL

Book number: 94799 Product format: Paperback Author: GILL KNAPPETT

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Pitkin guides are fabulous and this large format softback is from its Film Locations series. Novelist Rosamunde Pilcher was born in Cornwall and spent her childhood there. England's most south-westerly county was to feature many times in her novels and here we explore the landscapes and seascapes that inspired her around Looe, Bodmin, Fowey, St Austell, Truro, Falmouth, the Lizard Peninsula and its villages and coves, Mount's Bay, Penzance, Mousehole, Land's End, Cape Cornwall, St Ives, Godrevy Point, St Agnes Head, Newquay, Padstow and Bude among them. Packed with glamorous colour photos and map, a slim paperback, 32pp.

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ISBN 9781841659008
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MY FRIEND MR CAMPION AND OTHER MYSTERIES

Book number: 83586 Product format: PAPERBACK Author: MARGERY ALLINGHAM

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Born in Ealing in 1904, Margery Allingham was an eminent crime writer who is today best remembered for her Albert Campion detective stories. Hers was a family with a strong literary tradition, and following pressure from her American publishers, Allingham built an entire series around the unassuming and resourceful amateur sleuth. Her ever-popular gentleman detective features in all these thrilling crime stories - The Case of the Man with the Sack, The Case of the White Elephant, The Case of the Old Man in the Window, The Case of the Late Pig and The Definite Article. The Late Pig is the only Campion story ever told by the great sleuth himself. 255pp in new full price paperback.

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ISBN 9781848580251
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BOOK OF SHAKESPEARIAN USELESS INFORMATION

Book number: 93274 Product format: Hardback Author: BRUCE MONTAGUE

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Discover why in the theatre the expression 'The ghost walks' means it's payday, why at the last minute Shakespeare scratched out his son-in-law's name from his will and left his second-best bed to his widow; why intervals were unexpectedly introduced into theatrical performances; why Shakespeare's father lost his position as Mayor of Stratford-upon-Avon; how the Box Office got its name; why poorer people in Tudor times painted their teeth black; why Shakespeare himself had to play Lady Macbeth on 'The Scottish Play's' first performance and even why the theatre is called 'The Theatre'. And a great deal more besides. Loosely arranged in chronological order to establish William Shakespeare in his literary and historical setting, and written by the ex-RAF pilot and actor best known as Leonard in the BBC sitcom Butterflies. 433pp.

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