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Mr Britling Sees It Through was first published in 1916. Set in the summer of 1914 the main hero, Mr Britling, is an eccentric writer whose days are spent at luxurious house parties socialising with a lot of international guests.

Following the death of her husband Terry, Mrs Allen takes the vacant post of Matron at the Settlement of St Joseph, founded in the nineteenth century by his grandfather Timothy Xavier Allen to bring to the African Christianity medical attention and elementary education.

Those resulting from the erstwhile invasion included, he said, a still partially operative colour-bar, the complex question of ex-enemy property - and the country's status vis-a-vis Great Britain, its liberator and ally, whose forces ended up occupying the country.

The seemingly endless furrows ploughed by the author himself on his farm in Wiltshire provide the inspiration for this book, first published in 1934. The Endless Furrow chronicles the traditional life of the rural community while offering the fictional depiction of a 'townsman's' ambition to farm his own land.

Presents a study of the political development over the last century and a half of the lands between Germany and Italy in the west and Russia in the east. This title focuses on six countries in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Roumania and Yugoslavia.

Offers an evocation of West Country childhood in the golden years before the First World War.

Faber Finds is proud to be reissuing his Furys saga, making all five novels available for the first time. Before writing The Furys, James Hanley outlined his plan to his publisher:'I want to show the downfall of a whole family excepting one, and that is the woman.

In a way that has not been done before, Ian Bradley traces the importance of hymns in Victorian novels, explores the extraordinary political and social ramifications of Victorian hymnody, and assesses the literary and musical importance of the genre.

He is as keenly alert to the topographical as he is to the moral landscape, and it is as if the very stones of the old capitals of Eastern and Central Europe were reasserting their ancient identity.' Peter Ackroyd, The Times'I take my hat off to David Selbourne for achieving a tour de force .

The lyric perfection of the works of Alfred Tennyson, one of the greatest Victorian poets, and the apparent ease with which he wrote them, long obscured the disparity between the unruffled surface of many of his poems and his deeply disturbed life. This biography reveals the sources of the successes and failures of this Victorian poet.

In his acclaimed and final East End novel, Arthur Morrison returns to a slightly earlier period than that of Tales of Mean Streets and A Child of the Jago, the 1860s and 1870s.

On the Eve is set at the beginning of the Crimean War and probes the friendships and loves of Elena, a young Russian woman, and the men in her life.

Written with rare candour, this is William Gerhardie's enchanting and entertaining memoir of his early life. Gerhardie writes about his grandparents and parents, and about his childhood in St Petersburg where his father, a British cotton manufacturer, settled in the 1890s.

Describes patients experiences in waiting-rooms and consulting-rooms. This book also features the children's clinic that is seen through the eyes of the mothers who visit it. It features a doctor who discusses his daily-round, and, a hospital patient who tells how it feels to be the subject of a bedside clinic.

Instead, in keeping with the title, he wrote a fifth part summarizing his conclusions in all the zones he had fought in. This fifth part was used by the United States army for a long time on its own Bunch of Five has been out of print for many years with second-hand copies commanding high prices.

Before World War II, Bransk was a shtetl whose population was equally divided between Poles and Jews. Today there are no Jews. This title reconstructs the lost world of East European Jewry.

Eleanor Farjeon first met Edward Thomas in the late autumn of 1912, when her brother invited him to tea. It was the beginning of a deep friendship. This double memoir uses Edward's letters and Eleanor's diaries and linking commentary to provide an account of their developing friendship, and of the enthusiasms they shared.

'Mark' replied Mr Andrews, and then added a little louder, 'Mark only.' . 'Mark Only, I baptize thee in the name of the Holy Ghost.' A mistake, of course, but this accident of nomenclature sets the principal character on a life of misfortune.

A collection of fourteen essays covering subjects such as: Isaac Foot (the author's father), William Hazlitt, Benjamin Disraeli, Beaverbrook, Bonar Thompson; Bertrand Russell; H N Brailsford; Ignazio Silone; Vicky (the cartoonist); Randolph Churchill; Thomas Paine; Daniel Defoe; Sarah, The Duchess of Marlborough, and Jonathan Swift.

'An exceptional study, which fascinates, entertain, and illuminates.' The New YorkerThrough half a century of public service King Edward had the advantage of a private secretary whose tact, judgement, loyalty and affection never failed him.

Forster while working on the novel 'although I never mentioned it.'Freda Bellingham, the founder of Copdock School, ensnares the unsuspecting Richard Brand in order to save her ramshackle foundation.

Denis Judd's first class biography reveals as much of the truth as we are ever likely to get.' Robert Blake, Sunday Times'Denis Judd writes easily and with humour, presenting Chamberlain through the eyes of both his critics and admirers.

Describes Russia at the time of the Bolshevik takeover.

Dan Davin was a novelist and publisher with an attractive bohemian streak. This book is his literary memoirs. In it he provides recollections of seven of his friends, all writers: Julian Maclaren-Ross, W R Rodgers, Louis MacNeice, Enid Starkie, Joyce Cary, Dylan Thomas, and the Yiddish poet Itzik Manger.

' "Strawberry Roan", the title-part of the story, is a splendid heifer, round whose career, from her calfhood, through her various changes of ownership to her achievement of renown as a champion milker and her final return to the little farmer who bred her, are woven the fortunes of a crowd of Wiltshire folk and the troubles of the land.

A survey of the processes which bring a ballet to the stage. It describes something of the collaborations and creativity that made the 19th century ballet. It examines the varying elements that are combined in twentieth century ballet and the relevance of the changes that have occurred in the conditions of work and the methods of collaboration.

Set in Eton College, this book presents a structure of tiny episodes that portray a complex institution at different levels.

Jason Bodger is the boss of class 4Z and the terror of student teachers, until the fateful day when 4Z visit the Priory.

Anne Karpf's parents survived the Nazi Holocaust. Her mother, a concert pianist when she was eighteen, was a survivor of Plaszow and Auschwitz concentrations camps. Her father survived several Russian labour camps. This memoir explores the profound impact of her parents' wartime experiences on her daily life.

This second volume concentrates on the twentieth-century and, among other virtuoso displays, includes his controversial reappraisal of the beginnings of the First World War, 'War by Timetable' in which his relish of the paradox is seen at its most stimulating. 'Once you start reading, it is hard to stop ...