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This account of the struggle between the British and Chinese in the Opium War in Canton in the 1830s has a vividness that comes from 20 years of experience in the Far East as a civil servant. 'The story of the Opium War does not lend itself to natural composition;

With only a handful of clues at his disposal but a great deal of canny instinct, Septimus is drawn into a revolving plot concerning political conspiracy, ancient rites and dark magic powers at work in the depths of the Welsh valleys.

Born in Brighton in 1861, Constance Clara Garnett (nee Black) was the sixth of eight children.

Translated by Constance Garnett Three Plays by Turgenev includes A Month in the Country, A Provincial Lady and A Poor Gentleman. Turgenev wrote A Month in the Country in France between 1848 and 1850.

That night I went home to my lodgings in a state of perfect ecstasy. I felt supremely happy, and was already making all sorts of plans in my head. If someone had whispered in my ear then: 'You're raving, my dear chap. That's not a bit what's in store for you. What's in store for you is to die all alone, in a wretched little cottage'.

Young Muscovite bachelor Yakov Aratov lives in contented solitude, until the arrival in town of the dazzling actress Clara Militch: 'She was all fire, all passion, and all contradiction; revengeful and kind; magnanimous and vindictive; she believed in fate - and did not believe in God'. Her beauty entrances him, beyond her tragic death.

A Sportsman's Sketches was a collection of short stories written by Ivan Turgenev in 1852. Based on his own observations riding around his family's estate the stories explore the difficult lives of the peasants and the Russian system of serfdom.

A Sportsman's Sketches was a collection of short stories written by Ivan Turgenev in 1852. Based on his own observations riding around his family's estate the stories explore the difficult lives of the peasants and the Russian system of serfdom.

Gordon Clark was a county judge at the time of the novel's compositionWhen Francis Pettigrew, former barrister and sometime amateur detective, is plucked out of peaceful retirement in the Home Counties to deputise for the County Court judge, the proceedings offer him some unexpected insights into the lives of his new neighbours.

A criticism of literature and thought, of the lives of men and their defensive instinct, constantly at war with 'all the great de-individualizing things, with Faith, with Science, with Truth, and with Beauty'".

These thirty stories, selected and introduced by fellow crime writer and lawyer Michael Gilbert, are a terrific introduction to Cyril Hare's inventive and clever Golden Age detective fiction, which often turns on an ingenious use of the law.

A sequel to Rudin, A House of Gentlefolk was originally published in 1858 and was translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett in 1894.

The most cosmopolitan of all Turgenev's works Smoke sketches the intricacies of the aristocratic and Young Russia parties at a time when Russia was changing from the philosophical Nihilism of the 1860s to the more politically active Nihilism of the 1870s.

From them we learn how farming supported and bound together the people of the village into a community. Imaginatively illustrated with integrated photographs and black and white line drawings, this is the fourth book in the author's classic series about the farm and the old farming community in East Anglia.

Shows the way in which oral history works. This book features some recorded talks by old men and women in East Anglian villages, whose tools and customs - and indeed whose ways of speech, which often survived from the times of Shakespeare and even Chaucer - repeated what had been familiar to many generations before them.

Together with The Mirror of the Sea, Joseph Conrad's A Personal Record (1911) is one of his two openly autobiographical books.

Thomas's own book of that title, published before he was to become known as a poet, already reveals the poet's sensitivity for language and the poet's eye for truth. Thomas was always aware of the richness of the English countryside, the elusive beauty of the natural world.

A Roving Recluse is the second volume of memoirs by Peter Frederick Anson; He next became attached to the Franciscans in Italy when he embarked on his career of connoisseur extraordinaire not just of church furnishings, but also of church characters: Abbot Sir David Oswald Hunter-Blair;

Includes a section that provides from the inside an account of the unique combination of temperament and ability, at once composer and executant, which makes a jazz musician.

An electrifying, trenchant meditation on England's pop sensibility, England Is Mine shows the novelist and critic Michael Bracewell on blistering form as he hops from Oscar Wilde to Paul Weller, Goldie to Graham Greene, in a dizzyingly erudite cultural history. Bracewell's eye is unswervingly democratic, as, for example, W.

This volume collects the best of Gavin Young's journalism. These pieces, by turn elegant, vivid and compassionate, display his acute understanding of the varied worlds in which we live.'Young is a born raconteur.

First published in 1991, A Ship for Mr Fitton continues the adventures of real-life hero and sailor Michael Fitton. A desperate sea-chase ensues and Mr Fitton must use all of his resourcefulness and naval expertise if he is to escape the French warship and keep his promise to his wife.

First published in 1994, Mr Fitton and the Black Legion charts the adventures of hero and sailor Michael Fitton. It is February 1797 and 1400 of the French army have landed on the Pembroke coast.

First published in 1998, Mr Fitton at the Helm tells of the further exploits of sailor Michael Fitton. When the commander-in-chief of the West Indies Squadron orders a second officer onto the schooner Gipsy, Lieutenant Fitton is far from pleased.

Presents the life and works of Richard Strauss. This book spans from 1934 to Strauss' death in 1949, taking in the last five operas, the late instrumental music, a variety of songs from early youth to the "Vier letzte Lieder", and concluding with eight appendixes of works, dates and opus numbers, and a meticulous index.

A work on Richard Strauss that spans the years 1912 to 1933 (the premiere of Arabella), taking in the Ariadne versions, Die Frau ohne Schatten, the ballets and much incidental music.

At the end of the 1830s, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas I, two famous accounts, through foreign eyes, were being written about Russia. Contrary to the prevailing belief, in no country are the extremes of society brought into more frequent contact, and in few are the transitions from one class to another more frequent or sudden.

It is a regret the work was never completed but Faber Finds are proud to reissue the two volumes that were published.The first volume describes the growth of the railway system from the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway to the outbreak of the First World War.

Wells's An Experiment in Autobiography, subtitled, with typically Wellsian self-effacement, 'Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866)', first appeared in 1934, when Wells was sixty-eight years old, and is presented in Faber Finds in two volumes (also in the Faber Finds imprint is H.

Death is No Sportsman (1938) was the second crime novel by 'Cyril Hare', nom de plume of Alfred Gordon Clark and one of the best-loved names in English 'Golden Age' crime writing. The banks of the river Didder in the summertime appear idyllic: the sun is shining, the trout rising.