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For Edward Thomas, Richard Jefferies (1848-87) was more than a nature writer: he was a guiding spirit of the English landscape who affected a profound influence upon Thomas's own writings.

In Om Geoffrey Moorhouse records his travels across South India in 1992, from the places of worship he visited to the wide range of people he met on his way - the pilgrims and supplicants, agnostics and holy men and women, politicians and the last survivor of the pre-Independence princes.

Tells the story of the most powerful man on earth in the early part of the second century. The man who built Hadrian's Wall, the Pantheon in Rome, and, for himself, a nine hundred-room villa at Tivoli. Hadrian was a great but flawed Roman Emperor, an intellectual and patron of the arts but he was also melancholy, volatile and utterly ruthless.

Lloyd was nothing if not versatile, ethnomusicologist, journalist, radio and television broadcaster, and translator. Lloyd do that, his translations were both firsts, the first translation of Lorca into English and the first English translation of Kafka's most famous story. Lloyd's Lorca translation was widely praised with V.

Stepniak states in his introduction to the text in 1894 Rudin's 'enthusiasm is contagious because it is sincere, and his eloquence is convincing because devotion to his ideals is an absorbing passion with him.

'No one who cares at all about England can afford to miss reading Already Walks Tomorrow.' Sunday Times'It must have been a most satisfying book to write.

The Condition of England was first published in 1909. Charles Masterman, who was in the Liberal Government when he wrote this, provides a penetrating, sceptical and unsettling anatomy of Edwardian England, seeing beneath the imperial splendour a society 'fissured into unnatural plenitude on the one hand and ...

Tenant for Death (1937) was the debut 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.

Ivan Gontcharoff is best known for his second novel, Oblomov. Its plot concerns his departure from the countryside to St Petersburg to pursue a bureaucratic career and his mother trying to prevent him, pointing out the superior qualities of the countryside.

The strange events begin with the breathless tale of a mysterious light shining from inside the Minster. Or will Septimus be able to use his policeman's nous once more to find the villain at the root of it all?Septimus and the Minster Ghost is the second of Stephen Chance's hugely popular Septimus detective mysteries.

In this delightful sequel to Memoirs of an Aesthete Harold Acton continues where he left off in 1939. Packed with recollections of the famous personalities he knew such as the Sitwells, Norman Douglas, Bernard Berenson, Gertrude Stein and Evelyn Waugh, this book brilliantly evokes a society that now seems remote.

A memoir that offers a witty and vivid account of the first thirty-five years of the author's life (1904-39): from a boyhood among the dilettanti in Florence before the First World War, through his friendships with some of the great writers of his generation in Oxford and Paris, to his discovery of a spiritual home in Peking.

Returned from twenty years of travelling in China, Marco Polo now languishes in a Genoan prison cell. Paul Griffiths writes superbly.' Hilary Mantel, Daily Telegraph'A thoroughly modern piece of fiction which queries the nature of authorship, readership and truth itself ...

Splendid's, a two-act police thriller written in 1948, was never staged in Jean Genet's lifetime.

Mass Observation was founded by Tom Harrisson, Charles Madge and Humphrey Jennings in 1937. Both Meet Yourself on Sunday and its companion Meet Yourself at the Doctor's were first published in 1949 towards the end of Mass Observation's initial period.

Tells the story of a beautiful, unhappy woman, Maria Pasqua, who achieved fame in Paris as a child, and whose later life consisted of a hopeless and frustrated longing to return to the scenes of her childhood. When she married a doctor turned country gentleman, she found herself cocooned within the enervating routine of a country house.

When Jan Morris first visited the United States, she was overwhelmed (and irritated) by the national obsession with Abraham Lincoln: the homespun myth of the awkward six-foot-four country boy who rose to unite the nation seemed too good to be true.

The Blitz has forced the evacuation of various government offices from London and Pettigrew accompanies his ministry to the distant seaside resort of Marsett Bay. In this strange atmosphere, Pettigrew begins to fall in love with his secretary, who is also being courted by a widowed man much older than her.

Determined to find the ex-lodger who stole his grandmother's savings, Fred McAlpine and his friends Sid, Rosie, Algy and Clio launch on a series of sleuthing activities to trace the thief.

An Inspector Mallett mystery, originally published in 1939, by one of the best-loved Golden Age crime writers, Cyril Hare. Inspector Mallett's stay at the country house hotel of Pendlebury Old Hall has been a disappointment.

Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories includes Knock, Knock, Knock, The Inn, Lieutenant Yergunov's Story, The Dog and The Watch.

A difficult and uncompromising short tale by the Russian master Turgenev, and four additional tales. Five short tales by Turgenev: The Jew, An Unhappy Girl, The Duellist, Three Portraits and Enough, in Constance Garnett's classic 1900 translation.

Six tales written by Turgenev between 1847 and 1881, in Constance Garnett's classic 1899 translation: A Desperate Character, A Strange Story, Punin and Baburin, Old Portraits, The Brigadier and Pyetushkov.

The life of Bruce Frederick Cummings, who wrote under the name of W. Started when he was thirteen, this remarkable journal, described by Ronald Blythe as 'among the most moving diaries ever created', documents the rest of his life.

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.

A powerful exploration of the current and past lives of a group of people scarred by the result of war, Children of the Rose is a strong, emotional novel - written with Feinstein's characteristically delicate, brilliant prose - about the way in which memories can destroy lives and also, ultimately, provide redemption.

Akerman Flatt and his wife lived in a thatched cottage at the edge of the broad heathland of Fenhall. Acky is one of the survivors of those men who retired after the horses left the farms.

Includes essays which are largely about a time that is past, about the modern Scotland which began after the First World War and lasted out the second. This title also provides a portrait of Edinburgh, and shows what has become of the city since the great days of the early nineteenth century.

He also argues the case for historians to cast their net more widely, to entertain different voices, different cultures, in a more meaningful survey than documents alone can provide.The book is testament to a dimming way of life, and to a visionary man who strove to capture our final glimpses of it.

Describes thrift and want, poverty and subjection. This book covers the depression of the 1930s, and the migration of East Anglian farm-workers to the maltings of Burton-on-Trent. It presents a portrait of the countryside of fading memory.