The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works (Nashe Thomas)(Paperback)

The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works (Nashe Thomas)(Paperback)

'Pamphleteer, poet, story-teller, satirist, scholar, moralist and jester . . .' Thomas Nashe, a contemporary of Shakespeare, was writing in the 1590s, the zenith of the English Renaissance. Rebellious in spirit, conservative in philosophy, Nashe's brilliant and comic invective earned him a

Mario and the Magician - & other stories (Mann Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

The Seven Storey Mountain (Merton Thomas)(Paperback)

The complete and unedited edition of Thomas Merton's famous autobiography, one of the greatest works of spiritual pilgrimage ever written. 'The Seven Storey Mountain is a book one reads with a pencil so as to make it one's own.'Graham Greene 'A remarkable book, a classic of its kind, written in a

Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works (Petrarch Francesco)(Paperback)

This entirely new translation includes Petrarch's short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Posterity and The Ascent of Mount Ventoux, and a selection of twenty-seven poems from the Canzoniere, Petrarch's best-known work in Italian. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's

The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings (Pope Alexander)(Paperback)

The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings is a collection of Alexander Pope's greatest works, edited with an introduction by Leo Damrosch in Penguin Classics. Alexander Pope was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human nature have entered the language, and whose

Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine (Morris Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

Malory Complete Works (Malory Thomas)(Paperback)

This single-volume edition of the complete works of Sirhe Thomas Malory retains his 15th-century English while providing an introduction, glossary, and fifty pages of explanatory notes on each

A Tale of a Tub and Other Works (Swift Jonathan)(Paperback)

This volume includes 'The Battle of the Books' and 'The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit', both which accompanied 'A Tale of a Tub' on its first publication in 1704. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the

Gymnopdies, Gnossiennes and Other Works for Piano (Satie Erik)(Paperback)

In his piano works especially, Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a witty musical caricaturist. The eccentric French composer loved to satirize academic rules in general and the impressionistic titles of Debussy's compositions in particular, giving his own works such surrealistic names as Pieces in Pear

The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories (Quiroga Horacio)(Paperback)

Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga. Author of some 200 pieces of fiction that have been compared to the works of Poe, Kipling, and Jack London, Quiroga experienced a life that surpassed in

On the Soul: And Other Psychological Works (Aristotle)(Paperback)

'...the more honourable animals have been allotted a more honourable soul...' What is the nature of the soul? It is this question that Aristotle sought to answer in De Anima (On the Soul). In doing so he offers a psychological theory that encompasses not only human beings but all living beings. Its

Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (Thomas Sheree R.)(Paperback)

Dark Matter is the first and only series to bring together the works of black SF and fantasy writers. The first volume was featured in the New York Times, which named it a Notable Book of the

The Great Oak (Thomas Scarlett)(Paperback)

For tens of thousands of years, the oaks have stood proud and tall, and along with the other trees around this planet helped provide the air that we all breathe. They give us shelter from the rain, shade from the hot sun and provide a home for a variety of animals. They even provide stability to

Memoirs on Pauperism and Other Writings: Poverty, Public Welfare, and Inequality (de Tocqueville Alexis)(Paperback)

The collection includes new translations of Tocqueville's works, including the first English translation of his Second Memoir, the original Memoir, a letter fragment considering pauperism in Normandy, and the ''Pauperism in America'' index to the Penitentiary Report.Alexis de Tocqueville was one of

Aquinas: Basic Works - Basic Works (Aquinas Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

Red Hen (Goodhart Pippa)(Paperback)

Red Hen works hard to dig, plant, cut and mill the grain while the other animals refuse to help. Will they wish they hadn t been so lazy when Red Hen has finished making her big jam buns? This beautifully illustrated retelling of the traditional tale is written by well-known author Pippa Goodhart

The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works (Anonymous)(Paperback)

In the fourteenth century there was a great flourishing of religious writings in English, both orthodox and heretical. Many of these works focused on Christ's Passion and humanity, whereas The Cloud of Unknowing describes an abstract, transcendent God beyond human knowledge and human language

Vernon Watkins on Dylan Thomas and Other Poets and Poetry (Watkins Vernon)(Paperback / softback)

Thomas Pynchon: Demon in the Text (Rolls Albert)(Paperback)

This is a significant new and accessible work on the leading modern American novelist whose works - notably Gravity's Rainbow, which won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction - remain mysterious to many, just as his life remains

Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings (Paine Thomas)(Paperback)

Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution--and his Rights of Man (1791-2), the most famous defense of the French Revolution, sent out a clarion call for revolution throughout the world. Paine paid the

The Other (Tryon Thomas)(Paperback)

Holland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins. They are close, close enough, almost, to read each other's thoughts, but they couldn't be more different. Holland is bold and mischievous, a bad influence, while Niles is kind and eager to please, the sort of boy who makes parents

Nostradamus His Works and Prophecies (Nostradamus Michel)(Paperback)

Has Nostradamus predicted the coming Apocalypse along with a thousand other great events? His believers claim that in the 1500s he predicted historic milestones that have or will alter the course of human history, such as the rise of Napoleon and Hitler. Published here are the hard to find original

The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies (Dekker Thomas)(Paperback)

This excellent volume brings together four of the most popular, most frequently studied and performed comedies that depict city life, by Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson and their contemporaries. Included are The Roaring Girl, The Shoemaker's Holiday, Eastward Ho!, and Every Man in His

The World of Cycling According to G (Thomas Geraint)(Paperback)

FROM GERAINT THOMAS, WINNER OF THE 2018 TOUR DE FRANCELike no other cycling book, from no other rider - Britain's cycling star shares his unique take on the world of cyclingSit back or saddle up as double Olympic gold medallist and multiple world champion Geraint Thomas gives you a warts and all