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Who Did It?
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Nat Gould
Following the dissolution of the New South Wales government, Henry Bryce is ready to take on the Labour Party for the seat of Balmain East. …
Aladore
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Sir Henry Newbolt
Ywain, a knight bored with his administrative duties, abandons his estate to his younger brother and goes on a pilgrimage to seek his heart'…
Things Seen in Florence
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Elizabeth W. Grierson
One of the largest and wealthiest cities of medieval Europe, the home of Dante and Giotto has long been a magnet for lovers of art, architec…
Prose Romances from the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856)
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William Morris
William Morris initiated the genre of high fantasy in a number of short novels written toward the end of his life. But he had already experi…
Things Seen in Venice
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Lonsdale Ragg and Laura Marie Ragg
Venice, once among the most powerful states of the Western world, now a much-visited but still romantic city of canals, architecture and art…
The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician
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Edwin Lester Arnold
Phra, a Phoenician merchant and warrior, settles in the south of England as husband to Blodwen, a British princess. Slain during the Roman i…
The Birth of Professional Rugby League in Australia: A selection from the Sydne…
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Sydney Morning Herald
In early 1907 the world of Australian rugby was rocked by the news that a professional New Zealand All Blacks team was set to tour the north…
Six lectures on literature
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Charles Harold Herford
C. H. Herford was Professor of English Literature at the Victoria University of Manchester in era when public lectures were published in pam…
Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair
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William Morris
A prose romance set in the forested kingdom of Oakenrealm, where a squirrel can go about from end to end without touching the ground, in whi…
North Lancashire
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John Edward Marr
Cambridge County Geographies was a 75 volume series covering the counties of England, Scotland and Wales. Separate volumes were produced for…
An Excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August 1773
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William Hutchinson
In the summer of 1773, lawyer and antiquarian William Hutchinson set out from his home in County Durham on a tour of the English Lake Distri…
Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London
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John Gay
John Gay's Trivia is a satirical guide to walking the streets of London, written in mock heroic style. Learn how to avoid pickpockets, wig t…
Songs for the Millions, and other poems
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Benjamin Stott
Born in Manchester, and a bookbinder by trade, Benjamin Stott was an active trade unionist and member of the Chartist movement. Songs of the…
The Fates of the Princes of Dyfed
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Cenydd Morus
Cenydd Morus's (Kenneth Morris) imaginative retelling of tales from the Mabinogion, the great work of Welsh literature first recorded in the…
Short stories (Early works 1837-1852)
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
A collection of Elizabeth Gaskell's early short stories. Following the publication of Mary Barton in 1848, Gaskell published many of her sho…
The Roots of the Mountains
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William Morris
The Roots of the Mountains was the second in a projected series of three historical novels set in a pre-medieval Germanic world (the third w…
Nada the Lily
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H. Rider Haggard
A classic tale of love and revenge set in the Zulu Kingdom of present-day KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. A work of fiction loosely woven aro…
Wild and romantic: Early guides to the English lake district
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Thomas Gray
A collection of some of the most significant literary work on the English Lake District prior to Thomas West’s A guide to the Lakes (1778). …
A Guide to the Lakes
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Thomas West
In the late eighteenth century, English writers discovered the landscape, not only in the paintings of Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin and S…
Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende
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Jean-Bernard Mary-Lafon
Taulat de Rugimon arrives at the court of King Arthur and stabs one of Arthur's knights. Jaufry, a young and ambitious knight, sets off in p…