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Libraries In theMedieval and renaissance periods is the Rede Lecture, delivered on the 13th June, 1894 by John Clark, an expert in libraries, their history and archaeology, author of the book "The Care of Books".This book includes a list of illustrations, a list of Lantern Slides and sidebars indicating topics.

On the Eve is the third novel written by the famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his novel Fathers and Sons. It is a story, set in 1853, of love during the Crimean War and at a time of social upheaval. The heroine, Elena, is a charming, serious and courageous young woman. She is concerned about justice, but this finds no outlet in her middle class world, until she is introduced Insarov, a man below her social status, but whose idealism matches her own. He becomes Elena's husband and changes her life.

Professor Jowett's complete and unabridged translation of Phaedrus; including introduction and essay "On the Decline of Greek Literature".

Edgar Wallace, author of The Lone House Mystery, was a celebrated British author in the early twentieth century. Over 160 of his novels have been made into films, and he is known especially for his part in writing the story for the movie "King Kong." This collection also includes the following short stories: "Clues," "The Sooper Speaking," and "Romance In It."

An amazing collection of sketches and written descriptions of a dizzying array of plants, animals, peoples, and lands in North and South America. Fully illustrated.

First published in 1923, this is now available in a brand new edition. It is set in 1745 during the Jacobite Rebellion. A thrilling tale of intrigue, as Alastair Maclean, a close confidant of Prince Charles Edward Stewart, secretly sets out to raise support for the Jacobite cause in England.

This paperback includes all three Volumes of the novel 'Gomez Arias The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance'. It was written in 1826 by the Spaniard Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío who wrote in English and belonged to the Romantic movement. It is set in the province of Granada. A censored version was produced in 1831.

George Worgan was an English naval surgeon who accompanied the First Fleet to Australia. He made expeditions to the Hawkesbury River and Broken Bay areas north of Sydney and spent a year on Norfolk Island after his was shipwrecked there. Although he kept a journal, it was not published on his return, unlike his contemporary, Watkin Tench. This book consists of letters to his brother in England, written in 1788, the second letter journaling the first six months after the First Fleet's arrival in Sydney Cove.

This, Gosson's polemic against melodrama and vulgar comedy, drew rebuttals from his contemporaries including Philip Sidney and and Thomas Lodge.

Molière's play "The Miser" in both French and English, with a short introduction by Charles Heron Wall.

Challenged to write on the topic of slavery in a Cambridge essay contest, Thomas Clarkson uncovered the horrors of the enslavement of Africans in the slave trade, and purposed to do something about it. This essay won him an audience among the abolitionists, and he, along with William Wilberforce, would go on to lobby for the passage of the Slave Trade Act in 1807, which abolished the slave trade in the British empire.

Anatole France, the Nobel-prize winning French author, turns to a historical subject for this two-volume Life of Joan of Arc. Thoroughly researched with a wealth of references, he sought to bring a rationalist viewpoint to the legendary French heroine and to examine and, where necessary, overturn the superstitious additions to her history. He also hoped to counteract the Church's interpretation of her life, as that institution was, in 1908, well on the way to declaring her a saint. Volume II deals with Joan's later military campaigns, her capture, trial and execution and the events that followed her death.