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Authors: Owen Chase
More, Sir Thomas | History of King Richard III, The | Sister Wendy Beckett |
Wharton, Edith | Fighting France: from Dunkerque to Belfort | Colm Tóibín |
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Literary/Cultural studies & essays | ||
Baudelaire, Charles | On wine and hashish | Margaret Drabble |
Burton, Robert | On melancholy | |
Chesterton, G.K. | On tremendous trifles | Ben Schott |
Conan Doyle, Arthur | On the unexplained | |
Dickens, Charles | On London | |
Dickens, Charles | On poverty | |
Dickens, Charles | On theatre | |
Dickens, Charles | On travel | |
Donne, John | On death | Edward Docx |
Hazlitt, William | On the elgin marbles | Tom Paulin |
Hemingway, Ernest | On Paris | |
Houdini, Harry | On deception | Derren Brown |
James, Henry | On Provence | |
Jerome, Jerome K. | On the art of making up one’s mind | Joseph Connolly |
Kipling, Rudyard | On the Orient | |
Mill, John Stuart | On the subjection of women | Fay Weldon |
Proust, Marcel; Ruskin, John | On reading | Eric Karpeles |
Roth, Joseph | On the end of the world | |
Ruskin, John | On genius and the common man | Melvyn Bragg |
Shaw, Bernard | On war | Philip Pullman |
Stendhal | On love | A.C. Grayling |
Twain, Mark | On Europe | |
Woolf, Virginia | On fiction | |
Woolf, Virginia | On not knowing Greek | |
Brown, Andrew | Brief History of Biographies: | |
| From Plutarch to Celebs, A | |
Brown, Andrew | Brief History of Encyclopaedias: | |
| From Pliny to Wikipedia, A | |
Johnson, Alexandra | Brief History of Diaries: | |
| From Pepys to Blogs, A | |
Rourke, Lee | Brief History of Fables: | |
| From Aesop to Flash Fiction, A | |
Carter, David | How to Win the Nobel Prize in Literature | |
Dahiyat, Eid Abdallah | Once Upon the Orient Wave | |
da Vinci, Leonardo | Prophecies | Eraldo Affinati |
Lamb, Charles | Essays of Elia | Matthew Sweet |
Margolyes, Miriam; Fraser, Sonia | Dickens’ Women | |
Poe, Edgar Allan | Eureka | Sir Patrick Moore |
Rilke, Rainer Maria & Betz, | Rilke in Paris | |
Maurice | | |
Stendhal | Memoirs of an Egotist | Doris Lessing |
Swift, Jonathan | Directions to Servants | Colm Tóibín |
Swift, Jonathan | Polite Conversation | Toby Litt |
Tyler, Daniel | Guide to Dickens’ London, A | |
Woolf, Virginia | Hyde Park Gate News | Hermione Lee |
Woolf, Virginia | Carlyle’s House and Other Sketches | Doris Lessing |
Wren, Jenny | Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl | Jenny Éclair |
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Politics | ||
Swisher, Clayton E. | Palestine Papers: The End of The Road? The | |
Kushner, Barry & Saville | Who Needs the Cuts? | |
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Travel Writing | ||
Byron, Robert | Europe in the Looking Glass | Jan Morris |
Collins, Wilkie; Dickens, Charles | Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, The | |
Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Cruise of the Rolling Junk, The | Paul Theroux |
Levi, Carlo | Essays on India | Anita Desai |
Levi, Carlo | Words are Stones | Anita Desai |
Mayakovsky, Vladimir | My Discovery of America | Colum McCann |
Miller, Henry | Aller Retour New York | |
Zweig, Stefan | Journeys | |
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Beneath the Heart of the Sea,
originally entitled
Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex,
first published in 1821
First published by Hesperus Press Limited, 2015
This ebook edition first published in 2015
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