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 High-spirited and musical Alethea, the daughter of Mr and Mrs Darcy, soon repents her hasty marriage to a man whose charming manners are a mask for his brutal nature.  Disguised as Aloysius Hawkins, gentleman, and accompanied only by her redoubtable maid, Figgins, she flees from her husband to seek refuge with her sister in Venice. On the way she makes the acquaintance of the aloof and moody Titus Manningtree, in Italy to search for a lost Titian.  When Alethea disappears, Titus rescues her from the giddy world of Italian opera, only to find himself embroiled in her exceedingly complicated life. Soft cover, very good condition.  376 pages.

Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket and the pompous Pumblechook. As Pip unravels the truth behind his own 'great expectations' in his quest to become a gentleman, the mysteries of the past and the convolutions of fate through a series of thrilling adventures serve to steer him towards maturity and his most important discovery of all - the truth about himself. Format:Paperback Pages:432

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days When Roberta, Peter and Phyllis's father is imprisoned after being falsely accused of spying, they and their mother have to leave their comfortable London home to go and live in a small house in the country. However, the children soon come to love the railway that runs near their cottage, and have many adventures - stopping a train from disaster, saving an infant and dog from a barge canal on fire, and getting help when they find an injured boy in the trail tunnel. When they befriend an Old Gentleman who regularly takes the 9:15 train near their home, he helps them to prove their father's innocence, and the family is reunited at last. Features Summary When their father is accused of being a spy, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are forced to move to a house in the country with their mother. Though they miss their father... Author Edith Nesbit Publisher Scholastic Release date 20131107 Pages 245 ISBN 1-4071-4362-X ISBN 13 978-1-4071-4362-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Lord Ampney Crucis was a dashing, smart and charming young man, tipped to rise to the top of high society. But then the Great War happened, and a close encounter with an otherworldly entity in no man's land drove Crucis temporarily insane. Upon recovery, he discovered that he had the ability to sense the presence of entities that exist beyond our reality. Now Ampney, aided by his loyal butler Eddie Cromwell, investigates the rum goings-on that have begun to plague our green and pleasant land...Written by champion raconteur Ian Edginton (Victorian Undead, Stickleback), with art by that jolly talented fellow Simon Davis (Stone Island, Judge Dredd), this first collection of Ampney Crucis' supernatural adventures belongs in any gentleman's comic collection. Features Summary Ampney Crucis Investigates is a occult detective story by Ian Edginton and Simon Davis starring the fictional investigator Ampney Crucis and his man servant Eddie Cromwell... Author Ian Edginton (Author), Simon Davis (Author) Publisher 2000 AD Graphic Novels Release date 20120119 ISBN 1-907992-94-4 ISBN 13 978-1-907992-94-0

About the product Pictorial dustwrapper, frayed, original buckram, gilt, pp. xix + 340, a few illustrations.'Hackwriter, satirist, comic poet, Rowlandson's collaborator, Editor of The Times when not in prison for debt, raconteur, life-long enigma: his adventures and misadventures.''Thousands of nineteenth-century readers knew the Tours of Doctor Syntax, loved the old-fashioned hero and the aquatints by Rowlandson illustrating the tours, and never heard of the author, William Combe. This was exactly as Combe intended; for half a century of authorship, he never signed a single work. He preferred to be known as a gentleman of leisure, a literary dilettante, even when busily turning out book after book from his quarters in debtors'prison.' Doctor Syntax; a silhouette of William Combe, Esq. (1742 - 1823) (Harlan W. Hamilton)