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H.G. Wells said that 'Queen Victoria sat on England like a great paperweight and that after her death things blew all over the place.' It was a period of excitement and uncertainty, although Edward VII made himself popular with his subjects during the course of his reign. Despite the new outlook, the insouciance of the Victorian age still persisted - a belief in Empire, the upper class still a force but Shaw's 'New Man' was coming. The Great War would completely shatter the class system but the gradual change was witnessed and predicted among thinking writers like Bennett, Galsworthy and of course Wells himself.
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The Beloved Vagabond by W.J. Locke"To Paragot I owe everything. He is at once my benefactor, my venerated master, my beloved friend, my creator." Thus begins the story of one of the greatest characters of English Literature - Paragot the lovable Bohemian and celebrated Bon Vivant. A young urchin from the London slums is a… £25.99 |
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Greenmantle by John BuchanThe second of Richard Hannays’ adventures takes him from the trenches of the First World War on a mission of vital importance to the British campaign in the East. In an attempt to manipulate their Turkish allies the Germans have created a religious figurehead, a prophet of a new order to unif… £24.99 |
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Mr Standfast by John BuchanOnce again Brigadier General Hannay is taken from the trenches of the front line to save his country on a desperate mission. This time he must find the genius behind a vast network of spies infiltrating English pacifists and conscientious objectors. Hannay finds the man only to have him evade captu… £26.99 |
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Kipps by H.G. WellsThis wonderful comedy about orphan and innocent Arthur Kipps was the means by which Wells satirized what he saw as a gross stupidity and blight upon English society; the pretensions of and obsession with class. Humble drapers’ assistant Arthur unexpectedly inherits his grandfathers fortune an… £26.99 |
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The Secret Agent by Joseph ConradInspired by an actual terrorist attack on Greenwich Laboratory in 1894 ‘The Secret Agent’ is arguably Conrad’s greatest work
Mr Verloc, the spy, is roused to action by his masters. He is to instigate an act ‘of destructive ferocity so absurd as to be incomprehensible, inexplicable, almost … £25.99 |
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The Forsyte Saga Volume 1 by John GalsworthyA compelling drama and merciless scrutiny of a newly-monied upper middle class family at the turn of the twentieth century, ‘The Forsyte Saga’ has a sumptuous range of characters; Soames, he of the ‘perpetual sniff’; Old Jolyon, ‘typifying the essential individualism born in the Briton’;… £13.49 |
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Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome K. JeromeThe third and final collection in this series of reflections written by one of the wittiest and whimsical men to press pen against paper. As well as his usual take on the foibles of his fellow Englishmen and women, Jerome ruminates, in his typically liberal fashion, about far-flung countries such as… £15.99 |
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The Forsyte Saga Volume 2 by John GalsworthyIn this, the second volume of the Saga to be released in an unabridged recording by Assembled Stories, Soames’ house continues to be built as his marriage disintegrates. Is Irene having an affair? Certainly her relationship with the architect Bosinney is causing ructions in the family.
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The Forsyte Saga Volume 3 by John GalsworthyThe house at Richmond is finished at last, but Soames takes Bosinney to court for exceeding the budget. The final judgement of their case turns on ‘a very fine point’ in their correspondence...
The architect does not heed Young Jolyon’s warning and continues to pursue Irene - with fatal con… £15.99 |
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The Forsyte Saga Volume 4 by John GalsworthyIt is 1899. Old Jolyon has long since been buried at Robin Hill, and with the death of Aunt Susan in 1895 and Roger’s funeral opening this instalment of the Saga, the Forsyte’s are fast becoming aware of their mortality.
Yet more problems beset the family. Montague Dartie leaves his wife for … £13.49 |
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The Forsyte Saga Volume 5 by John GalsworthyThe Forsyte feud continues into the next generation with Jolly and Val involved in a drunken bout of fisticuffs.
Soames continues to pursue Irene driving her to seek refuge in Paris. Believing that she has a lover, he puts her under surveillance to obtain evidence. Jolyon travels to Paris on the p… £13.49 |