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literature & poetry

Classic reading from Beowulf to The Portrait of Dorian Grey.
Fiction, literature studies and poetry from the ages, for all ages.

	Ballads Old And New English Literature For Secondary Schools by H. B. Cotterill, M. A. Macmillian and Co., Limited. 1905 Paperback. Introduction and then not much more than poetry. Books of interest listed at front. Glossary of words which the reader may not be familiar with from older english.
	The Myths of Greece and Rome Their Stories Signification and Origin by H. A. Guerber George G. Harrap & Company. 1913 Hardcover, cloth covered embossed with gold. Dated MCMXIII. Colour painting frontispiece. Pictures of sculptures and engravings scattered throughout. Characters use their proper Latin and Greek names. Closing chapter on analysis of myths. Map & Geneaological chart included.
	The Rubyiat of Omar Khayyam Fitzgerald translation. Gornall the publisher, Sydney. 1929 Paperback. No printed date but notes inside the back cover are dated at 1929. Illustrated with B&W line drawings. Omar Khayyam is described as "the Tent-maker, astronomer-poet of Nishapur in Persia."
	The Story of English Literature by Anna Buckland Cassels Modern School Series Second edition Cassell & Company, Limited 1885
	Piers the Plowman The Vision of William Concerning Piers The Plowman by William Langland (or Langley) edited by the Rev Walter W. Skeat, Litt,D. Clarendon Press series Oxford, 1890
	The Book of Ballads Selected by John R. Crossland Collins Clear Type Press. London. 1942 Hardcover with gold embossed cover. The Laurel and Gold Series, Volume 87. Favourite ballads from "A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go," "Robin Goodfellow," "The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse," "Paul Revere's Ride," "Faithless Sally Brown," "The Lady of Shallott," "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" & many more.
	Folk Lore and Legends. Germany. by W. W. Gibbings Edinbury University Press. London. 1889 Hardcover with gold embossing on spine. Folk lores and legends from Germany. Among them- "Peter Klaus," "The Cellar of the Old Knights in the Kyffhauser," "The Jew in the Bush," "The Mouse Tower," "The Conclave of Corpses," "Gaffer Death" and "The Waits of Bremen." Introduction about the general concept of folk tales in general.
	Junior Modern Essays Selected and edited by Guy N. Pocock. M.A. General editor Sir A. T.Quiller Couch J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. London. 1937 From "The Kings Treasuries of Literature" series. Hardcover with a Roman stamped into the front cover. Small essays on every subjects- from "The Farmyard," "Vagabonds," "Reading in Bed," "Cricket," "The Truth About Sport" and "London Bridge" plus more. No ads or inclusions.
	The Adventures of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens R. E. King and Co. London. n.d. Hardcover with gold embossed title. No date but I'd guess pre-1940 looking at the type font, spacing and size. No special features with this book. No additions or inclusions.
	The Picture of Dorien Gray and Selected Stories by Oscar Wilde The New English Library Limited. London. 1962 Hardcover. A Signet Classic. Stories include "The Happy Prince," "The Birthday of the Infanta," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime". Note on the text and bibliography at back. Spelling and Punctuation on short stories brought into conformity with modern British usage.
	"Self Denial Appeal" Boxed Set 1913 The Warrior's Library The Salvation Army Book Department. 1913 Set of three hardcover books with gold embossing in a cardboard case. Each cloth bound with gold embossing on the covers. Titles- "The Life of Oberlin" (1904), "Bernard of Clairvaux" (1906) and "Kingdom Makers in Shelter, Street and Slum" (1902). Life lessons and morality.
	The Songs of Beowulf Rendered into English Prose by Professor R. K. Gordon General editor Sir A. T.Quiller Couch J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. London. 1939 From "The Kings Treasuries of Literature" series. Hardcover with a Roman stamped into the front cover and gold embossed spine. Viking tales. Geneaologies. Appendix. Questions (no answers included).
	Tales From The Arabian Nights Selected from the book of A Thousand Nights and a Night Translated and annotated by Richard F. Burton Privately Printed by the Burton Club. London. 1978 Hardcover with embossed cover and gold lettering on the spine. Engraved B&W illustrations taken from the 1859 edition of the E. W. Lane translation. "Burton's translation is widely acknowledged as the definative rendering into English for it's accuracy, masculine vitality & literary discernment."
	The Old Christmas and Other Sketches by Washington Irving Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd. London. n.d. The Grabure Series. No. 6. Not dated but inscribed 1913 by previous owner. B&W illustrations. Colour frontispiece and cover illustration. Christmas story.
	An Outline History Of English Literature by William Henry Hudson G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. London. 1940 Hardcover, first published in 1912. Each chapter covers a period in history and it's most prominent defining writers. Starts with "English Literature Before Chaucer" (500-1340) through to "The Age Of Hardy" (1887-1928). Contains handy tables of comparative literate in each time period.
	Early English Poetry Selected and edited by H. Macualay Fitzgibbon, London. 1887. A compliation of very early English peotry incluing some famous and lesser known ones. Really lovely little book with poems written in older style language.
	The Norton Anthology of English Literature The Middle Ages. Volume A by Stephen Greenblatt WW Norton & Co. March 3, 2012
	A History of English Literature The Middle Ages and the Renaissance 650 - 1947 by Emile Legouis and Louis Cazamian Translated from the French by Helen Douglas Irvine JM Dent & Sons, Ltd London, 1948

 

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