Nightmare Abbey
Thomas Love Peacock and Nicholas A. Joukovsky
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Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) is one of the most distinctive prose satirists of the Romantic...
Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author
Rosemary Ashton and Edward John Trelawny
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In February 1822 the writer and adventurer Edward John Trelawny arrived in Pisa to make the...
Faber & Faber Poetry Diary 2017: Coral
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The Faber poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who...
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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The first edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations was published in 1941 and for over 70 years...
The Missing Monuments Murders
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In 1806, Jane Austen's relative, the Reverend Thomas Leigh, inherited huge estates and the mood in...
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: The Extraordinary Exploits of the British and European Aristocracy
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The alarming history of the British, and European, aristocracy - from Argyll to Wellington and from...