
Letters from the Trenches: The First World War by Those Who Were There
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A history of the First World War told through the letters exchanged by ordinary British soldiers and...

The Book of Longings
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In her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to history and...

A Square Meal
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James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her...
Great depression FDR food history

A Natural History of English Gardening 1650-1800
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A beautifully illustrated exploration of the quest for order within the garden, and within the...

A Loeb Classical Library Reader
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This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from 33 of antiquity's major authors includes poetry,...
Toupie Lowther: Her Life - a New Assessment
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Toupie Lowther appears as a walk-on character in many biographies of Radclyffe Hall and Una...

London's West End Actresses and the Origins of Celebrity Charity, 1880-1920
Catherine Hindson and Heather S. Nathans
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Today's celebrity charity work has deep historical roots. In the 1880s and 1890s, the stars of...

The Merchant of Venice
Leah S. Marcus and William Shakespeare
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This Norton Critical Edition has been carefully edited to make The Merchant of Venice, its...

The 50 Most Influential Britons of the Past 100 Years
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Peter Pugh presents his selection of - not the best, fastest, most successful or richest - but the...

Eve's War: The Diaries of a Military Wife During the Second World War
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When Jacy Wall cleaned out her attic, she didn't know that she ended up throwing away a precious...