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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1909Original Publisher: H. Frowde, Oxford university pressSubjects: Literary Criticism / PoetryPhilosophy / Free Will ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1907 edition by Charles Scribner's Son, New York. ... Read more

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Publisher: Cambridge [Eng.] : The University pressPublication date: 1920Subjects: Books and readingEnglish literatureNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Publisher: Bristol : J. W. Arrowsmith; London, Simpkin, MarshallPublication date: 1917Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Fantasy / General; Fiction / Fantasy / Epic; Fiction / Literary; History / General; ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This book may be very obstreperous and obseqious, but it will never hold a place in the heart of the slatterns of the world, for instance, Canary[the real name of this person has been changed for security reasons]. I would be diplomatic about this, but there is no time, and really, who cares? However, even though i have not read this book, i must say i find it quite trashy and just simply right. this is because the stars in the sky remind me of who i used to be, that is, a girl who was control of her life. Alas, those days are gone and i am left with the fragments of my shattered self image. Oh, how i long for the day when i can pick myself off the ground and shout to the mountain tops,"There are only a fewand/or strange things about me!!!!" and maybe it will echo, maybe not. but until then i shall say," there is only one strange and/or odd thing about me. and it shall be in that order hopefully. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Parodies; Parodies, English; Humor / Form / Parodies; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry / General; Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Publisher: London, New York [etc] : T. Nelson and SonsSubjects: HeroesNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), who often published under the pen-name of 'Q', was one of the giants of early twentieth-century literature and literary criticism. A novelist and poet who was also a Professor of English, he helped to form the literary tastes of generations of literary students and scholars who came after him. The freshness, enthusiasm and intellectual insight of his work is still evident in his writings nearly a century on. Cambridge University Press is delighted to reissue some of his key texts in this new edition. Shakespeare's Workmanship, first published in 1918, offers detailed readings of Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Hamlet, Pericles and King Henry VIII, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest, with an account of the story of Falstaff, and a general description of the features of Shakespeare's later plays. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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A Time Gone Forever
To a lover of Social History in general and that of Cornwall in particular, this book is a 'must'.

Quiller-Couch (Q) wrote 'The Delectable Duchy' with a love and a respect for the common man.Cornwallis a part of England where a comfortable living was almost always out ofreach of the average inhabitant relying as they did on two staples : miningand fishing.Mining has always depended on the market price for metal.InNewlyn they call the south east wind the 'starvation wind' because thefishing boats could not enter or leave harbour in the days when sail wasthe only propulsion system.

'Q' captures the mood of the times so wellthat the reader can almost smell the salt wind and old ropes: the mewing ofthe seagulls and the ferocity of the ever present wind.He can and doeslapse into the vernacular very well which gives added emphasis to thepoignancy of some of the stories.

This is a collection of short stories,with each one a different facet of the Cornish psyche.Tears of sympathy,empathy and, conversely, laughter follow each other very quickly.

To areader interested in conditions of the late 1800's, I thoroughly recommendthis book.

R.E. BuckinghamJuly 12 2000 ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: United States; Fiction / General; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Historical; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Romance / General; Fiction / Romance / Contemporary; Fiction / Romance / Historical; History / General; ... Read more

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My father Sir John Constantine of Constantine in the county of Cornwall was a gentleman of ample but impoverished estates who by renouncing the world had come to be pretty generally reputed a madman. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more