Introduction by Frank Delaney. Set in Ernhardt with Friz Quadrata display on Balmoral Wove paper. Bound in full cloth using a design by Malcolm Harvey Young. A collection of Irish short stories, including Goldsmith, Edgeworth, Carleton, Le Fanu, Sheehan, Gregory, Moore, Wilde, Somerville, O'Kelly, Dunsany, Corkery, Joyce, Stephens, O'Flaherty, Bowen, O'faolain, O'Connor, Boyle, Beckett, Macmahon, Lavin, Kiely, Higgins, Trevor, Friel, O'Brien, McGahern, Daly, Jordan from the 18th to contemporary authors. 16 illustrations. A lovely book. Read More...

A novel by Aldous Huxley which tells the story of a Hollywood millionaire fearing his impending death. This satire explores several philosophical and social issues, some of which would later take the forefront in his final novel Island. Read More...

The sequel to The Three Musketeers. The action begins under Queen Anne of Austria regency and Cardinal Mazarin ruling. D'Artagnan, who seemed to have a promising career ahead of him at the end of The Three Musketeers, has for twenty years remained a lieutenant in the Musketeers, and seems unlikely to progress, despite his ambition and the debt the queen owes him. By chance, however, he is summoned by Mazarin, who requires an escort, as the French people detest Mazarin, and are on the brink of rebellion (La Fronde). D'Artagnan is sent to the Bastille to retrieve a prisoner, who turns out to be his old friend and former adversary, the Comte de Rochefort. Read More...

The final section of The Vicomte de Bragelonne. Read More...

The Three Musketeers is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. Set in the seventeenth century, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a guard of the musketeers. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis; inseparable friends who live by the motto "all for one, one for all". Read More...

Edmond Dantès, a young and successful merchant sailor recently granted his own command, returns to Marseille to marry his fiancée Mercédès. Leclère, a supporter of the exiled Napoléon I, charges Dantès on his deathbed to deliver two objects... Read More...

Introduction by Julian Symons. Drawings by Peter Reddick. The story concerns the impact upon Harding and his circle when a zealous young reformer, John Bold, launches a campaign to expose the disparity in the apportionment of the charity's income between its object, the bedesmen, and its officer, Mr Harding. John Bold embarks on this campaign out of a spirit of public duty despite his romantic involvement with Eleanor and previously cordial relations with Mr Harding. Read More...

Mr Davenport has written a witty and learned introduction on various methods of murder. He has explored the many possibilities, including a number that are not included in this anthology. The examples are drawn from history and fiction, and range from classical Greece and Biblical times to the present. Read More...

All seven books of the series in a beautiful boxed set. The Chronicles of Narnia present the adventures of children who play central roles in the unfolding history of the fictional realm of Narnia, a place where animals talk, magic is common, and good battles evil. Read More...

When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his precious Rover Ranger is about to get carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance, not sport-utility vehicles, on his mind. Read More...