To the Queen's taste : the first supplement to 101 years' entertainment consisting of the best stories published in the first four years of Ellery Queen's mystery magazine

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The art of fiction

Table of Contents: “…The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- Frog troucin' contest / Jesse Stuart -- The kiss / Anton Chekhov -- The colonel's lady / W. Somerset Maugham -- Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- The aleph / Jorge Luis Borges -- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen -- The scream on fifty-seventh street / Hortense Calisher -- A father-to-be / Saul Bellow -- A tree, a rock, a cloud / Carson McCullers -- The housebreaker of Shady Hill / John Cheever -- A pedestrian accident / Robert Coover -- And when I die be sure and let me know / Thomas Abrams -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- Solipists / Fredric Brown.…”


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Hei an zhi cheng : Jiulong Chengzhai de ri yu ye

黑暗之城 : 九龍城寨的日與夜 /

by Girard, Greg, 1955-, Lambot, Ian

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Dodge pick-ups automotive repair manual by Hayden, David, Haynes, John H. (John Harold), Storer, Jay

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The swimmer

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Shakespeare's kings : the great plays and the history of England in the Middle Ages, 1337-1485 by Norwich, John Julius, 1929-2018

Table of Contents: “…King Henry VI: Gathering storm (1445-1455) -- Charles VII makes good use of truce -- Arrest and death of Duke Humphrey -- Death of Cardinal Beaufort -- Suffolk assumes power -- Richard of York appointed to Ireland -- French war resumes under Somerset -- English defeat at Formigny -- Imprisonment of Suffolk -- His death -- Jack Cade's rebellion -- York's return from Ireland -- His first march on London -- Somerset's claim to throne -- Increasing York-Somerset hostility -- York's second march on London -- King promises Somerset's arrest -- His breach of faith -- Henry's illness and insanity -- Birth of his son -- Arrest of Somerset -- York appointed Protector -- Appoints Salisbury Chancellor -- Henry recovers -- York, Salisbury, Warwick withdraw to north -- York's third march on London -- First battle of St. …”


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Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626

Table of Contents: “…An advertisement touching the controversies of the Church of England -- Letter to Lord Burghley -- Of tribute; or, giving that which is due -- A device for the Gray's Inn revels -- Of love and self-love -- Advice to the Earl of Rutland on his travels -- Essays (1597), Religious meditations, Of the colours of good and evil -- Advice to Fulke Greville on his studies -- A confession of faith -- Two prayers -- A letter and discourse to Sir Henry Savile touching helps for the intellectual powers -- The advancement of learning -- Essays (1612) -- The charge touching duels -- The charge against Somerset for poisoning Overbury -- Letter to King James I, March 1621 -- Letter to Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, 1621 -- Poems and psalms.…”


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Inside Shakespeare : essays on the Blackfriars stage

Table of Contents: “…Aaron -- The Blackfriars on tour : provincial analogies / Alan Somerset -- Professional players in Stratford-on-Avon, 1587-1602 / Elza C. …”


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Forbidden history : the state, society, and the regulation of sexuality in modern Europe : essays from the Journal of the history of sexuality

Table of Contents: “…plebeian marriage within the prohibited degrees in Somerset, 1730-1835 / Polly Morris -- Sexual politics and public order in late eighteenth-century France : the Meḿoires secrets and the Correspondance secret̀e / Jeffrey Merrick -- Tribades on trial : female same-sex offenders in late eighteenth-century Amsterdam / Theo van der Meer -- Definition and control : Alexander Walker's trilogy on woman / Robyn Cooper -- Homosexual behavior in the nineteenth-century Dutch Army / Gert Hekma -- Sexual politics in Wilhelmine Germany : the male gender crisis, moral purity, and homophobia / John C. …”


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Lost railway journeys : from around the world by Lambert, Anthony J.

Table of Contents: “…Salzkammergutlokalbahn from Salzburg to Bad Ischl (Austria) -- The Orient Express from Paris to Istanbul (Europe) -- Nice-Colomars-Grasse-Draguignan-Meyrargues (France) -- CF de Petite Ceinture, Paris, Gare d'Orsay (France) -- Pau-Canfranc-Tardienta via Somport Tunnel (Spain) -- Sarajevo-Belgrade (Yugoslavia) -- Tebay-Darlington over Stainmore Summit (Great Britain) -- Waverley route, Edinburgh-Carlisle (Great Britain) -- Somerset & Dorset Railway (Great Britain) -- Callander & Oban Railway (Great Britain) -- Listowel & Ballybunion Railway (Ireland) -- Asia. …”


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A study of the modern drama; a handbook for the study and appreciation of the best plays, European, English and American, of the last half century, by Clark, Barrett H. (Barrett Harper), 1890-1953

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The Black Lotus : shadow of the ninja by Fanning, Kieran

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A treasury of the theatre : from Henrik Ibsen to Eugene Ionesco

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The horizontal reader : a light tonic of amusing tales, oddities, and irreverent verse and wisdom, compounded for bedtime use

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Private gardens of England by Hobhouse, Penelope

Table of Contents: “…Trewithen, near Truro, Cornwall (Mr and Mrs Michael Galsworthy) -- Tresco Abbey, Isles of Scilly (Mr Robert and Lady Emma Dorrien-Smith) -- Ince Castle, Saltash, Devon (Patricia, Viscountess Boyd of Merton) -- Penheale Manor, near Launceston, Cornwall (Mrs Norman Colville) -- Rosemoor, Torrington, Devon (Lady Anne Palmer and the Rosemoor Garden Trust) -- The Gables, Stoke-sub-Hambdon, Somerset (Mrs Kenneth Beaumont) -- Chilcombe, near Bridport, Dorset (Mr and Mrs John Hubbard) -- The Priory, Kemerton, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire (Mr and the Hon. …”


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Cruickshank's London : a portrait of a city in 13 walks by Cruickshank, Dan

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A fireside book of yuletide tales by Wagenknecht, Edward, 1900-

Table of Contents: “…Anthony's first Christmas / Wilfred Thomason Grenfell -- A Somerset Christmas / Llewelyn Powys -- Christmas day at Kirkby Cottage / Anthony Trollope -- The magic tree / Elisabeth Neilson -- The Hallelujah Chorus / Pierre van Paassen -- Christmas adventures: Merry Christmas / Herman Melville -- The seven poor travellers / Charles Dickens -- A stranger knocked / Joseph Shearing -- Twilight of the wise / James Hilton -- Christmas honeymoon / Howard Spring -- What is the Christmas spirit?…”


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Stitch stories : personal places, spaces and traces in textile art by Holmes, Cas

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Stories to remember

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The first part of Henry the Sixth

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