Rendezvous; a prose reader

Table of Contents: “…Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc / Hesketh Pearson -- Fray Luis de Leon / W. Somerset Maugham -- George Moore / William Butler Yeats -- St. …”


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John le Carré by Beene, Lynn

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Side-lights on Maryland history : with sketches of early Maryland families by Richardson, Hester Dorsey, 1867-1933

Table of Contents: “…The palace of Lord Baltimore -- ch. 25. Somerset County and the Presbyterians -- ch. 26. A colonial lending library -- ch. 27. …”


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A world of great stories,

Table of Contents: “…Chesterton --The eye of Allah / Rudyard Kipling --Red / Somerset Maugham --The open window / Saki --The rocking-horse winner / D. …”


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Civil rights and the American negro : a documentary history

Table of Contents: “…Brown and Cooper ; The assiento ; Slavery in Georgia: from prohibition to acceptance ; Blackstone's commentaries on the law of England ; The Somerset caste -- 2. Slavery during the revolutionary and national period -- 1776-1820 : Declaration of independence ; Delaware constitution ; The Quock Walker case ; Northwest ordinance ; Constitution of the United States ; Fugitive slave act ; Act to prohibit the importation of slaves ; Mississippi and Alabama state constitutions ; Virginia statute on slaves, free negroes, and mulattoes ; American colonization society memorial -- 3. …”


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Brief lives : edited from the original manuscripts and with a life of John Aubrey by Aubrey, John, 1626-1697

Table of Contents: “…Robert Boyle -- Henry Briggs -- Elizabeth Broughton -- Thomas Bushell -- Samuel Butler -- William Butler -- William Camden -- William Cartwright -- Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland -- Sir Charles Cavendish -- Charles Cavendish -- Thomas Chaloner -- William Chillingworth -- George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland -- Sir Edward Coke -- Jean Baptiste Colbert -- John Colet -- Thomas Cooper -- Richard Corbet -- Abraham Cowley -- Sir Charles Danvers -- Sir John Danvers -- Edward Davenant -- Sir William Davenant -- John Dee -- Sir John Denham -- Rene Descartes -- Sir Everard Digby -- Sir Kenelm Digby -- Venetia Digby -- Desiderius Erasmus -- Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron Fairfax -- Carlo Fantom -- Sir William Fleetwood -- John Florio -- Francis Fry -- Thomas Goffe -- John Graunt -- Edmund Gunter -- John Hales -- Edmund Halley -- William Harcourt -- Thomas Hariot -- James Harrington -- William Harvey -- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury -- George Herbert -- Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke -- William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke -- William and Philip Herbert, 3rd and 4th Earls of Pembroke -- Thomas Hobbes -- William Holder -- Wenceslas Hollar -- Robert Hooke -- John Hoskyns -- Henry Isaacson -- David Jenkins -- Sir Leoline Jenkins -- Ben Jonson -- Ralph Kettell -- Richard Knolles -- Sir Henry Lee -- William Lee -- Richard Lovelace -- Henry Martin -- Andrew Marvell -- Thomas May -- Sir Hugh Middleton -- John Milton -- George Monk, 1st Duke of Albemarle -- Sir Jonas More -- Sir Thomas Morgan -- Robert Murray -- Richard Napier -- John Ogilby -- William Oughtred -- John Overall -- John Pell -- William Penn -- Sir William Petty -- Katherine Philips -- Sir William Platers -- Sir John Popham -- Francis Potter -- William Prynne -- Eleanor Radcliffe, Countess of Sussex -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick -- Charles Robson -- Walter Rumsey -- Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset -- Sir Henry Saville -- Sylvanus Scory -- John Selden -- William Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset -- William Shakespeare -- Olive Sherington -- Sir Philip Sidney -- Sir Henry Spelman -- Edmund Spenser -- Thomas Street -- Thomas Stump -- Sir John Suckling -- Thomas Sutton -- Silas Taylor -- John Tombes -- Nicholas Towes -- Thomas Triplett -- William Twisse -- Thomas Tyndale -- Henry and Thomas Vaughan -- Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford -- William de Visscher -- Edmund Waller -- Seth Ward -- Walter Warner -- John Whitson -- John Wilkins -- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester -- Thomas Wolesy.…”


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The Oxford book of ballads

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The first part of Henry the Sixt

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Rise and growth of the Anglican schism. by Sander, Nicholas, 1530?-1581

Table of Contents: “…Quarrels of the Earl of Warwick and the DUke of Somerset -- Joan Bocher -- Marriage of priests -- Bucer and Martyr -- Disputations in Oxford and Cambridge -- IV. …”


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Arguably : essays by Christopher Hitchens by Hitchens, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Isaac Newton: flaws of gravity -- The men who made England: Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" -- Edmund Burke: reactionary prophet -- Samuel Johnson: demons and dictionaries -- Gustave Flaubert: I'm with Stupide -- The dark side of Dickens -- Marx's journalism: the Grub Street years -- Rebecca West: things worth fighting for -- Ezra Pound: a revolutionary simpleton -- On "Animal Farm" -- Jessica Mitford's poison pen -- W. Somerset Maugham: Poor Old Willie -- Evelyn Waugh: the permanent adolescent -- P. …”


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My spirit sang all day.

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Plot outlines of 101 best novels; condensations based on original works. Including portions of 100 best novels condensed,

Table of Contents: “…Midshipman easy / Frederick Marryat -- Moby Dick / Herman Melville -- The moonstone / Wilkie Collins -- The mysteries of Paris / Eugene Sue -- The Newcomes / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Odyssey / Homer -- Of human bondage / W. Somerset Maugham -- The old wives' tale / Arnold Bennett -- Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens -- Our mutual friend / Charles Dickens -- Paul and Virginia / Bernadin de Saint-Pierre -- Peg Woffington / Charles Reade -- Pendennis / William Makepeace Thackeray -- The Pickwick Papers / Charles Dickens -- The pilgrim's progress / John Bunyan -- The pilot / James Fenimore Cooper -- Point of no return / John P. …”


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Literature for listening : an oral interpreter's anthology : letters, short stories, poetry, drama, essays

Table of Contents: “…[Part 2] Short stories -- An upheaval / Anton Chekhov -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- Red / W. Somerset Maugham -- The killers / Ernest Hemingway -- The Christmas tree and the wedding / Feodor M. …”


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Parnell

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Charlotte's web 2-movie collection

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The English novel and the movies

Table of Contents: “…Conrad and Hitchcock: secret sharers / James Goodwin -- Of human bondage (1915), W. Somerset Maugham. John Cromwell, 1934; Ken Hughes, 1964. …”


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Over this soil : an anthology of world farm poems

Table of Contents: “…Ammons -- Hunger / Kim Chi Ha -- The Right Hand of a Mexican Farmworker in Somerset County Maryland / Martin Espada -- The Onion / Wislawa Szymborska -- The United Fruit Co / Pablo Neruda -- Hoeing / Gary Soto -- Farm Labourer / George Mackay Brown -- Cattle / Kijima Hajime -- Sugar Cane / Faustin Charles -- The Sugar Slave / Thylias Moss -- Summer / Binyo Ivanov -- They Plow / Giovanni Pascoli -- Farmer / Jack Myers -- Pears / Mary Swander -- West Texas / Langston Hughes -- Ploughman / John Tripp -- Muddy Road to Adam Johnson's House / John Burnside -- Winter Journey / Uwe-Michael Gutzschhahn -- The Old Vineyard / Leonardo Sinisgalli -- A Pair of Shoes by the Field's Edge / Wang Xiani -- At a Potato Digging / Seamus Heaney -- Faces at the First Farmworkers' Constitutional Convention / Jose Montoya -- The Hill Farmer Speaks / R.S. …”


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The Norton anthology of short fiction

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Pause to wonder

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Cantata texts : sacred and secular by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750

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