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 | Authors of Britain Pages | |
While working back and forth on these many webpages, items kept appearing for authors of Britain,
Ireland, Scotland, and Wales with nowhere to cross-reference them. Thus this page was created in Spring 2012,
to pay homage to the many writers & poets & playwrights who have influenced American literature
and-or American life and-or Hollywood during the past 200-plus years.
{And might as well include here the occasional author from Australia, New Zealand, or Canada.}
![British author Rudyard Kipling [1865-1936]](images/SAArudyardkipling.jpg)
![British author Dame Agatha Christie [1890-1976]](images/SAAagathachristie.jpg)
![British author Charles Dickens [1812-70]](images/SAAcharlesdickens.jpg)
![British author George Orwell [1903-50]](images/SAAgeorgeorwell.jpg)
here on Page 1: Anthologies & Literary History {just below} • History of Britain • Links • Authors A thru F
on Page 2: top of page • Authors G thru L • Authors M thru R • Authors S thru Z
'The Inklings' Literary Society [1933-63] of Britain Page
Anthologies & Literary History
'A Pocketful of Brits' Pages at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
 | "The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918" [orig 1900] Chosen & Edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Oxford Univ Press 7¼x5 hardcover [3/63] out of print/used Oxford Univ Press 7½x5 hardcover [1940] out of print/used "The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950" [orig 1972] Chosen & Edited by Dame Helen Gardner Oxford Univ Press 8¾x5½ hardcover [10/72] for $63.00 see also the Christopher Ricks edition of 1999 below |
 | "The Oxford Companion To English Literature" [orig 1932, rev 2009] Edited by Sir Paul Harvey, Margaret Drabble, Dinah Birch 7th Edition for Kindle from Oxford Univ Press [10/2009] for $127.99 {sic} Oxford Univ Press 7th Edition 9¾x7¾ hardcover [10/2009] for $146.24 Oxford Univ Press 6th Edition 9¼x7 hardcover [9/2006] out of print/used |
 | "English Christmas: A Christmas Anthology" [1956] by Philip Collins this may turn out to be several stories by Collins, a 'collection' rather than an anthology Gordon Fraser 96-page hardcover [1956] out of print/scarce |
 | "The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors" [orig 1962] by M.H. Abrams, recent editions by Stephen Greenblatt The full Norton Anthology consists of six volumes, sold in groups of three books. These single-volume editions are selections of 'major authors' from among the full contents. W.W. Norton 9th edition 9x6x2½" {4.4 pounds!} pb [2/2012] for $57.81 W.W. Norton 8th edition 9¼x6x3" {5.2 pounds!} pb [5/2006] for $62.49 W.W. Norton 7th edition 9¼x6½x2¾" {4.5 pounds!} hardcover [11/2000] out of print/many used |
 | "English Humour For Beginners" [1980] by George Mikes
Kindle Edition from Penguin U.K. [6/2016] for $9.99 Penguin Books 7¾x5 pb [6/2016] out of print/many used HarperCollins 8¼x5½ hardcover [10/80] out of print/used |
 | "Anglo-American Encounters: England and The Rise of American Literature" [1982] by Benjamin Lease A study of the years 1850 to 1855 when there appeared, in rapid succession, five American books that are now universally recognised as classics: "The Scarlet Letter", "Moby Dick", "Uncle Tom's Cabin", "Walden", and "Leaves of Grass". Cambridge Univ Press 8½x5½ pb [4/2009] for $49.99 Cambridge Univ Press 8½x5½ hardcover [2/82] out of print/used |
 | "Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature" [orig 1983, rev 1997] Edited by Eugene Benson & William Toye entries cover fiction, prose, poetry & drama, as well as prominent writers, literary magazines & publishers Oxford Univ Press 2nd Edition 9½x6½ hardcover [1997] out of print/used |
 | "The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature" [1987] Edited by Pat Rogers Oxford Univ Press 9¾x7½ pb [6/2001] for $26.75 Oxford Univ Press 9¾x7½ library hardcover [6/2008] for $37.95 Oxford Univ Press 10x7¾ hardcover [6/87] out of print/70+ used |
 | "The Stanford Companion To Victorian Fiction" [1989] by John Sutherland over 1,600 author & title entries about mostly-British Victorian fiction Stanford Univ Press 9x6 pb [10/90] for $30.56 Stanford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [2/89] out of print/used |
 | "The Concise Columbia Book of Poetry: The Top 100 Poems in English" [1990] Edited by William Harmon the 100 most-anthologized poems in English, based on listings in the "Columbia Granger's Index To Poetry" Columbia Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/90] out of print/used Columbia Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/90] out of print/used |
 | "The Penguin Short History of English Literature" [1994] by Stephen Coote Penguin Books 7¾x5 pb [5/94] out of print/used |
 | "The Oxford Book of English Verse" anthology [1999] Edited by Christopher Ricks Oxford Univ Press 8½x5¾ pb [12/99] out of print/used Oxford Univ Press 8¾x5¾ hardcover [12/99] for $32.11 |
 | "The Victorians: A Major Authors Anthology" [2000] by Christopher S. Nassaar Univ Press of America 8¾x6 pb [7/2000] out of print/used authors include: Matthew Arnold; Robert Browning; Thomas Carlyle; Gerard Manley Hopkins; John Stuart Mill; John Henry Cardinal Newman; Walter Pater; John Ruskin; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; and Oscar Wilde (8 works) |
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"The Cambridge Companion To Victorian Poetry" [2000] Edited by Joseph Bristow Kindle eTextbook from Cambridge Univ Press [2000 edition] for $17.20 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [12/2000] for $34.99 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [12/2000] for $109.99 {sic} |
 | "The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel" [2001] Edited by Deirdre David Kindle Edition from Cambridge Univ Press [10/2012] for $14.60 Cambridge Univ Press 2nd edition 9x6 pb [10/2012] for $29.99 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [1/2001] for $27.46 Cambridge Univ Press 2nd edition 9x6 hardcover [3/2013] for $99.99 {sic} Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [1/2001] for $96.78 {sic} |
 | "Other Victorian Authors and Major Victorian Debates: A Supplement" [2001] by Christopher S. Nassaar Univ Press of America 9x5¾ pb [2/2001] out of print/used authors include: Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson); Arthur Hugh Clough; Ernest Dowson; Michael Field (Katherine Bradley & Edith Cooper); Edward Fitzgerald; Lionel Johnson; Edward Lear; George Meredith; William Morris; Christina Rossetti; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Algernon Charles Swinburne; and James Thomson |
 | "Maritime Fiction: Sailors and The Sea In British and American Novels, 1719-1917" [2001] by John Peck Palgrave Macmillan 9x5½ hardcover [5/2001] out of print/40+ used |
 | "Once Upon a Time In Great Britain: A Travel Guide To the Sights and Settings of Your Favorite Children's Stories" [2002] by Melanie Wentz Each chapter visits the literal geographic background for classics such as "Peter Rabbit", "Paddington Bear", "Alice In Wonderland", "Kidnapped", "The Secret Garden", "The Wind In The Willows", "Mary Poppins", "Peter Pan", and the "Harry Potter" books; read about the real chocolate factory that made such an impression on the young Roald Dahl, the cozy pub where C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien introduced their friends to Narnia and hobbits, the real '100 Aker Wood' that helped A.A. Milne create "Winnie The Pooh", and the railway station where "Thomas the Tank Engine" lives. Kindle Edition from St. Martin's Griffin/Macmillan [5/2014] for $7.99 St. Martin's Griffin 8¾x5 pb [8/2002] out of print/used |
 | "The Cambridge Companion To Canadian Literature" [2004] Edited by Eva-Marie Kröller Kindle Edition from Cambridge Univ Press [3/2013] for $15.99 Cambridge Univ Press 8¾x6¼ pb [2/2004] for $30.27 Cambridge Univ Press 9¼x6 hardcover [2/2004] for $102.60 |
 | "The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know" [2006] Edited by Michael Ravitch & {his mother} Diane Ravitch Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [12/2006] for $31.25 A wide range of texts, from speeches to essays to songs to poems to stageplays & novels (excerpts) to limericks, from the years 1588 to 1940; authors include Matthew Arnold, W.H. Auden, Francis Bacon, Walter Bagehot, William Blake (9), Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, John Bunyan, Edmund Burke, Robert Burns (3), Lord Byron, Lewis Carroll (4), Thomas Carlyle, G.K. Chesterton, Winston Churchill, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Darwin, John Donne, John Dryden, T.S. Eliot (entire 'Prufrock' + 1), E.M. Forster, Thomas Hardy (3), Wm. Hazlitt, Thomas Hobbes, Gerard Manley Hopkins (6), A.E. Housman (5), Samuel Johnson, Ben Jonson, John Keats (6), Rudyard Kipling (4), Philip Larkin, D.H. Lawrence, Edward Lear, John Locke, T.R. Malthus, Christopher Marlowe, John Stuart Mill, John Milton, Isaac Newton, George Orwell, William Pitt, Alexander Pope, Queen Elizabeth I, Walter Raleigh, John Ruskin, Walter Scott, Wm. Shakespeare (9 sonnets, excerpts from 8 plays), Percy Bysse Shelley, Adam Smith, Edmond Spenser, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jonathan Swift, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Wm. Wordsworth, Wm. Butler Yeats (5) — and many others |
 | "Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature" [2007] Selected & Edited by Joseph Epstein, with Wood Engravings by Barry Moser Paul Dry Books 9¼x7½ pb [10/2007] for $18.01 Paul Dry Books 9¼x7 hardcover [1/2007] out of print/used contains 26 essays: The Style of Genius (Introduction by editor Epstein); Tom Shippey on Geoffrey Chaucer; Lois Potter on Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]; Reynolds Price on John Milton; Anthony Hecht on Alexander Pope; David Bromwich on Samuel Johnson; David Womersley on Edward Gibbon; Dan Jacobson on William Wordsworth; Hilary Mantel on Jane Austen [1775-1817]; Frederick Raphael on William Hazlitt; Evan Boland on John Keats; Daniel Mark Epstein on Nathaniel Hawthorne [1804-64]; A.N. Wilson on Charles Dickens [1812-70]; Justin Kaplan on Walt Whitman [1819-92]; William Pritchard on Herman Melville [1819-91]; Paula Marantz Cohen on George Eliot; Bruce Floyd on Emily Dickinson; David Carkeet on Mark Twain [1835-1910]; editor Epstein on Henry James; Elizabeth Lowry on Joseph Conrad [1857-1924]; Stephen Cox on Willa Cather; Robert Pack on Robert Frost [1874-1963]; Joseph Blotner on William Faulkner [1897-1962]; John Gross on James Joyce; John Simon on T.S. Eliot; and James L.W. West III on Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961] |
 | "The Cambridge Introduction To Victorian Poetry" [2010] by Linda K. Hughes Kindle Edition from Cambridge Univ Press [5/2010] for $24.00 {sic} Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [6/2010] for $25.80 Cambridge Univ Press pb [6/2010] out of print/used Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [6/2010] for $99.99 {sic} |
 | "The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry" [2013] Edited by Matthew Bevis Kindle Edition from Oxford Univ Press [10/2013] for $97.49 {sic} Oxford Univ Press pb [8/2015] for $43.21 Oxford Univ Press 9¾x7 hardcover [12/2013] for $150.00 {sic} |
http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Irish-Short-Stories-Books/dp/0199583145/
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Irish-Stories-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486437884/
http://www.amazon.com/Irish-Short-Stories-Devin-Garrity/dp/0517095300/
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Irish-Stories-Vivian-Mercier/dp/0760700966/
http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Book-Irish-Short-Stories/dp/0192141805/
http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-English-Short-Stories-Books/dp/0199561605/
http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Scottish-Short-Stories-Books/dp/0199556547/
http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Book-Canadian-Short-Stories/dp/0195412206/
R e c o r d i n g s
 | "Voices of History, Volume 1" [2006] from The British Library
British Library audio CD [1/2006] 2 disks for $36.03 40 tracks on 2 disks including voices of Robert Lord Baden-Powell, Andrew Carnegie, Winston Churchill, King Edward VIII, Mohandas K. Gandhi, King George VI, Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Lenin, Florence Nightingale, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bertrand Russell, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky & Woodrow Wilson |
 | "The Spoken Word: British Writers" [2008] from The British Library
The British Library audio CD set [12/2008] 29 tracks on 3 disks for $25.55 speakers include: J.G. Ballard; Algernon Blackwood; Anthony Burgess; G.K. Chesterton; Noël Coward; Arthur Conan Doyle; Daphne du Maurier; Ian Fleming; E.M. Forster; William Golding; Graham Greene; Aldous Huxley; Rudyard Kipling; John le Carré; Doris Lessing; Arthur Machen; W. Somerset Maugham; Nancy Mitford; Baroness Orczy; Joe Orton; Harold Pinter; J.B. Priestley; C.P. Snow; Muriel Spark; J.R.R. Tolkien; Evelyn Waugh; Rebecca West; Angus Wilson; P.G. Wodehouse; and Virginia Woolf |
 | "The Spoken Word: The Bloomsbury Group" [2009] from The British Library
The British Library audio CD [11/2009] 21 tracks on 2 disks for $25.00 speakers include: Clive Bell; Quentin Bell; Elizabeth Bowen; Gerald Brenan; David Cecil; Margery Fry; Angelica Garnett; David Garnett; Duncan Grant (discussing the infamous Dreadnought Hoax); Grace Higgins; John Lehmann; Desmond McCarthy; Benedict Nicholson; Harold Nicholson; Frances Partridge; Ralph Partridge; William Plomer; Bertrand Russell; Vita Sackville-West (about the inspiration behind Virginia Woolf’s "Orlando"); Leonard Woolf; and Virginia Woolf |
 | "The Spoken Word: British Poets" [2010] from The British Library
The British Library audio CD set [12/2010] 3 disks for $31.50 includes thirty poets, each reading from their own work, often with their own spoken introductions: Kingsley Amis, George Barker, John Betjeman, Laurence Binyon, Robert Browning, Basil Bunting, David Gascoyne, Robert Graves, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Cecil Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice, John Masefield, Edwin Morgan, Dame Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith, Stephen Spender, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, and ten more |
On The History of Great Britain
King Arthur Page at Spirit of America
G.E. Nordell's King John Project
Kings & Queens Film Festival at Magic Lantern
'Knights of Yore' Film Festival at Magic Lantern
'Shakespeare On Film' Festival Pages at Magic Lantern
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"Simon Schama: A History of Britain" TV series [2000]
15-episode TV series written & hosted by historian Simon Schama; begins circa 3500 BCE and ends at 1965; first broadcast in U.K. from 9/2000 to 2002, in USA on A&E from 10/2001 to ?? series credits at IMDb • series entry at Wikipedia "Simon Schama: A History of Britain (Special Edition)" DVD Box Set [2010] includes 15 episodes plus promo, interviews & John Donne docufilm BBC Home Ent. widescreen color DVD set [8/2010] 6 disks for $32.49 "A History of Britain: The Complete Collection" DVD Box Set [2002] A&E Home Video color DVD set [11/2002] 5 disks - out of prodn/used |
 | "A History of Britain, Volume 1: At The Edge of The World, 3000 BC - 1603 AD" [2000]
Miramax Books pb [10/2000] out of print/used Miramax/Hyperion 10x7¾ hardcover [10/2000] out of print/100+ used Miramax Books hardcover [10/2000] out of print/70+ used "A History of Britain, Volume 2: The Wars of The British, 1603-1776" [2001] Random House pb [2009] out of print/many used BBC Books 9¾x7¾ hardcover [10/2001] out of print/40+ used Miramax Books 9¾x7½ hardcover [10/2001] out of print/used "A History of Britain, Volume 3: Fate of Empire, 1776-2000" [2002] BBC Books 9¼x6 pb [5/2003] out of print/used BBC Books 10x8 hardcover [10/2002] out of print/used |
 | "A History of Scotland" TV series [BBC-TV 2008-2009] Ten episodes presented by historian Neil Oliver; episode titles are: The Last of The Free; Hammers of The Scots; Bishop Makes King; Language Is Power; Project Britain; God's Chosen People; Let's Pretend; The Price of Progress; This Land Is Our Land; and Project Scotland Blu-ray not available for Region 1 B.B.C. Home Ent. widescreen color DVD [8/2010] 5 disks for $36.99 series credits at IMDb • series entry at Wikipedia |
 | "The Story of Ireland" TV series [BBC Northern Ireland 2011] Written & hosted by Fergal Keane; the five episode titles are: Age of Invasions, Age of Conquest, Age of Revolution, Age of Union, and Age of Nations B.B.C. Home Ent. widescreen color DVD [2/2012] 2 disks for $23.99 series credits at IMDb • series entry at Wikipedia |
 | "The Story of Wales" TV series [Green Bay/BBC-TV Jan 2012] Hosted by Huw Edwards; the six episode titles are: The Making of Wales, Power Struggles, England and Wales, Furnace of Change, A New Beginning, and Wales and Britain B.F.S. Ent. color DVD [8/2012] 3 disks for $27.99 series credits at IMDb |
 | "The Kings and Queens of England: A Royal History from Egbert to Elizabeth II" [2012] by Nigel Cawthorne
Arcturus Publng 9¾x7¼ hardcover [7/2012] out of print/used |
 | "The Kings & Queens of England" [2014] by Robert J. Parker Amberley 9¼x6½ pb [2/2014] for $11.29 |
http://www.amazon.com/Time-Travelers-Guide-Medieval-England/dp/1439112908/
http://www.amazon.com/Time-Travelers-Guide-Elizabethan-England/dp/014312563X/
The information on these planned six books from Peter Ackroyd is all messed up on Amazon, and Wikipedia does no better – and there seems to be no author website.
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Volume 1 (of 6): "Foundation" [10/2012] by Peter Ackroyd
http://www.amazon.com/Foundation-History-England-Earliest-Beginnings-ebook/dp/B007TJ17O8/ http://www.amazon.com/Foundation-History-England-Earliest-Beginnings/dp/1250037557/ http://www.amazon.com/Foundation-History-England-Earliest-Beginnings/dp/125000361X/ Volume 2: "Tudors" [10/2013] by Peter Ackroyd http://www.amazon.com/Tudors-History-England-Henry-Elizabeth-ebook/dp/B00CQYBAUW/ http://www.amazon.com/Tudors-History-England-Henry-Elizabeth/dp/1250054605/ http://www.amazon.com/Tudors-History-England-Henry-Elizabeth/dp/1250003628/ Volume 3: "Civil War" [2014] by Peter Ackroyd http://www.amazon.com/Civil-War-History-England-III/dp/1447260708/ http://www.amazon.com/Civil-War-Volume-History-England/dp/1447271696/ http://www.amazon.com/Civil-War-III-History-England/dp/023070641X/ Volume ?: "Rebellion: The History of England From James I To The Glorious Revolution" [2014] by Peter Ackroyd Book covers the period between the accession of James VI of Scotland, crowned as James I of England in 1603, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Kindle Edition from Thomas Dunne/Macmillan [10/2014] for $14.99 St. Martin's Griffin 8¼x5½ pb [9/2015] for $13.27 
Thomas Dunne Books 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2014] for $21.77 |
The Penguin History of Britain in nine volumes
"An Imperial Possession: Britain In The Roman Empire, 54 BC - AD 409" [vol 1, 2006] by David Mattingly
http://www.amazon.com/Imperial-Possession-Britain-Penguin-Mattingly/dp/B00DO8G432/
"Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 - 1070" [vol 2, 2010] by Robin Fleming
http://www.amazon.com/Britain-After-Rome-Anglo-Saxon-5-May-2011/dp/B011T7D1OE/
 | "The Struggle For Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain, 1066 - 1284" [vol 3, 2003] by David Carpenter Author presents the idea that England and Scotland and Wales fought a three-way battle for domination. Kindle Edition from Penguin Books [2004 edition] for $12.99 640-page Penguin Books 7¾x5 pb [3/2005] out of print/60+ used Allen Lane History 9½x6½ hardcover [2003] out of print/used |
"New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of The Tudors, 1485 - 1630" [vol 5, 2000] by Susan Brigden
http://www.amazon.com/New-Worlds-Lost-1485-1603-Penguin/dp/0670899852/
http://www.amazon.com/Penguin-History-Britain-Worlds-1485-1630-ebook/dp/B002VNFNYC/
"A Monarchy Transformed: Britain, 1603 - 1714" [vol 6, 1996] by Mark A. Kishlansky
http://www.amazon.com/Penguin-History-Britain-Transformed-1630-1714-ebook/dp/B002VISNDA/ [1997]
http://www.amazon.com/Penguin-History-Britain-Transformed-Kishlansky/dp/B00OX8DPBQ/
"A Wealth of Nations: Britain, 1707 - 1815" [vol 7, expected publication 2017] by Linda Colley
http://www.amazon.com/Britons-Forging-1707-1837-Revised-Edition/dp/0300152809/
"The Contradictions of Progress: Britain, 1800 - 1906" [vol 8] by David Cannadine
"Hope and Glory: Britain 1900 - 2000" [vol 9, 1996] by P.F. Clarke
http://www.amazon.com/Hope-Glory-Britain-1900-2000-Penguin/dp/0141011750/
http://www.amazon.com/Hope-Glory-Britain-1900-2000-Paperback/dp/B011DBFPCW/
L i n k s
The Royal Society of Literature [est. 1820]
official website •
entry at Wikipedia
Society of Authors [est. 1884]
Crime Writers' Association [est. 1953]
Association for Scottish Literary Studies [est. 1970]
National Library of Scotland [est. 1925]
Literary Societies of Sydney, Australia [loose federation est. 2010]
VII: An Anglo-American Literary Review [est. 1984] at Wheaton College in Illinois
a scholarly journal that focuses on the work of seven prominent XXth Century British authors
Owen Barfield [1898-1997] • G.K. Chesterton [1874-1936] • C.S. Lewis [1898-1963] • George MacDonald [1824-1905] •
Dorothy L. Sayers [1893-1957] • J.R.R. Tolkien [1892-1973] • Charles Williams [1886-1945]
browse 'Literature & Fiction / British & Irish' Dept. at Amazon
Authors of Great Britain, A to Z
'A Pocketful of Brits' Pages at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
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browse all books U.K. • browse all books USA • IMDb listing • Wikipedia
 | "The Limehouse Golem: A Novel" [1995] by Peter Ackroyd prior title "The Trial of Elizabeth Cree", and before that was "Dan Leno and The Limehouse Golem" [1994], which had no central Scotland Yard inspector character • book entry at Wikipedia TLG: Kindle Edition from Nan A. Talese/Random House [3/2012] for $10.99 TTEC: Doubleday pb [4/95] out of print/used TTEC: Nan A. Talese 9½x6¾ hardcover [4/95] out of print/40+ used DLTLG: Mandarin 7¾x5 pb [1995] out of print/used DLTLG: Sinclair-Stevenson, Ltd. hardcover [1994] out of print/used |
 | "The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend by Thomas Malory" [2010] A retelling by Peter Ackroyd, Illustrated by Stuart Kolakovic Kindle Edition from Penguin Classics [11/2011] for $13.99 Penguin Classics abridged deckle-edge 8½x5½ pb [10/2012] for $14.29 Viking Books hardcover [11/2011] for $27.33 Penguin Books 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2010] out of print/used |
| | "The History of England" in six volumes by Peter Ackroyd
Volume 1 (of 6): "Foundation" [10/2012] http://www.amazon.com/Foundation-History-England-Earliest-Beginnings-ebook/dp/B007TJ17O8/ http://www.amazon.com/Foundation-History-England-Earliest-Beginnings/dp/1250037557/ http://www.amazon.com/Foundation-History-England-Earliest-Beginnings/dp/125000361X/ Volume 2: "Tudors" [10/2013] http://www.amazon.com/Tudors-History-England-Henry-Elizabeth-ebook/dp/B00CQYBAUW/ http://www.amazon.com/Tudors-History-England-Henry-Elizabeth/dp/1250054605/ http://www.amazon.com/Tudors-History-England-Henry-Elizabeth/dp/1250003628/ Volume 3: "Civil War" [2014] http://www.amazon.com/Civil-War-History-England-III/dp/1447260708/ http://www.amazon.com/Civil-War-Volume-History-England/dp/1447271696/ http://www.amazon.com/Civil-War-III-History-England/dp/023070641X/ Volume 4: "Revolution" [2016] |
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Douglas Adams [1952-2001]
browse all books •
IMDb listing •
official website •
Wikipedia
"The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
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Anglo-American poet Wystan Hugh 'W.H.' Auden [1907-73]
 | "The Portable Greek Reader" [1948] by W.H. Auden
includes works and excerpts by Aesop, Aristotle, Euclid, Euripides, Galen, Heraclitus, Homer, Pindar, Plato, and Sophocles Kindle Edition from Penguin Group [1977 edition] for $13.83 Penguin Books 7¾x5 pb [8/77] for $14.56 Viking Adult hardcover [3/55] out of print/used Viking Adult hardcover [9/48] out of print/used |
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
Jane Austen [1775-1817] Page
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Rev. Wilbert Vere Awdry [1911-97] of Gloucestershire, England
Rev. W. Awdry wrote 26 books in "The Railway Series" for children, which were published from 1945 to 1972; each contains four stories. The British storybooks about 'Thomas the Tank Engine' were a surprise success. Awdry's son Christopher wrote sixteen books, published from 1983 to 2011 - plus four special storybooks. The 'Thomas & Friends™' merchandise empire now includes 42 storybooks, dozens of educational books, British and American television series, feature films & videos, electric trains in HO- & OO-scale and larger, other toys & games of all sorts, furniture, clothing, and 'in person' visits by Thomas to local tourist railroads. 'Thomas & Friends™' is a brand of corporate entity HiT Entertainment [est. 1989], which is now a division of Mattel/Fisher-Price.
browse books •
incomplete IMDb listing •
Wilbert Awdry entry at Wikipedia
"The Thomas The Tank Engine Man" biography [1995] by Brian Sibley ISBN 0-434-96909-5
"Our Child Begins To Pray" [Edmund Ward, 1951]
"Belinda The Beetle" [1958] illustrated by Ionicus
"Belinda Beats The Band" [1961] illustrated by John T. Kenney
http://www.amazon.com/Belinda-Beats-Band-Wilbert-Awdry/dp/0340580070/
"The Island of Sodor: Its People, History, and Railways" [Kaye & Ward, 1986] by W V Awdry & G E V Awdry,
"The Birmingham and Gloucester Railway" [Alan Sutton Publng, 1987] by P J Long & W V Awdry
son Christopher Awdry [b. 1940] and his wife live in Gloucestershire, England
Christopher Awdry entry at Wikipedia
'The Railway Series' entry at Wikipedia • official 'Thomas & Friends™' USA website • official 'Thomas & Friends™' U.K. website
Spirit of America Bookstore's
"Thomas the Tank Engine" Books & TV Pages
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J.G. Ballard [1930-2009]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._G._Ballard
"Crash" [1973 novel]
"Crash" feature film [1996] directed by David Cronenberg
autobiographical novel "Empire of The Sun" [1984]
"Empire of The Sun" feature film [1987] directed by Steven Spielberg
"Miracles of Life" autobiography [2008]
Sir J.M. (James Matthew) Barrie [1860-1937]
born May 1860 in Scotland; most-famous as creator of "Peter Pan" [stageplay 1904, novel 1911];
received baronetcy June 1913; died June 1937 at age 77
entry at Wikipedia •
credits [over 100 since 1913] at Internet Movie Database
 | "Works of J. M. Barrie With The Complete Peter Pan Books (Illustrated)" for Kindle [2013]
Kindle Edition from Delphi Classics [1/2013] for $2.99 {sic} THE PETER PAN WORKS: "The Little White Bird, or Adventures In Kensington Gardens" [1902 novel] ♣; "Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens [1906 novel] ♣; "Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" [1904 stageplay] ♣; "When Wendy Grew Up: An After-thought" [1908 stageplay] ♣; "Peter and Wendy" [1911 novel] ♣; 11 NOVELS: "Better Dead" [1887]; "Auld Licht Idylls" [1888]; "When A Man's Single" [1888]; "A Window in Thrums" [1889]; "The Little Minister" [1891]; "A Tilly-loss Scandal" [1893 novella]; "Sentimental Tommy: The Story of His Boyhood" [1896]; "Tommy and Grizel" [1900]; "The Little White Bird" [1902] ♣; "Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens" [1906] ♣; "Peter and Wendy" [1911 novel] ♣; 3 SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS: lists of the short stories in chronological order and in alpha-betical order; "A Holiday In Bed and Other Sketches" [1892]; "Two of Them" [1893]; and "Echoes of The War" [1918]; 25 STAGEPLAYS: "Ibsen's Ghost" [1891]; |
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"Walker, London [1892]; "Jane Annie: The Opera" [1893]; "The Pro-fessor's Love Story" [1892]; "The Little Minister" [1891]; "The Wedding Guest" [1900]; "Quality Street" [1901]; "The Admirable Crichton" comic stageplay [1902]; "Little Mary" [1903]; "Peter Pan" [1904] ♣; "Alice Sit-By-The-Fire" [1905]; "Pantaloon" [1905]; "What Every Woman Knows" [1908]; "When Wendy Grew Up: An Afterthought" [1908] ♣; "Old Friends" [1910]; "The Twelve-Pound Look" [1910]; "Rosalind" [1912]; "Half An Hour" [1913]; "The Will" [1913]; "Der Tag" aka "The Tragic Man" [1914]; "The New Word" [1915]; "A Kiss For Cinderella" [1916]; "Seven Women" [1917]; "Dear Brutus" [1917]; and "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals" [1918]; and 7 NON-FICTION WORKS: "My Lady Nicotine" [1890]; "An Edinburgh Eleven" [1892]; "Margaret Ogilvy" [1896 memoir]; "The Boy Castaways of Black Lake Island" [1901]; "Neither Dorking Nor The Abbey" [1912]; "Charles Frohman: A Tribute" [1915]; and "Preface To The Young Visiters" [1919] Due to U.S. copyright restrictions, the novella "Farewell Miss Julie Logan" [1932], five late plays, Barrie's speeches, and his final memoir "The Greenwood Hat" [1930] do not appear in this edition, but will be added as those copyrights expire; there are also several other works absent. (The '♣' club character denotes duplicates.) |
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Scottish mystery author M.C. Beaton Page
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
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illustrator Aubrey Beardsley [1872-98]
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entry at Wikipedia
 | "Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and The Knights of The Round Table" [1893] Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, new Introduction by Andrea Denny-Brown Knickerbocker Classics 10x7 hardcover [3/2017] for $23.79 Flame Tree Publng 9¼x6 hardcover [10/2017] for $19.49 |
 | "Beardsley's Illustrations for Le Morte D'Arthur" [1972] "580 illustrations reproduced in facsimile from the Dent edition of 1893-94, mostly unavailable elsewhere" Dover Publns 8½x5¾ pb [6/72] for $57.67 {sic} Dover Publns 8½x5¾ pb [6/72] out of print/50+ used |
BBC Playhouse drama "Aubrey" [BBC-TV Jan 1982] /tt0930804/
written by John Selwyn Gilbert, Beardsley was portrayed by actor John Dicks
"Beardsley and His Work" documentary [BBC-TV 1982]
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Irish literary giant Samuel Beckett [1906-89]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett
http://www.amazon.com/The-Grove-Companion-Samuel-Beckett/dp/0802140491/
'Beckett on Film' Project
project entry at Wikipedia •
official Beckett On Film Project site
 | "Beckett On Film" DVD Box Set [2002]
Ambrose Video widescreen color DVD set [7/2002] 19 plays on 4 disks for $139.99 contains 19 filmed stageplays: "Waiting For Godot", "Endgame", "Happy Days", "Act Without Words I", "Act Without Words II", "Krapp's Last Tape", "Rough For Theatre I", "Rough For Theatre II", "Play", "Come and Go", "Breath", "Not I", "That Time", "Footfalls", "A Piece of Monologue", "Rockaby", "Ohio Impromptu", "Catastrophe", and "What Where"; extras include still gallery, interviews, and the docufilm "Check The Gate" |
"Check The Gate: Putting Beckett On Film" documentary [Feb 2003] directed by Pearse Lehane
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Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc [1870-1953]
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historian & TV journalist Pierre Berton [1920-2004] of Canada
http://www.amazon.com/Pierre-Berton/e/B000APJK3I/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Berton
"The Golden Trail: The Story of The Klondike Rush" [1954]
"The Mysterious North: Encounters With The Canadian Frontier, 1947–1954" [1956]
"Illustrated Heritage of Canada: The Beginning Years, 1860–1870" [1956]
"Illustrated Heritage of Canada: The Seventies" [1957]
"Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896–1899" [1958]
"The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of The Last Great Gold Rush" [1959]
"The New City : A Prejudiced View of Toronto" [1961]
"My War With The Twentieth Century" [1965]
"The Cool, Crazy, Committed World of The Sixties" [1966]
"The Smug Minority" [1968]
 | "The National Dream: The Great Railway, 1871-1881" [1970] by Pierre Berton
The leaders of the 4-year-old nation of Canada decided to build a transcontinental railroad across its mostly-unexplored territory; the population was then below 4 million, and the cost of the railroad projected to be $2 million - a truly reckless vision for the future of Canada. Kindle Edition from Anchor Canada/Random House [6/2011] for $13.00 Anchor Canada 9x6 pb [8/2001] for $21.51 McClelland & Stewart 9¾x6¼ hardcover [1971] out of print/80+ used book entry at Wikipedia |
 | "The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885" [1971] by Pierre Berton
The 2,000 miles of track west of Ontario was completed in an astonishing five years and united the new nation of Canada; hurdles overcome included the terrain, bankruptcy, land speculation, and the Riel Rebellion. Kindle Edition from Anchor Canada/Random House [12/2010] for $11.07 Anchor Canada 9x6 pb [8/2001] for $11.65 McClelland & Stewart 9½x6½ hardcover [1971] out of print/70+ used McClelland & Stewart 9x6½ hardcover [1971] out of print/used book entry at Wikipedia |
 | American edition "The Impossible Railway: The Building of The Canadian Pacific" [1972] Alfred A. Knopf 9½x6¾ hardcover [1972] out of print/50+ used "The National Dream / The Last Spike" double book [1974] by Pierre Berton McClelland & Stewart 8¼x5¼ pb [1974] out of print/40+ used McClelland & Stewart 10x7 pb [1974] out of print/scarce |
 | "The National Dream" TV miniseries [Canada March-April 1974] |
"Drifting Home" [1973]
"Hollywood’s Canada: The Americanization of The National Image" [1975]
"My Country: The Remarkable Past" [1976]
"The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodrama" [1977]
"The Wild Frontier: More Tales From The Remarkable Past" [1978]
"The Invasion of Canada, 1812–1813" [1980]
"Flames Across The Border, 1813–1814" [1981]
"The Klondike Quest" [1983]
"The Promised Land: Settling The West, 1896–1914" [1984]
"Vimy" [1985 novel?]
"Starting Out, 1920–1947" [1987]
"The Arctic Grail: The Quest For The North West Passage and The North Pole, 1818–1909" [1988]
"The Great Depression, 1929–1939" [1990]
"Niagara: A History of The Falls" [1992]
"The Battle of Lake Erie" [1994]
"Winter" [1994]
"My Times: Living With History, 1917–1995" [1995]
"Attack On Montreal" []1995
"The Great Lakes" [1996]
"Farewell To The Twentieth Century" [1996]
"1967: The Last Good Year" [1997]
"Welcome To The 21st Century: More Absurdities From Our Time" [2000]
"The Joy of Writing: A Guide For Writers Disguised As A Literary Memoir" [2003]
"Prisoners of The North" [2004]
"For The Love of History: Winners of The Pierre Berton Award Bring To Life Canada's Past" [2005]
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Irish author Maeve Binchy [1940-2012]
"Chestnut Street" stories [Knopf 2014] by Maeve Binchy 9780385351850
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poet & artist William Blake [1757-1827]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake
http://erdman.blakearchive.org/
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The Bloomsbury Group
The Bloomsbury Group (or Set) was an informal association of British intellectuals and artists, many of them linked by blood: husbands & wives and sisters and brothers and cousins; many of them lived around Bloomsbury in London, England where are many divisions of the University of London. Prominent members included Virginia Stephens Woolf (and husband Leonard), John Maynard Keynes, E.M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Vita Sackville-West; other members included painter Vanessa Stephen Bell (and husband Clive), Adrian & Karin Stephen, Duncan Grant, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Roger Fry, Desmond & Molly MacCarthy, David Garnett, Julian Thoby Stephen, painter Dora Carrington, and siblings Julian Bell, Quentin Bell, and Angelica Bell Garnett •
'Bloomsbury Group' entry at Wikipedia
| | "The Spoken Word: The Bloomsbury Group" [2009] from The British Library
The British Library audio CD set [11/2009] 21 tracks on 2 disks for $25.00 speakers include: Clive Bell; Quentin Bell; Elizabeth Bowen; Gerald Brenan; David Cecil; Margery Fry; Angelica Garnett; David Garnett; Duncan Grant (discussing the infamous Dreadnought Hoax); Grace Higgins; John Lehmann; Desmond McCarthy; Benedict Nicholson; Harold Nicholson; Frances Partridge; Ralph Partridge; William Plomer; Bertrand Russell; Vita Sackville-West (about the inspira-tion behind Virginia Woolf’s "Orlando"); Leonard Woolf; and Virginia Woolf |
Spirit of America Bookstore's
children's author Enid Mary Blyton [1897-1968] Pages
"The Faraway Tree Series" [4 books, 1939-51]
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British novelist & poet Martin Booth [1944-2004]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Booth
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The Brontë Sisters [books published 1847-48]
Charlotte Brontë [1816-55] published the novel "Jane Eyre" in 1847.
brother Patrick Branwell Brontë [1817-48]
Emily Jane Brontë [1818-48] published her only novel "Wuthering Heights" in 1847.
Anne Brontë [1820-49] published two novels in 1847 & 1848.
"The Brontë Sisters (Les Sœurs Brontë)" [France 1979] /tt0079920/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bront%C3%AB_Sisters
 | "Delphi Complete Works of The Brontë Sisters (Illustrated)" for Kindle [2011]
4,681-page Kindle Edition from Delphi Classics [5/2011] for $1.99 includes all eight novels, with individual contents tables & concise introductions: Charlotte’s novels: "Jane Eyre", "Shirley", "Villette", "The Professor", and unfinished "Emma"; Emily’s only novel: "Wuthering Heights"; and Anne’s novels: "Agnes Grey" & "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"; the complete poetical works of the Brontë Sisters; Charlotte Brontë’s complete juvenilia; bonus sections featuring the works of father Patrick Brontë and brother Branwell Brontë; and four biographies: "The Life of Charlotte Brontë" [1857] by Elizabeth Gaskell; "Charlotte Brontë: A Monograph" [1877] by T. Wemyss Reid; "The Brontë Family" [1886] by Francis A. Leyland; and "Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle" [1896] by Clement King Shorter |
"The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives In Nine Objects" [W.W. Norton 5/2015] by Deborah Lutz
http://www.amazon.com/Bront-Cabinet-Three-Lives-Objects-ebook/dp/B00NUB4EV2/
http://www.amazon.com/Bront%C3%AB-Cabinet-Three-Lives-Objects/dp/0393240088/
"The Brontë Sisters: The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne" [7/2015] by Catherine Reef
https://www.amazon.com/Bront%C3%AB-Sisters-Brief-Lives-Charlotte/dp/0544455908/
"To Walk Invisible - The Brontë Sisters" TV movie on 'Masterpiece Theater'
[BBC Wales Dec 2016, P.B.S. USA March 2017]
 | 2-hour period drama filmed in Yorkshire, England; a chronicle of the three years in which the Brontë sisters battled to overcome cultural obstacles and publish the books that immortalized them • Co-produced, written & directed by Sally Wainright; starring Finn Atkins {as Charlotte}, Charlie Murphy {as Anne}, Chloe Pirrie {as Emily}, Adam Nagaitis {as Branwell}, Jonathan Pryce, Lara McDonnell, Rosie Boore, Talia Barnett, Troy Tipple, James Norton, Matt Adams, Kris Mochrie, Jonathon Carley {as Napoleon Bonaparte}, June Watson, Mark Frost, Megan Parkinson,
Jill Baker, David Walmsley, Rebecca Callard, Rory Fleck Byrne, Joe Armstrong, Rhys Connah, Jamie Dorrington, Thomas Howes, Karen Shaw, Thomas Nelstrop, David Prosho, Paul Kynman, Freddie Meredith, Luke Newberry, Hugh Simon, Gracie Kelly, John Ammirati, Nigel Black, Eloise Daye, Keith Lomas, N. Richards, Margaret Wheldon, Patricia Winker
P.B.S. Home Video widescreen color Blu-ray [4/2017] for $17.43 P.B.S. Home Video widescreen color DVD [4/2017] for $14.35 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
Charlotte Brontë [1816-55]
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Brontes-Charlotte-Illustrated-ebook/dp/B00502B3QI/
"Jane Eyre: An Autobiography" [1847]
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_Jane_Eyre
"Re Jane: A Novel" [Pamela Dorman/Penguin Group 5/2015] by Patricia Park
A Korean-American re-telling of "Jane Eyre" in 21st-century New York
http://www.amazon.com/Re-Jane-Novel-Patricia-Park-ebook/dp/B00O2BS54Q/
http://www.amazon.com/Re-Jane-Novel-Patricia-Park/dp/0525427406/
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Edward Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton [1803-73]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bulwer-Lytton
 | "Delphi Complete Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Illustrated)" for Kindle [2014]
contains: 29 novels, the poetry, the complete short stories, a selection of non-fiction works, biography by Thompson Cooper, and many images relating to Bulwer-Lytton’s life and works Kindle Edition from Delphi Classics [9/2014] for $2.51 |
George Gordon, Lord Byron [1788-1824]
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Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) [1832-98]
"Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" [1865]
sequel "Alice Through The Looking-Glass" [1871]
Alice's White Knight Section of the 'Knights of Yore' Film Festival at Magic Lantern
more details (synopses, sequels, Broadway musical, books & ebooks, links, merchandise) on
Spirit of America Bookstore's "Alice In Wonderland" Books, Stageplays & Movies Page
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British children's illustrator Stephen Cartwright [1947-2004]
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entry at Wikipedia
Usborne's "Farmyard Tales" Series for First Readers
Usborne Publng Ltd. of the U.K. produced twenty titles in the "Farmyard Tales" series; four are about the steam train next to Apple Tree Farm, and so were coded on
Spirit of America Bookstore's Books For Young Railfans Page. The series was written by Heather Amery, and illustrated in wonderful pastel tones by Stephen Cartwright.
 | "Woolly Stops The Train (Usborne Farmyard Tales)" [ages 4 & up; 1999] by Heather Amery, Illustrated by Stephen Cartwright Poppy and Sam discover the newly-restored Apple Tree Station and its steam train. Usborne Publng Ltd. 8¼x8¼ pb [2004] out of print/60+ used Usborne Publng Ltd. 6x6 pb [1/2005] out of print/60+ used Usborne Publng Ltd. 8x5½ hardcover [4/2016] out of print/many used |
 | "The Old Steam Train (Usborne Farmyard Tales)" [ages 2-6; 1999] by Heather Amery, Illustrated by Stephen Cartwright Poppy and Sam can't wait to ride on the newly-restored steam train. Usborne Publng Ltd. 7x7¼ pb [12/99] out of print/used Usborne Publng Ltd. 7¼x7¼ hardcover [5/99] out of print/used Usborne Publng Ltd. 7¾x5½ hardcover [1999] out of print/used |
 | "Rusty's Train Ride (Usborne Farmyard Tales)" [ages 4 & up; 1999] by Heather Amery, Illustrated by Stephen Cartwright Mop the Puppy gets left behind on the steam train. Can Rusty the Dog save the day? Includes puzzles at the end Usborne Publng Ltd. 6x6 pb [2013] out of print/60+ used Usborne Publng Ltd. 5½x5 hardcover [7/2016] out of print/many used Usborne Publng Ltd. 7x7 pb [12/99] out of print/many used |
 | "Dolly and The Train (Usborne Farmyard Tales)" [ages 4 & up; 1999] by Heather Amery, Illustrated by Stephen Cartwright Dolly the Cart Horse saves the day. Usborne Publng Ltd. 7x7 pb [1/2000] out of print/used Usborne Publng Ltd. 8x5½ hardcover [4/2017] for $8.36 |
 | "Train Stories (Usborne Farmyard Tales)" four books in one [1999]
Usborne Publng Ltd. pb & read-along cassette [9/2000] out of print/used Usborne Publng Ltd. hardcover [12/99] out of print/40+ used "The Little Book of Train Stories" [2002] Usborne Publng Ltd. 6x6 hardcover & read-along audio CD [1/2011] out of print/used |
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"The Complete Book of Farmyard Tales" [2004] Amazon page is incorrect: book includes ALL TWENTY stories (per back of book) Usborne Publng Ltd. 8½x8½ hardcover [6/2004] out of print/40+ used "The Little Book of Farmyard Tales" [2002] includes ten stories (per Look Inside index) Usborne Publng Ltd. 6x5½ pb [7/2002] out of print/used Usborne Publng Ltd. 6¼x6 hardcover [6/2004] out of print/used "The Big Book of Farmyard Tales" [1999] includes sixteen stories (per Look Inside index) Usborne Publng Ltd. hardcover & read-along audio CD [9/2000] out of print/used |
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Geoffrey Chaucer [c1343-1400]
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entry at Wikipedia
"The Canterbury Tales" [XVth Century]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Geoffrey-Chaucer-Illustrated-ebook/dp/B009XT7V24/
 | "The Portable Chaucer" [1949] Selected & Translated by Theodore Morrison Kindle Edition from Penguin Books [1977 edition] for $13.00 Penguin Books revised edition 7¾x5 pb [5/77] for $15.25 Viking Adult mass pb [8/76] out of print/used Viking Adult hardcover [1956] out of print/used |
 | "Chaucer's Tale: 1386 and The Road To Canterbury" [2014] by Paul Strohm Kindle Edition from Viking/Penguin [11/2014] for $11.99 Penguin Books pb [DUE Oct 2015] for $13.60 Viking 8½x5¾ hardcover [11/2014] for $21.11 |
G.K. Chesterton [1874-1936] Page
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
creator of the priest-detective Father Brown mystery series
G.K. Chesterton Quotations Page at Working Minds
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mystery author Dame Agatha Christie [1890-1976] Pages
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
creator of the amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple mystery series
creator of the detective Hercule Poirot mystery series
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Sir Winston Churchill [1874-1965]
Member of Parliament, 1924-64
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940-45 & 1951-55
Sir Winston Churchill Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
Winston Churchill Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
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author-visionary Arthur C. Clarke [1917-2008]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke
co-creator of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" Movie [1968]
"Childhood's End" [Syfy Channel Dec 2015]
a three night event; based on Clarke's 1953 novel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood%27s_End_(miniseries)
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Quentin Crisp [1908-99]
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
children's author Roald Dahl [1916-90] Page
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Charles Darwin [1809-82] Page
at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
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Charles Dickens [1812-70] Page
 | "The Charles Dickens Collection, Volume 1" DVD Box Set [2005]
B.B.C./Warner color DVD set [9/2005] 6 disks for $89.95 contains six British TV movies on DVD: "Great Expectations" 12-episode mini-series [1981]; "Bleak House" 8-episode mini-series [1985] starring Diana Rigg & Denholm Elliott; "Oliver Twist" 12-episode mini-series [1985]; "Martin Chuzzlewit" 6-episode mini-series [1994] starring Paul Scofield & Tom Wilkinson; "Hard Times" 4-episode mini-series [1994]; "Our Mutual Friend" 4-episode mini-series [1998]; extras include 1976 TV ghost story, two documentaries, behind-the-scenes promo |
 | "The Charles Dickens Collection, Volume 2" DVD Box Set [2009]
B.B.C./Warner color DVD set [5/2009] 5 disks for $49.98 contains five British TV movies on DVD: "Barnaby Rudge" 13-episode mini-series [1960]; "The Old Curiosity Shop" 9-episode mini-series [1979] starring Natalie Ogle; "Dombey and Son" 10-episode mini-series [1983] starring Julian Glover; "The Pickwick Papers" 12-episode mini-series [1985]; "David Copperfield" 3-hour TV movie [1999] starring Maggie Smith, Daniel Radcliffe, Ian McKellen, Bob Hoskins {as Micawber} & Ciarán McMenamin; extras include 2 docufilms |
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield [1804-81]
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [1859-1930] Page
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
creator of master detective Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes Film Festival Pages at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
 | "The Complete Sherlock Holmes Stories" for Kindle each contains the four Sherlock Holmes novels [1887-1914] and all 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Kindle Edition from Fair Price Classics [9/2011] for $3.49 'authorized' Kindle Edition from Vintage Digital [3/2010] for $9.50 |
T.S. Eliot [1888-1965]
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, moved to England at age 25, and became a British citizen at age 39 (1927);
he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, and died in London in 1965. He is thus included here as a British author.
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-featuring-collections-contents-ebook/dp/B005CDWVUC/
"Tom and Viv" []
A passionately rendered story about writer T.S. Eliot's turbulent relationship with his first wife,
Vivienne; starring Willem Dafoe & Miranda Richardson
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Jeffery Farnol [1878-1952]
Began writing in 1907, known for his more than 40 romance novels - some formulaic and set in the Georgian or Regency period
- and swashbucklers; he, along with Georgette Heyer, largely initiated the Regency romance genre
Jeffery Farnol Appreciation Society [est. 1997]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amateur_Gentleman = 1913 novel
http://www.sidneyolcott.com/Amateur_Gentleman.htm in french
"The Amateur Gentleman" [1920] directed by Maurice Elvey; based on the novel
"The Definite Object" [1920] directed by Edgar J. Camiller; based on the novel
"The Money Moon" [1920] directed by Fred Paul; based on the novel
"Manhattan" [1924] directed by R.H. Burnside; based on the novel 'The Definite Object'
"The Amateur Gentleman" [1926] directed by Sidney Olcott; based on the novel
"The Amateur Gentleman" [1936] directed by Thornton Freeland; based on the novel
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Ian L. Fleming [1908-64]
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
creator of MI6 Secret Agent 007 James Bond
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E.M. Forster [1879-1970]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._Forster
 | "Aspects of The Novel" [1927 classic] by E.M. Forster a collection of lectures delivered at Cambridge University Mariner Books 8x5¼ pb [9/56] for $9.10 Hodder Arnold/Abinger hardcover [11/74] out of print/used |
"A Passage To India" [masterpiece]
"Arctic Summer" biographical novel [Europa Editions, 9781609452346] by Damon Galgut
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mystery author Dick Francis [1920-2010]
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