Bloom’s last work, completed weeks before his death when he felt ‘edged by nothingness’ and consoled himself with readings from Montaigne, Blake, Dante, Shakespeare et al. Missed from our Xmas catalogue.
Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader’s Mind over a Universe of Death
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£25.00
Edition:Hardback978030024728203/11/2020From a Bookshelf nearby
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A fine illustrated celebration of 12 houses that have adapted successfully to the modern world: Doddington Hall, Burton Agnes, Loseley, Broughton, Madresfield, Grimsthorpe, Hopetoun, Inverar... read more
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An incisive post-mortem on the state of the Victorian union, told (with a gossipy thrill) through the lives of five couples - Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh, John Ruskin and Effie Gray, Charl... read more
Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
Paperback £11.99 -
Tudor Textiles
Hardback £35.00 -
AM's last book was 'Night Trains' , in which we could luxuriate in dreams of the Blue Train, the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-lits and lamp-lit dining cars... Now, post-Brexit, the au... read more