William FitzWilliam Delamere Chalmers, Lord Dawlish, is hard-up for money. When he is unexpectedly bequeathed a million pounds by an American he once helped at golf, and furthermore learns that the millionaire left his niece and nephew only...
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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 / Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 / Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible...
The Sexton's...
Published in 1954, John Cowper Powys called this novel, a 'long romance about Odysseus in his extreme old age, hoisting sail once more from Ithaca'.
As usual there is a large cast of human characters but Powys also gives life and speech to...
The buttoned-up world of the British upper classes is exploded by the brilliance, wit and audacity of Saki’s bomb-like stories. In ‘The Open Window’ an imaginative teenager gives a visitor the fright of his life. In ‘The Unrest Cure’ the...
The McWilliamses and the Burglar...
A Prefect's...
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