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  • A History of Castles of Herefordshire and Their Lords

    Forty-Two castles (or their ruins) are described in detail and their storied histories outlined."The Western Borderland is perhaps as rich in monuments of the past as the Northern, and abounds in spots about which we may say with truth,We never tread upon them but we setOur feet upon some reverend history.But the memorials are hard to decipher, and certainly the traditions live no longer upon the ... Read more

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  • Folklore and Legends

    English

    Charles John Tibbits' "Folkore and Legends English" is a unique collection of local stories - from Jack and the Beanstalk, the Green Children off Woolpit, the White Lady, and Lame Molly. The book also comes with 'A Dissertation of Fairies', which is an in-depth look at fairies in popular works such as Shakespeare, and a brief history of fairies in England, and other countries. The book is ... Read more

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  • The Neurotic Turn

    by Charles Johns ...
    Taking their cue from the work of Charles Johns, who has argued that, far from being an ailment, neurosis is in fact the dominant condition of our society today, an array of thinkers have gathered in The Neurotic Turn to address the question: what can ‘neurosis’ tell us about our current social impasse?What emerges in The Neurotic Turn is the awareness that the medicalization of neurosis was ... Read more

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  • Captain Kettle on the War-path

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Captain Sir Owen Kettle, the one-legged seaman who chafes at being kept from the war, leaps at a secret mission to intercept a German submarine and outwit official caution with sheer nerve. In New Orleans, he and politician Martin Carnforth adopt aliases, trail the suspicious tanker Grüda, and are drugged and ... Read more

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  • The Armourer and his Craft from the XIth to the XVIth Century

    The importance of the craft of the armourer in the Middle Ages can hardly be overestimated, for it is, to a large extent, to the excellence of defensive armour and weapons that we owe much of the development of art and craftsmanship all over Europe. The reason for this somewhat sweeping statement is to be found in the fact that up to the sixteenth century the individual and the personal factor ... Read more

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  • Atoms of Empire

    The wandering Englishman, the atom of empire, at sundry ends of the earth is not always good company in the flesh, but in Mr. Cutcliffe Hyne's stories he is good company. For the reader is not in the position of the "native"; he is, on the contrary, elected of the company of proper Britons and talked to as an equal. Those who try this book will have no sharp regrets. ... Read more

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  • The English Church in the Eighteenth Century

    Although this edition has been shortened to about half the length of the original one, it is essentially the same work. The reduction has been effected, partly by the omission of some whole chapters, partly by excisions. The chapters omitted are those upon the Jacobites, the Essayists, Church Cries, and Sacred Poetry – subjects which have only a more or less incidental bearing on the Church ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    "Paradise" Coal-Boat, The

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

    Unabridged

    28 min

    Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1866-1944) was a British writer of popular adventure fiction and fantastic literature."The Paradise Coal-Boat" is the story of Ezra Pollard, skipper of a coal boat working between Tyneside and the South coast. The cost-conscious shipowner, Gedge, makes it very clear to Ezra that he is to sail his route at top speed and in the event of any collision to bring home ... Read more

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  • The Filibusters

    This story deals with the participants in an expedition that successfully captures the presidency of a Central American republic. It is very exciting, the incidents being fresh and daring with not too much reliance placed on coincidence. ... Read more

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  • A Master of Fortune: Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle

    Series series Classics To Go
    Excerpt: "The pay is small enough," said Captain Kettle, staring at the blue paper. "It's a bit hard for a man of my age and experience to come down to a job like piloting, on eight pound a month and my grub.""All right, Capt'n," replied the agent. "You needn't tell me what I know already. The pay's miserable, the climate's vile, and the bosses are beasts. And yet we have more applicants for these ... Read more

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  • Prince Rupert, the Buccaneer

    Enriched edition.

    In "Prince Rupert, the Buccaneer," Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne masterfully intertwines historical events with imaginative storytelling, offering a vivid portrayal of Prince Rupert of the Rhine, a famed 17th-century adventurer and naval commander. Hyne's literary style exhibits a rich, descriptive prose layered with dynamic dialogue, which immerses the reader in a tumultuous era defined by ... Read more

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  • On Earth, as it is in Heaven

    This is actually my own transcribed journal from late 2009, 2010, and early 2011. This was a time of terrible crisis for me and my family.To list them, our children were taken away from us for two months, our son went to jail, my mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and I lost my business of twenty-two years; these occurred in a three-month period.This was also the best time of my life. Our Father ... Read more

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