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“john wain”

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  • A Winter in the Hills

    by John Wain ...
    '[A] triumph of mature observation and art.' - Daily Telegraph'A winter's tale of light and laughter.' - Sunday Times'What is especially enjoyable is the rough-edged tenderness and kindness of Mr Wain's concern ... probably his most substantial achievement to date.' - Robert Nye, Saturday Times Review'[S]ubstantial and serious ... sustains a vigorous narrative line - he has always been an ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Hurry on Down

    by John Wain, John Andrew Fredrick ...
    "A great fund of comic invention." - Times Literary Supplement"Written with great spirit . . . very funny . . . fresh, unhackneyed and excellently observed." - Listener"[A] bustling kaleidoscope of a book, by an author fertile in expedient, keenly observant and occasionally probing the heart of darkness." - Sunday TimesCharles Lumley feels that he has been born in captivity - the captivity of his ... Read more

    $12.35 CAD

  • Three Scientists of the Ancient World

    Anaxagoras, Archimedes, Hypatia

    by John Wain, Laszlo Solymar ...
    These plays cover one thousand years of the ancient world from the golden age of Athens to 5th century Alexandria. The protagonists are Anaxagoras, Archimedes and Hypatia, scientists, mathematicians, philosophers. All three of them came into conflict with the prevalent views of the time. Anaxagoras maintained that the sun was a big burning rock of the size of the Peleponnesus. He was condemned to ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Salmonella in Domestic Animals

    by Michael Jones, Andrew Roycroft, Muna Anjum, Andreas Bäumler, Frank Aarestrup, Pete Kaiser, H Shivaprasad, Hafez Hafez, Bernardo Villarreal-Ramos, John Timoney, Frank Pasmans, Martin Wierup, R La Ragione, Katherine Hollinger, Pia Mäkelä, John Wain, Paula Cray, Malcolm Cobb, Kris de Smet, R Davies, Filip Van Immerseel ...
    Salmonella remains a major cause of economic loss in domestic livestock and human food poisoning worldwide. In the last 10 years there have been major advances in understanding the salmonella organism, meaning a compiled source of the new research is urgently needed. With fully updated chapters and new coverage of genome structure, virulence, vaccine development, molecular methods for epidemiology ... Read more

    $243.99 CAD

  • The Old Wives' Tale

    by Arnold Bennett, John Wain ...
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    First published in 1908, The Old Wives' Tale affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters--shy, retiring Constance and defiant, romantic Sophia--over the course of nearly half a century. Bennett traces the sisters' lives from childhood in their father's drapery shop in provincial Bursley, England, during the mid-Victorian era, through their married lives, to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Card

    by Bennett A. ...
    The Card is a short comic novel written by Arnold Bennett in 1911 (titled Denry the Audacious in the American edition). It was later made into a 1952 movie starring Alec Guinness and Petula Clark. Like much of Bennett's best work, it is set in the Potteries District of Staffordshire. It chronicles the rise of Edward Henry ("Denry") Machin from washerwoman's son to Mayor of Bursley (a fictitious ... Read more

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  • Riceyman Steps

    by Arnold Bennett ...
    Riceyman Steps: A novel written by Arnold Bennett who was an English writer. This book was published in 1923. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as missing pages, poor pictures or errant ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Winesburg, Ohio

    by Sherwood Anderson, Dean Koontz ...
    Published in 1919, Winesburg, Ohio is Sherwood Anderson’s masterpiece, a work in which he achieved the goal to which he believed all true writers should aspire: to see and feel “all of life within.” In a perfectly imagined world, an archetypal small American town, he reveals the hidden passions that turn ordinary lives into unforgettable ones. Unified by the recurring presence of young George ... Read more

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  • Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete

    by Michel de Montaigne ...
    The present publication is intended to supply a recognised deficiency in our literature—a library edition of the Essays of Montaigne. This great French writer deserves to be regarded as a classic, not only in the land of his birth, but in all countries and in all literatures. His Essays, which are at once the most celebrated and the most permanent of his productions, form a magazine out of which ... Read more

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  • Kidnapped

    by Robert Louis Stevenson ...
    Kidnapped (1886) - written three years after Stevenson’s blockbuster hit Treasure Island - tells the story of David Balfour, a young Scot kidnapped by brigands during the Jacobite Rebellion who teams with master swordsman Alan Breck Stewart to cross battle-torn Scotland and claim his rightful inheritance.Kidnapped was well received and sold well during Stevenson’s lifetime. There have been about ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

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  • The Plauge

    by Albert Camus ...
    "The Plague" by Albert Camus is a Camusian existentialist novel set in Algeria. It explores the absurdity of life through an epidemic that forces characters into isolation and existential crisis. As the epidemic spreads, suffering and death become pervasive, prompting profound philosophical reflection on morality and resilience within the quarantined community. Camus delves into the existential ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • Slaughterhouse-Five

    A Novel; 50th anniversary edition

    by Kurt Vonnegut ...
    A special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time), featuring a new introduction by Kevin Powers, author of the National Book Award finalist The Yellow BirdsSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeSlaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD