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  • Collins Dictionary Of Surnames

    From Abbey to Mutton, Nabbs to Zouch

    by Leslie Dunkling ...
    Dictionary of Surnames is the definitive guide to the origin and meaning of British surnames by one of Britain’s leading authority on names.The essential A–Z companion to the study of names of the British IslesIncludes the oldest varieties of British names as well as recent arrivals such as PatelAs well as individual entries, includes collective entries on topics such as names which derive from ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Curious Phrases

    by Leslie Dunkling ...
    Series series Collins Dictionary of
    The ebook edition of the Collins Dictionary of Curious Phrases is an updated and revised version of Leslie Dunkling’s classic work on curious and baffling phrases.This edition contains a selection of new phrases and explanations. It is redesigned to make it easier to use and will also contain references to internet sites where readers will be able to find out yet more about the curious phrases we ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address

    by Leslie Dunkling ...
    This book will give learners of English the confidence to address people appropriately in a wide variety of situations. It will also help them to understand what is implied when an English speaker uses a particular way of addressing someone. These topics are entirely neglected in most courses and textbooks, and there is no other reference work on the subject. Anyone who is fascinated by words will ... Read more

    $398.52 CAD

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    by Oscar Wilde ...
    ContentsThe Devoted Friend The Happy Prince Lord Arthur Savile's Crime The Model Millionaire The Nightingale and the Rose The Portrait of Mr. W. H The Remarkable Rocket The Selfish Giant The Sphinx without a Secret ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Novels Work

    by John Mullan ...
    Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic readership in the discussion of how novels work. Drawing on his weekly Guardian column, 'Elements of Fiction', John Mullan examines novels mostly of the last ten years, many of which have become firm ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Who Said That First? The curious origins of common words and phrases

    by Max Cryer ...
    Many bright minds have come up with expressions we now take for granted as part of the English language, and which we use freely in vernacular speech. But the originators of many of our most useful second-hand remarks go uncredited. So who said it first? This collection sets out to credit as far as its possible to do so the people who actually created many familiar terms in common us. For example, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Pistache

    by Sebastian Faulks ...
    pistache (pis-tash): a friendly spoof or parody of another's work. [Deriv uncertain. Possibly a cross between pastiche and p**stake.]From Thomas Hardy's football report to Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser, the work of the great and the not-so-great is here sent up with little hope of coming down.Most of these pieces began their life on Radio Four's The Write Stuff, but have been retooled ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Murder Must Appetize

    by Mr H. R. F. Keating ...
    A monograph of Golden Age detective fiction from H.R.F. Keating, doyen of classic detective writers.Murder Must Appetize is an affectionate return to the halcyon days of the detective story when Hercule Poirot and Lord Peter Wimsey were young and a touch of arsenic was still the ultimate deterrent. Apart from old friends like Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie, we meet the less well remembered ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Allen's Dictionary of English Phrases

    by Robert Allen ...
    Allen’s Dictionary of English Phrases is the most comprehensive survey of this area of the English language ever undertaken. Taking over 6000 phrases, it explains their meaning, explores their development and gives citations that range from the Venerable Bede to Will Self. Crisply and wittily written, the book is packed with memorable and surprising detail, whether showing that 'salad days' comes ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Dubliners

    by James Joyce ; Jeri Johnson ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for Dubliners, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of civilisation in Ireland'. Each of the fifteen stories offers a glimpse of the lives of ordinary Dubliners - a death, an encounter, an opportunity not taken, a memory rekindled - and collectively paint a portrait of a nation. This edition is ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Black Beauty

    by Anna Sewell ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I have heard men say, that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing.' Anna Sewell's famous 'Autobiography of a Horse, published in 1877, is one of the bestselling novels in English. It was written not for children, but to expose and prevent cruelty to horses, and is a classic of Victorian literature that continues to captivate readers young and old. Black Beauty's moving ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • Curiosities of Literature

    A Book-lover's Anthology of Literary Erudition

    by John Sutherland ...
    How much heavier was Thackeray's brain than Walt Whitman's? Which novels do American soldiers read? When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature? And, while we're about it, who wrote the first Western, is there any link between asthma and literary genius, and what really happened on Dorothea's wedding night in Middlemarch?In Curiosities of Literature, John Sutherland ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD