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Mr. Moffatt

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Chester Francis Cobb


Mr. Moffatt owns a chemist's business in suburban Sydney, Australia, where he lives with his wife, Florence, and adult daughter, Naomi. The …

The Later Life

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Louis Couperus


Set in the stifling world of turn of the century Dutch aristocracy, the second volume of the 'Books of the Small Souls' quartet, begins wher…

Song of Myself

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Walt Whitman


Walt Whitman's best known poem - a vast and multitudinous celebration of American life in which the 'myself' of the title becomes at one wit…

Six lyrics from the Ruthenian of Taras Shevchenko, also The Song of the Merchan…

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Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov


Poetry by two radical poets, born in the same year, who suffered exile and punishment under the Tsarist Russian empire. Taras Shevchenko is …

The Twilight of the Souls

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Louis Couperus


The third book in Louis Couperus' Books of the Small Souls quartet. The Twilight of the Souls begins some months after the conclusion of The…

'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf: Contemporary Reviews (1927)

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Various


Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse was published in May 1927 in both Britain and the United States. The publication of Mrs. Dalloway a year …

Athenaeum Souvenir

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Various


The Manchester Athenaeum was founded in 1837 as a society for the "advancement and diffusion of knowledge". This short collection …

When the Birds Fly South

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Stanton A. Coblentz


Dan Prescott, an American adventurer, discovers the hidden valley of Sobul in a mountainous region of Afghanistan, inhabited by a strange ra…

Lancashire Dialogues

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John Byrom


A scion of the Byroms of Byrom Hall in Lowton, Lancashire, John Byrom was born and lived in Manchester and Salford for much of his life. Edu…

Guides to Belle Vue Zoological Gardens 1891-1917

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Various


Guides to the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens from the Chetham's Library Virtual Belle Vue Collection. The Belle Vue gardens opened in 1836 as …

Every Man His Own Art Critic

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Patrick Geddes


This collection includes two texts written to accompany two blockbuster art exhibitions: Every man his own art critic at the Manchester Exhi…

Sydney Past and Present

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John Arthur Barry


An account of the early history of Sydney, Australia's first colonial city. Best known for his collection of light-hearted yarns, Steve Brow…

The Blue Review, Number 1

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Various


The Blue Review was a short lived monthly journal published in London between May and July 1913. The successor to Rhythm, The Blue Review wa…

War Impressions: Being a Record in Colour

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Mortimer Menpes


A personal account of the second Boer War by Australian expatriate artist Mortimer Menpes. Menpes travelled to South Africa as a corresponde…

Dr. Adriaan

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Louis Couperus


The fourth and final book in Louis Couperus' Books of the Small Souls quartet. Ten years have passed since the conclusion of The Twilight of…

Art in Australia, No. 1, 1916

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Various


In 1916, three prominent identities in the Sydney art world - Sydney Ure Smith, Bertram Stevens and Charles Lloyd Jones - got together to pu…

Geraldine Jewsbury in Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, 1846-47

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Geraldine Jewsbury


'The most striking feature in the present day, far more than that of railways even, is the utter chaos into which all previously received pr…

Songs for the Millions, and other poems

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Benjamin Stott


Born in Manchester, and a bookbinder by trade, Benjamin Stott was an active trade unionist and member of the Chartist movement. Songs of the…

The Evergreen, A Northern Seasonal. Spring 1895

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William Sharp


The Evergreen was a short lived seasonal magazine, edited by William Sharp (Fiona Macleod) and published by Patrick Geddes, which proposed a…

Art in Australia, No. 2, 1917

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Various


In 1916, three prominent identities in the Sydney art world - Sydney Ure Smith, Bertram Stevens and Charles Lloyd Jones - got together to pu…

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