The Way of All Flesh/Adverts
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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Vols. I. and II. With Portrait
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Vols. III. and IV.
MANSFIELD PARK
Vols. V. and VI.
EMMA
Vols. VII. and VIII,
NORTHANGER ABBEY
Vol. IX.
PERSUASION
Vol. X.
BETTY'S HUSBAND 6s.
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LAZARRE 6s.
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The Times: "We follow Lazarre with devotion from one side of the world to the other. The interest quickens, rises, glows into fire when he crosses the seas to France, when he woos his love in the gardens of the old chateau, and when he thrusts himself into the glittering frost-fairy-tale court of Napoleon."
A MAN OF SENTIMENT 3s. 6s.
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THE LAST ALIVE 6s.
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BELSHAZZAR 6s.
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THE LEOPARD'S SPOTS 6s.
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A DUET 6s.
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THE COLONIALS 6s.
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FRENCH FICTION OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Edited by A. R. Waller. With Preface to each volume by Arthur Symons. With Frontispieces. Crown 8vo. Cloth gilt. 3s. 6d. net per volume.
1. SALAMMBO
By Gustave Flaubert. Translated by J. W. Matthews.
2. THE LATIN QUARTER
By Henry Murger. Translated by Ellen Marriage and John Selwyn.
3. THE ABBÉ AUBAIN AND MOSIACS
By Prosper Mérimée. Translated by Emily Mary Waller.
THE CAPTAIN OF THE GRAY-HORSE TROOP 6s.
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NATIVES OF MILTON 3s. 6s.
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THE MISDEMEANOURS OF NANCY 3s. 6s.
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THOMPSON'S PROGRESS. 6s.
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THE SENTIMENTAL WARRIOR 6s.
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MLLE. FOUCHETTE 6s.
The Scotsman: "A story of no mean merit, full of movement and life."
The Glasgow Herald: "We do not recall any book which realises so accurately the salient features of Paris during a period of excitement such as the Dreyfus agitation. Fouchette . . . remains real and abiding, a gallant and pathetic little figure and something to remember."
THE PIT 6s.
THE OCTOPUS 6s.
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A MAN'S WOMAN 6s.
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SHANGHAIED 3s. 6d.
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BLIX 3s. 6d
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McTEAGUE 6s.
A Tale of San Francisco
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THE ONE BEFORE 3s. 6d.
With eighty Illustrations by Tom Browne
The Daily News: "Full of good things."
The Daily Telegraph: "It deserves commendation for its ingenuity no less than for its fun."
The Academy: "A thoroughly amusing story."
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The Morning Post: "Excellent shore stories. . . . There are very few people who can use a peculiar gift of humour both to divert their readers and to 'make their flesh creep,' but Mr, Pain has shown that he possesses this power."
A new edition with a new introduction.
THE WEIRD O' IT 6s.
The Dundee Advertiser: "Than The Weird o' It the publishing season, prolific as it has been, offers nothing more deeply engrossing. Mr. Shiel is a genius in his special branch of fiction."
THE YELLOW DANGER 3s. 6d
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COLD STEEL 6s.
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CONTRABAND OF WAR 6s.
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THE LORD OF THE SEA 6s.
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THE TWO VANREVELS 6s.
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The Daily Mail: "A quite delightful story. . . . The tale is Virginian, and is characterized by that heat of blood and indolence of nature which we have been accustomed to associate with the South. The time is just before the Civil War, and the temperature is growing sultry. Betty Carewe is a very charming girl, while her father is properly hateful. Vanrevel also makes a model hero; but the best character in the book is undoubtedly the hapless Crailey Gray, 'ne'er-do-well and light-o'-love, wit, poet, and scapegrace'."
THE CRIMSON WING 6s.
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THE REVISED EDITION OF THE WORKS OF LEO TOLSTOY
Edited by Aylmer Maude. Crown 8vo. Cloth gilt. 6s. per vol.
Vol. I. SEVASTOPOL and other Military Tales
Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. With Portrait, Map and Prefaces.
"I think I already wrote you how unusually the first volume of your edition pleases me. All in it is excellent: the edition and the remarks, and chiefly the translation, and yet more the conscientiousness with which all this has been done."—Leo Tolstoy, December 23, 1901.
Vol. XXIV. RESURRECTION
Translated by Louise Maude
With Preface, Appendix containing fresh matter, and 33 Illustrations by Pasternák.
The same, unillustrated. Limp cloth. 2s.
Cheap Edition. Paper covers. 6d.
Leo Tolstoy—continued
Vol. XX. THE PLAYS OF LEO TOLSTOY
THE FIRST DISTILLER
FRUITS OF CULTURE
Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude.
With an Annotated List of Tolstoy's Works. Illustrated
No. 5 JOHN STREET 6s.
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The Morning Post: "The book which is talked about most at the present time, and will be remembered."
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THE ISLAND; or, An Adventure of a Person of Quality 6s.
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