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  • The Wonders

    Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, the Circus and the Victorian Age

    by John Woolf ...
    A radical history of the extraordinary Freak performers whose talents and disabilities helped define the Victorian era and beyond.Ladies and gentlemen, step right up…On 23 March, 1844, General Tom Thumb, at 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this event marked a tipping point in the nineteenth century: the age ... Read more

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  • The Wonders

    by John Woolf ...
    On March 23, 1844, General Tom Thumb, just 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed low to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this meeting marked a tipping point in the nineteenth century, and the age of the freak was born.Bewitching all levels of society, it was a world of curiosities and astonishing spectacle—of dwarfs, giants, bearded ladies, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Black Victorians

    Hidden in History

    by Keshia N. Abraham, John Woolf ...
    Beyond the patrician vision of Victorian Britain traditionally advanced in our textbooks, there always existed another, more diverse Britain, populated by people of colour marking achievements both ordinary and extraordinary.In this deeply researched and dynamic history, Woolf and Abraham reach into the archives to recentre our attention on marginalised Black Victorians, from leading medic George ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    The Wonders

    by John Woolf ...

    Unabridged

    Ladies and gentlemen, step right up…On 23 March, 1844, General Tom Thumb, at 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this event marked a tipping point in the nineteenth century: the age of the ‘Freak’ was born.Bewitching all levels of society, the ‘Freak Show’ was a world of astonishing spectacle and entertainment ... Read more

    $22.50 USD

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  • Vitruvius Britannicus

    Second Series

    by J. Badeslade, J. Rocque, John Woolfe, James Gandon ...
    The Baroque excesses of the early eighteenth century inspired a rebellion among a consortium of British architects and their patrons. Taking their cue from the Renaissance works of Andrea Palladio, these Neo-Palladians returned the direction of British architecture toward classical principles. The Vitruvius Britannicus (British Vitruvius) reflects their vision, offering magnificent copperplate ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • 50+ Great Novellas and Short Stories. Vol.1.

    Selections from Poe, London, Twain, Melville, Kipling, Dickens, Tolstoy, Joyce, Hemingway, Bradbury, Christie and many more

    by Washington Irving, Prosper Mérimée, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ivan Turgenev, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Robert Louis Stevenson, Leo Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Rainer Maria Rilke, Saki, O. Henry, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Katherine Mansfield, Willa Cather, D.H. Lawrence, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sherwood Anderson, Virginia Woolf, Ring Lardner, John Galsworthy, Joseph Conrad, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, E.M. Forster, H. P. Lovecraft, Agatha Christie, H. G. Wells, James Joyce, Anton Chekhov ...
    This collection is a compilation of novels and short stories by some of the greatest masters of fiction literature. The collection includes works spanning over 150 years from the beginning of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century. The works vary in genre, including humorous, lyrical, psychological, romantic, detective, fantastic, adventurous, and mystical prose. It features ... Read more

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    Jacob's Room (Unabridged)

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    Narrated by Mary Corbett, John Lozano, Marina Homer ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 54 min

    In the heart of post-World War I London, Jacob's Room stands as a poignant tribute to a young man lost to the ravages of war. Through the eyes of his friends and family, we piece together the fragments of Jacob's life, from his childhood dreams to his untimely demise. Virginia Woolf's lyrical prose paints a vivid tapestry of grief, memory, and the enduring power of love. As we delve into Jacob's ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    3 Stories - Describes Nature

    A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

    by Virginia Woolf, John Galsworthy, Ivan Turgenev ...
    Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe ...

    Unabridged

    38 min

    There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

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  • 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die [volume 1]

    by Alexandre Dumas, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theodore Dreiser, Henri Barbusse, Honoré de Balzac, Louisa May Alcott, E. M. Forster, George Eliot (Eliot, George), Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Joseph Conrad, Miguel de Cervantes, Lewis Carroll, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, D. H. Lawrence, Dante Alighieri, Leo Tolstoy, H.P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Homer, Victor Hugo, Washington Irving, Henry James, Gaston Leroux, Jack London, Arthur Machen, Herman Melville, Marcel Proust, Mary Shelley, Stendhal, Sun Tzu, Jonathan Swift, William Makepeace Thackeray, Mark Twain, Theodor Fontane, Guy de Maupassant, Alphonse Daudet, George Sand, Sir Walter Scott, Henry Fielding, Blaise Pascal, John Webster, Thomas Dekker, Virginia Woolf ...
    This 1st volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler ... Read more

    $1.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Scientists

    From Euclid to Stephen Hawking

    by John Farndon, Anne Rooney, Alex Woolf ...
    From skyscrapers to jet aircraft, from mobile phones to computers, the products of modern science surround us on all sides.Perhaps the most significant product of science, however, is not the microwave, or the space station or the widescreen TV; it is the scientific method itself. Those societies that have actively embraced this method have flourished.The men and women who appear in The Great ... Read more

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  • Virginia Woolf: The Complete Works

    by Virginia Woolf, John Woolman ...
    THE NOVELS The Voyage Out (1915) Night and Day (1919) Jacob's Room (1922) Mrs. Dalloway (1925) To the Lighthouse (1927) The Waves (1931) The Years (1937) Between the Acts (1941) THE 'BIOGRAPHIES' Orlando: a biography (1928) Flush: a biography (1933) Roger Fry: a biography (1940) THE STORIES Two Stories (1917) Kew Gardens (1919) Monday or Tuesday (1921) A Haunted House, and other short stories ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Great Scientists

    by John Farndon, Anne Rooney, Alex Woolf ...
    Series series Great People in History
    Science is an ever-growing, ever-changing field of study. Every principle, every discovery is built on top of a previous discovery. Great scientists have studied life, the environment, and the physical world trying to learn more about why things are the way they are. Readers gain insight to some of the greatest scientific minds history has to offer, from Archimedes to Stephen Hawking. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD