This is the fourth and final volume of the first annotated edition of Dickens' Journalism. It gathers together for the first time articles, essays and recollections published during the last decade of Dickens' life, before his untimely death in 1870, and represents the culmination of a lifetime's work in popular journalism.

Dickens' Journalism Uncommercial Traveller

Charles, Dickens

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<p>Biography of one of the central figures in the cultural life and tastes of his time.</p>

Diaghilev

Richard Buckle

Biographies & Memoirs

Channelling a razor-sharp satire through the everyday mishaps of the immortal comic character Mr Pooter, George and Weedon Grossmith's The Diary of a Nobody is edited with an introduction and notes by Ed Glinert in Penguin Classics. Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambitions, content with his ordinary life. Yet he always seems to be troubled by disagreeable tradesmen, impertinent young office clerks and wayward friends, not to mention his devil-may-care son Lupin with his unsuitable choice of bride. In the bumbling, absurd, yet ultimately endearing character of Pooter, the Grossmith brothers created a wonderful portrait of the class system and the inherent snobbishness of the suburban middle-class suburbia - one which sends up the late Victorian crazes for Aestheticism, spiritualism and bicycling, as well as the fashion for publishing diaries by anybody and everybody. This edition contains the original illustrations by Weedon Grossmith and an introduction by Ed Glinert, author of The London Compendium, discussing the novel's serialisation in Punch, the growth of the suburbs and the figure of Mrs Pooter. George Grossmith (1847-1912) initially worked as a journalist, reporting Police Court proceedings for The Times. In 1870 he began his career as a singer and entertainer, creating some of the most memorable characters in Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas. Weedon Grossmith (1854-1919) brother of George, was educated at the Slade and the Royal Academy with a view to following a career as a painter, and exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery and the Royal Academy. Joining a theatre company in 1885, he toured the provinces and America. The best-known of his many plays, The Night of the Party, was published in 1901. If you enjoyed The Diary of a Nobody, you might like Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat, also available in Penguin Classics. 'The funniest book in the world' Evelyn Waugh 'True humour ... with its mixture of absurdity, irony and affection ... a masterpiece, immortal' J.B. Priestley

Diary of a Nobody

Literature & Fiction

George Grossmith

Humor & Satire

<p>A collection of 58 poems, Nicholas Campbell is a practitioner of the short poem. Poet J-son Wooi-chin, author of the book, "Homing Pigeon," Singapore Unipress, 2001, has this to say about Nicholas Campbell's poems: "I've always liked the contemplative quality of his work, as though there is a freedom and importance in doing nothing. His voice is like the shadows of a ceiling fan striking across the dinner room, all at once important and unimportant." The late Benjamin Saltman, author of Deck, Ithaca House, 1979; The Leaves The People, Red Hill Press, 1974, and The Book Of Moss," Garden Street Press, 1992, wrote of his poems, "Poems that make a reader feel as if one has opened a book into summer, poems that linger after they close and that one wears like talismans, like amulets that protect you against despair and urge you to go on. These poems continue a tradition of lyric intensity, of short poems which enter immediately into meaning and have the sort of mysterious clarity we find in work by William Stafford, Robert Francis and Bert Meyers."</p>

When We Write We Keep Saying Hello: Poems

Nicholas Campbell

Poetry

Making Pigs Fly

Judit Sinclair

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Taking Lives

Michael Pye

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Corner Flags and Corner Shops

Sports & Outdoors

SANJIEV JOHAL JAS BAINS

Football (American)

The explorers of Australia tell their stories of courage and suffering, of dispossesion and conquest, of a moving frontier between European invaders and the Aborigines who had been living on the continent for thousands of years. The stories in this anthology document almost four centuries of exploration. They includes tales of weathering grotesque desert hear, the Maori chief Te Pahi saving the lives of condemned thieves in Sydney in 1805, the ruthless massacre of aborigines by the Jardine brothers in North Queensland.

The Explorers

Flannery, Tim (edit)

Crazy Horse

In this volume in the "Lives" series, Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist of the American West, offers a vibrant examination of the West's great tragic hero, Crazy Horse. A Sioux warrior, Crazy Horse encapsulated the Native American tragedy and the death of the untamed West.

McMURTRY, Larry

Gossip

HAYES, Katy

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