Franz Kafka died in 1924, when he was not yet forty-one. During his life he published only seven ...
First published in 1920, How to Dine in Style opens a window onto the golden age of elegant dinin...
A stunningly packaged anthology of writings and artwork by noted wood engraver Clare Leighton, in...
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A collection of 366 witty and fascinating facts, events and stories about language, for every day...
'Veronica the hippopotamus lives with her large family on the cool muddy river bank, swimming in ...
This hard cover journal has lined pages of high quality paper and is finished with a sturdy elast...
Travel through time with words that have shaped the trajectory of the English language across cen...
An extraordinary account of Oxford's role in the Second World War.
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