The Epicure


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Walter Besant


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In the 1880s and 1890s, Walter Besant was one of Britain’s most lionized living novelists.Today he is comparatively unknown.Bringing together literary critics and book historians, as well as social and cultural historians, this volume provides a major reassessment of Besant.




The Russian Bastille


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The Bookseller


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Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.










Men and Women of Soho


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The Ghost


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Israel Rank


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A novel, in which, the eponymous narrator is the son of a Jewish commercial traveller, who offers his memoirs from the condemned cell, having murdered six people who stood between him and an earldom he hoped to inherit. Through his story, it explores and parodies the anti-Semitic attitudes of Edwardian England.