Recent Arrivals from Bee's Books

London, United Kingdom: Everymans Library, 1994. New. A brand New, Shrink wrapped copy of Leo Tolstoy's 'The Cossacks' From the Everyan's Library: Photos are of one of the four that are for sale, not stock photos If you wish to purchase and would like a photo of the book you will be sent, I will happily provide them A brilliant short novel based… Read more about this item

Everyman's Library, 1995. Brand New, unread and in perfect condition A very attractive copy of Edgar Allen Poe's Poetry and Prose from the Everyman Library Pocket seriesThe pictures are of the book for sale, not stock pictureProbably the most important single figure in nineteenth century American literature, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) exerted an enormous influence over later writers, especially… Read more about this item

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, April 21, 2003. Haedback. New/Perfect. Brabd New and Unread: How to Mow the Lawn: The Lost Art of Being a Man, Sam Mart. At about the time men started to get in touch with their feminine sides, hammer sales around the world began to drop off. So begins this witty yet practical guide for men… Read more about this item

Everyman's Library, 2001. Haedback. New/Perfect. A brand new shrink-wrapped copy of the Everyman's library edition of William Langland's Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain And The Green Knight. The pictures in this listing are scans of one of the four book for sale (not stock photos), all are in the same new condition. The magnificent heritage of English poetry before Chaucer is often neglected… Read more about this item

Everyman's Library, 1994. Haedback. New/Perfect. A brand new and unread copy of Framley Parsonage by IAnthony Trollope from the Everyman's Library series. The pictures in this listing are scans of one of the three books for sale, not stock photos. All books are in the same condition, i.e. new, unread and in perfect condition, if you… Read more about this item

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, January 19, 2004. Haedback. New/Perfect. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, January 19, 2004. New. 208 pp.

Faber and Faber, 2003. Haedback. New/Oerfect. Faber and Faber, 2003. New. A spectacular, salacious and scandalous new biography of the celebrated courtesan, who was famously told, by the Duke of Wellington, to 'publish and be damned.' Born in 1786, by the time she was fifteen Harriette Wilson was well on her way to becoming Regency London's most sought-after… Read more about this item

Bloomsbury, 1994. Haedback. New/Perfect. Bloomsbury, 1994. New. A lesbian affair scandalizes the inhabitants of a contemporary rural English village in this novel by the author of The Choir. It tells not only of the complications of a lesbian attachment, but also of the peculiarity of convention and the modern attitudes of a rural community. Source: Publisher 282 pp.

Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, London, July 16, 1992. Haedback. New/Perfect. Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, London, July 16, 1992. New. A new edition of the first novel of an author who has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Combining humour and pity, it creates the atmosphere of The Jerusalem, where old ladies have nothing to do except eat junket… Read more about this item

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, February 25, 1993. Haedback. New/Perfect. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, February 25, 1993. New. Bloomsbury Poetry Classics are selections from the work of some of our greatest poets. The series is aimed at the general reader rather than the specialist and carries no critical or explanatory apparatus. This can be found elsewhere. In the series the… Read more about this item

Weidenfeld & Nicolson. New/Perfect. When a young man arrives from Australia to claim his inheritance, he changes a small Irish town for everJoseph Brennan sees Michael Bugler, the returned exile, as a threat And for Breege, Joseph's younger sister, Bugler is an irresistible stranger to whose charms she must not succumb for fear of betraying her brotherA love-hate… Read more about this item

Everyman's Library. New/Perfect. Samuel Butler (1835-1902) made one reputation during his lifetime with his Utopian satire Erewhon, and a second reputation after his death with The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously This novel, the story of Ernest Pontifex, is a thinly disguised autobiography in which Butler brutally but hilariously savages the financial, sexual, familial and spiritual hypocrisies… Read more about this item

London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 1993. New/Perfect. Joanna Trolloe, The Choir Brand new Copy of the very oretty Bloomsbury Classics editionThe modern problems facing an ancient cathedral in a socialist-run city result in confrontations and personal tensions over the fate of the choir A story of ecclesiastical politics and human dilemmas, from the author of Eliza Stanhope, The Taverners'… Read more about this item

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, July 25, 1996. Bloomsbury Classics. New. Poor Cow by Nell Dunn (Bloomsbury Ckassics, Hardback, 1996) First published in 1967, this novel tells the story of Joy living amongst the shiftless poor in London Her life is made tolerable by her love for her child Nell Dunn is the author of Up the Junction which won the John Llewellyn Rhys… Read more about this item

Everyman's Library. New/Perfect. A hypnotic story of hatred, revenge and catastrophe in which Cousin Bette exacts a terrible price from the rich relations who use and humiliate her This book portrays the world of post-Napoleonic France, where commercial greed and sexual debauchery are rampant among a demoralized ruling classSource: Publisher

Everyman's Library. New/Perfect. This novel uses the hero, Deronda, to come to terms with the English Jews, a society-within-a-society The book's heroine, Gwendolen Harleth, marries for power rather than love, uncovering a vein in human relations that could lead, through the best intentions, to despairSource: Publisher

Everyman's Library. New/Perfect. Brand New shrink wrapped copy of George Elliot's Daniel Deronda from George Eliot's last novel, published in 1876, weaves together two stories, one about Gwendolen Harleth, the spoilt beauty who marries for money, the other concerning the mysterious hero of the title whose search for his true destiny leads him towards Zionism All Eliot's great… Read more about this item

Everyman's Library, 1994. New/Perfect. Brand New, Shrink WrappedTHE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY is probably Edith Wharton's most savage satire on the manners of late nineteenth-century America It is the story of the exquisitely beautiful but brutally ambitious Undine Spragg who marries her way into the high aristocracy of Europe, abandoning several husbands along the way This novel, which… Read more about this item

Everyman. New/Perfect. From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter - a marvellous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico García Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine Cavafy, Elizabeth Bishop, W H Auden, and James Merrill Their poems of love are among the most perceptive, the… Read more about this item

Everyman's Library. New/Perfect. Brand New beautiful Everyman's Library issue of this classic book The greatest epistolary novel, Les Liaisons dangereuses simultaneously illustrates and perverts the laws of its genre The correspondence born from the libertine wager between the Viscount de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil reveals the false pretenses of aristocratic society and demystifies libertinage like it… Read more about this item