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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

by Winifred Watson

Now a major motion picture starring Frances McDormand ( Fargo ) and Amy Adams ( Enchanted )! “Why has it taken more than half a century for this wonderful flight of humor to be rediscovered?”— Guardian “The sweetest grown-up book in the world.”— Sunday Times “Everyone, no matter how poor or prim or neglected, has a second chance to blossom in the world.”— Daily Mail , in reference to Miss Pettigrew... (more)

Aetheric Mechanics

by Warren Ellis

The newest addition to Warren Ellis' Apparat line of original graphic novels has arrived! The year is 1907, and Britain has entered into a terrifying war with Ruritania, whose strange metal planes darken the skies, and whose monstrous war engines cast looming shadows from across the channel. Doctor Robert Watcham, lately returned to London from the front, makes his homecoming to Dilke Street. There lives his old... (more)

Selections.

by John Keats

This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Keats's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by a generous selection of Keats's letters - to give the essence of his work and thinking. In his tragically short life Keats wrote an astonishing number of superb poems;... (more)