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Behind the Lines by W. F. Morris
Category: Fiction | Series: Casemate Classic War Fiction
'I never saw the man again, alive or dead. One will say that I saw him only for a moment, that it was misty at the time, and that even I did not recognise the features, covered as they were with grime and stubble. Yet I am sure that the taller of the two ragged civilians I saw in the chalk quarry that m ...Show more
Bretherton: Khaki Or Field-Grey? (Casemate's War Classic) by W. F. Morris
Category: Fiction | Series: Casemate Classic War Fiction Ser.
Towards the end of the war as the Germans are in their final retreat in November 1918, a British raiding party stumbles across a strange and eerie scene in a ruined chateau, under fire. Following the strains of a familiar tune, and understandably perplexed as to who would be playing the piano in the mid ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Category: Audio Books | Series: Classic Fiction
After escaping from Count Dracula, Jonathan Harker and his friends plan to destroy the count. They succeed just in time to save the life and soul of Jonathan's wife, Mina.
Forest of the Hanged by Liviu Rebreanu
Category: Classic | Series: Casemate Classic War Fiction
The Casemate Classic War Fiction Series publishers new editions of forgotten classics that perfectly capture their era. During the First World War, just behind the eastern front, there was a forest, where Austrians and Hungarians used to hang deserters. To this place came Apostol Bologa, a young Romania ...Show more
Landscape for a Good Woman - A Story of Two Lives by Carolyn Steedman
Category: Biography | Series: Virago Classic Non-Fiction Ser.
'This book is about lives lived out on the borderlands, lives for which the central interpretative devices of the culture don't quite work. It has a childhood at its centre - my childhood, a personal past - and it is about the disruption of that fifties childhood by the one my mother had lived out befor ...Show more
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Category: Audio Books | Series: Classic Fiction
As the Pequod spirals the globe in search of Moby Dick, the mythical white whale of the Southern oceans, Ishmael and crew must deal with the obsessive revenge of Captain Ahab.
Moby Dick by David Rodriguez; Ignacio Segesso (Illustrator)
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Classic Fiction Ser.
The icy waters of the northern seas hide a creature that is already a legend among all seafarers. The fearsome white leviathan, the chimera of all whalers, Moby Dick. The young Ishmael, along with his faithful friend Queequeg, will board the Pequod, to satisfy their craving for adventure. But soon, he w ...Show more
Mr Britling Sees it Through by WELLS, H G
Category: Fiction | Series: Casemate Classic War Fiction
Novel set in WWI Britain; Mr Britling as a writer whose family is caught up in events of the war, and he must re-examine his beliefs and world view. A profound and very human account of the early years of the war, told from the perspective of a father rather than combatants, but no less revealing. Mr Br ...Show more
Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens Charles
Category: Audio | Series: Classic Fiction Ser.
Nicholas Nickleby's father dies unexpectedly after losing all of his money in a poor investment. Nicholas, his mother and his younger sister, Kate, are forced to give up their comfortable lifestyle in Devonshire and travel to London to seek the aid of their only relative, Nicholas's uncle, Ralph Nickleb ...Show more
Pagan by W. F. Morris
Category: Classic | Series: Casemate Classic War Fiction
Charles Pagan and Dick Baron, who served together in WWI, embark on a walking holiday in the Vosges Mountains in France, in 1930. En route they meet Cecil and his sister Clare who is recovering from the loss of her fiance during the war. Pagan and Baron pitch camp at a guesthouse, but the strange behavi ...Show more
Pass Guard at Ypres by Ronald Gurner
Category: Fiction | Series: Casemate Classic War Fiction
A platoon of inexperienced British soldiers crosses to France, in excited and nervous anticipation of what is to come; they find themselves at Ypres where the battle-weary Allied troops are dug in, and slaughter surrounds them. With their young, upright officer Freddy Mann, they are soon in the thick of ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Category: Audio Books | Series: Classic Fiction S.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." So opens this famous novel which has become Jane Austen's best loved and best known work. It was in this book that all Jane Austen's talents combined to create not only the most wonder ...Show more