Sir: 2052 books
by Alastair Gunn, Thomas Street Millington, Walter Besant
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the fifth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 5 in the series spans the years 1872 to 1901 and includes stories...
by Voltaire, Golden Deer Classics, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Language: German
Release Date: July 10, 2019
Language: German
Release Date: July 10, 2019
50 Meisterwerke Musst Du Lesen, Bevor Du Stirbst: Vol. 1 (Golden Deer Classics) Inhalt: Voltaire - Kandide oder Die beste aller Welten (1759) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Die Leiden des jungen Werther (1774) Joseph von Eichendorff - Ahnung und Gegenwart (1815) Mary Shelley - Frankenstein oder Der...
Peter Hall's Diaries
The Story of a Dramatic Battle
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
A new edition of Sir Peter Hall's Diaries with an introduction from the man himself. A fascinating read for any fan of theatre history in Britain.
by Sir Jackie Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Sir Jackie Stewart is one of the most highly regarded names in global sport - winner of three F1 World Championships, 27 Grands Prix and ranked in the top five drivers of all time. On retiring from the circuit, he went on to build an equally impressive international business career.
In the...
by Sir Chris Bonington
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
'These well chronicled chapters of Chris’s life read like the pages of an epic saga with all the battle and victory, triumph and tragedy, love and loss one would expect of a mythical hero.' - Leo Houlding
'Bonington was a fabulous and very creative climber. He brought Britain back to being...
by Ernest Bennett Sir
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
A seminal, investigative look at ghost sightings from the British politician, author, and Council of the Society for Psychical Research member.
A wide collection of the most well attested cases of apparitions and haunted houses collected by the Society for Psychical Research. There are a number...
The Chinese on the Art of Painting
Texts by the Painter-Critics, from the Han through the Ch'ing Dynasties
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Because so many Chinese artworks have been ravaged by time, the only way to really understand their history and significance is to turn to writings by the painters themselves or by contemporary critics. That is what Osvald Sirén has done in this classic book, with eye-opening results.
One of the...
Zanoni Book One: The Musician
The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe, A Weiser Books Collection
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Master of modern occultism, Lon Milo DuQuette, (author of Enochian Vision Magick and The Magick of Aleister Crowley) introduces the newest Weiser Books CollectionThe Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe. Culled from material long unavailable to the general public, DuQuette curates this essential new...
by Lord Byron, Golden Deer Classics, Christina Rossetti
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love 3. Walt Whitman - A Glimpse 4. W.Shakespeare - Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds 5. John Donne - The Good-Morrow 6. K.Gibran - Love One Another 7. Robert Browning - Meeting At Night 8. E.Dickinson...
The Wild, Wild West
Thrilling Tales by Famous Authors
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
A town that had a man for breakfast every morning.
That's how Tombstone, Arizona was described in the late-1800s, bolstering the myth that a corpse would be found cooling in the town's dusty streets each sunrise. The reality was quite different and much less violent, of course, but that hasn't...
Discovering Classical Music: Elgar
His Life, The Person, His Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
"I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers" – Sir Charles Groves CBE
Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of...
by Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Chronicles of the Canongate., by Sir Walter Scott, Bart..
From Bouncing Bombs to Concorde
The Authorised Biography of Aviation Pioneer Sir George Edwards OM
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2006
For a quarter of a century from 1950, George Edwards was the dominant figure in British aviation, both civil and military. His name is synonymous with the Vickers Viscount, the world's first turboprop airliner, and the Concorde, for which he led the British team throughout its formative period to...
Discovering Classical Music: Verdi
His Life, The Person, His Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
"I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers" – Sir Charles Groves CBE
Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of...