Book Sale
As many of my followers and readers will know, in July of this year I'm heading off to Thailand to help teach English and I've been fundraising for a couple of months now to reach my target of £740. To see where this money goes, click here.
As part of this fundraising I've decided to do a big book sale. I quite enjoy the little collection that lines my windowsill, but I'm more than happy to sell these books on to someone who will get good use out of them. All the money that comes from selling these books goes straight towards my project with VESL.
If you're interested in any of the books or want to ask any questions, drop me an email at missisgoode@gmail.com or comment below leaving your email address and the books you're interested in and I'll get back to you asap. Preferably payment will be done by PayPal, unless you are local to the area and then we can arrange a drop off/collection. Or alternatively you can choose to simply donate the money for the book(s) (including postage fee if applicable) to my JustGiving page. Postage fees: £2. Smaller books: £1 (I will obviously let you know the total price of your order via email).
I hope you find a good read! I've featured the blurb of most of the books so it's almost like you're in my own little bookstore.
I'll remove the books as they sell so all that remain on here are still available!
I'll remove the books as they sell so all that remain on here are still available!
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton - £3
...not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of love. Set against the backdrop of upper-class New York society during the 1870s, the author's combination of powerful prose combined with a thoroughly researched and meticulous evocation of the manners and styles of the period, has delighted readers since the novel's first publication in 1920.
101 Sonnets - Don Paterson - £3
Poets have been fascinated and challenged by the sonnet ever since it was imported from Italy to England in the sixteenth century. With its fourteen lines, inexhaustibly variable, it has met particular needs of almost every major poet from Thomas Wyatt to Paul Muldoon. Don Paterson, himself an adept of the form, has devised an anthology that is both sharing of personal favourites and a celebration of high moments in the sonnet's history.
The Hours - Michael Cunningham - £3
In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New York to buy flowers for a party she is hosting for a dying friend. The Hours recasts the classic story of Woolf's Mrs Dalloway in a startling new light. Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, this exquisite novel intertwines the worlds of three unforgettable women.
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf - £2
Set on a hot London day in June 1923, Mrs Dalloway explores both the raw hold of the past and the brighter potential of the future. The tragedy of the First World War is still a vivid presence and the constraints of time and the freedoms of the mind, the abuse of power and the force of love, are themes that intertwine as the days unfolds. Clarissa Dalloway is the wife of an MP and an assured socialite, yet as she prepares for her party the links between her and the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith become ever more apparent.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain - £2
Tom is one of the 'bad' boys of his home town, St Petersburg, Missouri. Reckless, lazy, maddeningly inquisitive, he is a poor scholar and a menace to his Aunt Polly. His schemes for avoiding work, school and punishment are quite sublime. In his own world, however, the world of rivers, forests, caves and islands, he is in his element; even something of a hero.
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - £2
This heart warming story is a great American classic. It tells the tale of young Huck, who, at the age of fourteen, runs away from his home and his brutal father. Every reader will thrill to the story of his adventures; of his meeting with the escaped slave, Jim, and to their travels on a raft down the mighty Mississippi River.
The Castle of Ontranto - Horace Walpole - £3
A translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the second edition, 'to blend two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern'. He gives us a series of catastrophes, ghostly interventions, revelations of identity, and exciting contests. Crammed with invention, entertainment, terror and pathos, the novel was an immediate success and Walpole's own favourite among his numerous works.
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe - £4 - (Norton Critical Edition)
Defoe's intriguing exploration of a woman's life of crime and redemption, is one of the best-selling novels of all time. The Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1722 first edition, the only text known to be Defoe's own. It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations and Albert J. Rivero's note on the novel's interesting textual history.
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf - £2
This simple and haunting story captures the transience of life and its surrounding emotions. To The Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - £4 (Norton Critical Edition)
Caribbean Short Stories - Stewart Brown & John Wickham - £9
'This is the Caribbean collection I have been waiting for: I simply don't know of any other way of holding so much of the region's literary greatness in one hand' - Benjamin Zephaniah.
'A magnificently rich and rewarding journey through a century that has brought independence, emigration and social revolution...the biggest pleasures of this anthology lie in reading the new generation of writers.' - Sunday Times
Dracula - Bram Stoker - £6
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne - £4
Hawthorne uncovers the tangled roots of the early American character - desire and religious passion.
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien - £3
...'is a thrilling and beautiful distillation of everything that has been thought, felt, or said about the Vietnam War and its long after burn. A heartbreaking and healing masterpiece; time will make it a classic' - Michael Herr, author of Dispatches.
'O'Brien writes superbly. One of the best war books of this century, an unflinching attempt to illuminate both its obscene physical brutality and the terrible mental overload' - Guardian.
Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell - £3
A vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women. Undaunted by poverty, but dismayed by changes brought by the railway and by new commercial practices, the ladies of Cranford respond to disruption with both suspicion and courage. Miss Matty and her sister Deborah uphold standards and survive a personal tragedy and everyday dramas; innovation may bring loss, but it also brings growth, and welcome freedoms. Its social comedy develops into a study of generous reconciliation, of a kind that will value the past as it actively shapes the future.
