Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Mrs. Warren's Profession	George Bernard Shaw	From the book:Mrs Warren's Profession has been performed at last, after a delay of only eight years; and I have once more shared with Ibsen the triumphant amusement of startling all but the strongest…	OL1066086W
Philobiblon	Richard de Bury	The Philobiblon is a collection of essays concerning the acquisition, preservation, and organization of books written by the mediaeval bibliophile Richard de Bury shortly before his death in 1345. Wr…	OL1092808W
Split Images	Elmore Leonard	When a Detroit homicide cop takes a vacation, he looks for some place far away from murder and mayhem. But when Bryan Hurd lands in Palm Beach, he finds that a gun-collecting millionaire and a bitter…	OL111691W
Possession	A. S. Byatt	Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the…	OL115647W
A handlist of the Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the…	Dominik Wujastyk	Catalogue entries for just over 1000 Sanskrit manuscripts	OL13018312W
Guide to the manuscripts in the National Maritime Museum	National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)	Volume one describes 300 collections of personal papers held by the Museum. Volume two describes the business records, public records and artificial collections held by the Museum. Contains a cumula…	OL1306664W
Codex 632	José Rodrigues dos Santos	Historian Thomas Noronha, a history professor and cryptologist, follows a trail of historical enigmas and hidden documents to uncover the true identity of Christopher Columbus.	OL13477014W
Poems by John Keats	John Keats	Twenty-five poems by one of the English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century.	OL1455259W
The Art of Detection	Laurie R. King	In this thrilling new crime novel that ingeniously bridges Laurie R. King's Edgar and Creasey Awards--winning Kate Martinelli series and her bestselling series starring Mary Russell, San Francisco ho…	OL14860162W
"Unpublished" stories, typescripts, and manuscripts	William Faulkner	xviii, 297 p. : 32 cm	OL16245641W
The Complete Novels of James Joyce (Dubliners / Finnegans Wake / Portrait of the Artist as a Young …	James Joyce	Contains: - [Dubliners](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL86329W/Dubliners) [Sisters](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073389W/The_Sisters) [Encounter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073256…	OL17485733W
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ regiæ	Bibliothèque nationale (France). Département des manuscrits.	Catalogue of Greek, Latin and oriental manuscripts in the French National Library.	OL439321W
The Return of the Native	Thomas Hardy	The native of the title is Clym Yeobright, who returns to the area from the bright society of Paris and, as any reader of Hardy knows, all is not smooth. He is quickly taken by and marries the one wo…	OL44994W
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at…	OL468431W
The Fitzgerald Reader	F. Scott Fitzgerald	Contains: May Day Winter Dreams 'Absolution The Sensible Thing [The Great Gatsby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15836721W/The_Great_Gatsby) The Rich Boy Basil and Cleopatra Outside the Cabi…	OL468551W
The Canterbury Tales	John E. Cunningham,Geoffrey Chaucer	A collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly in verse, although some are in prose) are told as part of a story-telling conte…	OL531767W
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or as it is known in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom…	OL53908W
Astrology in medieval manuscripts	Sophie Page	"The art of predicting earthly events from the movements of the stars and planets exerts an enduring fascination. Medieval astrologers were sometimes feared as magicians, said to be in league with de…	OL5879266W
The papers of John Marshall	John Marshall	"Sponsored by the College of William and Mary and the Institute of Early American History and Culture under the auspices of the National Historical Publications Commission."	OL60621W
Trattato della pittura	Leonardo da Vinci	This is the first pocket-sized edition of Leonardo da Vinci's treatise on painting. The editor was a print maker who owned a print shop and saw the market for an affordable edition that would appeal …	OL695359W