If you love the thrill of finding a gem in a second-hand shop or trawling vintage markets, but want something with plenty of wear left, this is the book for you. You'll find knitting patterns from throughout the 20th century adapted to modern yarns and techniques, from a fringed flapper-style top inspired by the Twenties, to a pair of fun woolly legwarmers straight out of the Eighties and much more. Pick up a copy and get knitting your unique

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In 1831, the then twenty-seven year old Alexis de Tocqueville, was sent with Gustave de Beaumont to America by the French Government to study and make a report on the American prison system. Over a period of nine months the two traveled all over America making notes not only on the prison systems but on all aspects of American society and government. From these notes, Tocqueville wrote "Democracy in America", an exhaustive analysis of the successes...

Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic—almost mythic—story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.
In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the...

In these four plays, Jean-Paul Sartre, the great existentialist novelist and philosopher, displays his mastery of the drama. No Exit is an unforgettable portrayal of hell. The Flies is a modern reworking of the Electra-Orestes story. Dirty Hands is about a young intellectual torn between theory and praxis. The Respectful Prostitute is a scathing attack on American racism. 4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes...

Three unlikely thieves, or reivers, 11-year-old Lucius Priest and two of his family's retainers, set out from Mississippi for Memphis in 1905 in a stolen motorcar.

Presents over fifty poems by twentieth-century poet Robinson Jeffers, selected from major works published between 1924 and 1963.

A woman of intellect and ambition describes growing up on an Australian ranch, coping with her father's death and her mother's depression, her intellectual awakening at the university, and her path to becoming Smith College's first woman president.

"Tiny Beautiful Things" brings the best of Cheryl Strayed's published and never-before-published online columns in one place and includes a new introduction by Steve Almond.

Auguste Escoffier had been called the king of chefs and the chef of kings. He was a leader in the development of modern French cuisine, and simplified and modernized the elaborate grande cuisine of Marie-Antoine Careme. He shares these new techniques and styles in this book.