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Thackeray’s most famous work is a brilliant and biting satire of English society during the Napoleonic era
spine ends and corners are bumped and a little worn
the narrator agrees to test a drug that transports him back to 14th century Cornwall and becomes absorbed in the lives of people he meets there
A Grief Observed Agatha Christie there are 36 wood-engravingsCLERK, N. W. (LEWIS, C. S.). A Grief Observed. London: Faber and Faber, 1961. First edition, first impression of Lewis' most vulnerable and intimate work, published under the pseudonym N. W. Clerk and documenting his thoughts and feelings following the death of his beloved wife, Joy Davidman. Hardback, 20. 5 x 13. 8 cm, 60 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt titles to spine; with unclipped (8s 6d net) dustwrapper. A good copy, with binding square and firm,