The London Library Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane AustenThe London Library#OTD in 1775, Jane Austen was born. Inside our collection, members can find an 1853 copy of Sense and Sensibility and an 1856 edition of Pride and Prejudice - available to borrow and enjoy over 160 years after their publication from our open access shelving which spans 17 miles! https://t.co/QnKNTFxQlp
Hardcover, 2024
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
George EliotThe London LibraryHappy Birthday to George Eliot, born on this day in 1819! A frequent visitor to the Library from 1859, she was was still using the collection by the time she was researching her penultimate novel Middlemarch (1871-72). What's your favourite work by Eliot? #GeorgeEliot #OTD https://t.co/RwVySjWu91
Hardcover, 2010
$54.95$29.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Mrs. Dalloway's Party, a Short Story Sequence: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
Virginia WoolfThe London LibraryIn the evening a panel made up of Merve Emre, Elaine Showalter, Kabe Wilson and chair Irenosen Okojie will debate who Virginia Woolf would have invited, had she been the one to host Mrs Dalloway's party ("one of literature’s best known social occasions"). https://t.co/ke03AMzC5U https://t.co/soZr6tTuMj
Paperback, 2004
$13.95$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Orlando: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Virginia WoolfThe London LibraryVita Sackville-West joined the Library in 1936, having been nominated by Harold Nicolson. She was a prolific writer, publishing more than a dozen collections of poetry and 13 novels. She was the inspiration for the androgynous protagonist of Orlando by her lover Virginia Woolf.
Paperback, 2024
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia
Simon GarfieldThe London LibrarySimon Garfield is a journalist and best-selling non-fiction writer. His published work covers everything from maps (On the Map) to fonts (Just My Type) to correspondence (To the Letter). His next book is All the Knowledge in the World: the Extraordinary Story of the Encyclopaedia
Paperback, 2024
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Middlemarch
George EliotThe London Library#OTD in 1819 Mary Anne Evans, AKA George Eliot, was born. Eliot was a frequent Library user, producing novels such as The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner and Romola. She was still using the London Library by the time she was researching her penultimate novel Middlemarch. ✍️ https://t.co/O1L319IAHB
Hardcover, 2011
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Country Girls
Edna O'BrienThe London Library🧵Up next for #BannedBooksWeek: The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien The sexually explicit content of The Country Girls was considered so controversial in early 1960s Ireland, that O'Brien's local parish priest organised a public book burning – which the author's mother attended. https://t.co/9toRWXO2z7
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Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories
Virginia WoolfThe London Library#OTD in 1882 Writer and Library member Virginia Woolf was born. Inside our display cabinet you can find a celebration of her work including a 1928 copy of Orlando, an original 1919 edition of Kew Gardens and a 1928 copy of Monday or Tuesday with illustrations by Vanessa Bell. https://t.co/jj7klOjdzv
Paperback, 2018
$11.82$5.91 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus
Mary ShelleyThe London LibraryIt’s #FrankensteinDay 🧌 Happy Birthday to Mary Shelley, born #OTD in 1818. It’s been over 200 years since ‘Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus’ was published, when Shelley was just twenty years old. This picture, from R. Glynn Grylls’ biography depicts her at age nineteen. https://t.co/ZmuBJVeOoX
Paperback, 2015
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dracula
Stoker BramThe London LibraryRenfield - a film inspired by characters from Dracula - is out now in cinemas. #DidYouKnow that Dracula author Bram Stoker was a London Library member? Our shelves house 26 books that inspired his enduring classic, written during the period he was in membership. https://t.co/yE4bXzWqP7
Hardcover, 2014
$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book