Fiction Collection (page 4)

Samuel Beckett, Irish playwright, novelist and poet
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish avant-garde playwright, novelist and poet. Photographed in the year he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Date: 1969

THE SHRINE OF THE BOOK
The famous Shrine of the Book, a wing of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. It houses the Dead Sea Scrolls, the most exceptional archaeological find in the Holy Land. Date: completed 1965

WORLD OF LIVING DEAD
WORLD OF THE LIVING DEAD (Ed. Earl Repp) The scientists explore the subterranean world Date: 1932

ADVENTURE MACHINES
CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (L Manning and Fletcher Pratt) people who have given up their consciousness to live the false life of the Adventure Machines... Date: 1930

SINGER GOES OUT SINGING
The last great, true note died away - a singer goes out singing (fiction, alas !) Date: 1895

Artificial Heart Books Fantasy Fiction Human
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John Lawson as Mr Todd of London, Vanderdecken Todd, The Man with the Blue Heart, a series of illusions and surprises, an episode of fiction Date: early 20th century

The Way of an Eagle, by Ethel M Dell, published by Fisher Unwin, London Date: early 20th century

Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946), writer, historian, best known for his science fiction novels. Pictured in his study at his home, Spade House, Sandgate

John o Arnha choking a monster, beating him with a cudgel while other demons fly above and three witches stir a cauldron. The Kelpy tried we John to grapple, But Arn caught him by the thrapple

Scottish traveller dancing a jig with a violinist. I ve been throw Hollan, Spain and France, An at Vienna learn d to dance

Scottish traveller John o Arnha fighting a Kelpy or monster with a cudgel. Three witches flying on broomsticks. A stalwart monster, huge in size, Did streight frae out the river rise

Scottish traveller John o Arnha encounters a witch
Scottish traveller John o Arnha with cudgel encounters a witch flying on a broomstick. Sae fently did she wing her flight, In a twinklin she was out o sight

Street brawl between two men in a 19th century town
Street brawl between two men boxing, knocking over a woman with wheelbarrow, 19th century. Spar d neither man nor mothers Son - Yea clawed the back o Horner John

Woman in a garden scared by a bee, 1913
Woman in a garden scared by a bee. She wears a dress by Paul Poiret in blue wool crepe, with white fichu and cuffs. Petite robe de jardin par Poiret en crepe de laine bleu

Darth Vader in Cornwall
Darth Vader from Star Wars at CRS (Co-op Retail Services) Homeworld in Cornwall performs with his light sabre for a group of smiling fans. Date: circa 1980s

Cover design, Harry Coverdales Courtship
Part-work cover design, Harry Coverdales Courtship and all that came of it, by Frank E Smedley, illustrated by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne), Part 1, Price one shilling. 1854

Little Women - Jo and Fritz reunited under an umbrella
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Jo and Fritz (Professor Bhaer) reunited under an umbrella. 1880

Little Women - Jo in the garret, feeling lonely
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Jo in the garret, feeling lonely and reading her old notebooks, which remind her of her old friend the Professor. 1880

Little Women - Amys attempts at Art
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Amys attempts at Art. 1880

Little Women - Jos table at Mrs Chesters fair
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Jos table at Mrs Chesters fair, where she is selling flowers supplied from Lauries garden. 1880

Little Women - Jo writing her novel in special costume
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Jo writing her novel in a special costume which she calls her scribbling suit. 1880

Little Women - a lobster for a special lunch
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - a lobster for a special lunch. 1880

Little Women - Lauries felt hat and rattle
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Lauries felt hat and watchmans rattle. 1880

Little Women - Mrs March and Jo read a letter
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Mrs March and Jo read a letter, purporting to be a love letter to Meg from John Brooke, but actually a practical joke and forgery. 1880

Little Women - Laurie witnessing Amys will
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Laurie witnessing Amys will. 1880

Little Women - Mop the dog lying on his back
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Mop the dog lying on his back, a sign that he is in need of food. 1880

Little Women - Beth winding up the grandfather clock
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Beth winding up the grandfather clock. 1880

Little Women - Beth checking the postbox
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Beth checking the postbox, her daily helpful task. 1880

Little Women - Meg and three young men at a party
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Meg sitting in a chair at a dance party, surrounded by three young men (Laurie, Ned Moffat and Fisher)

Little Women - Jo and Laurie boating on the river
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Jo and Laurie boating on the river during the summer holidays. 1880

Little Women - Mr Laurence and Beth
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Mr Laurence and Beth. He has just offered the sisters the free use of the piano in his house, and Beth in particular is interested. 1880

Little Women - Christmas entertainments
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Christmas entertainments, in which the friends and family dress up and act out scenes from a romantic melodrama

Little Women - Preface illustration
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Preface illustration - " Go then, my little Book...". 1880

Queen Purea of Tahiti surrendering to Tobias
Fictional depiction of Queen Purea (Oberea) offering a plantain leaf in surrender to sailors of the Dolphin, 1767. (Captain Samuel Wallis was too ill with scurvy to leave the ship so Tobias Furneaux)

Steerforth and Mr Mell, David Copperfield
Steerforth and Mr Mell at Dotheboys Hall, in a scene from the novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. 19th century

Fair Maids House, Perth, Scotland (a reference to Walter Scotts novel, The Fair Maid of Perth), with six tartans in the background: Cameron, Stewart, Mackenzie, Robertson, Gordon and Fraser

Sir John Martin-Harvey as Sydney Carton
Sir John Martin-Harvey, English actor-manager, as Sydney Carton in The Only Way, a play based on the Dickens novel, A Tale of Two Cities. 1900

Illustration, The Black Dwarf - Tales of My Landlord, by Sir Walter Scott. 1820

Illustration, The Newcomes, by Thackeray, showing a supposed sketch by Clive Newcome, following a visit to his step-grandmother

An Amazing Seance and an Exposure
Cover design, An Amazing Seance and an Exposure, by Sydney A Moseley, introduction by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 1919

Scene from Tristram Shandy, a novel by Laurence Sterne. 1781

Illustration, The Vicar of Wakefield, a novel by Oliver Goldsmith. 18th century

Cover design, Roland Cashel by Charles Lever
Part-work cover design, Roland Cashel by Charles Lever, illustrated by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne), No. IX, price one shilling. 1849

Cover design, Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil
Part-work cover design by George Cruickshank, Frank Fairlegh or Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil, Part I, price one shilling. 1849

Charlotte Turner Smith, English Romantic poet and novelist
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806), English Romantic poet and novelist. circa 1790s

Dickens scrap - Tom Pinch and Ruth in Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens scrap - Tom Pinch and his sister Ruth in the novel Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter 39. 19th century

Dickens scrap - Pip and Joe in Great Expectations
Charles Dickens scrap - Pip and Joe in the novel Great Expectations, Chapter 7. 19th century

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