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Product Description: Jane Stevenson’s new book, A Trail of Two Telegraphs, is a fascinating collection of historic tales that portray the strong pioneering spirit of BC’s rugged North from Prince George to Prince Rupert. Stevenson writes of Perry Collins’s dream, in 1864, of connecting North America to Europe by telegraph...read more

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9781927575024 | Caitlin Pr, March 15, 2013, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Jane Stevenson’s new book, A Trail of Two Telegraphs, is a fascinating collection of historic tales that portray the strong pioneering spirit of BC’s rugged North from Prince George to Prince Rupert.

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Product Description: This volume commences with the the books and manuscripts given at the foundation of King's College in 1495, continues with the collections which accrued to Marischal College from its foundation in 1593, and comes together with the fusion of the two colleges in 1860 in the modern University of Aberdeen...read more
By Jane Stevenson (editor)

Hardcover:

9780719087882 | Manchester Univ Pr, March 15, 2012, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: This volume commences with the the books and manuscripts given at the foundation of King's College in 1495, continues with the collections which accrued to Marischal College from its foundation in 1593, and comes together with the fusion of the two colleges in 1860 in the modern University of Aberdeen.

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By Peter Davidson (editor) and Jane Stevenson (editor)

Paperback:

9781903018705 | Reprint edition (Prospect Books, December 8, 2010), cover price $30.00

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Product Description: The story of the railway has never been told in such a charming voice as in these letters by Bernice Medbury Martin. Bernice Medbury married railroader Leslie Martin in 1912 and arrived later that year in Prince Rupert at the height of rock blasting and railroad building...read more

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9781894759434 | Caitlin Pr, April 1, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The story of the railway has never been told in such a charming voice as in these letters by Bernice Medbury Martin.

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Hardcover:

9780198185024 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 4, 2005, cover price $280.00

Paperback:

9780199229734, titled "Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century" | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 20, 2008, cover price $64.00

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Product Description: The "Laterculus Malalianus", a historical exegesis of the life of Christ, appears to be the only complete text to survive from the hand of Archbishop Theodore at Canterbury, the first school of Anglo-Saxon England. This edition presents a translation of and commentary on the text, and in the introduction Jane Stevenson examines the intellectual milieu of this work, argues the case for attribution to Theodore, and suggests the need for a complete rethinking of the basis of Anglo-Saxon culture...read more

Hardcover:

9780521374613 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $134.99

Paperback:

9780521036078 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2007), cover price $54.99 | About this edition: The "Laterculus Malalianus", a historical exegesis of the life of Christ, appears to be the only complete text to survive from the hand of Archbishop Theodore at Canterbury, the first school of Anglo-Saxon England.

Exploring the theme of what it means for a woman to be good, a trio of novellas by the author of Several Deceptions explores the lives of a widower and gardening fanatic who becomes radicalized late in life, a housewife on a murderous mission from God, and an adulterous couple who abandon their spouses for a life together only to discover that they cannot stand each other. Original.

Paperback:

9780618462179 | Mariner Books, January 6, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Exploring the theme of what it means for a woman to be good, a trio of novellas by the author of Several Deceptions explores the lives of a widower and gardening fanatic who becomes radicalized late in life, a housewife on a murderous mission from God, and an adulterous couple who abandon their spouses for a life together only to discover that they cannot stand each other.

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Product Description: A brilliant new collection of three novellas by a master of the form Jane Stevenson arrived on the British literary scene with a book called Several Deceptions. A collection of four novellas, it was unashamedly erudite, marvellously witty and just a little bit cruel...read more

Hardcover:

9780224073516 | Vintage Uk, July 7, 2005, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A brilliant new collection of three novellas by a master of the form Jane Stevenson arrived on the British literary scene with a book called Several Deceptions.

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Product Description: A New York Times Bestselling Author When a young Oxford don and his academic friends come upon a collection of dusty old documents, they are intrigued to learn of the clandestine 17th-century marriage of the black prince Pelagius and Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia...read more

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9780618149148 | Houghton Mifflin, November 3, 2004, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The discovery of a collection of manuscripts leads Oxford don Michael Foxwist and his friends to the conclusion that a black scientist in Barbados may be the rightful ruler of Britain, and Michael falls in love with her after they meet.

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9781587249297 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, April 7, 2005), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A New York Times Bestselling Author When a young Oxford don and his academic friends come upon a collection of dusty old documents, they are intrigued to learn of the clandestine 17th-century marriage of the black prince Pelagius and Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia.

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In the sequel to The Winter Queen, Balthasar Stuart, the son of Elizabeth of Bohemia and Pelagius, an African prince and former slave, struggles to deal with his complex heritage while working as a doctor in late seventeenth-century Holland, until he is driven out of Holland by the plague to build a new life in Restoration London and Barbados. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780618149131 | Houghton Mifflin, November 1, 2003, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Balthasar Stuart, the son of Elizabeth of Bohemia and an African prince, works as a doctor in late seventeenth-century Holland, until he is driven out by the plague to build a new life in Restoration London and Barbados.

Paperback:

9780618485369 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, November 23, 2004), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In the sequel to The Winter Queen, Balthasar Stuart, the son of Elizabeth of Bohemia and Pelagius, an African prince and former slave, struggles to deal with his complex heritage while working as a doctor in late seventeenth-century Holland, until he is driven out of Holland by the plague to build a new life in Restoration London and Barbados.
9781587246104 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, June 1, 2004), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Sequel to The Winter QueenA New York Times Editor's ChoiceSet in seventeenth-century Holland, Restoration London, and Barbados, this is the second volume of Jane Stevenson's masterly historical trilogy.

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Product Description: A New York Times Editor's ChoiceAn immensely moving account of a strange and magical interracial love affair, The Winter Queen illuminates the Netherlands of the seventeenth century. Amid the dark ambiance of the time, the exiled Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia and Pelagius, a West African prince and former slave, fall in love and secretly marry...read more

Hardcover:

9780618149124 | Houghton Mifflin, November 6, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Seventeenth century royal-in-exile Elizabeth of Bohemia pursues a clandestine relationship with an African prince against the politically unstable and war-threatened climate of the period.

Paperback:

9781587246081 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, April 1, 2004), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A New York Times Editor's ChoiceAn immensely moving account of a strange and magical interracial love affair, The Winter Queen illuminates the Netherlands of the seventeenth century.
9780618382675 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, November 3, 2003), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Seventeenth-century royal-in-exile Elizabeth of Bohemia pursues a clandestine relationship with Pelagius, an African prince and former slave, against the politically unstable and war-threatened climate of the period.

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Product Description: Astraea, the first volume of Jane Stevenson's trilogy, was described by Prospect as 'so intelligent and original, it establishes the author as a potential successor to Penelope Fitzgerald...Here is a writer worthy of the highest traditions of English fiction...read more

Hardcover:

9780224061414 | Gardners Books, April 4, 2002, cover price $28.30 | About this edition: Astraea, the first volume of Jane Stevenson's trilogy, was described by Prospect as 'so intelligent and original, it establishes the author as a potential successor to Penelope Fitzgerald.

By Meg Bateman (contributor), Kate Chedgzoy (contributor), Peter Davidson (editor), Julie Saunders (contributor) and Jane Stevenson (editor)

Paperback:

9780199242573 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 3, 2001, cover price $105.00

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Product Description: Early Modern Women Poets represents a complete reexamination of the field, based on extensive archival research in manuscripts and early modern printed books. While it contains lavish selections from important poets such as Aphra Behn, Katherine Philips, and Aemilia Lanyer, almost half of the material included is previously unpublished and uncollected...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Meg Bateman (contributor), Kate Chedgzoy (contributor), Peter Davidson (editor), Julie Saunders (contributor) and Jane Stevenson (editor)

Hardcover:

9780198184263 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 17, 2001, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: Early Modern Women Poets represents a complete reexamination of the field, based on extensive archival research in manuscripts and early modern printed books.

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A great treasure lost during the London Blitz is discovered by an unscrupulous lawyer whose greed draws him into a series of crimes leading to murder, in an ingenious first novel that pays tribute to the classic English detective novel, by the author of Several Deceptions. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780618049349 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 2001, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A great treasure lost during the London blitz is discovered by an unscrupulous lawyer whose greed draws him into a series of crimes leading to murder.
9780224059404 | Vintage Uk, May 4, 2000, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: SEVERAL DECEPTIONS, Jane Stevenson's brilliant and highly acclaimed novella collection, was an outstanding literary debut.

Paperback:

9780618257737 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, November 6, 2002), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A great treasure lost during the London Blitz is discovered by an unscrupulous lawyer whose greed draws him into a series of crimes leading to murder, in an ingenious first novel that pays tribute to the classic English detective novel, by the author of Several Deceptions.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781841972268 | Unabridged edition (Clipper Audio, January 1, 2000), cover price $71.00 | About this edition: A young lawyer comes across a treasure lost in the Blitz, and is tempted into a series of crimes which end eventually in murder.

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A debut collection of short fiction presents four lively, distinctive novellas that explore such wide-ranging themes as the damaging impact of cleverness, the pitfalls of intellectual arrogance, the role of time in human affairs, and the complexities of identity. Original. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780224059398 | Vintage Uk, May 6, 1999, cover price $26.90 | About this edition: The four novellas that make up this book share a common theme: deception and self-deception, practised on or by the protagonists.

Paperback:

9780618049332 | Mariner Books, September 19, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A debut collection of short fiction presents four lively, distinctive novellas that explore such wide-ranging themes as the damaging impact of cleverness, the pitfalls of intellectual arrogance, the role of time in human affairs, and the complexities of identity.

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