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Peter Berresford Ellis
Peter Berresford Ellis (born 1943)

historian, literary critic, biographer

  • University of East London, University of London
The Haunted Abbot
H. Rider Haggard
Erin's blood royal
By Jove, Biggles!
Macbeth
Biggles!
The last adventurer
Flight or Fright
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
The Vampire Archives
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Murder in Baker Street
The Spider's Web
Whispers of the Dead
The Subtle Serpent
Hemlock at Vespers
Absolution by Murder
The Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends
A history of the Irish working class
Act of Mercy
The Cornish language and its literature
Suffer Little Children
The Rising of the Moon
Dancing With Demons
A dictionary of Irish mythology
Celt and Roman
The Monk Who Vanished
The Leper's Bell
Badger's Moon
Valley of the Shadow
Smoke in the Wind
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures
Shroud for the Archbishop
A Prayer for the Damned
The Celts
Dictionary of Celtic mythology
The Druids
The Council of the Cursed
Our Lady of Darkness
A brief history of the Druids
The Dove of Death
Celt and Greek
Behold a Pale Horse
The Celtic revolution
Celtic Women
Penance of the Damned
The Celtic Dawn
Eyewitness to Irish history
The Ants
The Ancient World of the Celts (Celtic Interest)
Caesar's Invasion of Britain
The Celtic Empire
Celtic inheritance
The Cornish saints
The Scottish Insurrection of 1820
The Boyne Water
A Brief History of the Celts
Master of Souls
Beeston Castle, Cheshire
The Shapeshifter's Lair
The Revenge of Dracula
James Connolly
The Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends
Hell or Connaught!
Dracula Unborn
The Book of Deer
Celt and Saxon
The Great Fire of London
The Chronicles of the Celts
The Seventh Trumpet
The Chalice of Blood
Atonement of blood
An ensuing evil and others
The Story of the Cornish Language
Une Lune de Sang
Bloodmoon
Bloodright
Kitchener's Gold
A guide to early Celtic remains in Britain
Raven of destiny
Wales—a nation again
Shadows over Innsmouth
The fires of Lan-Kern
The Radical Rising
The Destroyers of Lan-Kern
Night of the Lightbringer
The Second Death
The Valkyrie directive
The Morgow rises!
Aisling and Other Irish Tales of Terror
Scotland not only free but Gaelic
Angelus!
DRACULA LIVES - Book (1) (i) One: Dracula Unborn; Book (2) (ii) Two: The Revenge of Dracula; Book (3) (iii) Three
The devil's seal
The creed of the Celtic revolution
Orangeism
Champion Trees
The curse of Loch Ness
Death of a Heretic
Fireball
The Judas Battalion
The Un-Dead
The liberty tree
Zombie!
Creeper's Secret War
Airship
Irish Masters of Fantasy
Spiteful Shadow
Blood in Eden
The Doomsday Decree
Publishing in the Welsh language today
Trollnight
My Lady of Hy-Brasil
The Windsor Protocol
Nicor!
Revisionism in Irish historical writing
The Pilgrim of Hate
The Vengeance of She
Swamp
The confession
The House of Death
The problem of language revival
The buccaneers of Lan-Kern
HOUND OF FRANKENSTEIN
Snowbeast!
Islands of Shadows
Kiss of the Cobra
Ravenmoon
Made for Murders : a Collection of Twelve Shakespearean Mysteries
Bloodmist
Wondersmith
Celtic Myths and Legends
Sister Fidelma Novels, 1-3
Gwels Nownek Ha Hwedhlow Erell
A New Book of Rights; Being a complete transcript of the legal verdicts handed down by the courts of the Republic of Italy concerning the heraldic rights, ... de la Floresta, Castile & Leon King of Arms
The Return of Raffles
Revenge of the Stormbringer
Dracula, My Love
Li an Sows
Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd (born 1949)

poet, literary historian, historian, playwright, literary critic, biographer, journalist, radio editor, literary editor, television presenter

  • University of Cambridge, Yale University
Dickens
Blake
Chaucer
Shakespeare
T.S. Eliot
Introduction to Dickens
Poe
Wilkie Collins
Ezra Pound and his world
Newton
Brief Lives 3
Alfred Hitchcock
Brief Lives 2
Brief Lives 1
Charlie Chaplin
J.M.W. Turner
London - The Biography (London a Biography)
John and Elizabeth Smith Family History
Turner
Isaac Newton
The Life of Thomas More (Anne of Green Gables Novels (Audio))
Ėdgar Po
The Canterbury Tales
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Chatterton
Milton in America
The Clerkenwell tales
Hawksmoor
The last testament of Oscar Wilde
The Fall of Troy
The Plato Papers
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
The Thames
The great fire of London
Dickens' London
The Lambs of London
Kingdom of the dead
Dressing Up
Cities of blood
First light
Albion
English music
The house of Doctor Dee
Three brothers
The History Of England
Queer City
Illustrated London
The beginning
A Brief Guide To William Shakespeare
Voyages Through Time
London under
Venice
Foundation
Revolution
The diversions of Purley and other poems
Notes for a new culture
Boswell's London Journal  1762-1763
Ancient Rome (Voyages Through Time)
The English ghost
Innovation
London lickpenny
THE DIVERSIONS OF PURLEY
Rebellion
A Traveller's Companion to London
Escape from Earth
Dominion
Christmas Stories
Ancient Greece (Voyages Through Time)
History of England, Volume II -- Tudors
The trial of Elizabeth Cree
Peter Ackroyd Voyages Through Time
The collection
Covent Garden: The Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Markets
The book of Isaiah
Abuse of Power
Tudors
Foundation : Volume 1
Civil War The History of England
Tudors
A History Of England Volume 1 Foundation
Doors of Perception
The death of King Arthur
Christmas Books
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Das Tagebuch des Oscar Wilde
Complete Works of Charles Dickens
Richard Wentworth, Eugene Atget
Jack the Ripper and the East End
Le dossier Platon
Londres, Una Biografia
Capturing a common destiny
The Beginning Voyages Through Time
Mr Cadmus
English Actor
Dom doktora Di
Revolution
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
English Soul
Victor Frankensteinin Vaka Defteri
Platon Gunlukleri
Gymnast Gilly the Novice
Innovation
Revolution
Dickens Part 3
La Sombra de Hawksmoor
Shakespeare Title 3 CD
Bir Zamanlar Londra'da
Londra Yaniyor
Albion Header
London - The Abridged Edition
Civil War
Shakespeare Title 2 CD
Der Fall des Baumeisters
Tomas Moro
Ancient Americas (Voyages Through Time)
Abridged Dickens
Dickens Part 2
Oscar Wilde'in Son Vasiyeti
London Luminaries and Cockney Visionaries
Diario de Victor Von Frankenstein
London?
Colours of London
Das Haus des Magiers
Doktor Dee'nin Evi
Shakespeare Title 1 CD
Cinayet Sanati
Albion Showcard
Shakespeare Title 4 CD
London. Die Biographie
Der Golem von Limehouse
La Rome antique
Ingiliz Hayalet
Country life
Ancient Egypt (Voyages Through Time)
Peter Ackroyd's Voyages Throug
Tudors
The Thames Part 4 CD
Limehouse Golem
Londres Bajo Tierra
London the Biography (Signed)
Our Mutual Friend
Die Geschichte der Welt. Reise ins Weltall.
Canterbury Hikayeleri
Peter Ackroyd Titles X1 S/W
Dickens Part 1
Brief Lives 8 - Untitled
Pocket Canons Bible II
A Christmas dinner by Charles Dickens
Foundations/Fire and Pest Whs Pack
Wie es uns gefa llt
London
Trois frères (Roman étranger)
İlk Işık
P.E.N. new fiction I
Le Golem de Londres
De val van Troje
Strangers to correction
Darkness
Secret London
El Diario de Platon
Rijk van de farao's
Premières Lueurs
Review of fisheries legislation
Mary Lamb
Dickens - Cube
Jean Guéhenno
Jean Guéhenno (1890-1978)

literary critic, autobiographer, philosopher

  • École Normale Supérieure
Journal des années noires, 1940-1944
Dernières lumières, derniers plaisirs
L'évangile éternel
La France et les noirs
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
L' indépendance de l'esprit
Correspondance
La France dans le monde
L'e ́vangile éternel
Jean-Jacques Rousseau / by Jean Guèhenno
Changer la vie
Jean-Jacques
Journal d'une "révolution"
Dans la prison
Jean-Jacques
Journal des annees noires (1940-1944)
Journal d'un homme de 40 ans
L' université dans la résistance et dans la France nouvelle
Discours prononcé par Jean Guéhenno à l'occasion de la mort de Wladimir d'Ormesson [et] Georges Izard
Entre le passé et l'avenir
Ce que je crois
La Mort des autres
La jeunesse morte
... Conversion à l'humain
Jean-Jacques Rousseau / by Jean Guèhenno
Journal des années noires, 1940-1944
Caliban parle
Aventures de l'esprit
Jean Guéhenno et Monsieur Gide
Hommage à Jean Guéhenno, à l'occasion du centième anniversaire de sa naissance
La foi difficile
L' évangile éternel
Carnets du vieil écrivain
Sur le chemin des hommes
Journal d'un homme de 40 ans
Jean-Jacques
Caliban et Prospero
Carnets d'un vieil écrivain
Jean-Jacques
Conversion à l'humain
Caliban parle
Caliban et Prospero, suivi d'autres essais
Journal des années noires (1940-1944)
La Mort des autres
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Journal des années noires (1940-1944)
La condition humaine, roman de l'anti-destin
Correspondance, 1927-1967
Ce que je crois
Journal d'une "révolution"
Carnets du vieil écrivain
Christel Berger
Christel Berger (born 1941)

literary critic, literary scholar, man of letters

  • University of Rostock
Friedrich Wolf 1953
Gewissensfrage Antifaschismus
Der Autor und sein Held
Als Magd im Dichter-Olymp
Kritik in der Zeit
Fragen an Brecht
J. I. M. Stewart
J. I. M. Stewart (1906-1994)

scholar of English, literary critic

  • Edinburgh Academy, Oriel College
Myself and Michael Innes
Rudyard Kipling
Thomas Hardy: a critical biography
James Joyce
Joseph Conrad
Great Tales of Crime and Detection
Eight modern writers
Going it alone
The Appleby file
Sheiks and adders
The case of Sonia Wayward
Appleby Talking
The Mysterious Commission
Cucumber sandwiches, and other stories
Appleby Talks Again
The Michael Innes Omnibus
The Case of the Journeying Boy
Appleby and the Ospreys
The paper thunderbolt
Money from Holme
Full term
Lament for a maker
The new Sonia Wayward
A change of heir
The man who wrote detective stories
The Gay Phoenix
Appleby's Answer
Country House Murders
A family affair
Candleshoe
Young Pattullo
The Naylors
Parlour 4 and other stories
The gaudy
The Madonna of the Astrolabe
The Open House (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
What happened at Hazelwood
Character and motive in Shakespeare
Carson's Conspiracy (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
The Crabtree Affair
Silence Observed (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
My Aunt Christina and other stories
Honeybath's Haven (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
Death At The Chase (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
A Night of Errors (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
Christmas at Candleshoe
The Bloody Wood (Red Badge Mysteries)
Death at the president's lodging
The Ampersand Papers (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
An Awkward Lie (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
Death on a Quiet Day
Andrew and Tobias
An open prison
A memorial service
Old Hall, New Hall
The daffodil affair
The long farewell
Appleby's end
Lord Mullion's Secret
Appleby on Ararat
Dead man's shoes
A use of riches
Appleby intervenes
Hare sitting up
Junior hymns and songs : For use in the church school
Avery's mission
The bridge at Arta and other stories
From London afar
The Spider strikes
A private view
Appleby and Honeybath
The secret vanguard
The man from the sea
A Question of Queens
Hamlet, revenge!
Mungo's dream
Appleby's Other Story (Classic Crime)
The Weight of Evidence
Shakespeare's lofty scene
Mark Lambert's supper
The last Tresilians
The Aylwins
The guardians
Gulliver's Travels, an account of the Four Voyages in Several Remote Nations of the World, Junior Heritage Edition; wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg;
The man who won the pools
A palace of art
Appleby talks about crime
Thomas Love Peacock
Our England is a garden and other stories
A Comedy of Terrors/(English Title = There Came Both Mist and Snow)
Shakespeare's characters
Death by Water/(English Title = Appleby at Allington)
The second Michael Innes omnibus
A Villa in France (Cab 110)
Michael Innes Omnibus counter display
The unsuspected chasm
Vanderlyn's kingdom
Who was Shakespeare
An acre of grass
Appleby Talks
A Staircase in Surrey
Applebys Arche
James Joyce
An open prison
Maarten 't Hart
Maarten 't Hart (born 1944)

biologist, literary critic, ethnologist

  • Leiden University
Het roer kan nog zesmaal om
Het uur tussen hond en wolf
Verlovingstijd
The Sundial
De bril van God
De kroongetuige
Onder de korenmaat
Das Pferd, das den Bussard jagte
De scheltopusik
Die Sonnenuhr. Oder
Stenen voor een ransuil
Ein Schwarm Regenbrachvögel
Das Wüten der ganzen Welt
De groene overmacht
De som van misverstanden
Die Netzflickerin
Concerto Russe. CD. Musik und Texte
Feest
Ein Schwarm Regenbrachvögel. Roman
La colère du monde entier
Gott fährt Fahrrad. Oder Die wunderliche Welt meines Vaters
Bach und ich. Inkl. CD
De stiefdochters van Stoof
Concerto russe. Mit CD. Erzählungen
Mozart und ich: mit CD
De vlieger
Manuel González Prada
Manuel González Prada (1844-1918)

politician, poet, literary critic, journalist, anarchist, philosopher

  • Real Convictorio de San Carlos, National University of San Marcos
Figuras y figurones: Manuel Pardo, Piérola, Romaña, José Pardo
Horas de lucha
Free pages and other essays
Propaganda y ataque
Prosa menuda
Textos inéditos de Manuel González Prada
Anarquía
Nuevas páginas libres
Obras completas de González-Praza
Sobre el militarismo
Textos
Poemas desconocidos
Presbiterianas
Páginas libres
Antología
Ortometría
El tonel de Diógenes
Paginas libres. Horas de lucha
Anarquía, seguido de Nuestros Indios.
Ensayos escogidos
Sus mejores páginas
Trozos de vida
Grafitos
Manuel González Prada
Manuel González Prada
Baladas peruanas
Pensamiento político de González Prada
Antología poética
Pajinas libres
Libertarias
Minúsculas.  4a ed.  Adoración.  1a ed
Obras
Páginas libres ; Horas de lucha
Poesías selectas
Cantos del otro siglo
González Prada
Pájinas libres
Ensayos, 1885-1916
Figuras y figurones
Bajo el oprobio
Baladas
Letrillas
Siete pensadores
Pájinas libres
Manuel González Prada, profeta olvidado
Ensayos, 1885-1916
Pensamiento político de González Prada
Las dos patrias
Antologia de pensamientos de González Prada
Libertarias
Páginas libres
Pensamiento y librepensamiento
Horas de lucha
Obras completas
Vlas Doroshevich
Vlas Doroshevich (1865-1922)

journalist, theatre critic, literary critic

Vospominanii︠a︡
Prem'er''
The way of the cross
Sakhalin un ḳaṭorge
Vlas Doroshevich
Odessa, odessity, i odessitki
Sobranie sochineiïĭ
Na smekh
Sakhalin
Russia's penal colony in the Far East
Kak i͡a︡ popal na Sakhalin
Teatraʹlnai͡a︡ kritika Vlasa Doroshevicha
Legendy i skazki Vostoka
Vikhr' drugie proizvedenii͡a︡ posli͡e︡dnago vremeni
Vostok i voĭna
Di ṭrehren - inzel
Izbrannye stranitsy
Orientaj fabeloj
Prose
Novye razskazy
Vostochnye skazki
Katorga
Dong fang yu yan ji
Legendy i skazki Vostoka
Zhu de gu shi
Papilʹotki
Śiḥot mini Ḳedem
"GULAG" t͡sarskoĭ Rossii
Yu yan de yu yan
Di ṭrehren-inzel
Sobranie sochinenĭ v shesti tomakh