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The Theory of Interest (Pickering Masters Series 1930)

1 review
Irving Fisher

Pickering & Chatto Ltd, 1996

A great work in the field of Interest
This work is an amazing introduction to the field of interest theory. Anyone can pick it up and learn a lot about this basic economic property. It's a shame that no one publishes this work anymore, as it is in the public domain.

Lodore (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Selections. V. 6.)

1 review
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Fiona Stafford

Pickering & Chatto Ltd, 1996

Fabulous insite to Mary Shelley's life
I loved this book. Mystically it brought me a better understanding of Mary Shelley's life. Unfortunately I was forced to read it in a dusty room in the basement of Cambridge's library because no one has it in stock. The publisher MUST reprint this book because it is an absolute must for all Mary Shelley fans. Don't just stop at Frankenstein, there is so much more grotesque writing of Mary ...

Complete Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad (The Complete Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad)

12 reviews
Joseph Conrad

Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd, 1993

"Mistah Kurtz--he dead." An influential work on five 20th century seminal works
I read this book for a graduate Humanities course. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, written in 1899 is a seminal work about the ills of colonialism, as well as a postmodern look at the subject of mankind. Conrad's book had a crucial influence on five important works of the twentieth century: J. G. Frazier's book The Golden Bough. Jessie L. Weston's book From Ritual to Romance, T. S. ...

100% Money (Pickering Masters Series)

1 review
Irving Fisher

Pickering & Chatto Ltd, 1996

How to kill the Rothschild New World Order
"...froman increasing number of economists who are advocating a sound and stable monetary system. The governments made a bad decision back in 1936 when two systems were offered to them. One was by John Maynard Keynes, the other by Irving Fisher. Keynes wrote a book called The General Therory Of Employment, Interest and Money in which he advocated that the government should borrow hugh sums of ...

Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Selections. V. 1.)

318 reviews
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Nora Crook

Pickering & Chatto Ltd, 1996

You've seen Karloff, now read the original
Once you read Shelley's classic you're going to scratch your head and wonder: Is this really the book that gave us the Karloff movie? Not to mention Herman Munster and Frankenberry. For over a century and half people have been cannibalizing this book for ideas, movies, other books, and products of every size, shape and type that our modern concept of Frankenstein holds little to no resemblence to ...

An Autobiography (The Complete Novels of Anthony Trollope)

4 reviews
Anthony Trollope

Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd, 2000

If you've enjoyed any of Trollope's novels. . .
you should consider reading this too! Trollope writes candidly about his education (and about being a poor, mostly overlooked student), his lack of professional ambition (and how he finally got around to witing his first novel),and the ups and downs of his literary career (and his early rejections). He does all of this in the same conversational tone employed in his novels, making this ...

The Works of Nikolai d Kondratiev

2 reviews
Nikolai D. Kondratev, N. A. Makasheva, ...

Pickering & Chatto Ltd, 1997

intense but worthwhile
i've just bought the set, but don't wish to keep it for personal reasons. The set is in mint condition, would anyone like to buy it?

A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (Pickering Women's Classics)

1 review
Mary Astell

Pickering and Chatto Ltd, 2002

A Serious Proposal, parts 1 and 2
Mary Astell is one of the first European females to write directly on issues of philosophy, politics, and rhetoric; like other women writers she also writes about religion and morality, as she proposes the foundation of an educational/religious institution for single ladies. This book has complete editions of both books 1 and 2 of Astell's A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694, 1697), with ...

Mr Scarborough's Family (The Complete Novels of Anthony Trollope)

1 review
Anthony Trollope

Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd, 2000

One of Trollope's best.
This is one of my favorite Trollopes (and I've read 35 so far)! It is witty, clever and has plot twists worthy of the best suspense writers. This one deals with one of Trollope's favorite topics -- the law -- with the usual romantic crises thrown in, of course. Excellent book and I highly recommend it.

The Last Man (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Selections. V. 4.)

11 reviews
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Jane Blumberg, ...

Pickering & Chatto Ltd, 1996

Death and disease level all men
This novel is a combination of a `roman à clefs' and science fiction, with gothic and autobiographic elements. In her vision of the end of the 21st century, Mary Shelley sees the Greek occupying Istanbul and England as a republic with three political parties (royalists, democrats and aristocrats). The leader of the democrats deserts his responsibilities through fear of the plague, while the ...

Valperga (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Selections. V. 3.)

3 reviews
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Pickering & Chatto Ltd, 1996

i liked it
Valperga is Shelley's 1823 historical and fictional account of the life of Castruccio Castracani who lived in the 14th century. You don't need to know anything about Italian history to become immersed and interested in this political novel. Shelley's story is exciting, and the Oxford edition provides numerous notes to clarify the historical figures and situations that are a part of the story. The ...

The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson (The Complete Novels of Anthony Trollope)

1 review
Anthony Trollope

Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd, 2000

Fails more than it succeeds
With few readers for Anthony Trollope's greatest novels, it doesn't seem worth a lot of trouble to steer a potential customer away from what is surely his slightest book. But I'll take a moment to do so. Trollope is hardly ever uninteresting; he is a master of creating unique and formidable characters and letting them bang into each other and documenting the results. But this book is indeed a ...

The Works (The Pickering Masters)

2 reviews
Charles Babbage

Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd, 1989

Great if you're researching Babbage
This work contains some essential primary sources for Babbage's Analytical Engine. It includes Babbage's "On the Mathematical Power of the Anyalytical Engine," Menebrea's article in french, followed by Lovelace's translation and notes. There are stetches included of various sections of the analytical engine.

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