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  • Napoleonic Wars in History & Memories

    Memoirs, Strategy, and Eyewitness Voices from Russia, Waterloo, and the Peninsular War

    by Napoleon Bonaparte, Carl Von Clausewitz, Charles Downer Hazen, Alexandre Dumas, Comte de Philippe-Paul Ségur, Frederic Shoberl, Charles Cornwallis Chesney, S. E. Winbolt, Charles Dalton, Marcelin Marbot, Adrien Bourgogne, Moyle Sherer, Robert Southey, William Lawrence, William Surtees, John Kincaid, William Henry Fitchett, George Simmons, Donat Henchy O'Brien, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Louis Constant Wairy, William Milligan Sloane ...
    Napoleonic Wars in History & Memories assembles a richly variegated archive of conflict, empire, and remembrance. Military analysis, campaign narrative, memoir, biography, political history, and literary re-creation illuminate the wars from the councils of power to the privations of the marching soldier. Accounts of Austerlitz, the Peninsular conflict, the Russian campaign, Waterloo, and exile ... Read more

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  • Mr Facey Romford's Hounds

    Nonsuch Classics

    by Robert S Surtees ...
    Facey is a trickster who takes advantage of society's greed and gullibility, and gets away with it. This brisk, entertaining novel is the sequel to Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour. ... Read more

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  • The Bloody Reign of Napoleon

    Eyewitness Memoirs, Strategy, and the Human Cost of Empire from Russia to Waterloo

    by Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles Downer Hazen, Carl Von Clausewitz, Comte de Philippe-Paul Ségur, Frederic Shoberl, Charles Cornwallis Chesney, S. E. Winbolt, Charles Dalton, Marcelin Marbot, Adrien Bourgogne, Moyle Sherer, Robert Southey, William Lawrence, William Surtees, John Kincaid, William Henry Fitchett, George Simmons, Donat Henchy O'Brien, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Louis Constant Wairy, William Milligan Sloane ...
    The Bloody Reign of Napoleon assembles a capacious archive of Napoleonic war, empire, and memory, juxtaposing military analysis, diplomatic chronicle, memoir, biography, and battlefield testimony. Its range extends from strategic reflections on campaigns and command to intimate accounts of marching, privation, captivity, and the human cost of imperial ambition. Major episodes—including the ... Read more

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  • Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

    by Robert Smith Surtees ...
    In "Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour," the protagonist, Mr. Sponge, embarks on a sporting journey through the English countryside, encountering various characters and engaging in a series of adventures related to hunting, horse racing, and other rural pursuits. The novel satirizes the eccentricities and foibles of the English upper class and rural society of the time.Robert Smith Surtees' writing style ... Read more

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  • The Spirit of the Game

    Robert S. Surtees : A Thought-Provoking Work That Stands the Test of Time

    by Robert S. Surtees ...
    Spirit of the Game, The by Luther H. Gulick offers a concentrated, compelling experience within religion / general. This concise work presents carefully drawn characters and purposeful plotting that together explore themes of choice, consequence, and human connection. The prose is precise and economical, balancing vivid scenes with clear pacing to maintain narrative momentum. Ideal for readers ... Read more

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  • Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities

    by Robert Smith Surtees ...
    The novel is set in the world of English fox hunting and offers a satirical look at the sporting pursuits, social customs, and eccentric characters of the time. Jorrocks, with his colorful language and boisterous personality, serves as a humorous guide through various misadventures, hunts, and social gatherings.Surtees' work is celebrated for its wit, vivid characters, and lively depiction of ... Read more

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  • Jorrocks' Jaunts And Jollities

    by Robert Smith Surtees ...
    Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities is a mid-19th-century British humorous novel that satirizes fox hunting culture and the eccentricities of sporting life in England. It is significant as a classic work of Victorian comic fiction, blending energetic storytelling with sharp social observation of class, leisure, and rural traditions. The novel follows the lively and outspoken Mr Jorrocks, a London ... Read more

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  • Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities

    A Cockney Grocer Takes Up Fox-Hunting

    by Robert Smith Surtees ...
    Complete and unabridged, with 35 full-page plates by John Everett Millais, Johannes Bosboom and Adolph Tidemand. A Cockney grocer with money and no seat rides to hounds across three counties, and every field he crosses belongs to somebody who wishes he would not. Surtees hunted all his life and wrote about it without a trace of reverence; Jorrocks was popular enough that Dickens's publishers asked ... Read more

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  • Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

    by Robert Smith Surtees ...
    "Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour" is a classic comedic novel written by Robert Smith Surtees. The story revolves around the misadventures of Mr. Sponge, a city man with a passion for fox hunting and a lack of knowledge about rural life. In the novel, Mr. Sponge embarks on a sporting tour of the English countryside, hoping to indulge in his favourite pastime of fox hunting. Along the way, he encounters ... Read more

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  • Ask Mamma

    or, The Richest Commoner in England

    by Robert Smith Surtees ...
    Series series Comedy & Satire
    Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by John Everett Millais, Adolph Tidemand and Théodore Ralli. A young man with an unearned reputation as a rider tries to keep it up across a hunting season, pursued by a mother with daughters. Surtees had a magistrate's eye for social pretense and a master of hounds' contempt for bad horsemanship, and uses both. This edition carries fifty-four ... Read more

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  • "Ask Mamma"; or, The Richest Commoner In England

    by Robert Smith Surtees ...
    The story centers around a wealthy and influential commoner, who, despite his affluence, remains deeply rooted in the everyday concerns of common life. The title character, known as "Ask Mamma," is a man of substantial means but is portrayed with a blend of wit and satire.As the narrative unfolds, the plot explores the social dynamics and eccentricities of the time. It delves into the humorous ... Read more

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  • Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Victorian Fox-Hunting Satire of Country-House Schemes, Rural Gentry Manners, and Sporting Life

    by Robert Smith Surtees, Tessa Dunleigh ...
    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour is a richly comic panorama of mid-Victorian hunting society, following the opportunistic Mr. Sponge as he moves from one country-house invitation to another in pursuit of sport, comfort, and social advantage. Published in 1853, the novel combines picaresque structure, satirical dialogue, and sporting detail with the exuberant caricature later enhanced by John Leech's ... Read more

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