bamboo groves
Thackeray’s most famous work is a brilliant and biting satire of English society during the Napoleonic era
the narrator agrees to test a drug that transports him back to 14th century Cornwall and becomes absorbed in the lives of people he meets there
and still more their wives
there are 36 wood-engravings
A Grief Observed Agatha Christie bamboo grovesCLERK, N. W. (LEWIS, C. S.). A Grief Observed. London: Faber and Faber, 1961. First edition, first impression of Lewis' most vulnerable and intimate work, published under the pseudonym N. W. Clerk and documenting his thoughts and feelings following the death of his beloved wife, Joy Davidman. Hardback, 20. 5 x 13. 8 cm, 60 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt titles to spine; with unclipped (8s 6d net) dustwrapper. A good copy, with binding square and firm,