rob4
Devils Coach Horse
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Post by rob4 on Feb 3, 2013 10:51:19 GMT
this thread is sad since i've just dicovered the wordsworths. the ones i've bought are for my kindle (and i'll continue to support the series that way) but i noticed that quite a few of them are not up as e-books anyway. i don't know if this is because they are already available as e-books for free anyway as the they've neen uploaded as public domain from others but it strikes me that if wordsworth are to 'prune' the list then they should look at the viability of keeping them as e-books at least. i offer this suggestion for selfish reasons of course but also as a possible long term solution for the series after initial print runs for people who like to own the physical book.
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chrisk
New Face In Hell
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Post by chrisk on Feb 24, 2013 18:36:55 GMT
I've just discovered them as well. I like Victorian fiction in general and Wordsworth publishes stuff I can't get elsewhere. Think I'd better start buying some more...
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Chuck_G
Crab On The Rampage
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Post by Chuck_G on Jul 3, 2013 1:54:59 GMT
I was really pleasantly surprised to find that our local 2nd and Charles had gotten in a bunch of these. They had a table with Wordsworth classics, and a table filled with the Mystery and Supernatural. I bought six of them right off, and have been back several times. In the month since they came in, the M&S titles have sold down less than a quarter of the table. The clerk told me they would put in an order for more, the same titles, three copies of each, in the next couple of months. The titles that were on the table that I missed before they sold, both the Crowley volumes, Doyle's Tales of Unease, and Bulldog Drummond by Sapper. There were many other titles, but these were the ones I was interested in.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Sept 17, 2013 17:07:26 GMT
I was happy to discover that a local remainder/second-hand bookstore now carries a large selection of Wordsworth editions (all with the old black skull-and-blood design). I was so happy, in fact, that I ended up buying the Edith Nesbit, Marjorie Bowen, Amelia Edwards, May Sinclair, Amyas Northcote, J. H. Riddell, and Edgar Allan Poe collections, along with Richard Marsh's The Beetle. I just about bought Dennis Wheatley's To the Devil a Daughter but put it back on the shelf at the last minute. I'll confess that I've never read anything by him other than "The Snake," about which I remember nothing. Speaking of Wordsworth, I'm currently reading The Temple of Death, their collection of A. C. and R. H. Benson stories. Thus far the A. C. Benson tales have been pleasant if unspectacular reading.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Sept 17, 2013 17:39:08 GMT
I just about bought Dennis Wheatley's To the Devil a Daughter but put it back on the shelf at the last minute. Go back immediately! It is a very entertaining novel.
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Post by andydecker on Sept 17, 2013 19:57:13 GMT
I just about bought Dennis Wheatley's To the Devil a Daughter but put it back on the shelf at the last minute. Go back immediately! It is a very entertaining novel. What Jojo said. But The Devil rides out is the better novel.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Apr 2, 2014 16:04:49 GMT
Go back immediately! It is a very entertaining novel. What Jojo said. But The Devil rides out is the better novel. I'm almost finished with The Devil Rides Out, and it is very entertaining. I doubt I would get along with Wheatley, but he knows how to tell a tale. I also like the cover--Wordsworth made a good call using the painting from the old Arrow cover (as recently posted by James). I have a copy of To the Devil a Daughter on the way.
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 3, 2014 9:09:54 GMT
I doubt I would get along with Wheatley, but he knows how to tell a tale. Have you read Phil Baker's biography? One of the funniest things I've read - he really was a fruitcake.
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Post by Dr Strange on Apr 3, 2014 12:33:05 GMT
I doubt I would get along with Wheatley, but he knows how to tell a tale. Have you read Phil Baker's biography? One of the funniest things I've read - he really was a fruitcake. Phil Baker's biography of the artist/occultist Austin Osman Spare is also very entertaining (though also a little sad) - there's a couple of very funny stories about Aleister Crowley (Spare regularly took the piss out of Crowley); one has Crowley wandering about a posh London restaurant, wearing some outrageous outfit and making weird gestures while everyone just ignores him; one of the diners, who's not been in London long, asks a waiter "Who is that extraordinary person?", to which the waiter replies "That's just Mr Crowley, sir - he is being invisible."
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Apr 7, 2014 19:14:20 GMT
I doubt I would get along with Wheatley, but he knows how to tell a tale. Have you read Phil Baker's biography? One of the funniest things I've read - he really was a fruitcake. I haven't, but this review makes me want to--especially the story about Giles Gordon submitting an anonymous Wheatley manuscript to a harsh publishing house reader.
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Post by rawlinson on Oct 20, 2014 18:01:11 GMT
Was in my local Poundland today and found they've started stocking stacks of the Wordsworth editions. Is this a sign that the series really is in trouble or could they just be using Poundland as a new way to get the books out there?
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Oct 21, 2014 12:01:35 GMT
Was in my local Poundland today and found they've started stocking stacks of the Wordsworth editions. Is this a sign that the series really is in trouble or could they just be using Poundland as a new way to get the books out there? Damn, the mercenary ion me says if I'd been there I'd buy loads. Could be an investment too - ephemeral, cheapish,short runs - mint copies could be worth something
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Post by rawlinson on Oct 21, 2014 15:50:08 GMT
I grabbed about eight books when I was in there just in case everything was going out of print. They must have had 15 or more different titles in total.
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