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Laurence Housman Books In Order

Novels

  1. A Modern Antaeus (1901)
  2. Trimblerigg (1924)
  3. Victoria Regina (1934)
  4. Pains and Penalties (1937)
  5. Family Honour (1950)
  6. Bethlehem (1955)
  7. Cotton-Woolleena (1968)
  8. My Brother (1969)

Collections

  1. Green Arras (1896)
  2. The Field of Clover (1898)
  3. Rue (1899)
  4. The Blue Moon (1904)
  5. Mendicant Rhymes (1906)
  6. Stories from the Arabian Nights (1911)
  7. The Little Plays of St. Francis (1922)
  8. Arabian Nights (1931)
  9. Strange Ends and Discoveries (1948)
  10. The Rat-Catcher’s Daughter (1974)
  11. Moonlight and Fairyland (1978)
  12. Angels and Ministers And Other Victorian Plays (2004)

Plays

  1. Prunella (1906)

Picture Books

  1. Story of the Seven Young Goslings (1975)
  2. Rocking-Horse Land (1990)

Anthologies edited

  1. War Letters of Fallen Englishmen (2002)

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Laurence Housman Books Overview

A Modern Antaeus

Originally published in 1901. This volume from the Cornell University Library’s print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

The Blue Moon

Laurence Housman 1865 1959 was an English playwright. He was born in Worcestershire. After education at local schools, he went to study art at the Lambert School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. He first worked as a book illustrator with London publishers, illustrating such works as Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market 1893 and Jane Barlow’s The End of Elfintown 1894 in an intricate Art Nouveau style. But he also wrote and published several volumes of poetry in the 1890s, and when his eyesight began to fail, he turned more and more to writing. Housman’s first success came with the novel An Englishwoman’s Love letters 1900, published anonymously. He then turned to drama with Bethlehem 1902 and was to become best known and remembered as a playwright. His other dramatic works include Angels and Ministers 1921, Little Plays of St. Francis 1922 and Victoria Regina 1934 which was even staged on Broadway. Amongst his other works are The Field of Clover 1898, The Blue Moon 1904 and King John of Jingalo 1912.

Stories from the Arabian Nights

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Arabian Nights

Rackham’s classic illustrations

The Rat-Catcher’s Daughter

Twelve tales recount the activities of princes and princesses, poor lads and honest laborers, wicked gnomes and fairy godmothers.

War Letters of Fallen Englishmen

More than eight million young men perished during the First World War a staggering figure. The natural reaction to such a great loss of humanity was to forget the individuals and recast the conflict into one of faceless armies and battles commemorated in stone and metal monuments. War Letters of Fallen Englishmen was published following the war in order to remind the living of those who were lost in the name of the British crown brothers, husbands, fathers, sons. This collection provides, in the very words of those who participated and died in combat, the closest approximation possible to the experience of war. Carefully selected from thousands of letters, those in this collection are poignant, powerful, and graphic and were chosen for their depth of perception, the intensity of their descriptions, and their messages to future generations. This edition contains a new foreword by the distinguished World War I historian Jay Winter.

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