Gustave Doré (January 6, 1832 – January 23, 1883) was a famous French illustrator who produced some of the most remarkable book illustrations ever. He was very much sought after in his time, and most of his work was commissioned by publishers of the day. His engravings or illustrations usually depict scenes from famous classics […]
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Six Years in the Malay Jungle by Carveth Wells
Reading Carveth Wells, author of North of Singapore, always delights me. His prose is so well-written, so easy to read, and often lively and amusing. I’ve just finished his first book on Malaya, Six Years in the Malay Jungle, which I really should have read before North of Singapore – since this book came first. […]
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We are happy to announce that we will be starting a new session of Latin and Ancient Greek courses on 11 January 2014. Learn to read the classical authors in the original language: Homer, Herodotus, Plato, Thucydides, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Caesar, Cicero, and all these other great authors who have shaped not only Western civilisation, […]
Continue readingMerry Christmas Everybody!
Merry Christmas Everybody! (Or, as the back of our Singapore TIBS buses read, “Marry Xmas”!)
Continue readingOpen Today, Tomorrow and the Day After
Dear all, Even though it’s Tuesday today, we’ll be open from 2-5pm to give last-minute Xmas gift shoppers some comfort, hope and solace after a bout of panic and despair. We’ll also maintain regular hours tomorrow (Christmas – Merry Xmas everybody!) and the day after (Boxing Day). That is, we’ll be open from 1.30-7.30pm at […]
Continue readingNew Titles in Stock
Dear all, We’re receiving many new titles which will take us some time to photograph and upload to our online shopping cart. Here’s a list of some of them, all of which are already in our shop at Burlington Square. Do come down and take a look! 1. Enough Rope: Poems by Dorothy Parker. Hardcover, […]
Continue readingReview: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
It’s embarrassing that it should have taken me so long to read Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: An American classic, The Age of Innocence was first published in 1920 and is set in 1870s upper-class New York. Its main character, Newland Archer, is a respectable young lawyer from a respectable […]
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Dear all, We’re happy to announce that our new shop is now open for business! The address is: 175 Bencoolen Street. Burlington Square. #01-37. Singapore 189649 Opening hours: Daily, 1.30om – 7.30 pm Closed on Tuesdays See you soon!
Continue readingBeginner’s guide to book collecting, and some personal anecdotes
To me, “book collecting” is a high-sounding phrase that describes what most book lovers naturally do anyway – hoard. Book collectors are, in essence, hoarders, and book collecting is a nice-sounding euphemism for book hoarding. So, most book hoarders are already book collectors, whether they know it or not. And the surest way to tell […]
Continue readingReview: North of Singapore by Carveth Wells
Travel writer Carveth Wells’ North of Singapore is probably one of my favourite books on the region, and of the travel literature genre. And so this review is likely to be long, involving much gushing and a few interesting tidbits on the region. Before rambling on and on about the contents of the book – […]
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