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Across English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Essays, European, and Literary Collections — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as New World by Jonathan Raban.

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The London Scene Six Essays on London Life

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Life At Grasmere

Dorothy Wordsworth

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Waugh in Abyssinia

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Twilight in Italy and Other Essays

David Herbert Lawrence

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Other Poems — Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Other Poems

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

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The Travel Writings of Marguerite Blessington The Most Gorgeous Lady on the Tour

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Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets – Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Southey — Thomas de Quincey

Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets – Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Southey

Thomas De Quincey

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides — Samuel Johnson

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

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Openings & Outings An Anthology

David Pryce-Jones

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Original English As Written By Our Little Ones At School (1889) — Henry James Barker

Original English As Written By Our Little Ones At School (1889)

Henry James Barker

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Wodehouse at the Wicket

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

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A Ghost in the Throat — Doireann Ní Ghríofa

A Ghost in the Throat

Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

The Life of Charlotte Bronte — Elizabeth Gaskell

The Life of Charlotte Bronte

Elizabeth Gaskell

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Selected Writings — Thomas Carlyle

Selected Writings

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

The Plain Speaker Opinions on Books, Men, and Things. Edited by His Son: 2 — William Hazlitt

The Plain Speaker Opinions on Books, Men, and Things. Edited by His Son: 2

William Hazlitt

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

The Collected Essays and Letters of Virginia Woolf — Virginia Woolf

The Collected Essays and Letters of Virginia Woolf

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman — Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Selected Prose — John Donne

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Losers — Bill Buford

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed — John Irving

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

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Philocalia Elementary Essays On Natural, Poetic And Picturesque Beauty (1864) — William Purton

Philocalia Elementary Essays On Natural, Poetic And Picturesque Beauty (1864)

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

The Spirit of Place and Other Essays — Alice Meynell

The Spirit of Place and Other Essays

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Selected Poems and Prose — Edward Thomas

Selected Poems and Prose

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Reflections On The Nature And Property Of Languages In General And On The Advantages, Defects, And Manner Of Improving The English Tongue In Particular (1731) — Thomas Stackhouse

Reflections On The Nature And Property Of Languages In General And On The Advantages, Defects, And Manner Of Improving The English Tongue In Particular (1731)

Thomas Stackhouse

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Essays, European — the same threads that run through New World by Jonathan Raban. Among the authors featured: Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Wordsworth, Evelyn Waugh, David Herbert Lawrence, and others.

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