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“As homely as a cottage, but with a garden worthy of a manor.”Sir Frederick Treves, great Victorian surgeon and former pupil of William Barnes. Built in the cottage orné style from a plan by the Regency architect John Nash (1752-1835), Old Came Rectory...

A 112 page book, containing a 17,000 word interview, with a career sketch, a comprehensive bibliography, and a representative list of quotations from Heaney's critics and reviewers. Also included is Heaney's recent poem, 'Known World'What the critics...

Two great men: one a brilliant author and the other a skilled editor, photographer, and self-taught archeologist. Together they laid out the vast beauty, mystery and grandeur of the land known as the American Southwest. Both were scrappers-Rhodes with...

The biography and selected letters of this literary great includes over 60 newly discovered letters written to many other literary giants of the time, including Robert Browning and William Morris.

When Randall Jarrell died in 1965, he left behind a critically acclaimed body of poetry, fiction and literary criticism that has earned him a permanent place in American literature. In these seven essays, his widow writes lovingly and knowingly about the...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. ...

Title: The life and letters of Washington Irving.<br /><br />Author: Pierre Munroe Irving<br /><br />Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana <br /><br />Description: <br /><br />Based on Joseph Sabin's famed...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, ...

Das Buch ""Das Puppenhaus: Ein Erbst�����ck in der Gontard'schen Familie (1857)"" von Carl Jugel ist ein Roman, der die Geschichte eines Puppenhauses erz�����hlt, das seit Generationen in der Familie Gontard weitergegeben wird. Es handelt sich um ein...

Das Buch ""Das K������niglich Preu�����ische Garde Husaren-Regiment: Und Seine Abstammung, 1811-1869"" von Hubert von Meyerinck beschreibt die Geschichte des K������niglich Preu�����ischen Garde Husaren-Regiments von seiner Gr�����ndung im Jahr 1811 bis...

Das Buch ""Das Franz������sische Schweizer Garderegiment: Am August 10, 1792 (1892)"" von Wolfgang Friedrich von Mulinen beschreibt die Geschichte des Schweizer Garderegiments, das w�����hrend der Franz������sischen Revolution im Jahr 1792 gegr�����ndet...

The freedom to create was rocked by the Imam Khomeini's death sentence on Salman Rushdie 25 years ago. Ever since Khomeini's fatwa called for Rushdie's murder because of what he wrote in his novel The Satanic Verses, the zealous of many faiths have been...

In diesem Buch untersucht J. Staarstecher das Leben und Werk von Heinrich Heine, einem der bedeutendsten deutschen Dichter und Schriftsteller des 19. Jahrhunderts. Staarstecher zeigt auf, wie Heine die politischen und kulturellen Entwicklungen seiner...

Dieses Buch bietet eine umfangreiche Biografie des deutschen Schriftstellers Wilhelm von Polenz (1845-1901). Es zeigt auf, wie von Polenz mit seinen Werken und seinem Engagement für die sächsische Heimatbewegung zu einem wichtigen Vertreter der...

En este libro, Cesáreo Fernández Duro detalla la experiencia marina de Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes fue capturado por piratas turcos y pasó cinco años prisionero. Este libro narra su experiencia en el mar y cómo la misma influyó en su obra literaria...

Pierre Antonin Brun apporte des informations inédites sur la vie et l'œuvre de Savinien de Cyrano Bergerac, le célèbre écrivain et dramaturge français. Ce livre est une lecture captivante pour les intéressés par la France du XVIIe siècle.This work has...

Cette édition rassemble la correspondance de Flaubert avec divers interlocuteurs : famille, amis, artistes, éditeurs, critiques. On y découvre la personnalité du grand romancier, ses goûts, ses projets, ses doutes, ses colères. Un témoignage précieux sur...

Nichols and Cradock's memoirs provide a riveting glimpse into the literary and cultural world of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. As publishers, booksellers, and editors, they were at the forefront of the intellectual and artistic movements of the...

Questa è l'autobiografia di Baldassarre Bufalini, uno dei più importanti intellettuali italiani dell'Ottocento. Il libro raccoglie una vasta selezione di corrispondenze e memorie del Bufalini, che spaziano dalla sua adolescenza alla vecchiaia, e coprono...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethes Lehr- und Wanderjahre in Weimar und Italien gehören zu den bekanntesten Etappen in seinem Leben. Alexander Baumgartner schildert diese Phase ausführlich und geht dabei auf die verschiedenen Stationen ein. Von Goethes...

AWARD-WINNING CREATIVE NONFICTION BIOGRAPHYO, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE "10 TITLES TO PICK UP NOW"  20181885-1914. Mary Fields, a fifty-three-year-old second-generation slave, emancipated and residing in Toledo, receives news of her...

Marie de France, Mme. De Sévigné, and Mme. De Lafayette achieved international reputations during periods when women in other European countries were able to write only letters, translations, religious tracts, and miscellaneous fragments. There were...

This book challenges a longstanding and deeply ingrained belief in Shakespearean studies that The Tempest--long supposed to be Shakespeare's last play--was not written until 1611. In the course of investigating this proposition, which has not received...

For over 50 years, from the 1940s to the 1990s, Irving Howe was a commanding, if controversial, figure in American intellectual life. Writing with the productivity of a major industry, Howe took on issues ranging from left-wing politics and American...

"Now, not many miles away...I was getting my life on track."In Boy from the Country, John D. Nesbitt offers a poignant and reflective memoir of a young boy growing up in rural poverty during the 1950s and 1960s. Through a series of vivid snapshots, he...

Philippe Berthelot a choisi de consacrer cet ouvrage à l'un des amis de son illustre père (Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot, Ministre et Académicien français), le trop souvent méconnu Louis Ménard. Ce grand homme de lettres français, chimiste reconnu,...

The incidents described in the stories are modeled on Maugham's experiences as a secret agent, and "the central character, Ashenden, is very much an autobiographical character." He is supposed to have modeled Chandra Lal after Virendranath...

The Biography of Léon Bloy: Memories of a Friend, published in 1921, is the official biography of Léon Bloy (1846-1917) by his friend, René Martineau. René Martineau and Léon Bloy were good friends for the last eighteen years of the latter writerʼs life...

America in the 1950s was a place of Eisenhower, the Korean Conflict, McCarthy, and Sputnik. Women were trapped in the mold of Donna Reed and June Cleaver, marginalized by the hyper-masculinity of the age. Mystery fiction had become a male bastion,...

"So much has already been written about Lewis, so many aspects of his life and work so thoroughly explored, that one might think that The Undiscovered Lewis would necessarily be a slim volume! Nothing could be further from the truth. These...

Meta-memoir, 'after' memoir. Aristotle's Meta-physics comes 'after' his Physics. 'An Abyss of Dreams' is a 'meta' book, an 'after' book. A dream itself has no 'before' but only a 'present,' which in consciousness is already an 'after.' This is the...

EditorialThe Special Art of Editing and Annotating - by Richard Lance KeeblePapers'A Great Prop of the School': The Important Place of Sunderland Church High School in Understanding Eileen O'Shaughnessy- by Angela SmithSeeing What is In Front of One's...

Above all else, this is the story of a journey.Over the last thirty-seven years or so, across a number of hand-written books, I have been keeping what might be termed a record; although on reflection, even the word 'record' is something of a misnomer...

Beyond BeliefJohn Coetzee (the Nobel Prize winner and author of Foe)I have read your Defoe biography and have found it a real eye-opener- congratulations. As for the blackmailing of Defoe by Elisabeth White and her father, you certainly make out a...

The most intriguing puzzle in the world is the journey of human life. The author lets readers solve many puzzles for themselves by introducing different characters in the process of navigating through entertaining and captivating plots. These stories,...

After numerous volumes of poetry and short stories as well as two novels, Geertje Suhr presents here a special kind of poetic autobiography: very personal and razor-sharp close to her subjects, in her well-known, witty and humorous style. [...]Countless...