H.P. - British 1

This book contains the works below arranged alphabetically by authors last names Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) Peter Pan (J. M. Barrie) Cabin Fever (B. M. Bower) Agnes Grey (Anne Brontë) Fath……続きを見る

Originally commissioned by Exodus 90, the pioneering men’s app, these brief but stirring reflections by acclaimed writer Joseph Pearce show how great literatureーincluding poetryーcan help every Cat……続きを見る

How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why d……続きを見る

Eleanor H. Porter's heartwarming novel "Across the Years" follows the lives of two individuals, Jerry and Lucy, as their paths intertwined over the years. Jerry, an orphaned boy raised with the aid ……続きを見る

Eleanor H. Porter helped write the candy book "Miss BillyーMarried." It was released in 1914 and is a lovely follow-up to Porter's first book, "Miss Billy." The story takes vicinity as Billy, an act……続きを見る

Examines Welsh writing in English in the context of critical debates concerning the rise of cultural nationalism and the ‘invention’ of Great Britain as a nation in the eighteenth century. This stud……続きを見る

Der Uhrmacher Friedrich Corleis ging 1873 nach Altona, damit in ein Zentrum der deutschen Uhrenfertigung. Dort leitete er bald ein bedeutendes Uhrengeschäft. Corleis besaß eine ungewöhnliche Doppelb……続きを見る

Bis dat, qui cito dat – never has a proverb more aptly applied to an individual than does this Medieval Latin saying to Wolfgang Mieder. «He gives twice who gives quickly» captures the essence of hi……続きを見る

Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes its formative and lasting effect on Geo……続きを見る

Having given the evidence for William Shakespeare's Catholicism in two previous books, literary biographer Joseph Pearce turns his attention in this work to the Bard's most famous play, Romeo and Ju……続きを見る

Highly regarded and best-selling literary writer and teacher, Joseph Pearce presents a stimulating and vivid biography of the world's most revered writer that is sure to be controversial. Unabashedl……続きを見る

Fulfilling the promise he made in his previous book, The Quest for Shakespeare, bestselling literary writer Joseph Pearce analyzes in this volume three of Shakespeare's immortal plays � The Merchant……続きを見る

One of the four great tragedies-alongside Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth-Othello is among the darkest of Shakespeare s plays, illumining the shadows of the gloomiest recesses of the human psyche and……続きを見る

First published in 1974, Investigating Drama offers a holistic understanding of drama. An understanding of drama requires far more thana study, however thorough, of plays and playwright, stagecraft ……続きを見る

This collection of essays explores the role played by imaginative writing in the Scottish Enlightenment and its interaction with the values and activities of that movement. Across a broad range of a……続きを見る

The year is 1616. William Shakespeare has just died and the world of the London theatres is mourning his loss. 1616 also saw the death of the famous Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu. Four hundred year……続きを見る

In this second collection of biographical accounts of Romantic writers, the characters of Keats, Coleridge and Scott are recalled by their contemporaries, offering insights into their lives and writ……続きを見る

G. K. Chesterton seemed to have something to say about almost anything. A cultural critic and writer of the highest degree, he utilized both wit and paradox as he sought to not only to challenge bad……続きを見る

This book argues that modernists such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf engaged creatively with modernity's expanding forms of collective experience and performative identities. Judith Paltin compar……続きを見る

What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theatre, but everywhere in the ordinary cou……続きを見る

It is often said that the past is a foreign country where they do things differently, and perhaps no type of "doing" is more fascinating than sexual desires and behaviours. Our modern view of mediev……続きを見る

While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there. Nearly 100 years after its first formal introduction t……続きを見る

This book is a collection of essays and a short story written to honor Christopher Fox of Notre Dame, arguably the most influential figure in Irish Studies for the past quarter century. The essays a……続きを見る

As its startling and aggressive title suggests, Dickens Novels as Verse is no standard work of literary criticism. It is, in fact, altogether new and original. Jordan likens the experience of some o……続きを見る