The Dial


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The Forerunners


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The Birth of British Airpower


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The Birth of British Airpower describes how Hugh Trenchard, a man with few leadership skills, became a much-loved and inspirational commander who laid the foundation for British airpower on the Western Front in World War I and created the preconditions for the establishment of the world’s first independent air service, the Royal Air Force. Author Peter Dye explores how friendship can overcome significant personal and character deficiencies and how, by assembling the right senior leadership team, Trenchard achieved greatness. The book also examines how the development of airpower doctrine in World War I owed as much to chance as to careful planning and how air superiority was achieved only through sustained effort, underpinned by an effective and responsive logistic system. Finally, it explains how the ethos of the postwar air force was built around these experiences and the collective effort of all those involved in the air war.













Delphi Collected Works of Romain Rolland (Illustrated)


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Romain Rolland was an early twentieth century French novelist, dramatist and essayist. Throughout his life he was a fervent idealist, deeply involved with pacifism, the fight against fascism, the search for world peace and the analysis of artistic genius, which was a recurring theme of his works. In 1915 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature as “a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings”. This comprehensive eBook presents Rolland’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare translations appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Rolland’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * 15 novels, with individual contents tables * The complete 10-volume novel cycle ‘Jean-Christophe’, translated by Gilbert Cannan * The first two volumes of Rolland’s other novel cycle, ‘The Soul Enchanted’, appearing here for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Includes rare non-fiction works, including Rolland’s classical music criticism * Features a bonus biography by the noted Austrian author Stefan Zweig – discover Rolland’s literary life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: Jean-Christophe (tr. Gilbert Cannan) Dawn (1904) Morning (1904) Youth (1904) Revolt (1905) The Marketplace (1908) Antoinette (1908) The House (1908) Love and Friendship (1910) The Burning Bush (1911) The New Dawn (1912) The Soul Enchanted Annette and Sylvie (1922) (tr. Ben Ray Redman) Summer (1924) (tr. Eleanor Stimson and Van Wyck Brooks) Other Fiction Colas Breugnon (1919) (tr. Katherine Miller) Clérambault (1920) (tr. Katherine Miller) Pierre and Luce (1920) (tr. Charles de Kay) The Plays Georges Danton (1899) The Fourteenth of July (1902) The Non-Fiction François-Millet (1902) Beethoven (1903) Life of Michelangelo (1907) Musicians of To-Day (1908) Musicians of Former Days (1908) Handel (1910) Tolstoy (1911) The Forerunners (1919) A Musical Tour through the Land of the Past (1922) Mahatma Gandhi (1924) The Biography Romain Rolland (1921) by Stefan Zweig (tr. Eden and Cedar Paul) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks







The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe


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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) is now widely recognised not only as one of the most representative figures of the British fin de siècle, but as one of the most influential Anglophone authors of the nineteenth century. In Britain Wilde suffered a long period of comparative neglect following the scandal of his conviction for 'gross indecency' in 1895; and it is only recently that his works have been reassessed. But while Wilde was subjected to silence in Britain, he became a European phenomenon. His famous dandyism, his witticisms, paradoxes and provocations became the object of imitation and parody; his controversial aesthetic doctrines were a strong influence not only on decadent writers, but also on the development of symbolist and modernist cultures. This collection of essays by leading international scholars and translators traces the cultural impact of Oscar Wilde's work across Europe, from the earliest translations and performances of his works in the 1890s to the present day.