Author : Eloise Millar
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 36,21 MB
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1782435050
Literary London is a snappy and informative guide, showing just why - as another famous local writer put it - he who is tired of London is tired of life.
Author : Rosemary Gray
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 30,52 MB
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1509845992
London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city over recent centuries, through diary entries, with quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honour. It is beautifully illustrated with drawings and engravings from distinguished artists, including Gustave Doré, George Cruikshank, James McNeill Whistler and Hugh Thomson, and contains contemporary prints and photographs. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
Author : Richard Fairman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780712357401
"This anthology features a wide-ranging collection of poems and scenes from novels that stretch from the fifteenth century to the present day. From well-known texts to others that are less familiar, here is London brought to life through the words of many of the greatest writers in the English language."--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Lawrence Manley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 24,62 MB
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107495555
London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works in English, from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials, the essays in this volume explore the London of Langland and the Peasants' Rebellion, of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage, of Pepys and the Restoration coffee house, of Dickens and Victorian wealth and poverty, of Conrad and the Empire, of Woolf and the wartime Blitz, of Naipaul and postcolonial immigration, and of contemporary globalism. Contributions from historians, art historians, theorists and media specialists as well as leading literary scholars exemplify current approaches to genre, gender studies, book history, performance studies and urban studies. In showing how the tradition of English literature is shaped by representations of London, this volume also illuminates the relationship between the literary imagination and the society of one of the world's greatest cities.
Author : Shannon McKenna Schmidt
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1426202776
National Geographic leads book-loving adventurers on a whirlwind tour of 500 literary landmarks and offers practical trip-planning advice for visiting in person. Peppered with great reading suggestions and little-known tales of literary gossip, this book is the ultimate browser's delight.
Author : Michael Bond
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780395905074
A reprint of previously published Paddington Bear stories.
Author : Laurence Hutton
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 21,48 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 1912
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Paula Byrne
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 006231078X
The sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle starring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goode—a stunning story of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high society England and raised as a lady. The illegitimate daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman, Dido Belle was sent to live with her great-uncle, the Earl of Mansfield, one of the most powerful men of the time and a leading opponent of slavery. Growing up in his lavish estate, Dido was raised as a sister and companion to her white cousin, Elizabeth. When a joint portrait of the girls, commissioned by Mansfield, was unveiled, eighteenth-century England was shocked to see a black woman and white woman depicted as equals. Inspired by the painting, Belle vividly brings to life this extraordinary woman caught between two worlds, and illuminates the great civil rights question of her age: the fight to end slavery. Belle includes 20 pages of black-and-white photos.
Author : Laurence Hutton
Publisher : New York : Harper
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
