Author : David Crane
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 32,51 MB
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0007396260
‘There is a mad chap come here – whose name is Trelawny... He comes on the friend of Shelley, great, glowing, and rich in romance... But tell me who is this odd fish? They talk of him here as a camelion who went mad on reading Lord Byron’s ‘Corsair’.’ JOSEPH SEVERN
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Page : 1228 pages
File Size : 23,29 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Periodicals
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Author : Rose Arny
Publisher :
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 23,71 MB
Release : 1999-08
Category : American literature
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Author : John Guille Millais
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Page : 480 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Painters
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Author : Tim Powers
Publisher : Tachyon Publications
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 2008-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1892391694
World Fantasy Award Winner Michael Crawford is forced to flee when discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed. Yet it is not the revengeful townspeople he fears but the deadly embrace of the malignant spirit that is claiming him as her bridegroom. Crawford will not travel alone; soon he is aided by his fellow victims, the greatest poets of his day--Byron, Keats, and Shelley. Together they embark upon a desperate journey, crisscrossing Europe and battling the vampiric fiend who seeks her ultimate pleasure in their ravaged bodies and imperiled souls. Telling a secret history of passion and terror, Tim Powers (The Anubis Gates, Declare, Three Days to Never) masterfully recasts the tragic lives of the Romantics into a uniquely frightening tale. Back in print for the first time since 1994, this newly revised edition of The Stress of Her Regard will thrill both Powers fans and newcomers to this gripping Gothic tour de force.
Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0385674546
God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.
Author : Edward John Trelawny
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Page : 360 pages
File Size : 14,27 MB
Release : 1831
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Author : Richard Jenkyns
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 1998-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019158455X
This book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity. It is exact and patient in its probing for nuance and detail, but also bold, wide, and original in its scope. It combines the study of Virgil with the study of attitudes to nature throughout antiquity. Blending literature with history, and in the case of Lucretius, philosophy, it offers a vision and an interpretation of the culture of the 1st century BC as a whole. It argues that Lucretius and Virgil affected a revolution in Western sensibility; claiming that a book about poetry should be a book about life, it combines scholarship and precision with a sense of the importance of literature and its capacity to enhance our understanding of our past and of ourselves.
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Page : 608 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 1898
Category : England
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Author : Michel Bréal
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Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,72 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Indo-European languages
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