Literary and Artistic Landmarks of Edinburgh
Author : Andrew Pennycook
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Authors, Scottish
ISBN :
The Finishing School
Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 27,71 MB
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 178211758X
Book Description
'One of her funniest novels . . . Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful' ALI SMITH In The Finishing School Muriel Spark is once again at her biting, satirical best. On the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, a struggling would-be novelist and his wife run a finishing school of questionable reputation to keep the funds flowing. When a seventeen-year-old student's writing career begins to show great promise, tensions begin to run high. A keen portrait of devouring regret, psychological unravelling and the glittering promise of youth, The Finishing School is the perfect natural partner to Muriel Spark's most famous novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
Landmarks in Classical Literature
Author : Philip Gaskell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781579581923
Book Description
Providing the context of time and place as well as discussing the translations,Landmarks in Classical Literaturesurveys the most influential authors of ancient Greece and Rome. Part of the three-book series,Landmarks in European Literature, which presents the major authors of European literature and their works, from ancient times until the 20th century, this volume is designed for general readers and students, looking for additional guidance in their reading or wishing to understand the context in which these fascinating works were written. Helping and encouraging readers to explore and enjoy the European literary heritage, theLandmarks in European Literatureseries includeLandmarks in Continental European Literature,Landmarks in Classical Literature, andLandmarks in English Literature, all of which will prove valuable at any library supporting literary studies.
London: An Illustrated Literary Companion
Author : Rosemary Gray
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1509845992
Book Description
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.
Literary Landmarks of London
Author : Laurence Hutton
Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
Release : 1897
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Book Description
Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707)
Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 11,66 MB
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748628622
Book Description
The History begins with the first full-scale critical consideration of Scotland's earliest literature, drawn from the diverse cultures and languages of its early peoples. The first volume covers the literature produced during the medieval and early modern period in Scotland, surveying the riches of Scottish work in Gaelic, Welsh, Old Norse, Old English and Old French, as well as in Latin and Scots. New scholarship is brought to bear, not only on imaginative literature, but also law, politics, theology and philosophy, all placed in the context of the evolution of Scotland's geography, history, languages and material cultures from our earliest times up to 1707.
Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature
Author : Adam Piette
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0748653937
Book Description
The first reference book to deal so fully and incisively with the cultural representations of war in 20th-century English and US literature and film. The volume covers the two World Wars as well as specific conflicts that generated literary and imaginativ
Knots and Crosses
Author : Ian Rankin
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 26,66 MB
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466883634
Book Description
Knots and Crosses introduces gifted mystery novelist Ian Rankin, a fascinating locale and the most compellingly complex detective hero at work today. Inspector John Rebus: His city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders...and he's tied to a maniac by an invisible knot of blood. Once John Rebus served in Britain's elite SAS. Now he's an Edinburgh cop who hides from his memories, misses promotions and ignores a series of crank letters. But as the ghoulish killings mount and the tabloid headlines scream, Inspector Rebus cannot stop the feverish shrieks from within his own mind. Because he isn't just one cop trying to catch a killer, he's the man who's got all the pieces to the puzzle....
Modern American Literature
Author : Catherine Morley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,55 MB
Release : 2012-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748630724
Book Description
An incisive study of modern American literature, casting new light on its origins and themes. Exploring canonical American writers such as Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner alongside less familiar writers like Djuna Barnes and Susan Glaspell, the guide takes readers though a diverse literary landscape. It considers how the rise of the American metropolis contributed to the growth of American modernism; and also examines the ways in which regional writers responded to an accelerated American modernity. Taking in African American modernism, cultural and geographical exile, as well as developments in modern American drama, the guide introduces readers to current critical trends in modernist studies.
Literary Landmarks of Jerusalem
Author : Laurence Hutton
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 25,48 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
