Author : Julian Orbach
Publisher : Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300207408
"This new edition replaces Nikolaus Pevsner's 'South and West Somerset' of 1958"--P. xvi.
Author : Leila Meacham
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1455547379
Gone with the Wind meets The Help in the stunning prequel to Leila Meacham's bestselling family epic Roses. "From birth, Jessica had eschewed the role to which she'd been born. Was it because she sensed that her father's indulgence was compensation for his disappointment in her? Jessica thought too much, questioned, challenged, rebelled. Sometimes Eunice thought her daughter should have been born a male." Born into the wealthiest and most influential family in 1830s South Carolina, Jessica Wyndham was expected to look appealing, act with decorum, and marry a suitably prominent and respectable man. However, her outspoken opinions and unflagging sense of justice make her a difficult-and dangerous-firebrand, especially for slavery-dependent Carson Wyndham. Jessica's testing of her powerful father's love is only the beginning of the pain, passion, and triumph she will experience on a journey with the indomitable, land-obsessed Silas Toliver and headstrong Jeremy Warwick to a wild new land called Texas. PRAISE FOR LEILA MEACHAM "Discovering Leila Meacham and her spectacular talent is akin to discovering gold. With this novel she has become a national treasure." -- Huffington Post "Rich with American history and pitch-perfect storytelling, fans and new readers alike will find themselves absorbed in the family saga that Meacham has proven-once again-talented in telling." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author : Louis-Lucien Bonaparte (Prince de Canino)
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 1877
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Author : W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
Publisher :
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 12,68 MB
Release : 2021-11-10
Category :
ISBN :
This is the first of three volumes of my collected short stories. In my early youth I wrote a number, but they are so immature that I have preferred not to reprint them. A few are in a book that has long remained out of print, a few others are scattered in various magazines. They are best forgotten. The first of the stories in this collection, Rain, was written in 1920 in Hong Kong, but I had hit upon the idea for it during a journey I took in the South Seas during the winter of 1916. The last of my stories was written in New York in 1945 from a brief note that I found by chance among my papers and which I made as far back as 1901. I do not expect ever to write another.
Author : Karin Aijmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317899245
This collection of articles form a tribute to Jan Svartvik and his pioneering work in the field. Covers corpus studies, problematic grammar, institution-based and observation-based grammars and the design and development of spoken and written text corpora in different varieties of English.
Author : Henry OLIVER (of the Railway Clearing House, London, and BOCKETT (John))
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 1866
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Author : Geoffrey Sampson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 49,92 MB
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1441139370
Corpus Linguistics seeks to provide a comprehensive sampling of real-life usage in a given language, and to use these empirical data to test language hypotheses. Modern corpus linguistics began fifty years ago, but the subject has seen explosive growth since the early 1990s. These days corpora are being used to advance virtually every aspect of language study, from computer processing techniques such as machine translation, to literary stylistics, social aspects of language use, and improved language-teaching methods. Because corpus linguistics has grown fast from small beginnings, newcomers to the field often find it hard to get their bearings. Important papers can be difficult to track down. This volume reprints forty-two articles on corpus linguistics by an international selection of authors, which comprehensively illustrate the directions in which the subject is developing. It includes articles that are already recognized as classics, and others which deserve to become so, supplemented with editorial introductions relating the individual contributions to the field as a whole. This collection of readings will be useful to students of corpus linguistics at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as academics researching this fascinating area of linguistics.
Author : Henry Thomas De La Beche
Publisher :
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Geology
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Author : Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 20,66 MB
Release : 2010-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307491110
An instinctive and magnificent storyteller, Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular and successful writers of his time. He published seventy-eight books -- including the undisputed classics Of Human Bondage and The Razor’s Edge -- which sold over 40 million copies in his lifetime. Born in Paris to sophisticated parents, Willie Maugham was orphaned at the age of ten and brought up in a small English coastal town by narrow-minded relatives. He was trained as a doctor, but never practiced medicine. His novel Ashenden, based on his own espionage for Britain in World War I, influenced writers from Eric Ambler to John le Carr?. After a failed affair with an actress, he married another man’s mistress, but reserved his greatest love for a man who shared his life for nearly thirty years. He traveled the world and spoke several languages. Despite a debilitating stutter, and an acerbic and formal manner, he entertained literary celebrities and royalty at his villa in the south of France. He made a fortune from his writing--the short story “Rain” alone earned him a million dollars–yet true critical recognition, and the esteem of his literary peers, eluded him. The life of Somerset Maugham, as told by acclaimed biographer Jeffrey Meyers, is an intriguing, glamorous, complex, and extraordinary account of one of the twentieth century’s most enduring writers. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author : Carole Lomas
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1803275804
This book uses Somerset as a case study to contribute to a broader understanding of how the Church developed across the British Isles during the transition from the post-Roman Church to the 11th century. It collates and cross-references all earlier research and offers the most up-to-date study of Somerset’s post-Roman churches.
