Author: William B. Thesing
Publisher: Detroit : Gale Research
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Focuses on British short-story writers whose works recorded the truth as they saw it, responding to such topics as marriage and relationships, slum conditions, working-class endeavors, and women's issues.
British Short-fiction Writers, 1880-1914
Author: William B. Thesing
Publisher: Detroit : Gale Research
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Focuses on British short-story writers whose works recorded the truth as they saw it, responding to such topics as marriage and relationships, slum conditions, working-class endeavors, and women's issues.
Publisher: Detroit : Gale Research
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Focuses on British short-story writers whose works recorded the truth as they saw it, responding to such topics as marriage and relationships, slum conditions, working-class endeavors, and women's issues.
The Publishers Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
Writers H - Z.
Author: Daniel Lane Kirkpatrick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781558620797
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781558620797
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
The Philosopher's Joke
Author: Jerome K. Jerome
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 147337331X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
This early work by Jerome K. Jerome was originally published in 1909 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Philosopher's Joke' is a novel about six friends who meet a philosopher who offers them a proposition not to be missed. Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in Walsall, England in 1859. Both his parents died while he was in his early teens, and he was forced to quit school to support himself. In 1889, Jerome published his most successful and best-remembered work, 'Three Men in a Boat'. Featuring himself and two of his friends encountering humorous situations while floating down the Thames in a small boat, the book was an instant success, and has never been out of print. In fact, its popularity was such that the number of registered Thames boats went up fifty percent in the year following its publication.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 147337331X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
This early work by Jerome K. Jerome was originally published in 1909 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Philosopher's Joke' is a novel about six friends who meet a philosopher who offers them a proposition not to be missed. Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in Walsall, England in 1859. Both his parents died while he was in his early teens, and he was forced to quit school to support himself. In 1889, Jerome published his most successful and best-remembered work, 'Three Men in a Boat'. Featuring himself and two of his friends encountering humorous situations while floating down the Thames in a small boat, the book was an instant success, and has never been out of print. In fact, its popularity was such that the number of registered Thames boats went up fifty percent in the year following its publication.
A Textbook of Translation
Author: Peter Newmark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Translating and interpreting
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Translating and interpreting
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Brief History of English and American Literature
Author: Henry Augustin Beers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
The Ethnic Origins of Nations
Author: Anthony D. Smith
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631161691
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book is an excellent, comprehensive account of the ways in which nations and nationhood have evolved over time. Successful in hardback, it is now available in paperback for a student audience.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631161691
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book is an excellent, comprehensive account of the ways in which nations and nationhood have evolved over time. Successful in hardback, it is now available in paperback for a student audience.
Doubt and Other Things
Author: Elihu Vedder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Malvina of Brittany
Author: K. Jerome Jerome
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732693392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Malvina of Brittany by K. Jerome Jerome
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732693392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Malvina of Brittany by K. Jerome Jerome
The English Studies Book
Author: Rob Pope
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134795459
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
The English Studies Book is uniquely designed to support students and teachers working across the full range of language, literature and culture. Combining the functions of study guide, critical dictionary and text anthology, it has rapidly established itself as a core text on a wide variety of degree programmes nationally and internationally. Revised and updated throughout, features of the second edition include: * a new prologue addressing changes and challenges in English Studies * substantial entries on over 100 key critical and theoretical terms, from 'absence' and 'author' to 'text' and 'versification' - with new entries on 'creative writing', 'travel writing' and 'translation' * practical introductions to all the major theoretical approaches, with new sections on aesthetics, ethics, ecology and sexuality * a rich anthology of literary and related texts from Anglo-Saxon to Afro-Caribbean, with fresh selections representing the sonnet, haiku, slave narratives and science fiction, and with additional texts by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charles Darwin, Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, Amy Tan and others * handy frameworks and checklists for close reading, research, essay writing and other textual activities, including use of the Internet.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134795459
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
The English Studies Book is uniquely designed to support students and teachers working across the full range of language, literature and culture. Combining the functions of study guide, critical dictionary and text anthology, it has rapidly established itself as a core text on a wide variety of degree programmes nationally and internationally. Revised and updated throughout, features of the second edition include: * a new prologue addressing changes and challenges in English Studies * substantial entries on over 100 key critical and theoretical terms, from 'absence' and 'author' to 'text' and 'versification' - with new entries on 'creative writing', 'travel writing' and 'translation' * practical introductions to all the major theoretical approaches, with new sections on aesthetics, ethics, ecology and sexuality * a rich anthology of literary and related texts from Anglo-Saxon to Afro-Caribbean, with fresh selections representing the sonnet, haiku, slave narratives and science fiction, and with additional texts by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charles Darwin, Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, Amy Tan and others * handy frameworks and checklists for close reading, research, essay writing and other textual activities, including use of the Internet.