Veranilda

Veranilda PDF Author: George Gissing
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Veranilda is a romance story set during imperial Roman times by George Gissing. Excerpt: "Seven years long had the armies of Justinian warred against the Goths in Italy. Victor from Rhegium to Ravenna, the great commander Belisarius had returned to the East, Carrying captive a Gothic king. The cities of the conquered land were garrisoned by barbarians of many tongues, who bore the name of Roman soldiers; the Italian people, brought low by slaughter, dearth, and plague, crouched under the rapacious tyranny of governors from Byzantium."

Veranilda

Veranilda PDF Author: George Gissing
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Veranilda is a romance story set during imperial Roman times by George Gissing. Excerpt: "Seven years long had the armies of Justinian warred against the Goths in Italy. Victor from Rhegium to Ravenna, the great commander Belisarius had returned to the East, Carrying captive a Gothic king. The cities of the conquered land were garrisoned by barbarians of many tongues, who bore the name of Roman soldiers; the Italian people, brought low by slaughter, dearth, and plague, crouched under the rapacious tyranny of governors from Byzantium."

VERANILDA

VERANILDA PDF Author: GEORGE GISSING
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Ancient Rome in the English Novel

Ancient Rome in the English Novel PDF Author: Randolph Faries
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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A fieldmouse is visited by his uncle who teaches him to work and to take the risk of dancing in the moonlight.

Shadows of the Future

Shadows of the Future PDF Author: Patrick Parrinder
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815626916
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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H. G. Wells—the inventor of the concept of the time machine and the phrase "the Shape of Things to Come"—described his life's work as one of "critical anticipation." Shadows of the Future identifies the attempt to imagine possible futures as the unifying principle behind Wells's diverse and sometimes wayward literary career. The book unravels the complex layers of meaning in The Time Machine, and shows how throughout his life he sought to exploit the potential of literary and cultural prophecy in new ways. Described by John Middleton Murry as "the last prophet of bourgeois Europe," he was also its first futurologist. In Shadows of the Future Wells's assumption of the prophet's role is related to his championship of the modern scientific outlook, and to the theory and practice of science fiction and utopian literature. Parrinder explores the connections between novelty and repetition, between imagining the future and imagining the past, and between prophecy and parody as literary modes. Wells's science fiction is reexamined both as a projection of the cosmology implicit in the writings of Darwin and Huxley, and as a new variation on the Romantic and Enlightenment themes of such earlier authors as Blake, Gibbon, and Mary Shelley. Later chapters relate Wells's fiction to his nonfiction and look at the uneasy relationship of his utopianism to literary prophecy, and at the paradoxes inherent in the militant internationalism of the " prophet at large." Finally, Wells's influence is traced in a study of the antiutopian fictions of Zamyatin and Orwell, and in a broad account of the connections between science fiction and the scientific outlook down to our own time.

Ancient Rome in the English novel: a study in English historical fiction

Ancient Rome in the English novel: a study in English historical fiction PDF Author: Randolph Faries
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127

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"Ancient Rome in the English novel: a study in English historical fiction" by Randolph Faries. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

George Gissing, Classicist

George Gissing, Classicist PDF Author: Samuel Vogt Gapp
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512816116
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Gissing's combination of the love of classical literature with this vivid sense of modern realism, showing how his classical background was built up by reading and his travels in Italy, with references of classical allusions in his works.

George Gissing

George Gissing PDF Author: Pierre Coustillas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136174656
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 583

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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.

Sketch

Sketch PDF Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626

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The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part III

The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part III PDF Author: Pierre Coustillas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317304020
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. This final volume in Coustillas’s prodigious biography examines the turbulent last years of the author’s life and his literary afterlife.

The House of Cobwebs

The House of Cobwebs PDF Author: George Gissing
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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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A collection of short stories written by English novelist George Gissing.