Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
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Languages : en
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3 letters from Sir Walter Scott to Thomas Crofton Croker
Author: Walter ScottLetters from Sir Walter Scott to Thomas Crofton Croker
Author: Walter ScottFairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, 3. Edition
Author: Thomas Crofton-CrokerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 366
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2 Letters from Sir Walter Scott to Thomas Crofton Croker
Author: Walter ScottBenjamin Disraeli Letters
Author: Benjamin DisraeliPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442639504
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The private letters of a statesman are always inviting material for historians and when he has claim to literary fame as well the correspondence assumes a double significance. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) belonged to an age that gave pride of place to the written word as an instrument of both business and pleasure. This volume includes 363 letters (many previously unpublished) from his school boy days to his establishment in the Tory camp under the patronage of Lord Lyndhurst. Most prominent are Disraeli's letters to his sister, Sarah, with whom he corresponded frequently over several decades. To her he confided his hopes, interspersed with his observations and descriptions of social, literary and political events. The letters to Sarah supply a skeleton around which Disraeli's young manhood can be reconstructed and shed valuable light on the remaining documents in the volume. The correspondence also includes accounts of his tour of the Low Countries and the Rhine in 1824, his adventurous trip to Spain, Greece, the Near East and Egypt in 1830, his tense negotiations with publishers and his campaign to shine as a member of aristocratic society and win political patronage. The letters demonstrate the fine eye for detail and the capacity for self-dramatization and literary conceits which mark his novels. With their annotations they also provide a remarkably detailed account of life in the upper reaches of English society as viewed from below, and of Disraeli's ambitions to enter that life.
The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms’ Deutsche Sagen in Northern Europe
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004511644
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
This book sheds new light on the key role played by the Grimms’ Deutsche Sagen in the collection of folklore an d the creation of national culture in Northern Europe.
The Performing Century
Author: T. DavisPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230589480
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This book looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland. On subjects as varied as the vogue for fairy plays to the representation of economics to the work of a parliamentary committee in regulating theatres, the authors redefine what theatre and performance in the Nineteenth century might be.
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors
Author: S. Austin AllibonePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375120982
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.