Author: Henry MorleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
Book Description
A first sketch of English literature. With suppl. to the end of queen Victoria's reign
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part II Volume 7
Author: Trev Lynn BroughtonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040129161
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work.
Victoria the Queen
Author: Julia Woodlands BairdPublisher:
ISBN: 1400069882
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
The race to the crown -- The birth of "pocket Hercules"--The lonely, naughty princess -- An impossible, strange madness -- "Awful scenes in the house"--Becoming queen: "I shall not fail" -- The coronation: "a dream out of the Arabian nights" -- Learning to rule -- A scandal in the palace -- Virago in love -- The bride: "I never, never spent such an evening" -- Only the husband, not the master -- The palace intruders -- King to all intents: "like a vulture into his prey" -- Perfect, awful, spotless prosperity -- Annus Mirabilis: the revolutionary year -- What Albert did: the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- The Crimea: 'This unsatisfactory war' -- London boils over -- Royal parents: "everything passes so quickly!" -- "Who will call me Victoria now?" -- "The whole house seems like Pompeii." -- Resuscitating the widow at Windsor -- The queen's stallion -- The faery queen awakes -- Enough to kill any man -- Two ironclads colliding: the queen and Mr. Gladstone -- The monarch in a bonnet -- The "poor munshi" -- The diamond empire -- The end of the Victorian Age - "The streets were indeed a strange sight
The Bookseller
Author: The Sketch
Author: Sketch
Author: Queen Victoria
Author: Lytton StracheyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Books that Count
Author: William Forbes GrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description