Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Select British Classics
Author: British Auto Legends
Author: Michel ZumbrunnPublisher:
ISBN: 9781858944944
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The British motor industry has created many of the world's landmark car designs. Its famous names - Jaguar, Bentley, AC, Rolls-Royce, Aston Martin - are inextricably linked with some of the most recognized and coveted cars ever made. This book gathers together more than 50 of the most significant British cars designed between 1907 and the present.
Classic British Sports Cars
Author: Jon PressnellPublisher: Haynes Publishing
ISBN: 9781844258499
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fifty-six open-top icon roadsters featured in this authoritative, highly pictorial celebration of classic British sports cars, now available in paperback. From the AC Ace to the Wolseley Hornet Special, individual histories place each car in perspective, describing its appeal, significance and driving characteristics. Also detailed for each one are models and variants, year-by-year evolution, specifications and performance figures.
The Bad Side of Books
Author: D.H. LawrencePublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681373645
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
You could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant, endlessly controversial novelist who transformed, for better and for worse, the way we write about sex and emotions; he was a wonderful poet; he was an essayist of burning curiosity, expansive lyricism, odd humor, and radical intelligence, equaled, perhaps, only by Virginia Woolf. Here Geoff Dyer, one of the finest essayists of our day, draws on the whole range of Lawrence’s published essays to reintroduce him to a new generation of readers for whom the essay has become an important genre. We get Lawrence the book reviewer, writing about Death in Venice and welcoming Ernest Hemingway; Lawrence the travel writer, in Mexico and New Mexico and Italy; Lawrence the memoirist, depicting his strange sometime-friend Maurice Magnus; Lawrence the restless inquirer into the possibilities of the novel, writing about the novel and morality and addressing the question of why the novel matters; and, finally, the Lawrence who meditates on birdsong or the death of a porcupine in the Rocky Mountains. Dyer’s selection of Lawrence’s essays is a wonderful introduction to a fundamental, dazzling writer.
The American Educational Catalogue
Author: Notes and Queries
Author: Urban Enlightenment and the Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essay
Author: R. SquibbsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137378247
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Urban Enlightenment offers the first literary history of the British periodical essay spanning the entire eighteenth century, and the first to study the genre's development and cultural impact in a transatlantic context.
Venus and Adonis
Author: Philip C. KolinPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 081532149X
Category : Adonis (Greek deity) in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
Critical essays on Shakespeare's epic poem, "Venus and Adonis".
B.H. Blackwell
Author: B.H. Blackwell LtdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1388
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Author: J. A. DowniePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191651060
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
Although the emergence of the English novel is generally regarded as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, this is the first book to be published professing to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. This Handbook surveys the development of the English novel during the 'long' eighteenth century-in other words, from the later seventeenth century right through to the first three decades of the nineteenth century when, with the publication of the novels of Jane Austen and Walter Scott, 'the novel' finally gained critical acceptance and assumed the position of cultural hegemony it enjoyed for over a century. By situating the novels of the period which are still read today against the background of the hundreds published between 1660 and 1830, this Handbook not only covers those 'masters and mistresses' of early prose fiction-such as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, Scott and Austen-who are still acknowledged to be seminal figures in the emergence and development of the English novel, but also the significant number of recently-rediscovered novelists who were popular in their own day. At the same time, its comprehensive coverage of cultural contexts not considered by any existing study, but which are central to the emergence of the novel, such as the book trade and the mechanics of book production, copyright and censorship, the growth of the reading public, the economics of culture both in London and in the provinces, and the re-printing of popular fiction after 1774, offers unique insight into the making of the English novel.