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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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The Hubbub; Or, the History of Farmer Russel, the Hard-hearted Overseer
Author: The Hubbub; or, the history of Farmer Russel, the hard-hearted overseer. Signed, S.
Author: Cheap Repository Tracts, published during the year 1795 (1796). Forming volume I (II). Many signed: “Z,” i.e. Hannah More
Author: Entwicklung Des Romans
Author: International Comparative Literature Association. CongressPublisher:
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Swamplandia!
Author: Karen RussellPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307595447
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The bravely imagined, wildly acclaimed debut novel from the author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove—about a thirteen year old girl who sets out on a mission through magical swamps to save her family. "Ms. Russell is one in a million.... A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book." —The New York Times Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family’s island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, her sister falls in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, defects to a rival park called The World of Darkness. As Ava embarks on her mission to save them all, we are drawn into a lush debut that takes us to the shimmering edge of reality.
English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830
Author: Gary KellyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134960778
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 is the first comprehensive historical survey of fiction from that period for many decades. It combines a clear awareness of the period's social history with recent developments in literary criticism, theory and history, and explains the astounding variety of forms in Romantic fiction in terms of the various cultural, political, social, regional and gender conflicts of the time. It provides a broad-ranging survey from the major authors and works through to the sub-genres of the period. Jan Austin and Sir Alter Scott are discussed alongside the Gothic Romance, political and feminist fiction, social satire and regional, rural and historical novels. It also provides a comparison of the methods of distribution and marketing and the availability of books then and now; examines cheap popular fiction and children's fiction, and considers the recent debate about the place of prose fiction in a Romantic literature hitherto dominated by poetry.
English Local Government: The parish and the county
Author: Sidney WebbPublisher:
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act: The parish and the county
Author: Sidney WebbPublisher:
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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The Overseers of Early American Slavery
Author: Laura R. SandyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000048969
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Enmeshed in the exploitative world of racial slavery, overseers were central figures in the management of early American plantation enterprises. All too frequently dismissed as brutal and incompetent, they defy easy categorisation. Some were rogues, yet others were highly skilled professionals, farmers, and artisans. Some were themselves enslaved. They and their wives, with whom they often formed supervisory partnerships, were caught between disdainful planters and defiant enslaved labourers, as they sought to advance their ambitions. Their history, revealed here in unprecedented detail, illuminates the complex power struggles and interplay of class and race in a volatile slave society.
English Local Government
Author: Sidney WebbPublisher:
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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