Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Waverly Novels: The monastery. 1857
Author: Walter ScottA Guide To The Best Historical Novels and Tales
Author: Jonathan NieldPublisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
These Historical Novels have taught all men this truth, which looks like a truism, and yet was as good as unkwon to writers of history and others, till so taught: that the bygone ages of the world were actually filled by living men, not by protocols, state-papers, controversies, and abstractions of men.
Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The monastery. The abbot
Author: Walter ScottWaverley Novels
Author: Sir Walter ScottPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9780461004960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Comfort Found in Good Old Books
Author: George Hamlin FitchPublisher:
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Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Promotes reading good books.
The Routledge History of Literature in English
Author: Ronald CarterPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415243179
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.
The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870
Author: William CharvatPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231070775
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This study focuses on the complex relations between author, publisher and contemporary reading public in 19th-century America; in particular, the emergence of Irving and Cooper as America's first successful literary entrepreneurs, how Poe's and Melville's successes and failures affected their writing, the popularization of poetry in the 1830s and 1840s, the role of the literary magazine in the 1840s and 1850s, and the beginnings of book promotion. It pays particular attention to the way social and economic forces helped to shape literary works.
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot
Author: Walter BagehotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description