Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
The Memoirs of Alexander Ramkins is a memoir of a hardworking and impressive military officer deserving of high praise. Excerpt: "I was not above Seventeen Years of Age when the Battle of Gillycranky was fought between the Two Highland Generals, the Lord Viscount Dundee and Mackay. And being then a Stripling at the University of Aberdeen and understanding that several Clans were gathering into a Body in defense of King James III sold my Books and Furniture of my Lodgings, and equipped myself to observe the Martial Call, I found myself prompted with."
Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718)
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
The Memoirs of Alexander Ramkins is a memoir of a hardworking and impressive military officer deserving of high praise. Excerpt: "I was not above Seventeen Years of Age when the Battle of Gillycranky was fought between the Two Highland Generals, the Lord Viscount Dundee and Mackay. And being then a Stripling at the University of Aberdeen and understanding that several Clans were gathering into a Body in defense of King James III sold my Books and Furniture of my Lodgings, and equipped myself to observe the Martial Call, I found myself prompted with."
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
The Memoirs of Alexander Ramkins is a memoir of a hardworking and impressive military officer deserving of high praise. Excerpt: "I was not above Seventeen Years of Age when the Battle of Gillycranky was fought between the Two Highland Generals, the Lord Viscount Dundee and Mackay. And being then a Stripling at the University of Aberdeen and understanding that several Clans were gathering into a Body in defense of King James III sold my Books and Furniture of my Lodgings, and equipped myself to observe the Martial Call, I found myself prompted with."
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Majr Alexander Ramkins, Etc
DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie Stephen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1356
Book Description
The Dictionary of National Biography, Founded in 1882 by George Smith
Author: Sir Leslie Stephen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
Book Description
Augustan Studies
Author: Douglas Lane Patey
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874132724
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Fifteen essay span the whole of the Augustan period (1660-1800). The volume concludes with a checklist of Ehrenpreis's published works.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874132724
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Fifteen essay span the whole of the Augustan period (1660-1800). The volume concludes with a checklist of Ehrenpreis's published works.
A Second Supplement to the Catalogue of Books in the Signet Library. 1882-1887
Author: Signet Library (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H.M. Signet in Scotland
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H.M. Signet in Scotland: Second supplement ... 1882-1887, with a subject index to the whole catalogue
Author: Society of Writers to H.M. Signet. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Robinson Crusoe (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Pat Rogers
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317687639
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
First published in 1979, this title presents the basic facts and the background information needed by a modern reader of Robinson Crusoe, as well as a careful exploration of the structure and style of the work itself. Pat Rogers pays particular attention to the book’s composition and publishing history, the critical history surrounding it from 1719 onwards, and the contemporary context of geographical discovery, colonialism and piracy, as well as more controversial areas of interpretation. A wide-ranging and practical reissue, this study will be of value to literature students with a particular interest in the critical interpretation of Robinson Crusoe, as well as the novel’s place in the context of Defoe’s career.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317687639
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
First published in 1979, this title presents the basic facts and the background information needed by a modern reader of Robinson Crusoe, as well as a careful exploration of the structure and style of the work itself. Pat Rogers pays particular attention to the book’s composition and publishing history, the critical history surrounding it from 1719 onwards, and the contemporary context of geographical discovery, colonialism and piracy, as well as more controversial areas of interpretation. A wide-ranging and practical reissue, this study will be of value to literature students with a particular interest in the critical interpretation of Robinson Crusoe, as well as the novel’s place in the context of Defoe’s career.