Author: Charles KnightPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336887781X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Old England: a Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipal, and Popular Antiquities
Author: Charles KnightPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336887781X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Old England: a Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipal, and Popular Antiquities ...
Author: Charles KnightPublisher: London : C. Knight & Company
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Old England, our Queen and her people: occasional pieces, comprising rural, pastoral, national and other poems, including an elegy on the ... death of the ... Prince Consort
Author: William GARRARD (Minister of Zoar Chapel, Leicester.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Jolly Old England
Author: Armand Francis LucierPublisher:
ISBN: 9780788403842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Inside this wonderful book is a collection of news items, stories, commentaries and depositions that were published under English datelines from 1720-1730 in Colonial American newspapers. All articles were originally published in English newspapers brought to the colonies by travelers. The articles are presented here verbatim. So, have a seat in your favorite easy chair, imagine you're in a tavern in London, (the Rose and Crown, the Halfmoon and Rummer, or maybe, the Queen's Head Alehouse) and let yourself get lost in the stories of Jolly Old England.
Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time
Author: Peter Hampson DitchfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Introduction to Old English
Author: Peter S. BakerPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 047065984X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Featuring numerous updates and additional anthology selections, the 3rd edition of Introduction to Old English confirms its reputation as a leading text designed to help students engage with Old English literature for the first time. A new edition of one of the most popular introductions to Old English Assumes no expertise in other languages or in traditional grammar Includes basic grammar reviews at the beginning of each major chapter and a “minitext” feature to aid students in practicing reading Old English Features updates and several new anthology readings, including King Alfred’s Preface to Gregory’s Pastoral Care
Smith
Author: Leon GarfieldPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141930128
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Young Smith was a pickpocket - a very accomplished one. But one day his pick-pocketing was to lead him into a sinister and dangerous web of murder, intrigue and betrayal.
Old England
Author: Charles KnightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Shakespeare Stories
Author: Leon GarfieldPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395861400
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
By skillfully weaving his own prose with Shakespeare's language, Leon Garfield has refashioned twelve of the Elizabethan playwright's most memorable dramas into stories, capturing all the richness of the characters, plot, mood, and setting. This format will delight both those who know the great dramatist's works and those who are new to them. Michael Foreman's dramatic color illustrations and varied black-and-white line drawings are the perfect complement to this celebration of Shakespeare's genius.
The Wordhord
Author: Hana VideenPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069123275X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English—and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakers Old English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it. Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer’s Middle English, Old English—the language of Beowulf—defies comprehension by untrained modern readers. Used throughout much of Britain more than a thousand years ago, it is rich with words that haven’t changed (like word), others that are unrecognizable (such as neorxnawang, or paradise), and some that are mystifying even in translation (gafol-fisc, or tax-fish). In this delightful book, Hana Videen gathers a glorious trove of these gems and uses them to illuminate the lives of the earliest English speakers. We discover a world where choking on a bit of bread might prove your guilt, where fiend-ship was as likely as friendship, and where you might grow up to be a laughter-smith. The Wordhord takes readers on a journey through Old English words and customs related to practical daily activities (eating, drinking, learning, working); relationships and entertainment; health and the body, mind, and soul; the natural world (animals, plants, and weather); locations and travel (the source of some of the most evocative words in Old English); mortality, religion, and fate; and the imagination and storytelling. Each chapter ends with its own “wordhord”—a list of its Old English terms, with definitions and pronunciations. Entertaining and enlightening, The Wordhord reveals the magical roots of the language you’re reading right now: you’ll never look at—or speak—English in the same way again.