Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron LyttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
The Novels and Romances of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., M.P. A New Edition ... With Illustrations by H. K. Browne, John Gilbert,&c.&c
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron LyttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
The Novels and Romances of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., M.P. A New Edition ... With Illustrations by H. K. Browne, John Gilbert,&c.&c
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron LyttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
A Sentimental Library
Author: Harry Bache SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Music of the Waters
Author: Laura Alexandrine SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ocean
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The English in America
Author: Thomas Chandler HaliburtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Death of a Hero
Author: Richard AldingtonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101602937
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
One of the great World War I antiwar novels—honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical Based on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel, Death of a Hero, finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classics. Our hero is George Winterbourne, who enlists in the British Expeditionary Army during the Great War and gets sent to France. After a rash of casualties leads to his promotion through the ranks, he grows increasingly cynical about the war and disillusioned by the hypocrisies of British society. Aldington's writing about Britain's ignorance of the tribulations of its soldiers is among the most biting ever published. Death of a Hero vividly evokes the morally degrading nature of combat as it rushes toward its astounding finish. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Dictionary of World Biography
Author: Barry JonesPublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760464678
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the ‘post-industrial’ society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age’ and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016. He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia’s five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia’s 100 ‘living national treasures’ in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life’. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
The Clockmaker
Author: Thomas Chandler HaliburtonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752355999
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Clockmaker by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The Royal Academy of Arts
Author: Algernon GravesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Dictionary of World Biography
Author: Barry JonesPublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760461261
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 941
Book Description
Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the ‘post-industrial’ society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age’ and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.