Author: John Arthur Robert CairnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The Sidelights of London
Author: John Arthur Robert CairnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
London Side-lights
Author: Clarence RookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Sidelights on New London and Newer York and Other Essays
Author: G. K. ChestertonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781981354252
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
CONTENTSA FIRST WORD 5PART I NEW LONDON 8I. ON BRIGHT OLD THINGS 8II. ON CALLING NAMES 14III. ON KEEPING YOUR HAIR ON 20IV. THE COWARDICE OF COCKTAILS 28V. GATES AND GATE-CRASHERS 37VI. THE UNPSYCHOLOGICAL AGE 46VII. THE TRUE VICTORIAN HYPOCRISY 53VIII. MARRIAGE AND THE MODERN MIND 60PART II NEWER YORK 67I. THE AMERICAN IDEAL 67II. A PLEA FOR PROHIBITION 74III. WHICH IS THE GOVERNMENT? 77IV A MONSTER: THE POLITICAL DRY 81V. BERNARD SHAW AND AMERICA 89VI. THE CASE AGAINST MAIN STREET 94VII. THE CASE FOR MAIN STREET 102VIII. THEY ARE ALL PURITANS 113IX. SKYSCRAPERS 121X. AND WHAT ABOUT THE QUAKERS? 125XI. ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN LONDON 130XII. UNKNOWN AMERICA 135XIII. WHAT OF THE REPUBLIC? 140XIV. RETURN TO THE VISION 150PART III OTHER ESSAYS 159I. THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE IN LITERATURE 159II. THE MIDDLEMAN IN POETRY 172III. SHAKESPEARE AND SHAW 181IV. BERNARD SHAW AND BREAKAGES 186V. THE POPULARITY OF DICKENS 191VI. MAGIC AND FANTASY IN FICTION 195
Light
Author: Side Lights on English History
Author: Ernest F. HendersonPublisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 9781410216267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Extracts from letters, papers, and diaries of the three centuries up to the year 1900, with the aim of giving color and life to history. The personalities become real and definite. By such writings we are initiated as by no other possible means into the spirit of the time. Witness the execution of the Queen of Scots through the eyes of the person who was appointed to tell Lord Burleigh all about it; follow the parliaments of Charles I and of Cromwell at the hand of men who served in them. Often the chief actors are our chief informants. These are voices that speak to us directly; the rest is merely commentary.
Jack London's Adventure Collection
Author: Jack LondonPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 3947
Book Description
This particular Jack London collection mirrors the incredible adventurous life of the author, it shows all the things he witnessed and experienced on his travels. Besides being a novelist, journalist and social activist – Jack London was also a railroad hobo, gold prospector, sailor, an oyster pirate, rancher, war correspondent..._x000D_ Novels_x000D_ The Cruise of the Dazzler_x000D_ A Daughter of the Snows_x000D_ The Call of the Wild_x000D_ The Sea-Wolf_x000D_ White Fang_x000D_ Burning Daylight_x000D_ Adventure_x000D_ The Scarlet Plague_x000D_ A Son of the Sun_x000D_ The Abysmal Brute_x000D_ The Mutiny of the Elsinore_x000D_ Jerry of the Islands_x000D_ Michael, Brother of Jerry_x000D_ Hearts of Three_x000D_ Short Stories_x000D_ Son of the Wolf_x000D_ The White Silence_x000D_ The Son of the Wolf_x000D_ The Men of Forty Mile_x000D_ In a Far Country_x000D_ To the Man on the Trail_x000D_ The Priestly Prerogative_x000D_ The Wisdom of the Trail_x000D_ The Wife of a King_x000D_ An Odyssey of the North_x000D_ The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondike_x000D_ The God of His Fathers_x000D_ The Great Interrogation_x000D_ Which Make Men Remember_x000D_ Siwash_x000D_ The Man with the Gash_x000D_ Jan, the Unrepentant_x000D_ Grit of Women_x000D_ Where the Trail Forks_x000D_ A Daughter of the Aurora_x000D_ At the Rainbow's End_x000D_ The Scorn of Women_x000D_ Children of the Frost_x000D_ In the Forests of the North_x000D_ The Law of Life_x000D_ Nam-Bok the Unveracious_x000D_ The Master of Mystery_x000D_ The Sunlanders_x000D_ The Sickness of Lone Chief_x000D_ Keesh, the Son of Keesh_x000D_ The Death of Ligoun_x000D_ Li Wan, the Fair_x000D_ The League of the Old Men_x000D_ The Faith of Men & Other Stories_x000D_ A Relic of the Pliocene_x000D_ A Hyperborean Brew_x000D_ The Faith of Men_x000D_ Too Much Gold_x000D_ The One Thousand Dozen_x000D_ The Marriage of Lit-lit_x000D_ Bâtard_x000D_ The Story of Jees Uck_x000D_ Tales of the Fish Patrol_x000D_ White and Yellow_x000D_ The King of the Greeks_x000D_ A Raid on the Oyster Pirates_x000D_ The Siege of the "Lancashire Queen"_x000D_ Charley's Coup_x000D_ Demetrios Contos_x000D_ Yellow Handkerchief_x000D_ Lost Face_x000D_ South Sea Tales_x000D_ The House of Pride & Other Tales of Hawaii_x000D_ Smoke Bellew_x000D_ The Red One_x000D_ On the Makaloa Mat_x000D_ Dutch Courage & Other Stories_x000D_ Memoirs_x000D_ The Road_x000D_ The Cruise of the Snark_x000D_ Through The Rapids on the Way to the Klondike_x000D_ From Dawson to the Sea_x000D_ Our Adventures in Tampico
Intimate Subjects
Author: Simeon KoolePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226834336
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
An insightful history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain told through a single sense: touch. When, where, and who gets to touch and be touched, and who decides? What do we learn through touch? How does touch bring us closer together or push us apart? These are urgent contemporary questions, but they have their origins in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, when new urban encounters compelled intense discussion of what touch was, and why it mattered. In this vividly written book, Simeon Koole excavates the history of these concerns and reveals how they continue to shape ideas about “touch” in the present. Intimate Subjects takes us to the bustling railway stations, shady massage parlors, all-night coffee stalls, and other shared spaces where passengers, customers, vagrants, and others came into contact, leading to new understandings of touch. We travel in crammed subway cars, where strangers negotiated the boundaries of personal space. We visit tea shops where waitresses made difficult choices about autonomy and consent. We enter classrooms in which teachers wondered whether blind children could truly grasp the world and labs in which neurologists experimented on themselves and others to unlock the secrets of touch. We tiptoe through London’s ink-black fogs, in which disoriented travelers became newly conscious of their bodies and feared being accosted by criminals. Across myriad forgotten encounters such as these, Koole shows, touch remade what it meant to be embodied—as well as the meanings of disability, personal boundaries, and scientific knowledge. With imagination and verve, Intimate Subjects offers a new way of theorizing the body and the senses, as well as a new way of thinking about embodiment and vulnerability today.
Armed with Sword and Scales
Author: Sascha AuerbachPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108871666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
In the mid-eighteenth century, author and magistrate Henry Fielding adjudicated cases of theft, assault, and public disorder from his London home on Bow Street. By the middle of the nineteenth century, Fielding's modest 'police office' had expanded to become the most prolific court system in Britain and the cornerstone of criminal and civil justice in the metropolis. Sascha Auerbach examines the fascinating history of this institution through the lens of 'courtroom culture' – the combination of formal statute and informal custom that guided everyday practice in the London Police Courts. He offers a new model for understanding the relationship between law, culture, and society in modern Britain and illuminates how the local courtroom became a crucial part of everyday life and thoroughly entangled with popular representations of justice and morality.
The Studio
Author: Two Centuries of British Symphonism
Author: Jürgen SchaarwächterPublisher: Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN: 3487152282
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 619
Book Description
Die britische Sinfonik ist erst in jüngster Zeit ins allgemeine Interesse gerückt. Ein Überblick über die sinfonische Entwicklung im Vereinigten Königreich seit den Anfängen im 18. Jahrhundert bis ins 20. Jahrhundert blieb aber bis heute ein Desideratum. Der hier vorgelegte Überblick zeigt, wie sich die Identität einer britischen Sinfonik über mehr als hundert Jahre entwickelte, geprägt durch Einflüsse vom europäischen Kontinent und von dem Bedürfnis, eigene Wege zu finden. Gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts nahm das sinfonische Schaffen in Großbritannien stark zu, brachte jedoch erst mit Edward Elgar einen prominenten Vertreter von internationalem Rang hervor. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt dieser Publikation liegt auf jenen Werken, die zu einem gewissen Grade von anderen überschattet wurden, unveröffentlicht oder unaufgeführt blieben. Das Ergebnis ist das Bild einer vielgestaltigen sinfonischen Landschaft Großbritanniens, das die ästhetischen Perspektiven der einzelnen Komponisten wie auch ihre soziokulturellen Kontexte erhellt. Ein umfangreiches Verzeichnis aller bekannten Werke und eine ausführliche Bibliographie laden zu weiterer Erkundung des Sujets ein. Only in relatively recent times has any real attention been given to British symphonies. So a comprehensive survey, showing what exists and how the situation in the United Kingdom developed, from the beginnings in the 18th century until well into the 20th century, is long overdue. The preliminary survey presented here shows how a British symphonic identity gradually took shape over more than a century, through influences from abroad and, at home, enterprising attempts to find new ways of expression. By the end of the 19th century, British symphonists had produced an impressive body of work, yet only with the appearance of Elgar’s two symphonies in the following decade did this flourishing school find a champion of international renown. In this publication, light is shone on those works that have to some extent been overshadowed, as well as on those that have remained unpublished or unperformed. The result is a multi-faceted panorama of British symphonism, offering many insights into the composers’ thinking and their socio-cultural contexts. A comprehensive catalogue of all known works and an extensive bibliography invite readers to delve further into the subject.