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Category : Cosmography
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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The Story of the Boundless Universe and All Its Wondrous Worlds
Author: The Story of the Boundless Universe and All Its Wondrous Worlds
Author: Popular Children’s Literature in Britain
Author: Julia BriggsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351910035
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
The astonishing success of J.K. Rowling and other contemporary children's authors has demonstrated how passionately children can commit to the books they love. But this kind of devotion is not new. This timely volume takes up the challenge of assessing the complex interplay of forces that have created the popularity of children's books both today and in the past. The essays collected here ask about the meanings and values that have been ascribed to the term 'popular'. They consider whether popularity can be imposed, or if it must always emerge from children's preferences. And they investigate how the Harry Potter phenomenon fits into a repeated cycle of success and decline within the publishing industry. Whether examining eighteenth-century chapbooks, fairy tales, science schoolbooks, Victorian adventures, waif novels or school stories, these essays show how historical and publishing contexts are vital in determining which books will succeed and which will fail, which bestsellers will endure and which will fade quickly into obscurity. As they considering the fiction of Angela Brazil, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and J.K. Rowling, the contributors carefully analyse how authorial talent and cultural contexts combine, in often unpredictable ways, to generate - and sometimes even sustain - literary success.
Speaking Volumes
Author: Edith Newman DevlinPublisher: Dublin Childhood
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
In this text Edith Newman Devlin remembers her childhood in Dublin in the 1930s and 40s as a poor Protestant living among even poorer Catholics. Reading was her escape, and commentaries on the emotional truth of literature alternate with chapters of personal memoir.
The Parables Prophetically Explained; Being Lectures Delivered During Lent, 1853, at St. George's, Bloomsbury. By Twelve Clergymen of the Church of England. With a Preface by the Rev. W. Cadman
Author: William CADMANThe Boundless
Author: Kenneth OppelPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 144247288X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A humorously titled small book whose 360 degree spiral binding makes its contents impossible to view.
Ariel
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Category : College student newspapers and periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Parables prophetically explained, lectures delivered at St. George's, Bloomsbury
Author: Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia
Author: Guy Stanton FordPublisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The Book of God. The Apocalypse of Adam-Oannes
Author: Edward Vaughan Hyde KenealyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description