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The Blue Jackets who fought on land The time of Nelson was not only notable because of the success in nautical warfare of the man himself, but also because it was the zenith of the 'age of sail' that left British sea power so...

Since its initial publication in the early nineteenth century, Elias Lonnrot's Finnish epic Kalevala has attracted international interest and scholarship. However, the author comments that the distorting lenses of translation, cultural difference and historical distance, have rendered the work a cryptic and often misinterpreted...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

The two plays which make up this volume are of different quality. While no one would claim that The Atheist's Tragedy is a masterpiece, it is an important play because in it the exhortation 'Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord' is acted upon with...

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. Edited and...

This is the second volume in Sources of Dramatic Theory. This volume includes the major theoretical writing on drama and theater from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Among the writers represented by their own essays or substantial extracts from longer works are: Voltaire,...

Companion guide to the third volume of Dekker's plays, with introductions and commentary on The Roaring Girl, If this be Not a Good Play, the Devil is in it, Troia-Nova Triumphans, Match me in London, The Virgin Martyr, The Witch of Edmonton and The...

This is the ninth volume in the definitive series of critical, old-spelling texts of the plays in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, in which the texts are established on modern bibliographical principles. This volume contains six plays written by Fletcher and his collaborators, Philip...

The Novels of August Strindberg: A Study in Theme and Structure offers a comprehensive exploration of the psychological depths and artistic innovations of one of literature's most enigmatic figures. This book focuses on Strindberg's quest for identity--a central and universal theme--tracing its evolution across...

The Novels of August Strindberg: A Study in Theme and Structure offers a comprehensive exploration of the psychological depths and artistic innovations of one of literature's most enigmatic figures. This book focuses on Strindberg's quest for identity--a central and universal theme--tracing its evolution across...

Introduction - Jane Austen - Arnold Bennett - Charlotte Bronte - Emily Bronte - Joseph Conrad - Daniel Defoe - Charles Dickens - George Eliot - Henry Fielding - E.M.Forster - Thomas Hardy - Henry James - James Joyce - D.H.Lawrence - George Meredith...

WINNER OF THE PROSE AWARD FOR LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND LINGUISTICS! The two principal questions that The City of Translation sets out to answer are: how did poetry, philology, catechesis, and literary translation legitimate a coterie of right-wing literati's rise to power in Colombia? And...

This collection of essays by scholars with expertise in a range of fields, cultural professionals and policy makers explores different ways in which the arts and humanities contribute to dealing with the challenges of contemporary society in ways that do not rely on simplistic...

An original mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book looks at Englishness and national identity in women's writing and includes writing from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Doris...

Autobiography And Personal Reminiscences Of Major-General Benjamin F. Butler Part 1 is a memoir written by Benjamin F. Butler, a prominent American politician and military leader. The book covers the first part of Butler's life, from his childhood in New Hampshire to his early...

Author: Austin AllenISBN-10: 1939574412ISBN-13: 9781939574411Publisher: Measure Press Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2025Pages: 104Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Author: MichellISBN-10: 1068341734ISBN-13: 9781068341731Publisher: Linen PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/21/2025Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.23d

Author: Robert SheaISBN-10: 1952746434ISBN-13: 9781952746437Publisher: Hilaritas Press, LLC.Language: EnglishPublished: 09/23/2025Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.73d

Reviews from readers: "I could not put this book down. At times painfully tragic, with moments of laugh-out-loud humor." Cynthia"If you grew up in a small town in the 60s or 70s, this bittersweet memoir is your story, too. Written in a non-linear essay...

A destructive raccoon threatens to dismantle a house and a marriage; a desperate woman sows a seed of impossible hope; a mute girl wrestles with vocal demons, and a wife whose husband outweighs her by 300 lbs. struggles under the weight of an even...

Black Butterfly: Voices of the African Diaspora chronicles the generational aftermath of the Middle Passage through poetry, prose, and the resonant voices of the African Diaspora. Structured around four transformative concepts-Cocoon (family, home, and heritage), Metamorphosis (resilience through trauma, abuse, and war), Migration (displacement,...

What matters most when life is slipping away-power, wealth, or the legacy we leave behind?In Master and Man, Leo Tolstoy presents a gripping and poignant tale about a wealthy landowner, Vasili Brekhunov, who embarks on a fateful journey with his loyal yet underprivileged servant,...

During his life time George Washington Carver was referred to as the black Leonardo da Vinci. His research into alternative crops to replace cotton such as peanuts soybeans and sweet potatoes revolutionized Southern farming. Carver was born into slavery once slavery was abolished Carver...

Late in 1859, on 20th Oct, Daniel Owen turned twenty-three years old and it was a significant year for him. His friend, Nathaniel Jones, had been asked by Rees and Co, the publishers of the Caernarfon Herald to edit a new magazine called "Charles...

A collection of poems portraying the coming of age years for a young person in the modern world. The poems were inspired by past and present events while finding one's place in a changing environment.Author: Alekhya ReddyISBN-13: 9798588075701Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2021Pages: 74Format: PaperbackWeight:...

""If you are given a chance to choose your battle, would you choose it to be silent or known? What will be your weapons? Who will be your allies? These thought-provoking questions are the key elements of this heartfelt book, """"Triumphs Behind The Soundless...

Inspired by the true life story of the six wives of King Henry the Eight of England, Six! is a tale of false romance, true romance, familial romance with a tinge of self love. After the death of her father Henry, Liz process her...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...

Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres....

The Frozen Pirate - Vol. I is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a...

Dr. Heidegger is an eccentric old man. He invites four elderly friends to participate in an experiment in his mysterious, gloomy study. He shows them a withered rose that he claims is fifty-five years old. He then displays a vase, a gift from an...

Chuntao is a novel penned by Xu Dishan. This narrative delves into the triangular romantic entanglements among Chuntao, Xiang Gao, and Li Mao. On the day Chuntao and Li Mao were to be married, chaos erupted as a result of invading troops, causing the...

A COLLECTION OF PIECES FROM WRITERS, PHILOSOPHERS, POETS, SAGES FROM ALL AGES. THESE WRITINGS CONTAIN PHILOSOPHY FROM AROUND THE WORLD. THE WRITERS INCLUDED COME FROM DIVERSE TIME PERIODS. TO BRING READERS TO APPRECIATE THE WORK OF SOME FAMILIAR BUT ALSO LESSER KNOWN WRITINGS FROM...

Fernando Rendón, is the founder and director of the Latin American Poetry magazine "Prometeo", and the founder and chairman of the Medellin International Poetry Festival, he is a very world-wide well-known poet.Author: Fernando RendónISBN-10: 173860070XISBN-13: 9781738600700Publisher: Bfh Academic PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/28/2023Pages: 78Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize:...

Full piano-vocal arrangements of some 50 songs spanning seven decades of songwriting.Author: Andy GausISBN-10: 1708981705ISBN-13: 9781708981709Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/18/2020Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.44d

Your Greater Self or The Inner Consciousness, written by William Walker Atkinson in 1908, is yet another title in his repertoire pertaining to greater or higher thought. In this case, the book centers on the idea that there are higher levels of consciousness and...

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which...

Hawthorne wrote introduction, titled "The Wayside", referring to The Wayside in Concord, where he lived from 1852 until his death. In the introduction, Hawthorne writes about a visit from his young friend Eustace Bright, who requested a sequel to A Wonder-Book, which impelled him...

Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Although the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass, revising it multiple times until his death. This resulted...

Jane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847. Primarily of the Bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester,...

The After House By Mary Roberts Rinehart, Editorial Oneness (Edited by)Author: Editorial Oneness,Mary Roberts RinehartISBN-10: 1539387313ISBN-13: 9781539387312Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/07/2016Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.33d

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 - 29 October 1924) was an American-English novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885-1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).Author: Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN-10:...

Wapping Old Stairs?" said the rough individual, shouldering the bran-new sea-chest, and starting off at a trot with it; "yus, I know the place, captin. Fust v'y'ge, sir?" "Ay, ay, my hearty," replied the owner of the chest, a small, ill-looking lad of fourteen....

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1894 Edition. Or, A History And Description Of All Ancient Columns And Surface Marbles Still Existing In Rome: With A List Of The Buildings In Which They Are Found.Author: Henry William PullenISBN-10: 1498189598ISBN-13: 9781498189590Publisher: Literary Licensing,...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1909 Edition.Author: Angelus SilesiusISBN-10: 1498189202ISBN-13: 9781498189200Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 206Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.44d

Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics is a book written by Josiah Willard Gibbs in 1902. It is a seminal work in the field of statistical mechanics and is widely regarded as one of the most important works in the history of thermodynamics. The book...