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The book, "" Clotelle; The Colored Heroine "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations....

A window onto the living pulse of 1668: a day-by-day chronicle that makes history feel intimate, urgent, and astonishingly readable. This is more than a diary; it is a window into a city reknitting itself after revolution and plague, a record of daily life...

A spark of the everyday, a history you can touch. Step into seventeenth-century London through the eyes of Samuel Pepys, and feel the pulse of a city awake after long, restless nights of change. This volume, Diary Of Samuel Pepys - Volume 64: April...

A spark of history, a living city, a reader's doorway into 17th-century London. Diary Of Samuel Pepys - Volume 62: February 1667-68 invites you to walk the docks, hear the rumour and see the day-to-day pulse of Restoration England through the keen observations of...

A window into London as it burned with change, and a record of daily life that reads like a living, breathing diary. A historic voice returns: intimate, immediate, and endlessly revealing. Diary Of Samuel Pepys - Volume 50: February 1666-67 continues the acclaimed restoration...

A vivid window into a shaken yet resilient city, Diary Of Samuel Pepys - Volume 47: November 1666 invites you to walk the streets of Restoration London as they reassemble after fire, fear, and upheaval. This much more than a diary: it is a...

A diary that reads like a window into a living city, teeth-chattering with plague, flame, and the clamor of court and fleet. A vivid, diary-style narrative that turns daily life into history you can touch. Diary Of Samuel Pepys - Volume 42 gathers Pepys's...

A small, intimate doorway into a city under pressure and a mind that never stops observing. A doorway that opens onto May and June 1665, when London wrestled with fear, faith, and the steady churn of daily life. Diary Of Samuel Pepys - Volume...

A glimpse of London in a year of fire and fear, told with wit, precision, and an eye for what endures. Diary Of Samuel Pepys - Volume 40 invites you into the daily rhythms of the 1665 plague era, where storms at sea and...

A window onto a sunken London, opened anew. Step into the diary of Samuel Pepys for October 1665, and walk the city as it confronts plague, fire, and fleet movements with unflinching immediacy. This volume isn't merely a transcription; it is a carefully restored...

A window into a city and a century, opened with wit, grit, and unflinching honesty. Diary Of Samuel Pepys - Volume 27: March 1663-64 returns a classic to the pulse of the present. This restored edition preserves Pepys's frank, everyday chronicle as a vital...

A vivid key to Restoration London, Diary Of Samuel Pepys - Volume 28: April/May 1664 invites readers into the heart of daily life, court theatre, and naval affairs as viewed through Pepys's keen, intimate chronicle. A doorway to a vanished world, opened again for...

A doorway into Restoration England opened with ink. This is not merely a diary; it is a living, breathing portrait of a city and its people in 1662, seen through the observant eyes of Samuel Pepys. Diaries of Samuel Pepys - Volume 16 gathers...

A vivid doorway into seventeenth-century England opens with a single, intimate voice. Diary Of Samuel Pepys - Volume 19: November/December 1662 invites you to walk London's bustling streets, hear the whispered intrigues of court and city, and witness a city rebuilding its life after...

A vivid doorway into Restoration England, Diary Of Samuel Pepys - Volume 15 opens a window on 1661-62 through one of history's most intimate, meticulously observed voices. This volume embodies the thrill of a historical diary collection: Pepys's daily notes fuse naval affairs with...

A short, luminous invitation: this is an invitation to think differently, right now. A doorway into essays that illuminate character, society, and the quiet power of an individual mind. This edition gathers Ralph Waldo Emerson's philosophical essays into a refined, modern presentation that reveals...

The book's protagonist is an amateur inventor or scientist living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller. Having demonstrated to friends using a miniature model that time is a fourth dimension, and that a suitable apparatus can...

A window onto a city alive with clatter, commerce and confession. A diary that lets you walk the streets of Restoration London as if you were there beside Pepys, jotting notes about a changing world. Diary Of Samuel Pepys - Volume 05 May 1660...

A window into the making of a city and a life. Pepys's January 1659/1660 diary entries open a vivid lens on daily London-its streets, its noise, its quiet rituals, its intimate conversations-told with a brisk, human intelligence that feels both personal and panoramic. This...

A 1-2 line hook: A sharp, sparkling doorway into fin de siècle London, where memory can travel as swiftly as the imagination. Enoch Soames: A Memory Of The Eighteen-Nineties is a masterclass in comic, urbane storytelling that blends humorous fantasy fiction with quiet, unsettling...

A thoughtful spark for curious minds and a quiet companion for long shelves. Emerson And Other Essays gathers the early-liberal-minded vigour of late nineteenth-century America into a single, enduring volume. This is more than a classic essay collection; it is a carefully wrought exploration...

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. We havent used any OCR or photocopy to produce this book. The whole book has been typeset...

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. We havent used any OCR or photocopy to produce this book. The whole book has been typeset...

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. We havent used any OCR or photocopy to produce this book. The whole book has been typeset...

Het Buginees--met een geschat aantal sprekers van tweeëneenhalf miljoen de grootste taal van Zuid-Sulawesi--kent een eeuwenlange schriftelijke overleving. Daaronder bevinden zich belangwekkende producten van historiografische en letterkundige aard. Hoe erkend belangrijk deze ook zijn, wetenschappelijke verantwoorde edities van dergelijke teksten zijn schaars, een omstandigheid...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: Lotte GoslarISBN-10: 9057021773ISBN-13: 9789057021770Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/1998Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.41d

Recognizing that (modern) literary history is currently one of the main sites of theoretical and methodological reflection in literary studies, this volume takes stock of recent scholarship and investigates how literary historical research has modified our understanding of writing between 1900 and 1950. Its...

This book contains a selection of the papers presented at a conference hosted by the MDRN research lab of the University of Leuven (www.mdnr.be) in 2013. It explores the breadth and depth of the issues of time and temporality in European modernist writing and...

This work attempts a psychoanalytic listening to the 'oral' Homeric epics in an effort to extract, as it were, from the ancient text certain elements of psychoanalytic understanding that are of relevance to contemporary psychoanalysis. There is, in addition, a consideration of related philosophical...

In the long nineteenth century, dominant stereotypes presented people of the Mediterranean South as particularly passionate and unruly, therefore incapable of adapting to the moral and political duties imposed by European civilization and modernity. This book studies, for the first time in comparative perspective,...

The volume focuses on the issue of intimacy (such as love, eros, affection, confidentiality and friendship or anti-intimacy) in connection to spatiality in women's writing at the fringes of Europe in the long nineteenth century.Author: Birgitta Lindh EstelleISBN-10: 9004518509ISBN-13: 9789004518506Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/2022Pages: 224Format:...

Jesseka Batteau offers an in-depth study of the work and performances of the writers Gerard Reve, Jan Wolkers and Maarten 't Hart as iconic mediators of post-religious memory in the Netherlands.Author: Jesseka M. BatteauISBN-10: 9004472258ISBN-13: 9789004472259Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/14/2021Pages: 424Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.72lbsSize: 9.21h x...

When Joseph Conrad died in 1924, Ford Madox Ford immediately published a memoir of his involvement with Conrad at which Conrad's widow took offense. The ensuing "controversy" left Ford with a lasting reputation for "unreliability" which Morey examines in detail, uncovering evidence that substantiates...

In the present work, a legal philosopher (Angela Condello) and a literaray scholar (Tiziano Toracca) develop the idea that a comparison between law and literature must be framed starting from the modes in which law and literature function. In this sense, they read law...

The present volume contributes to research on historic Arabic texts from late medieval Egypt and Syria. Departing from dominant understandings of these texts through the prisms of authenticity and "literarization," it engages with questions of textual constructedness and authorial agency. It consists of 13...

In this ground-breaking study, Sabine Binder analyses the complex ways in which female crime fictional victims, detectives and perpetrators in South African crime fiction resonate with widespread and persistent real crimes against women in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of crime...

Alongside annals, chronicles were the main genre of historical writing in the Middle Ages. Their significance as sources for the study of medieval history and culture is today widely recognised not only by historians, but also by students of medieval literature and linguistics and...

This study deals with the most radical of the badīʿ ("novel") poets of the ʿAbbāsid period, Abū Tammām. After a critique of classical badīʿ theory it proposes a redefinition of the new poetry as an exegetical metapoesis and on that basis provides analyses, accompanied...

Mademoiselle de Montpensier: Writings, Châteaux, and Female Self-Construction in Early Modern France examines questions of self-construction and pro-women advocacy through the memoirs, novels, and châteaux of the wealthiest unmarried woman in seventeenth-century Europe.Author: Sophie MaríñezISBN-10: 9004337202ISBN-13: 9789004337206Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2017Pages: 220Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 9.30h...

In Scott's Novels and the Counter-Revolutionary Politics of Place Dani Napton examines the intricacies and contradictions of Scott's counter-revolutionary politics of place and his representations of sovereignty, nationalism and unification across popular and less well-known Waverley novels.Author: Dani NaptonISBN-10: 9004352775ISBN-13: 9789004352773Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/07/2018Pages:...

The controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. This series of International Ford Madox Ford Studies was founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in him. Each volume is based upon a...

The Fictional World of Javier Marías examines the origin and meaning of uncertainty in the key works of Spain's leading contemporary novelist by engaging with the many language-related issues common to his narrative.Author: Marta Pérez-CarbonellISBN-10: 9004310959ISBN-13: 9789004310957Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/09/2016Pages: 204Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.30h...

A LONG THE KROMMERUN offers a selection of the best papers delivered at the XXIV International James Joyce Symposium hosted by Utrecht University, the Netherlands, June 2014. The essays offer fresh insights into Joyce and De Stijl aesthetic movement which originated in the Netherlands,...

Australian Fiction as Archival Salvage examines developments in the Australian postcolonial historical novel from 1989 to the present, including seminal experiments in the genre by Kate Grenville, Mudrooroo, Kim Scott, Peter Carey, Rohan Wilson and others.Author: Frances A. JohnsonISBN-10: 9004309977ISBN-13: 9789004309975Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/27/2015Pages:...

Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination brings together essays on literary and artistic practice involving cross-cultural transactions in the post-colonial world. The essays explore broad questions of ethics and aesthetics in the productive tension between language, culture, and the polis.Author: Stephanos StephanidesISBN-10: 9004300643ISBN-13: 9789004300644Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Equipment for Living: Literature, Moderns, Monsters, Popsters and Us is a selection from more than one hundred articles, reviews, and essays written by George Stade and first published in journals such as Partisan Review, Hudson Review, Harper's, The Nation, the New Republic, and the...

Renzo Ricchi, Padre Turoldo, la porta del silenzio - IIIgnazio Visco, Ricordo di Pietro Paolo Savona, Sulla politica economica Luciano Maiani, In Cina secondo anno Nicola Lattanzi, Neuroscienze e intelligenza artificiale Salvatore Curreri, Grandi dubbi sulla piccola riforma Andrea Frangioni, La Francia e la...

The catalog of the exhibition hosted at Palazzo Corsini Suarez (Florence) from 25 January to 30 June 2020 is an illustrated survey on over one hundred years of history of the Vieusseux Literary Scientific Cabinet, from the arrival in Florence of the founder Giovan...

Literature and Chemistry: Elective Affinities investigates literary and chemical encounters, from medieval alchemy to contemporary science fiction, in works of, among others, Dante, Goethe, Baudelaire, Strindberg, Pasternak, and Primo Levi as well as literary writing by scientists such as Humphry Davy, Ludwig Boltzmann and...