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United States coastline, 1777. Captain Isaac Biddlecomb is sailing with his wife and son to Philadelphia to take command of…
a new gun frigate. But the British fleet stands in the way, and the city falls to the enemy. Sequel to Lords of the Ocean (DB 55314). Violence and strong language. 2000
Recounts the history of African Americans in California during the gold rush of the nineteenth century. Focuses on the life…
and work of Mifflin Gibbs, a prosperous businessman, who lobbied to pass bills that would improve the living standards of black Californians. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2000
Captain Jack Aubrey and his good friend physician-spy-naturalist Stephen Maturin take leave of the "Surprise" and set sail on the…
"Diane," bound for a Malaysian island. Their mission is to deliver a British envoy intent on signing with the sultan of Borneo a treaty that undermines Napoleon. They visit a Buddhist monastery, endure the insufferable emissary, and play chamber music. Some strong language
Elizabeth Grant (1797-1885) was the daughter of Sir John Peter Grant, landowner, lawyer and MP, and mother, Jane Ironside. Her…
narrative describes intimate personal and family memories and observations on contemporary ideas and opinions, society and travel.“"If you have never read it before, do so now...compelling...delicious insights into a way of life long passed, as well as glimpses of the familiar...a warm, human, revealing account of a young woman's life."”If you have never read it before, do so now...compelling...delicious insights into a way of life long passed, as well as glimpses of the familiar...a warm, human, revealing account of a young woman's life. Scottish Review of Books
This book of poetry, written by famous author Katharine Lee Bates, was dedicated in remembrance of her friend Katherine Coman.“Katharine…
Lee Bates (August 12, 1859 – March 28, 1929) was an American professor and author, chiefly remembered for her anthem "America the Beautiful", but also for her many books and articles on social reform, on which she was a noted speaker.Bates enjoyed close links with Wellesley College, Massachusetts, where she had graduated with a B.A., and later became a professor of English literature, helping to launch American literature as an academic speciality, and writing one of the first-ever college textbooks on it. She never married, possibly because she would have lost tenure if she had. Throughout her long career at Wellesley, she shared a house with her close friend and companion Katharine Coman. Some scholars have assumed that this was a lesbian relationship, considering some exchanges of letters sufficient proof, others believe their relationship may have been a platonic ‘Boston marriage’ in the contemporary phrase.”
The son of a farmer, Stith Thompson was born near Bloomfield, Kentucky...After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1914,…
Thompson began his teaching career at the University of Texas at Austin, later teaching at Colorado College and then at the University of Maine. Finally, he went to Indiana University, where he established his prominence as a folklorist. Thompson was instrumental in establishing folklore studies in the United States, legitimizing it as an academic discipline and placing it on a firm empirical foundation....Thompson gained international recognition for his writings, which were praised for both their scholarship and their style. It has been written of his work that "[it] is not dry, attenuated, dull, pedantic...for Mr. Thompson has...unspoiled direct appreciation of the zest and flavor of the best in traditional literature" ( N.Y. Times Book Review)."Thompson believed the folktale to be an important and living art, underlying all literary narrative forms. Most of all he wanted to acquaint readers with most of the great folktales of the world, not only for their own interest as stories, but as elements of culture. He writes about the nature and form of the folktale, gives an account of tales from Ireland to India, devotes a special section to the North American Indian tales and myths, and another to the methods of collecting, classifying, studying folktales as a living art. He found them rich and varied sources of entertainment and wisdom. So much is to be found in them, he said, that the talents of literary critics, historians, anthropologists, psychologists, linguists are all necessary. Study of the folktale involved 'more talents than one man can easily possess.' Stith Thompson came close to possessing them." --Los Angeles Times
This vintage book contains a collection of essays written by the influential Russian philosopher, Lev Isaakovich Shestov. One of the…
most delicate and individual of modern Russian critics, Shestov was a radical empiricist and proto-existentialist thinker who integrated literary theory and philosophical thought in a masterful way that inspired such minds as Camus, Dostoyevsky, Deleuze, D. H. Lawrence, and Bataille. Included in this collection are the essays: "Anton Chekhov", "The Gift of Prophecy", "Penultimate Words", and "The Theory of Knowledge".-Print ed.
A DREAM OF KINGS is a novel of Civil War Days; an intense, lyric projection of Tom Christopher’s growth to…
manhood, and a deeply moving love story.Tom Christopher is an orphan, raised by his Aunt Sarah in a West Virginia river town. He shares a strange, lonely childhood with a girl whom Sarah Holmbrook has also taken in, Cathie. Through their early years these two children are sustained by their dream of a glowing God-like figure who never appears in the novel and yet pervades it—Abijah, Cathie’s father, who has told the little girl that he will some day return a King. As Tom Christopher grows older, he comes more and more into conflict with Cathie, he is possessed by a feeling so powerful and so agonizingly unfamiliar that he believes it must be hate. At length he flees from his aunt’s house, eventually to soldier under Stonewall Jackson, and through the violent months of war the redoubtable figure of Stonewall becomes one and the same, in Tom’s mind, with King Abijah. The Tome is wounded, and when Stonewall Jackson dies he deserts.Tom Christopher returns home, returns to find Cathie, and they realize they are in love and have always been. Because even Cathie has given up hope, finally, of Abijah, they have nothing now but each other...There are a number of things about this book that make it extraordinary: the strong flavor of the period and the utterly convincing account of Civil War soldering, the fascinating gallery of secondary characters like Aunt Sarah, the lyric beauty of Mr. Grubb’s prose. But the signal, unifying achievement is the emotional drive of A DREAM OF KINGS, the intensity of feeling that sweeps the reader through a profound experience."Novelist Grubb...has now attempted what might have been a commonplace story...but...he writes with such emotional conviction and lyric intensity that the book emerges as an authentic and haunting experience."—Time Magazine
It was a naked girl, with her back to him. She was not quite naked. She wore a broad leather…
belt round her waist with a hunting knife in a leather sheath at her right hip. The belt made her nakedness extraordinarily erotic. She stood not more than five yards away on the tideline looking down at something in her hand. She stood in the classical relaxed pose of the nude, all the weight on the right leg and the left knee bent and turning slightly inwards, the head to one side as she examined the things in her hand.M called this case a soft option. Bond can’t quite agree. The tropical island is luxurious, the seductive Honey Rider is beautiful and willing.But they are both part of the empire of Dr. No.The doctor is a worthy adversary, with a mind as hard and cold as his solid steel hands.Dr. No’s obsession is power. His only gifts are strictly pain-shaped.‘Masterful...beautifully written.’—Raymond Chandler, The Sunday Times.‘The essence of a James Bond thriller is its speed, its knowingness...Dr. No has a full quota of every ingredient. Bond is better than ever.’—Evening Standard.‘Wildly thrilling, packed with convincing technical detail.’—C. Day Lewis, BBC World of Books.‘Pace, brilliant descriptive powers, superb imagination...sheer entertainment.’—Spectator.
“MOVE AN INCH AND I’LL KILL YOU.”It had been a girl’s voice, but a voice that fiercely meant what it…
said.Bond, his heart thumping, stared up the shaft of the steel arrow whose blue-tempered triangular tip parted the grass stalks eighteen inches from his head.The girl was dressed in ragged coat and trousers. The beauty of her face was wild and animal, with a wide, sensuous mouth, high cheekbones and silvery gray, disdainful eyes. There was the blood of scratches on her forearms and down one cheek. She looked like a dangerous customer who knew wild country and forests and was not afraid of them.Bond thought she was wonderful. He smiled at her…”I suppose you’re Robin Hood. My name’s James Bond...”BOND IS BACK!007 deals a deathblow to international crime as he tracks gunrunners in the blue Caribbean, unearths a thorny nest of spies in a French forest, smashes smugglers in sunny Italy and teams up with an untamed huntress on a mission of vengeance in Vermont.
The gripping and action-packed new Roman army adventure in the Eagles of the Empire series by Sunday Times bestselling author…
Simon Scarrow. The perfect read for readers of Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell. Tribune Cato and Centurion Macro, hardened veterans of the Roman army, have faced the Empire's enemies from Britannia to Parthia, from Hispania to Judea. Now once again they are on a mission that will imperil their lives and those of all who serve with them. Loyal to the last to their comrades in battle, fearless in the face of the most brutal or barbaric opponents, they are the finest men the Emperor can call on in the service of Rome. IF YOU DON'T KNOW SIMON SCARROW, YOU DON'T KNOW ROME!Praise for Simon's novels:'Scarrow's [novels] rank with the best' Independent'Blood, gore, political intrigue' Daily Sport 'Always a joy' The Times(P)2020 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
Charles Dickens: A Critical Study was written in Siena, Italy in 1897 and first published by Blackie in the Victorian…
Era Series in February 1898. Any doubts that readers and critics harboured over the choice of Gissing as author were swept aside on the book's publication. It was hailed as a triumphant feat of original and incisive criticism allied to level-headed conclusions. Literature, the forerunner of the Times Literary Supplement, described the book as "the best study of Dickens we have ever read." The book became an instant classic with many reprints over the succeeding decades.-Print ed.George Robert Gissing was born on November 22, 1857, and died on December 28, 1903. He was an English novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. Recent years have seen a strong revival of interest in Gissing, many of whose novels are now available in reprints. A bridge between late Victorianism and early modernism, Gissing's novels combine two essential themes of the period; the isolation and struggle of the artist and the economic bondage of the proletariat. New Grub Street (1891) and his own indirect autobiography, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903), reveal the close connection in Gissing between fiction and autobiography. Workers in the Dawn (1880) and Demos: A Story of English Socialism (1892) dramatizes Gissing's conviction that economic and class divisions are central to human character and individual destiny. Gissing died from emphysema at age 46 after catching a chill on an ill-advised winter walk. Verinilda was published incomplete in 1904. He is buried in the English cemetery at Saint-Jean-de-Luz.