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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2007
George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer in English of the twentieth century. The massive critical literature on Orwell has not only become extremely specialized, and therefore somewhat inaccessible to the nonscholar, but it has also attributed to and even created misconceptions...
The Extinct Scene
Late Modernism and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
In 1935, the English writer Stephen Spender wrote that the historical pressures of his era should "turn the reader's and writer's attention outwards from himself to the world." Combining historical, formalist, and archival approaches, Thomas S. Davis examines late modernism's decisive turn...
by Lord Byron
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
George Gordon Byron (aka Lord Byron), later Noel, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale FRS was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential, both in the English speaking world and beyond. Byron was profoundly...
by Mark Mower
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Danish death! Vikings sack and burn the city! Medieval murder mysteries! The dead body of a young boy was found on a heath—but was it a case of ritual child murder? Dreadful diseases! Revealing the terrible time when one third of Norwich's residents caught the Black Death! Victorian horrors! 1851:...
by Louis Untermeyer, Editor
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
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Swinging Britain
Fashion in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Travel back in time to the era when Carnaby Street led the world, a golden age of youthful innovation and exhilarating pop culture, and a fashion scene that defined a generation.
The 1960s was one of the most exciting fashion decades of the twentieth century, during which British pop and youth...
by Will Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
Poole Pottery is a great British institution, and for more than 130 years has been in the very first rank of producers of tiles, mosaic flooring and advertising panels – as well as the pottery that remains its most famous and collectible product. Founded by Jesse Carter in 1873 as 'Carter's Industrial...
Tay Bridge Disaster
The People's Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
One hundred and thirty-five years after the event, the Tay Bridge Disaster remains the single most catastrophic collapse of a British engineering structure. The fateful day in 1879 shook Britain and the world of engineering to their core and sent a nation into mourning for the seventy-five souls lost...
KING ARTHUR - Ultimate Collection: 10 Books of Myths, Tales & The History Behind The Legendary King and His Knights
Le Morte d'Arthur, The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights, Sir Lancelot and His Companions, Idylls of the King, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Mabinogion, Celtic Myths & Legends…
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
King Arthur is a legendary British ruler who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defense of Britain against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6th centuries AD. This Ultimate Collection contains the most important 10 books about King Arthur, The Holy Grail, Sir Lancelot, Sorcerer...
Fiction and the Ways of Knowing
Essays on British Novels
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
In this highly individual study, Avrom Fleishman explores a wide range of literary references to human culture—the culture of ideas, facts, and images. Each critical essay in Fiction and the Ways of Knowing takes up for sustained analysis a major British novel of the nineteenth or the twentieth...
Stately Passions
The Scandals of Britain's Great Houses
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
The story of Britain's great stately homes and the scandals, predominately sexual, which the owners and their families have been involved in from the sixteenth century to the present day. It details some of the most notorious scandals to have engulfed the British royal family and aristocracy and captures...
VC10: Icon of the Skies
BOAC, Boeing and a Jet Age Battle
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Other books have charted the VC10 in airline life, but this book blends that story with a well-researched tale of corporate and political power play. It asks; just what lay behind the sales failure of the VC1O?
Politics played an important part of course, as did BOAC’s tactics, and a ’who...
by William Hague
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
William Pitt the Younger is an illuminating biography of one of the great iconic figures in British history: the man who in 1784 at the age of twenty-four became (and so remains) the youngest Prime Minister in the history of England. In this lively and authoritative study, William Hague–himself...
by Martyn Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
In this concise and accessible biography, Martyn Bennett examines the life of Oliver Cromwell – one of the most controversial figures in world history. This study challenges long-held perceptions of Cromwell and the Commonwealth, arguing that they need to be placed at the core of early Modern British...