Burnett: 718 books

Acclaimed children's author Allan Burnett turns his attention to the First World War in a book of explosively exciting and emotionally charged tales of bravery and adventure. Featuring the true exploits of soldiers, spies, pilots, sailors and many others, these stories, all based on interviews with...

When Princeton historian D. Graham Burnett answered his jury duty summons, he expected to spend a few days catching up on his reading in the court waiting room. Instead, he finds himself thrust into a high-pressure role as the jury foreman in a Manhattan trial. There he comes face to face with a stunning...

'I stood in the dock looking at the judge's expressionless face. My two partners in crime had just been sentenced to three years imprisonment each, and had been taken down ...He then sentenced me to three years, and I joined my partners in the cells below. So ended my career on Birkenhead docks; thirteen...

Frances Hodgson Burnett was an English author best known for writing some of the greatest children’s novels in literature.  Some of Burnett’s works have been turned into popular plays.  This edition of Mere Girauds Little Daughter includes a table of contents.

Challenging the prevailing notion among cinephiles that the auteur is an isolated genius interested primarily in individualism, Colin Burnett positions Robert Bresson as one whose life's work confronts the cultural forces that helped shape it. Regarded as one of film history's most elusive figures,...

Virtually every month for fourteen years, Gene Burnett wrote a history piece under the title "Florida's Past" for Florida Trend, Florida's respected magazine of business and finance. This first volume of collected essays from that series proved so popular among book readers that two more volumes have...

As a newly separated single mother of two year-old Tayler, author B. A. Burnett knew life was not going to be easy. She knew she would have to find a new way of doing things. In Really Dad?? she narrates the personal story of how she and her son navigated their new world together in an effort to call...

?An important contribution to the study of Walcott?s poetry and plays.??Modernism/modernity ?Walcott, [Burnett] says, has assimilated western tradition to his own project, using it to create a new plural world of open-ended possibilities. . . . A book that should be of interest to any student of Walcott?s...

Edwin Muir wrote of Ivy Compton-Burnett in the Observer: 'Her literary abilities have been abundantly acknowledged by the majority of her literary contemporaries. Her intense individuality has removed her from the possibility of rivalry. .. . She takes as her theme the tyrannies and internecine battles...

Frances Hodgson Burnett was an English author best known for writing some of the greatest children’s novels in literature.  Some of Burnett’s works have been turned into popular plays.  This edition of Surly Tim: A Lancashire Story includes a table of contents.

The debate over the Lord's Supper had momentous consequences for the Reformation, causing the division of the evangelical movement, influencing the formation of political alliances, and contributing to cultural differences among the Protestant territories of Germany and Switzerland. Karlstadt and...

Frances Hodgson Burnett was an English author best known for writing some of the greatest children’s novels in literature.  Some of Burnett’s works have been turned into popular plays.  This edition of “Seth” includes a table of contents.

Frances Hodgson Burnett was an English author best known for writing some of the greatest children’s novels in literature.  Some of Burnett’s works have been turned into popular plays.  This edition of The Cozy Lion includes a table of contents.

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