Peter Merchant: 4 books

Book cover of Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

Path to Glory

by Peter Merchant
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010

Sojourner Truth had a tough childhood. She was born a slave, and many of the families she worked for treated her poorly. But when she was finally freed, Sojourner used her life to teach others about women's rights and the power of freedom.
Book cover of Dickens and the Imagined Child
by Peter Merchant, Catherine Waters
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016

The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional capacities associated with children have always been sites of lively contestation for readers and critics of Dickens. In Dickens and the Imagined Child, leading scholars explore the function of the child and childhood within Dickens’s imagination...
Book cover of A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens, Peter Merchant, Keith Carabine
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011

A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens’ greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based his historical detail on Carlyle’s great work – The French Revolution. ‘The best story I have...
Book cover of The Origins of Musicality
by W. Tecumseh Fitch, Björn Merker, Iain Morley
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018

Interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music. Research shows that all humans have a predisposition for music, just as they do for language. All of us can perceive and enjoy music, even if we can't carry a tune and consider ourselves “unmusical.”...
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