epub |eng | 2009-03-05 | Author:Butterfield, Ardis;

azw3 |eng | 2016-10-03 | Author:Ronald Carter & John McRae [Carter, Ronald]

From the outset Lady Bracknell deliberately misconstrues Jack’s words, punning on the verb ‘to lose’. Even her ‘minor matters’ is socially not how one would expect the subject of parents ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Anthony Cronin [Cronin, Anthony]

6 BRIAN O’NOLAN was a small man whose appearance somehow combined elements of the priest, the baby-faced Chicago gangster, the petty bourgeois malt drinker and the Dublin literary gent. The ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-04 | Author:Shelley Klein

I Am Miserable: Husbands and Wives That Dickens’s own marriage to Catherine Hogarth was not an entirely happy one is a well-documented fact. However, they did spend twenty-two years together ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-25 | Author:Neil Rennie

Figure 6.1. ‘Captain Mackra, and the Pirate with a wooden leg’, from The Pirates Own Book (1837). Although based on Irving’s and Cooper’s narratives, the opening of Treasure Island is ...

epub |eng | 1996-11-15 | Author:Lawrence H Keeley [Keeley, Lawrence H]

Figure 7.1 Relative territorial gains and losses per generation for various soceities (see Appendix, Table 7.1). Given the aversion of modern archaeology to the idea of migration and colonization (let ...

epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Jonathan Bate

Renaissance Humanist scholars of the 16th century argued that their age was witnessing new light and rebirth after a long period of cultural darkness. The vocabulary associated with this idea ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-12 | Author:Israel Regardie [Regardie, Israel]

CHAPTER TEN: China The biographers have recorded a large cluster of events occurring within a matter of four or five years. Of themselves, they are not particularly pertinent to my ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-05-29 | Author:Mallory, J. P. [Mallory, J. P.]

7.5. ‘Military forks’ of iron that W. K. Sullivan used to illustrate the faga fogablach. The larger is c. 27 cm long. The sleg also came in a fun-sized version, ...

azw3 |eng | 2004-03-17 | Author:Fee, Christopher R. [Fee, Christopher R.]

Heroic Journeys and Quests At the center of most hero myths is the quest. Through the quest adventure, the hero proves his worth and “makes a name” for himself. The ...

mobi |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Shippey, Tom [Shippey, Tom]

The old stone, i.e. the ruin = the remains of an earlier, heathen, oral poetry which the Beowulf-poet might have known about The house the man lives in, also partly ...

azw3 |eng | 2014-01-30 | Author:Thornbury, Emily V. [Thornbury, Emily V.]

Home renovations: Christ and Satan ‘Liber II’ in Junius XI seems something of an afterthought. The first 212 pages, containing Genesis, Exodus, and Daniel, were written by one scribe in ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Charlie Brooker [Brooker, Charlie]

And for the consumer, it's just one more layer of distracting crud - the bane of the 21st century. Distracting crud comes in countless forms - from the onscreen clutter ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Michael Ferber

N Nature “Nature” in Greek (physis) and Latin (natura) at first meant the nature of something, as in Lucretius’ title “On the Nature of Things,” but it came to stand ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-27 | Author:Janet Todd [Todd, Janet]

Literally or figuratively? The earnestness of Mansfield Park is buttressed by a new sense of significance in its episodes, Austen's experimental use of symbolism less to structure the book than ...