The House of Smith Elder
Author | : Leonard Huxley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Book industries and trade |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Leonard Huxley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Book industries and trade |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Juliet Barker |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 824 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1639360891 |
The story of the tragic Brontë family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addled wastrel of a brother, wildly romantic Emily, unrequited Anne, and "poor Charlotte." Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely that - imaginary - created by amateur biographers such as Mrs. Gaskell who were primarily novelists and were attracted by the tale of an apparently doomed family of genius. Juliet Barker's landmark book is the first definitive history of the Brontës. It demolishes the myths, yet provides startling new information that is just as compelling - but true. Based on first-hand research among all the Brontë manuscripts, including contemporary historical documents never before used by Brontë biographers, this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable. The Brontës is a revolutionary picture of the world's favorite literary family.
Author | : J. A. Sutherland |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2014-01-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1472508955 |
Introduction Part One: The Novel Publishing World, 1830-1870 1. Novel Publishing 1830-1870 2. Mass Market and Big Business: Novel Publishing at Midcentury 3. Craft versus Trade: Novelists and Publishers Part Two: Novelists, Novels and their Publishers, 1830-1870 4. Henry Esmond: The Shaping Power of Contract 5. Westward Ho!: 'A Popularly Successful Book' 6. Trollope: Making the First Rank 7. Lever and Ainsworth: Missing the First Rank 8. Dickens as Publisher 9. Marketing Middlemarch 10. Hardy: Breaking into Fiction Notes Index
Author | : Sid Smith |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780330480871 |
This is Jim Fraser's account of his life as a deserter living through the Cultural Revolution in China. Fraser makes his home in a community so isolated that it has become the perfect location for experiments of indescribable terror.
Author | : Anthony Trollope |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Barsetshire (England : Imaginary place) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Steven Ruskin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2017-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351925156 |
In 1833 John Herschel sailed from London to Cape Town, southern Africa, to undertake (at his own expense) an astronomical exploration of the southern heavens, as well as a terrestrial exploration of the area around Cape Town. After his return to England in 1838, and as a result of his voyage, he was highly esteemed and became Britain's most recognized man of science. In 1847 his southern hemisphere astronomical observations were published as the Cape Results. The main argument of Ruskin's book is that Herschel's voyage and the publication of the Cape Results, in addition to their contemporary scientific importance, were also significant for nineteenth-century culture and politics. In this book it is demonstrated that the reason for Herschel's widespread cultural renown was the popular notion that his voyage to the Cape was a project aligned with the imperial ambitions of the British government. By leaving England for one of its colonies, and pursuing there a significant scientific project, Herschel was seen in the same light as other British men of science (like James Cook and Richard Lander) who had also undertaken voyages of exploration and discovery at the behest of their nation. It is then demonstrated that the production of the Cape Results, in part because of Herschel's status as Britain's scientific figurehead, was a significant political event. Herschel's decision to journey to the Cape for the purpose of surveying the southern heavens was of great significance to almost all of Britain and much of the continent. It is the purpose of this book to make a case for the scientific, cultural, and political significance of Herschel's Cape voyage and astronomical observations, as a means of demonstrating the relationship of scientific practice to broader aspects of imperial culture and politics in the nineteenth century.
Author | : Max Jones |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2004-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191622338 |
Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the great adventure stories of the twentieth century. On 1 November 1911, a British team set out on the gruelling 800-mile journey across the coldest and highest continent on Earth to travel to the South Pole. Five men battled through unimaginably harsh conditions only to find the Norwegian flag had been planted at the Pole just weeks before. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Lieutenant Henry Bowers, Petty Officer Edgar Evans, Captain Lawrence Oates, and Dr Edward Wilson all died on the return trek, starved and frozen to death, only eleven miles from a supply camp. In November 1912, a rescue party discovered their last letters and diaries, which told a story of bravery, hardship, and self-sacrifice that shocked the world. Recent decades have seen controversy rage over whether Scott was the last of a line of great Victorian explorers, intent on discovering uncharted lands, or a hopeless incompetent driven by personal ambition. Rejecting the stereotypes, Max Jones reveals a complex figure, a product of the passions and preoccupations of an imperial age. He also shows how heroes are made and manipulated, through a close examination of the unprecedented outpouring of public grief at the news of the death of Scott and his companions. Max Jones uses fascinating new evidence and prevously unseen illustrations to take us back to this remarkable moment in modern history, and tells for the first time the full story of The Last Great Quest.
Author | : Robert Candlish Henderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
ISBN | : |