Memoirs of peter henry bruce, esq., a military officer in the services of prussia, russia & great britain, containing an account of his travels in germany, russia, tartary, turkey, the west indies etc, Brooks, Clifford W. (associate Professor Of Optometry, Indiana University School Of Optometry, Bloomington, In) Borish, Irvin, Od, Dos, Lld, Dsc (prof

Автор: Shakespeare
Название: Henry IV, Part I
ISBN: 0199536139 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199536139
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: As Henry`s throne is threatened by rebel forces, England is divided. The characters reflect these oppositions, with Hal and Hotspur vying for position, and Falstaff leading Hal away from his father and towards excess. During Shakespeare`s lifetime Henry IV, Part I was his most reprinted play, and it remains enormously popular with theatregoers and readers. Falstaff still towers among Shakespeare`s comic inventions as he did in the late 1590`s. David Bevington`s introduction discusses the play in both performance and criticism from Shakespeare`s time to our own, illustrating the variety of interpretations of which the text is capable. He analyses the play`s richly textured language in a detailed commentary on individual words and phrases and clearly explains its historical background.

Автор: John Garth
Название: Tolkien and the Great War
ISBN: 0007119534 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007119530
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: * TOLKIEN * Now a major motion picture Acclaimed as `the best book about Tolkien`, this award-winning biography explores J.R.R. Tolkien`s wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings.

Автор: Shakespeare
Название: King John and Henry VIII
ISBN: 0230361927 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230361928
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare`s most unusual and provocative histories.

Автор: Cheever Susan
Название: American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Th
ISBN: 0743264622 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780743264624
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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Описание: Between 1840 and 1868, Concord, Massachusetts, was home to such writers as Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. In this fascinating history, noted author Cheever explores how Concord developed into the first American community devoted to idealism. of photos.

Автор: Deborah Davis
Название: Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black-and-White Ball
ISBN: 0471659665 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780471659662
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: This book offers an enthralling look at the most celebrated party of the 1960s. 1966 was the year of Truman Capote. Flush with the success of "In Cold Blood", the acclaimed writer decided to throw a masked ball in honor of "Washington Post" publisher Katharine Graham at New York's Plaza Hotel. Everybody who was anybody wanted to be there; Capote boasted that he'd invited 500 friends but made 15,000 enemies those who wer't invited. The glittering roster of guests included everyone from newlyweds Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow to gorgeous young star Candice Bergen to sparring literary lions Norman Mailer and William F. Buckley ...from international crowned heads to assorted Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, and Whitneys. In this vivid and delightful narrative, Deborah Davis chronicles the frenzied preparation and anticipation leading up to the party and, in fascinating detail, captures the drama and excitement of the ball itself. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and facsimiles of the guest list, menus, masks, and other memorabilia, this portrait of revelry at the height of the swirling and swinging sixties will be the book of the season for anyone interested in American popular culture and the lifestyles and legacies of the rich, famous, and talented. Deborah Davis (Montclair, NJ) is a writer and film executive who has worked as a story editor and story analyst for several major film companies. She is the author of "Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X" (1-585-42336-X).

Автор: Henry Hitchings
Название: Dr Johnson`s dictionary
ISBN: 0719566320 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719566325
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: Journey into the history of English and discover how words have entered our language to make it what it is today.

Автор: Shakespeare
Название: Arden shakespeare: king henry vi part i
ISBN: 1903436435 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781903436431
Издательство: A & C Black
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Описание: 3rd edition

Автор: Gordon Lyndall
Название: Henry James: his women and his art
ISBN: 1844088928 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844088928
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: Told through the lense of Henry James`s relationship with two women who particularly shaped his writing, Henry James is a unforgettable read by one of our best-loved biographers.

Автор: Nickell William
Название: The Death of Tolstoy: Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910
ISBN: 0801448344 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801448348
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Описание:

In the middle of the night of October 28, 1910, Leo Tolstoy, the most famous man in Russia, vanished. A secular saint revered for his literary genius, pacificism, and dedication to the earth and the poor, Tolstoy had left his home in secret to embark on a final journey. His disappearance immediately became a national sensation. Two days later he was located at a monastery, but was soon gone again. When he turned up next at Astapovo, a small, remote railway station, all of Russia was following the story. As he lay dying of pneumonia, he became the hero of a national narrative of immense significance.

In The Death of Tolstoy, William Nickell describes a Russia engaged in a war of words over how this story should be told. The Orthodox Church, which had excommunicated Tolstoy in 1901, first argued that he had returned to the fold and then came out against his beliefs more vehemently than ever. Police spies sent by the state tracked his every move, fearing that his death would embolden his millions of supporters among the young, the peasantry, and the intelligentsia. Representatives of the press converged on the stationhouse at Astapovo where Tolstoy lay ill, turning his death into a feverish media event that strikingly anticipated today's no-limits coverage of celebrity lives—and deaths. Drawing on newspaper accounts, personal correspondence, police reports, secret circulars, telegrams, letters, and memoirs, Nickell shows the public spectacle of Tolstoy's last days to be a vivid reflection of a fragile, anxious empire on the eve of war and revolution.

For more on Tolstoy's death, see the companion website created by the author at http://humweb.ucsc.edu/bnickell/tolstoy/.

Автор: Smith, C. Alphonso
Название: O. Henry
ISBN: 1410207269 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781410207265
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: Originally published in 1916, this was the first full-length biography of O. Henry, based upon original letters and sources.C. Alphonso Smith (1864-1924) was born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, O. Henry's hometown, and knew the writer as a fellow townsman as well as a subject for literary biography. The author of several works on philology and poetics, and of more popular guides such as What Can Literature Do for Me?, Smith was Poe Professor of English at the University of Virginia and spent his last years as head of the English Department at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis.

Автор: Standiford Les
Название: The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens`s a Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
ISBN: 0307405796 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307405791
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world. Soon to be a major motion picture.

Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself. He worried it might be the end of his career as a novelist.

The book immediately caused a sensation. And it breathed new life into a holiday that had fallen into disfavor, undermined by lingering Puritanism and the cold modernity of the Industrial Revolution. It was a harsh and dreary age, in desperate need of spiritual renewal, ready to embrace a book that ended with blessings for one and all.

With warmth, wit, and an infusion of Christmas cheer, Les Standiford whisks us back to Victorian England, its most beloved storyteller, and the birth of the Christmas we know best. The Man Who Invented Christmas is a rich and satisfying read for Scrooges and sentimentalists alike.

Автор: Shakespeare
Название: Henry VI, Part 3
ISBN: 0199537119 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199537112
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This new edition is based on the 1623 First Folio text and challenges conventional thinking about the nature and relationship of the earliest texts. It contributes substantial new evidence about Shakespeare`s revision of the plays and the introduction and commentary focus on stage-oriented discussions of the play`s meaning and reception.