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Staid Scots grocer Dickson McCunn, 55, has a plan: Retire early and take it easy. But soon he is swept up in a daring plot to rescue a beautiful princess imprisoned by scheming …

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.The Forsyte Saga depicts the volatile mixture of love and money. The tartly rendered narrative …

In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, this book brings together leading scholars and EPA veterans to provide a …

It is commonly believed that William Barnes (1801 1886) steered clear of politics in his poetry. Yet, the first poem he ever published in the Dorset dialect was an attack on the …

First performed in 1910, Deirdre of the Sorrows is based on Irish mythology. It was unfinished at time of the authors death and completed by the poet William Butler Yeats and …

An eminent literary critic argues for the restoration of poetry to the place of honor it once held in ancient times in this 1905 collection on the Greek poets, Milton, Byron, …

This 1889 volume in the Twelve English Statesmen series focuses on Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745), who laid the groundwork for the modern parliamentary system of government that …

This proceedings investigates the relationship between features at the atomic level including oxygen vacancies, stacking faults and site order/disorder, grain boundaries, …

Highly original in its focus, The Growth of British Policy studies Englands history through foreign affairs. Volume Two continues from the fall of the Monarchy in 1649 and the …

In this 1897 collection the Victorian freethinker applies the tests of his earlier compilation of essays in a new way. Includes the essays The Theory and Practice of Criticism, …