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Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival
Derick Thomson was one of the most influential personalities of Gaelic Scotland in the twentieth century. His poetry counts among the best written in the language; he founded the …
Reading Richard Matheson
Richard Matheson (1926–2013) was a prolific author and screenwriter whose career helped shape the horror and fantasy genres in literature, film, and television for over sixty …
Toni Morrison's Fiction
In this introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning fiction of Toni Morrison, the author surveys six novels, a short story, and a book of criticism to reconstruct the development of …
Hobson's Choice: York Notes for GCSE
"York Notes", designed for English literature, aim to stimulate ideas and thought-provoking questions, helping the reader to think independently about the text being studied. A …
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
The publication of Volumes VII and VIII completes this major edition of the letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, an edition comprising 2,800 letters, almost two-thirds of which have …
Samuel Johnson
The English poet, literary critic, biographer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson (1709–84) is perhaps most famous for his Dictionary of the English Language and the influential Lives …
Dream of John Ball; and, A King's Lesson
William Morris, an English novelist, wrote a book titled A Dream of John Ball on the Great Revolt of 1381, sometimes also known as the Peasants' Revolt. This 1888 novel is a …
The Gayer-Anderson Cat
The Gayer-Anderson Cat has been one of the most admired objects at the British Museum since its arrival in 1947. This book presents a detailed description of the cat and a …
Jackson's Wars
A captivating account of the formative years of one of Canada’s best-known artists, Jackson’s Wars follows A.Y. Jackson’s education and progress as a painter before he was a …
Lennart Torstenson
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with …
Emerson's Ghosts
It is increasingly commonplace to find scholars who circle back to Ralph Waldo Emerson and his intellectual heirs as a way of better understanding contemporary social and aesthetic …
Memoirs of the Late Marquis de Feuquieres, Lieutenant-General of the French Army Written for the Instruction of his son Being an Account of all the Wars in Europe, From the Year 1672, to the Year 1710, v 2 of 2
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …