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Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
E-bok, 2006
74 kr
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Brought up by a strict Calvinist pastor, Robert Wringham believes he is one of the elect, predestined for salvation while all others - including his real father and brother - are cursed. Convinced he is indestructible and above the law, Robert commits terrible crimes under the influence of …
Humanities in Review: Volume 1
Av Dworkin, New York Institute for the Hum m. fl.
Häftad, 1983
552 kr
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The articles in this volume cover a wide range of intellectually exciting issues, written by people who were considered at the summit of their fields of enquiry. Though the individual topics addressed are diverse, each article can be taken as representative of 'humanistic understanding' of its …
Memoirs of a Modern Scotland
Av Karl Miller
Häftad, 2008
238 kr
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These essays, as Karl Miller points out in his introduction, are 'largely about a time that is past, about the modern Scotland which began after the First World War and lasted out the second. The main tracks followed in the essays are the course of Modernism itself; what might be called the …
Cockburn's Millennium
Av Karl Miller
Häftad, 2008
322 kr
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Henry Cockburn (1779-1854), a leading Scottish Whig of the nineteenth century, author of the classic Memorials of His Time, is perhaps the least-known of Scotland's famous men. 'Small, solid and genuine', in Carlyle's phrase, Cockburn gave himself to a variety of pursuits. As Advocate, Court of …
Dark Horses
Av Karl Miller
Häftad, 2008
261 kr
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'This is a book about the magazines I have edited. I have written it in order to describe what they were like, and what literary journalism was like, and to do honour to the writers I worked with.' So begins Karl Miller's understated, droll and lucid retrospect of English post-war literary culture. …
Rebecca's Vest
Av Karl Miller
Häftad, 2008
235 kr
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'Miller was in his mother's womb when she left his father in London, bringing to an end a brief marriage. Rebecca's Vest treats subsequent beginnings and phases of his life: orphan-like upbringing by female relatives in the heart of Midlothian; national service; Cambridge and the start of his …
Doubles
Av Karl Miller
Häftad, 2009
360 kr
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This is a book about the imagining of two or more selves in one. It examines the belief in what was known to the nineteenth century as the duality of man, and deals with the double and with the variety of guises in which the double has appeared - the doppelganger, the alter ego or second self, and …
Tretower to Clyro
Essays
Av Karl Miller
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Karl Miller is one of the greatest literary critics of the last fifty years, the founder of the London Review of Books and Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College, London. In this last book of essays he turns his attention to appreciate certain writers of the …
Tretower to Clyro
Essays
Av Karl Miller
Häftad, 2013
132 kr
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In his latest book of essays Karl Miller turns his attention to appreciate certain writers of the English-speaking modern world. A new ruralism has come to notice in this country, and the book is drawn to country lives as they have figured in the literature of the last century. An introductory …
