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The Letters of John Keats
Av John Keats, H. Buxton Forman
Häftad, 2011
916 kr
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This book, published in 1895 for the centenary of the celebrated Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821), was edited by Harry Buxton Forman (1842-1917). Forman was a Post Office administrator and a keen literary scholar, who had earlier produced important editions of Shelley and Keats. He has since …
A History of Japanese Literature
Av W. G. Aston
Häftad, 2015
729 kr
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The diplomat and Japanese and Korean scholar William George Aston (1841-1911) wrote several highly regarded publications, particularly on the Japanese language. This work is a chronological survey of Japanese literature from its early songs to the European-influenced works of the nineteenth …
Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry
Together with a Book of Huswifery
Av Thomas Tusser, William Fordyce Mavor
Häftad, 2013
732 kr
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A singer and poet as well as a farmer, Thomas Tusser (c.1524-80) first produced his verse manual on farming in the mid-sixteenth century. Since then, it has gone through more than a dozen editions. This 1812 version is a collation of three of the poem's early editions. Editor William Mavor …
The Growth of Literature
Av H. Munro Chadwick, Nora K. Chadwick
Häftad, 2010
1048 kr
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First published between 1932 and 1940, this is a three-volume study of the historical development of literature. It explores the oral and written literatures of regions from Iceland and the British Isles, to Russia, the Balkans, Africa, India and the Pacific, placing them in their historical …
Jacke Jugeler
Häftad, 2009
429 kr
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This 1914 scholarly edition of the mid-sixteenth-century play Jacke Jugeler contains an informative introduction and detailed notes. Little-known today, the play represents a pre-Shakespearean example of classical 'borrowing' - a Roman play by Plautus is adapted to an English domestic situation - …
Life in Shakespeare's England
A Book of Elizabethan Prose
Häftad, 2009
560 kr
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Entertaining and informative, this 1956 anthology paints a vivid picture of the world in which Shakespeare lived. Using the playwright's life as the framework - his birth, his education, his move to London, his life in theatre, his death - the book uses selected extracts from key Elizabethan …
Club Law
A Comedy
Häftad, 2009
486 kr
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Originally written and staged in the late sixteenth century, Club Law was published for the first time more than three centuries later. A colourful satire, the play captures the spirit of a bygone era. Club Law playfully reconstructs the heated debate between the University 'Accademicks' and the …
Worke for Cutlers
A Merry Dialogue betweene Sword, Rapier and Dagger
Häftad, 2009
420 kr
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This edition of Worke for Cutlers was edited by Albert Forbes Sieveking and published in 1904, shortly after it had been staged (probably for the first time in 300 years) at Trinity Hall. The play was originally published anonymously in 1615, and was then described as 'Acted in a Shew in the famous …
Letters of Jane Austen
Volume 1
Av Jane Austen, Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Lord Brabourne
Häftad, 2009
530 kr
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The son of Jane Austen's 'favourite niece' Fanny Knight, Lord Brabourne, had inherited a large number of letters from Austen including some to her sister Cassandra and others to members of the Knight family. The Letters of Jane Austen (1884) publishes these letters for the first time, and sets them …
Letters of Jane Austen
Av Jane Austen, Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Lord Brabourne
Häftad, 2009
530 kr
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The son of Jane Austen's 'favourite niece' Fanny Knight, Lord Brabourne, had inherited a large number of letters from Jane Austen including some to her sister Cassandra and others to members of the Knight family. The Letters of Jane Austen (1884) publishes these letters for the first time, and sets …
A Memoir of Jane Austen
Av Austen Leigh
Häftad, 2009
486 kr
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In the mid-nineteenth century, as Jane Austen's fame grew, her family was under increasing pressure to provide details about her life and work. Her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh, who had known her personally, collected a series of reminiscences, letters and family documents and put them together …
A Memoir of Jane Austen
Together with 'Lady Susan': a Novel
Häftad, 2009
542 kr
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When James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his famous aunt was published in 1870, far from satisfying public curiosity about Jane Austen as the family had intended, it simply raised a series of new questions, particularly about Jane Austen's unpublished work, which had been mentioned only in …
King Lear
The Cambridge Dover Wilson Shakespeare
Av William Shakespeare, John Dover Wilson m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
448 kr
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John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work is available both individually and as a set, and each contains a lengthy and …
College Plays
Performed in the University of Cambridge
Häftad, 2010
392 kr
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George Charles Moore Smith (1858-1940) was a renowned literary scholar who graduated from St John's College, Cambridge, with a first-class degree in the classics in 1881. In 1896 he was made professor of English language and literature at Firth College, Sheffield, and he played a key role in …
The Life of John Ruskin: Volume 1, 1819-1860
Häftad, 2010
787 kr
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In 1911, the New York Times alerted its readers to the forthcoming 'authoritative' biography of Ruskin with the words 'out of a life's devotion to Ruskin and the Herculean task of editing the definitive Ruskin, Mr E. T. Cook is to give us a definitive Ruskin biography also. It will have the …
The Life of John Ruskin: Volume 2, 1860-1900
Häftad, 2010
787 kr
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In 1911, the New York Times alerted its readers to the forthcoming 'authoritative' biography of Ruskin with the words 'out of a life's devotion to Ruskin and the Herculean task of editing the definitive Ruskin, Mr E. T. Cook is to give us a definitive Ruskin biography also. It will have the …
The Cambridge Reinaert Fragments
(Culemann Fragments)
Av Karl Breul
Häftad, 2010
402 kr
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The Reinaert Fragments are a collection of seven pages of a Middle Dutch poem attributed to the fifteenth-century Flemish writer Hinrek van Alckmer, and printed in Antwerp in about 1487. This book, originally published in 1927, contains photographic reproductions of the pages, alongside clear …
De Nugis Curialium
Av Walter Map, Montague Rhodes James
Häftad, 2010
560 kr
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Walter Map was a twelfth-century courtier and royal servant. He was a prolific writer, but De Nugis Curialium ('Courtiers' Trifles') is the only surviving work confidently attributed to him. The book is a collection of short stories and anecdotes about the court, religion and history. Map's …
Specimens of Hausa Literature
Häftad, 2010
475 kr
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Hausa is an African language originating in Niger and northern Nigeria and spoken widely in West and Central Africa as a trading language. This anthology of Hausa texts (mainly Islamic religious verse and historical narratives) was the first publication supported by the short-lived Hausa …
Widsith
A Study in Old English Heroic Legend
Häftad, 2010
523 kr
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One of the few records of German heroic poetry, Widsith was found in the Exeter Book, a manuscript of Old English poetry compiled in the late tenth century. The tale, in which the wandering poet and narrator Widsith recounts his travels across northern Europe, is often seen as a catalogue of …
Goethe the Alchemist
A Study of Alchemical Symbolism in Goethe's Literary and Scientific Works
Häftad, 2010
486 kr
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In his autobiography, Goethe half-apologetically admits the youthful enthusiasm he experienced for alchemical and mystical readings: Georg von Welling's obscure Opus Mago-Cabbalisticum et Theosophicum and the anonymously published Aurea Catena Homeri, as well as works by Paracelsus, Basilis …
Shakespeare's Fight with the Pirates and the Problems of the Transmission of his Text
Häftad, 2010
429 kr
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Originally delivered in November 1915 as a series of lectures at the University of Cambridge, this close textual analysis of Shakespeare overturned the conventional methods of Shakespearean bibliography. In this careful study, Pollard, a bibliographer and literary scholar, called into question the …
Shakespeare's Hand in the Play of Sir Thomas More
Av Alfred W. Pollard, W. W. Greg m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
523 kr
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First published in 1923, this book consists of a series of papers written by Pollard, W. W. Greg, E. Maunde Thompson, J. Dover Wilson, and R. W. Chambers, all advocates of the then newly-established New Bibliography. The book was assembled with the intention of strengthening the argument that three …
Matthew Prior
A Study of his Public Career and Correspondence
Av Leopold George Wickham Legg
Häftad, 2010
635 kr
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Matthew Prior (1664-1721) was a minor poet and diplomat under King William III and subsequently Queen Anne. As an envoy to the Netherlands and France and negotiator of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 he had a ringside seat at the European power struggles of his time, while at the same time forging a …
The Growth of Literature
Av H. Munro Chadwick, Nora K. Chadwick
Häftad, 2010
1160 kr
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First published between 1932 and 1940, this is a three-volume study of the historical development of literature. It explores the oral and written literatures of regions from Iceland and the British Isles, to Russia, the Balkans, Africa, India and the Pacific, placing them in their historical …
George Eliot
Häftad, 2010
504 kr
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George Eliot's first biographer, Mathilde Blind (1841-1896), was herself a poet and writer. Born in Germany, Blind moved with her family to London when she was still a child, and it was there that she established her literary reputation, writing poetry, essays, biographies, and a novel. In 1883, …
George Eliot
A Critical Study of her Life, Writings and Philosophy
Häftad, 2010
695 kr
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American Unitarian minister George Willis Cooke (1848-1923) worked for almost thirty years in Unitarian churches across the United States before turning full-time to scholarly pursuits in 1900. Cooke, a voracious reader who was largely self-taught, attended Meadville Theological School in Illinois …
George Eliot
Häftad, 2010
486 kr
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This volume was originally published as part of the English Men of Letters series in 1902. This series aimed to bring a critical framework for reading and analysing novels to the large literate audience which had emerged as the result of mass education campaigns in the nineteenth century. Written …
George Eliot's Life, as Related in her Letters and Journals
Av George Eliot, John Walter Cross
Häftad, 2010
804 kr
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Best known for his brief marriage to George Eliot, John Cross (1840-1924) compiled this three-volume 'autobiography' of 1885 from his late wife's journals and letters. Eliot was never married to her long-term partner G. H. Lewes, and she courted further scandal when she married Cross, twenty years …
George Eliot's Life, as Related in her Letters and Journals
Av George Eliot, John Walter Cross
Häftad, 2010
787 kr
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Best known for his brief marriage to George Eliot, John Walter Cross (1840-1924) compiled this three-volume 'autobiography' of 1885 from his late wife's journals and letters. Eliot was never married to her long-term partner G. H. Lewes, and she courted further scandal when she married Cross, twenty …
