Download or read book The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collected Poems of Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1994 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of 18 Burns had acquired a good knowledge of both classical and English literature. This collection includes some of his most famous works such as the ballad "Auld Lang Syne", and "Tam o'Shanter".
Download or read book Tam O Shanter written by Robert Burns and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Tam O'Shanter" by Robert Burns. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang written by Robert E. Burns and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is the amazing true story of one man's search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over injustice. In 1921, Robert E. Burns was a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who found himself at the mercy of Georgia's barbaric penal system when he fell in with a gang of petty thieves. Sentenced to six to ten years' hard labor for his part in a robbery that netted less than $6.00, Burns was shackled to a county chain gang. After four months of backbreaking work, he made a daring escape, dodging shotgun blasts, racing through swamps, and eluding bloodhounds on his way north. For seven years Burns lived as a free man. He married and became a prosperous Chicago businessman and publisher. When he fell in love with another woman, however, his jealous wife turned him in to the police, who arrested him as a fugitive from justice. Although he was promised lenient treatment and a quick pardon, he was back on a chain gang within a month. Undaunted, Burns did the impossible and escaped a second time, this time to New Jersey. He was still a hunted man living in hiding when this book was first published in 1932. The book and its movie version, nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1933, shocked the world by exposing Georgia's brutal treatment of prisoners. I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is a daring and heartbreaking book, an odyssey of misfortune, love, betrayal, adventure, and, above all, the unshakable courage and inner strength of the fugitive himself.
Download or read book The Printed Works of Robert Burns A Bibliography in Outline written by William Craibe Angus and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems and Songs written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bibliography of Robert Burns written by James Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Entire Works of Robert Burns with an Account of His Life and a Criticism of His Writings To which are Prefixed Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of Robert Burns written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dirt Deity written by Ian McIntyre and published by HarperAudio. This book was released on 1995 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian McIntyre's biography, published to mark the bicentenary of Burns's death, strips away myth and legend and explores what lies beneath. It is based meticulously on documentary and archival sources, and uses only the first-hand testimony of those who knew the man. It sets Burns in his historical context, and paints both his emotional life and his political views in vivid colours. On public matters he had no difficulty in holding simultaneously two views that were contradictory. In his private life he could be effortlessly in love with several women at the same time, appallingly cruel one moment, wonderfully tender the next. McIntyre offers a more extensive evaluation of Burns's songs and poetry than most previous biographers. He stresses the importance and quality of the satirical verse, as well as the haunting love poems for which Scotland's 'bard' is best known. In an illuminating final chapter, he examines the extraordinary ramifications assumed after the death of the poet by the Burns legend, a fantastical 'afterlife' bearing little resemblance to biographical reality.
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns written by Ferenc Morton Szasz and published by Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the images of Robert Burns and Abraham Lincoln are recognized worldwide, yet few are aware of the connection between the two. In Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns: Connected Lives and Legends, author Ferenc Morton Szasz reveals how famed Scots poet Robert Burns—and Scotland in general—influenced the life and thought of one of the most beloved and important U.S. presidents and how the legends of the two men became intertwined after their deaths. This is the first extensive work to link the influence, philosophy, and artistry of these two larger-than-life figures. Lacking a major national poet of their own in the early nineteenth century, Americans in the fledgling frontier country ardently adopted the poignant verses and songs of Scotland’s Robert Burns. Lincoln, too, was fascinated by Scotland’s favorite son and enthusiastically quoted the Scottish bard from his teenage years to the end of his life. Szasz explores the ways in which Burns’s portrayal of the foibles of human nature, his scorn for religious hypocrisy, his plea for nonjudgmental tolerance, and his commitment to social equality helped shape Lincoln’s own philosophy of life. The volume also traces how Burns’s lyrics helped Lincoln develop his own powerful sense of oratorical rhythm, from his casual anecdotal stories to his major state addresses. Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns connects the poor-farm-boy upbringings, the quasi-deistic religious views, the shared senses of destiny, the extraordinary gifts for words, and the quests for social equality of two respected and beloved world figures. This book is enhanced by twelve illustrations and two appendixes, which include Burns poems Lincoln particularly admired and Lincoln writings especially admired in Scotland.
Download or read book The Works of Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by Waverley Books Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Robert Burns is more than Scotland's national poet. With Shakespeare, Burns is an icon for the UK and Scotland he is a national symbol. This volume of poems and songs is a best selling, beautiful edition of his work."--Publisher description.
Download or read book The Bibliography of Robert Burns written by James Gibson and published by Kilmarnock, Printed by J. McKie, 1881, New York, Kraus Reprint. This book was released on 1969 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bibliography of Robert Burns with Biographical and Bibliographical Notes written by James Gibson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bibliography of Robert Burns, With Biographical and Bibliographical Notes by James Gibson. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1881 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
Download or read book The Works of Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
