Download or read book A Thoroughly Mischievous Person written by Alan Kennedy and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1930, Swallows and Amazons secured Arthur Ransome's reputation as one of the most influential children's authors of all time, yet prior to writing fiction he had had a turbulent career as a journalist and war correspondent in revolutionary Russia. In this refreshing account of Ransome's work, Alan Kennedy sets out to explain his enduring appeal, combining literary criticism with psychological expertise. Not only did Ransome apply a careful narrative theory to his works, his use of symbolism aligning them more with the modernist tradition than with the event-driven children's literature of contemporaries such as Richmal Crompton and Enid Blyton, but his novels are also more than usually autobiographical. This Kennedy ably demonstrates with reference to three particular challenges Ransome faced in a seriously conflicted life: his father's untimely death, his abandonment of his infant daughter in order to escape his catastrophic first marriage, and the innumerable compromises that kept him alive during his Russian exile. A Thoroughly Mischievous Person: The Other Arthur Ransome is the first study to tackle this matter systematically, giving casual and scholarly readers alike new insights into this fascinating figure.
Download or read book The Dial written by Francis Fisher Browne and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Six written by Michael Smith and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of acclaimed author Mick Smith's epic, completely unauthorised history of Britain s external intelligence community. Six tells the complete story of the service's birth and early years, including the tragic, untold tale of what happened to Britain's extensive networks in Soviet Russia between the wars. It reveals for the first time how the playwright and MI6 agent Harley Granville Barker bribed the Daily News to keep Arthur Ransome in Russia, and the real reason Paul Dukes returned there. It shows development of tradecraft and the great personal risk officers and their agents took, far from home and unprotected. In Salonika, for example, Lieutenant Norman Dewhurst realised it was time to leave when he opened his door to find one of his agents hanging dismembered in a sack. This first part of Six takes us up to the eve of the conflict, using hundreds of previously classified files and interviews with key players to show how one of the world's most secretive of secret agencies originated and developed into something like the MI6 we know today.
Download or read book Where All the Ladders Start written by Julian Lovelock and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were Shakespeare's 'Friend' and the 'Dark Lady'? Why did Donne risk his life and ruin his career for a seventeen-year-old girl? Why did Wordsworth's sister retire to her bed on his wedding day? Writing never takes place in a vacuum and much of the finest poetry in the English language has been inspired by particular people - patrons, spouses, lovers, friends, or just casual acquaintances. Whether relegated to an obscurity they do not deserve or thrust into prominence they did not seek, their importance to the creative process is inescapable. In Where All the Ladders Start, Julian Lovelock discusses with characteristic incisiveness and enthusiasm nine major British poets and the real lives behind some of their most personal and significant works. Along the way he shows how poetry has developed over the past four hundred years and provides suggestions for further reading, while for convenience all of the relevant poems and extracts are reproduced in full. Written for both the seasoned reader and the student encountering these poems for the first time, Lovelock's analysis will inspire and entertain in equal measure.
Download or read book The Hibbert Journal written by Lawrence Pearsall Jacks and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quarterly review of religion, theology, and philosophy.
Download or read book A Comprehensive Manchu English Dictionary written by Jerry Norman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry Norman’s Comprehensive Manchu–English Dictionary, a substantial revision and enlargement of his Concise Manchu–English Lexicon of 1978, now long out of print, is poised to become the standard English-language resource on the Manchu language. As the dynastic language of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Manchu was used in official documents and was also the vehicle for an enormous translation literature, mostly from the Chinese. The newDictionary, based exclusively on Qing sources, retains all of the information from the earlier Lexicon, but also includes hundreds of additional entries cited from original Manchu texts, enhanced cross-references, and an entirely new introduction on Manchu pronunciation and script. All content from the earlier publication has also been verified. This final book from the preeminent Manchu linguist in the English-speaking world is a reference work that not only updates Norman’s earlier scholarship but also summarizes his decades of study of the Manchu language. The Dictionary, which represents a significant scholarly contribution to the field of Inner Asian studies and to all students and scholars of Manchu and other Tungusic and related languages around the world, will become a major tool for archival research on Chinese late imperial period history and government.
Download or read book The Right Honourable Gentleman written by William Edward Norris and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lay Thoughts of a Dean written by William Ralph Inge and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Spelling Dictionary A New Edition Carefully Revised and Corrected Etc written by John ENTICK and published by . This book was released on 1776 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments the Text Carefully Printed from the Most Correct Copies of the Present Authorized Translation Including the Marginal Readings and Parallel Texts written by Adam Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Entick s New Spelling Dictionary Carefully revised corrected and improved by John Robinson written by John ENTICK and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sonnets triumphs and other poems now first completely written by Francesco Petrarca and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boyer s Royal dictionary abridged The twenty second edition Carefully corrected and improved By N Salmon written by Abel BOYER and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Antiquary written by Edward Walford and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Antiquary written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ancient Supremacy written by Jonathan Lee and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a chronological account of the struggle between the Afghan Amirs of Kabul and the Manghit Dynasty of Bukhara for Balkh province (wilayat) during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing extensively on India Office Records, Persian and native oral sources, the book provides a unique insight into an important, but little-studied Central Asian region. Structured around the history of Maimana's Mingid dynasty, the book details the various military campaigns, whilst also examining critically Britain and Russia's role in the 'Afghanisation' of Balkh during the period of the 'Great Game'. The work is especially significant to historians since it questions conventional perceptions of Central Asia during the era of European imperialism. It examines too Balkh's social and economic situation. It includes numerous maps, charts, photographs and dynastic charts.
Download or read book Electrical News Generation Transmission and Application of Electricity written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
