Download or read book Walter Scott s Books written by J.H. Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott's Books is an approachable introduction to the Waverley Novels. Drawing on substantial research in Scott's intertextual sources, it offers a fresh approach to the existing readings where the thematic and theoretical are the norm. Avoiding jargon, and moving briskly, it tackles the vexed question of Scott's 'circumbendibus' style head on, suggesting that it is actually one of the most exciting aspects of his fiction: indeed, what Ian Duncan has called the 'elaborately literary narrative', at first sight a barrier, is in a sense what the novels are primarily 'about'. The book aims to show how inventive, witty, and entertaining Scott's richly allusive style is; how he keeps his varied readership on board with his own inexhaustible variety; and how he allows proponents of a wide range of positions to have their say, using a detached, ironic, but never cynical narrative voice to undermine the more rigid and inhumane rhetoric. The Introduction outlines this approach and sets the book in the context of earlier and current Scott criticism. It also deals with some practical issues, including forms of reference and the distinctive use of the term 'Authorial'. The four chapters are designed to zoom in progressively from the general to the particular. 'Resources' explores the printed material available to Scott in his library and gives an overview of the way he uses it in his fiction. 'Style' confronts objections to the 'circumbendibus' Scott and shows how his Ciceronian style with its penchant for polysyllables enables him to embrace a wide range of rhetoric relayed in a detached but not cynical Authorial voice. 'Strategies' explores how he keeps his very wide audience on board by a complex bonding between characters, readers, and Author, and stresses the extraordinary variety of exuberant inventiveness with which he handles intertextual allusions. 'Mottoes' examines the most remarkable of Scott's intertextual devices, the chapter epigraphs, bringing into play the approaches developed in the previous chapters. The brief concluding 'Envoi' moves out again to the widest possible perspective, suggesting how readers should now be able to move on to, or return to, the novels and the critical conversation, with an appreciation of the central importance of the ludic for an appreciation of Scott in a world once again threatened by inhumane and humorless rigidities.

Download or read book The Waverley Combined Readers written by Waverley Combined Readers and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Garden Spells written by Sarah Addison Allen and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Garden Spells" is a wonderful, enchanting, crafty novel of sisters--two very different women, each rooted in some way to her past--who discover that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree when family ties cast their spell.

Download or read book The Waverley Readers written by Waverley Readers and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Cat Called Waverley written by Debi Gliori and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in a city park, the little cat belongs to no one, until he is befriended and cared for by Donald, a soldier. When Donald is sent away to fight in a far-off war-zone, the cat waits for him to return, at Edinburgh's Waverley Station. And waits ... Travelers and railway staff name him Waverley, and look after him. But he is waiting for Donald. Years go by, until one day at last he hears a voice he knows. Warfare has drastically changed Donald's life, but when the lonely cat and the forgotten man are reunited, their world suddenly seems a brighter and more hopeful place. This is a groundbreaking picture story that introduces important social issues of homelessness, post-traumatic stress disorder, and underlines the value of pets.

Download or read book Waverley Novels written by Sir Walter Scott and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Download or read book Mein Rant written by R. F. Patterson and published by Waverley Books Limited. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of German propaganda was sinister, especially in the portrayal of Jewish citizens. American propaganda was cautionary and dark. British propaganda, on the other hand, was that the righteous should prevail and that those in the wrong - be they errant schoolboys, bullies, or robbers, or even wartime leaders, should always fail. Rubbishing the enemy, assassinating nasty characters with humorous methods, was a technique people learned from comics. Britain was expert in this area. So enter Heath Robinson, and R F Paterson's Mein Rant, which we reproduce in this book, with a new introduction by leading comic archivist, Morris Heggie. Mein Rant is a clever and funny satire of Hitler's Mein Kampf, illustrated by Heath Robinson. Today, and since World War One, Heath Robinson's name has been used to describe absurdly complicated inventions that achieved very simple results. Here his work is used to great impact. Mein Kampf ('My Struggle'), Hitler's autobiography, was published in two volumes in 1925 and 1926 which Hitler wrote in Landsberg Prison, and R F Paterson said of it: Mein Kampf had neither rhyme nor reason, while my abridgement undoubtedly has rhyme. 'A conversion of Hitler's Mein Kampf to a delightful and pungent verse-satire. The result is an absolute triumph of the Comic Muse over intractable, almost hopeless material'.

Download or read book The Lazy Rooster written by Amanda Stanford and published by Reworkd Press. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Waverley Story Books for Children have simple words that stand alone in very large text, which encourages young learners to focus on the words of the story before appreciating the pictures of the story's adventures. -- The illustrations tell sweet, imaginative stories that really draw children in, and the simple language and rhythm encourages them to follow along. The Lazy Rooster doesn't want to get up and crow - what happens? Nothing! No food, no work, no morning. What's the farm to do? Find out in this wonderfully simple, yet inventive book. -- Moving from lap reading to independent reading is a source of great pride for many beginning readers and I hope you and your little one enjoy these books as much as mine did. --Dr. Amanda Stanford

Download or read book The Gilded Hour written by Sara Donati and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted by childhood losses in spite of successful medical careers in 1883 New York City, surgeon Anna Savard and her obstetrician cousin, Sophie, consider taking in a child and helping a desperate young mother, while avoiding dangerous anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock.

Download or read book The Waverley Combined Readers First Notions of Geography and History Etc written by WAVERLEY COMBINED READERS. and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Waverley written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Maw Broon s Cookbook written by Waverley Books and published by Waverley Books Limited. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launched in 1936 in the "Sunday Post" in Scotland, The Broons are undoubtedly Scotland's first family - the Nation's favourites - with a readership covering various generations. This title is a facsimile of Maw Broon's very own cookbook.

Download or read book Sir Walter Scott s Waverley written by Jenni Calder and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New and controversial major redaction of Walter Scott's Waverley, set in Scotland in 1745, the year of the Jacobite uprising.

Download or read book The Waverley Historical Reader written by WAVERLEY HISTORICAL READER. and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Perfect on Paper written by Maria Murnane and published by Amazon Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Meet the new Bridget Jones." --PopSugar Daily "A light and funny read. If you've ever felt like your life wasn't going the way you'd planned, then you can't help but connect with Waverly's tale." --Becky Lejeune for Bookbitch.com Anything can look perfect on paper. When her fianc calls off their wedding at the last minute, Waverly Bryson wonders if her life will ever turn out the way she thought it would...or should. Her high-powered job in sports PR? Not so perfect. Her relationship with her dad? Far from it. Her perfect marriage? Enough said. To keep sane, Waverly makes a habit of jotting down "Honey Notes," her own brand of self-deprecating wisdom and a pipe dream for a line of greeting cards. As Waverly stumbles back into the dating scene (no stalkers or jean shorts, please), her personal and professional lives threaten to collide. Perfect on Paper reminds us that everyone has a bad date (or twelve), and that everyone eventually needs a best friend to tell them, "Honey, you are not alone."