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Book The Letters of Sir Walter Scott  1825 1826

Download or read book The Letters of Sir Walter Scott 1825 1826 written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Letters of Sir Walter Scott  1828 1831

Download or read book The Letters of Sir Walter Scott 1828 1831 written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Benjamin Disraeli and John Murray

Download or read book Benjamin Disraeli and John Murray written by Regina Akel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of an early nineteenth-century London newspaper, the Representative, more important for the people who took part in its inception than for its journalistic merits. The gallery of characters who appear in the narrative includes prominent figures of the age, literary as well as political, such as Sir Walter Scott and his son-in-law, John Gibson Lockhart; Foreign Secretary George Canning; and certainly publisher John Murray II. The pivotal figure is, however, a very young Benjamin Disraeli, whose brilliant mind already displayed great powers of observation, verbal expression and manipulation of his elders and betters. Written in a fluent style, and drawing upon previously untapped original sources at The Bodleian Library and The John Murray Archive at The National Library of Scotland, the book presents documented proof that the events narrated are quite different from what has traditionally been accepted as truth, at the same time it unveils hitherto unknown facets of well-known figures of the age.

Book Sir Walter Scott  Landscape and Locality

Download or read book Sir Walter Scott Landscape and Locality written by James Reed and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott was the first British novelist to discover in landscape a literary as well as a pictoral medium, an insight which he exploits to powerful effect in his Scottish novels. Mr Reed's book breaks new ground by demonstrating the originality of Scott's landscapes, in which romantic nature takes its place in a realistic context of people, history, architecture and traditions. The author shows how, as poet and novelist, Scott explores the notion of place to a depth where it operates not merely as dramatic background but as a force which shapes and directs the minds of its inhabitants. This study adds a new dimension to the understanding of Scott's work.

Book The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations written by Elizabeth M. Knowles and published by Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations offers the broadest and most up-to-date coverage of quotations available today. Now with 20,000 quotations arranged by author, this is Oxford's largest quotations dictionary ever. As well as quotations from traditional sources,and with improved coverage of world religions and classical Greek and Latin literature, this foremost dictionary of quotations now covers areas such as proverbs and nursery rhymes. For the first time there are special sections for Advertising Slogans, Epitaphs, Film Lines, and Misquotations, whichbring together topical and related quotes, and allow you to browse through the best quotations on a given subject. In this new fifth edition there is enhanced accessibility with a new thematic index to help you find the best quotes on a chosen subject, more in-depth details of the earliest traceable source, an extensive keyword index, and biographical cross-references, so you will easily be able to findquotations for all occasions, and identify who said what, where, and when.

Book Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925  Manuscripts 1801 4000  charters and other formal documents 901 2634

Download or read book Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925 Manuscripts 1801 4000 charters and other formal documents 901 2634 written by National Library of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie

Download or read book The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie written by Joanna Baillie and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These annotated letters present the first personal glimpse of this Scottish playwright as she wrote and lived. It documents her problems with publishers, describes her encounters with Wordsworth, Byron, Southey, Berry and other literary figures, outlines a long relationship with Scott and places an active literary woman in the historical and social setting of early to mid-nineteenth century Britain.

Book Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925  Manuscripts 1 1800  charters and other formal documents 1 900

Download or read book Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925 Manuscripts 1 1800 charters and other formal documents 1 900 written by National Library of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of Congress

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 1418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rise and Fall of the City of Money

Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the City of Money written by Ray Perman and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions which transformed Edinburgh into a global financial centre. The crash of 2008 wrecked the city's two largest and oldest banks – and its reputation. In the three intervening centuries, Edinburgh became a hothouse of financial innovation, prudent banking, reliable insurance and smart investing. The face of the city changed too as money transformed it from medieval squalor to Georgian elegance. This is the story, not just of the institutions which were respected worldwide, but of the personalities too, such as the two hard-drinking Presbyterian ministers who founded the first actuarially-based pension fund; Sir Walter Scott, who faced financial ruin, but wrote his way out of it; the men who financed American railways and eastern rubber plantations with Scottish money; and Fred Goodwin, notorious CEO of RBS, who took the bank to be the biggest in the world, but crashed and burned in 2008.

Book Searching for Jane Austen

Download or read book Searching for Jane Austen written by Emily Auerbach and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Jane Austen's life and writings, this work surveys two centuries of editing, censorship, and fiction that created a pious, wistful, romantically pining, and frustrated Austen. It serves up an antidote to that icon - a dynamic, brave, and buoyant writer - by examining subtle self-portraits in the author's works.

Book Chronicles of the Canongate

Download or read book Chronicles of the Canongate written by Sir Walter Scott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set within a framing narrative told by Chrystal Croftangry, these three stories are set in the years following the Jacobite defeat and all feature characters who are leaving Scotland to seek their fortunes elsewhere. In 'The Highland Widow' and 'The Two Drovers', two young men find themselves torn between traditional Scottish loyalties and the opportunities offered by England. And 'The Surgeon's Daughter' follows three young Scots to India during the first phase years of the British Empire.

Book The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres  Arts  Sciences  Etc

Download or read book The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres Arts Sciences Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Supplementary Catalogue of the Subscription Library  at Kingston upon Hull  containing the works admitted since the publication of the catalogue  in 1822

Download or read book A Supplementary Catalogue of the Subscription Library at Kingston upon Hull containing the works admitted since the publication of the catalogue in 1822 written by Subscription Library (HULL) and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: