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How Novels Work
OUP Oxford 2006; US$ 15.95Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic readership in the discussion of how novels work. Drawing on his weekly Guardian column, 'Elements of Fiction', John Mullan examines novels mostly of the... more...
Land and Family
University Of Hertfordshire Press 2010; US$ 29.99With a special emphasis on the exchange of land between medieval servile tenantsespecially from the 13th century onwardthis scholarly examination of the peasant land market of the Middle Ages explores the identification of peasant families with particular lands to which they had a hereditary right. Using this theme to explore village life... more...
The Lives of the Poets
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 8.99If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.'In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English... more...
Helen
Sort Of Books 2011; US$ 1.91She was the bestselling author of Regency England. Admired by Jane Austen whose fame she eclipsed and dubbed Our Great Maria by Sir Walter Scott. John Ruskin declared her work, The most rereadable in existence. Isnt it time we started reading Maria Edgeworth?Written in 1834, Helen was the last and most psychologically... more...
Patronage
Sort Of Books 2011; US$ 1.88About Patronage: She set out to write an adventurous soap opera about the trails and fortunes of two neighbouring families in Regency England. She ended with a searing critique of corruption within British public and private life and a rare insight into the opportunities available for young men making their way in Regency society. Praised as both... more...
Helen
Sort Of Books 2011; US$ 1.88She was the bestselling author of Regency England. Admired by Jane Austen whose fame she eclipsed and dubbed 'Our Great Maria' by Sir Walter Scott. John Ruskin declared her work, 'The most re-readable in existence'. Isn't it time we started reading Maria Edgeworth? Written in 1834, Helen was the last and most psychologically powerful of Edgeworth's... more...
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