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The Teller's Tale
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 194

The Teller's Tale

This book offers new, often unexpected, but always intriguing portraits of the writers of classic fairy tales. For years these authors, who wrote from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, have been either little known or known through skewed, frequently sentimentalized biographical information. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were cast as exemplars of national virtues; Hans Christian Andersen's life became—with his participation—a fairy tale in itself. Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, the prim governess who wrote moral tales for girls, had a more colorful past than her readers would have imagined, and few people knew that nineteen-year-old Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy conspired to kill her much-older husband. Important figures about whom little is known, such as Giovan Francesco Straparola and Giambattista Basile, are rendered more completely than ever before. Uncovering what was obscured for years and with newly discovered evidence, contributors to this fascinating and much-needed volume provide a historical context for Europe's fairy tales.

Catalogue of the Books and Papers for the Most Part Relating to Cambridge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Catalogue of the Books and Papers for the Most Part Relating to Cambridge

This alphabetical catalogue documents John Willis Clark's collection of over ten thousand Cambridge-related books, pamphlets and pieces of print.

Catalogue of the Library of Congress
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 552

Catalogue of the Library of Congress

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1868
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Designs by Mr. R. Bentley
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 104

Designs by Mr. R. Bentley

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1753
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Catalogue of the Barton Collection
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 888

Catalogue of the Barton Collection

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1888
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Heaven on Earth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

Heaven on Earth

In nineteenth-century Britain, a large number of prominent Anglican and Presbyterian Evangelicals rejected the idea that salvation meant "going to heaven when you die." Instead, they proposed that God would establish his kingdom on earth, renewing the creation and reanimating embodied humans to live in a world of science and progress. This book introduces the writings and activities of these women and men, among whom were counted the ardent social reformer Lord Shaftesbury, the highly-respected clergyman Edward Bickersteth, the popular author Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, and the General Secretary of the Evangelical Alliance, Thomas Rawson Birks. The book shows that the catalyst for such theolo...

Heart Like a Fakir
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 391

Heart Like a Fakir

Heart Like a Fakir is a history of the final forty years of British East India Company rule in India as witnessed by General Sir James Abbott (1807–1896), the man for whom the Pakistani town of Abbottabad is named. Based on extensive research into primary source documents, the book uses the life of General Sir James Abbott as a narrative thread to explore the troubled period between William Dalrymple’s White Moghuls and the Indian Rebellion of 1857. General Sir James Abbott was one of the most remarkable characters in British colonial history, becoming Great Britain’s first guerilla leader, the first Briton to reach the fabled Central Asian city of Khiva, and a British Deputy Commissio...

Silver Fork Novels, 1826-1841 Vol 6
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 460

Silver Fork Novels, 1826-1841 Vol 6

The novels in this collection present a vivid picture of late-Regency society clinging to modes of behaviour which soon became obsolete and mark an important point of transition to Victorian cultural values.

The Diary of a Nobody
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 177

The Diary of a Nobody

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-05-08
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

`Why should I not publish my diary? I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see - because I do not happen to be a `Somebody' - why my diary should not be interesting.' The Diary of a Nobody (1892) created a cultural icon, an English archetype. Anxious, accident-prone, occasionally waspish, Charles Pooter has come to be seen as the epitome of English suburban life. His diary chronicles encounters with difficult tradesmen, the delights of home improvements, small parties, minor embarrassments, and problems with his troublesome son. The suburban world he inhabits is hilariously and painfully familiar in its small-mindedness and its essential decency. ...

Alumni Cantabrigienses
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 569

Alumni Cantabrigienses

Detailed and comprehensive, the second volume of the Venns' directory, in six parts, includes all known alumni until 1900.