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In this comprehensive guide to reading, Charles H. Moore offers practical advice for developing effective reading habits and maximizing the benefits of reading. From choosing the right books to improving reading comprehension and speed, this book covers all the essential skills and strategies needed...

Arthur Quiller Couch was one of the foremost literary critics of the early 20th century, and his book On the Art of Reading remains a classic exploration of the pleasures and pitfalls of reading. Drawing on his own experience as a reader and writer,...

A collection of poetry from some of the most famous poets of the early 20th century, including Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Carlos Williams, and Robert Frost. The poems cover a wide range of themes and styles.This work has been selected by scholars as...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Continuity and change have been major concerns of the social and behavioral sciences -- in the study of human development and in the study of processes that unfold in various ways across time. There has been a veritable explosion of techniques for studying change...

'You have given a faithful portrait of a Thug's life, his ceremonies, and his acts' Often overshadowed by Kipling's Kim or Forster's A Passage to India, Philip Meadows Taylor's forgotten classic, Confessions of a Thug (1839), is nevertheless the most influential novel of early...

For so long figured in European discourses as the antithesis of modernity, the Pacific Islands have remained all but absent from the modernist studies' critical map. Yet, as the chapters of New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific collectively show, Pacific artists and...

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Fachbereich Translations-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft), course: The Frontier in U.S. Fiction and Film: From Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly (1799) to Cormac McCarthy's The Road...

"Distance Still Matters" is an influential Harvard Business Review article. In this work, Ghemawat proposes the CAGE distance framework that allows firms to consider four dimensions of international distance (cultural, administrative, geographic, and economic) when planning global expansion. Then, he demonstrates the usefulness of...

Historical fiction has surged in popularity in recent years, with new subgenres emerging (e.g. Viking romance, religious thrillers) and reader interest showing no signs of slowing down. This follow-up to Johnson's critically acclaimed guide published in 2005 covers new territory by focusing on English-language...

When I say that during most of my conscious life I have been a prey to fears I take it for granted that I am expressing the case of the majority of people. I cannot remember the time when a dread of one kind...

English Literature by Stopford Brooke. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1882 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.Author: Stopford BrookeISBN-10: 1532789289ISBN-13: 9781532789281Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/16/2016Pages: 230Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

""Under The Gaslight"" is a dramatic play written by Augustin Daly in 1867. Set in the 19th century, the play explores themes of love, betrayal, and redemption amidst the hustle and bustle of New York City. The story follows the lives of a group...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

This volume is a comprehensive overview of scholarship on this play. It includes chapters on criticism, sources and background, textual studies, bibliographies, editions, and translations. Also covered are the stage history and major productions of the play, and films, music, television, and adaptations and...

This critical text examines the ways in which Vladimir Nabokov, one of the twentieth century's great writers, structured his works to encapsulate his metaphysical beliefs. It draws examples from Nabokov's novels, stories and nonfiction, revealing a startling consistency in his beliefs over the course...

Interest in the middle ages is at an all time high at the moment, thanks in part to "The Da Vinci Code." Never has there been a moment more propitious for a study of our misconceptions of the Middle Ages than now. Ranging across...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.Author: Andrew RutherfordISBN-10: 0415604540ISBN-13: 9780415604543Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/20/2010Pages: 532Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize:...

Author: Archie MafejeISBN-10: 1870784081ISBN-13: 9781870784085Publisher: CodesriaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2002Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d

Victorian Ethical Optics asks how artists and authors in the Victorian period answer the ethical question of how one should live with others by turning to a more specific one: how should one look at others? Looking would seem to necessarily lead to interpretation...

Author: Dana HuntleyISBN-10: 1956452702ISBN-13: 9781956452709Publisher: Central Park South PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/06/2024Pages: 228Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d

This book is a new study of the ancient Egyptian poem known in English as The Man Who Was Tired of Life or The Dialogue of a Man and His Ba (or Soul). The composition is universally regarded as one of the masterpieces of...

The essays in this volume represent a cross-section of current scholarship examining the implications of the concept of ?ffentlichkeit (the public sphere), originally conceived by the German philosopher J?rgen Habermas in the early 1960s, in his socio-historical study Strukturwandel der ?ffentlichkeit (The Structural Transformation...

The Nabokov Effect attends to the 'lettrocalamity' that occurs when literature and cinema collide in Vladimir Nabokov's work. Sigi Jöttkandt suspends the long-held critical investment in Nabokov's authorial control to focus on another principle of representational agency making incursions into his books. Tracing the...

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose is a full-length essay collection devoted entirely to British Romantic nonfiction prose. Organized into eight parts, each containing between five and nine chapters arranged alphabetically, the Handbook weaves together familiar and unfamiliar texts, events, and authors, and...

In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Investigating historical legal and property claims, she argues that regimes of expropriation--rather than merit or good taste--are responsible for popular...

Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose is a carefully curated collection of insightful and thought-provoking excerpts from a wide range of authors, from Shakespeare to Milton to Bacon. This comprehensive volume is a must-read for anyone interested in English literature and...

This is a collection of religious hymns and spiritual songs written by renowned hymn writer Isaac Watts. The book is regarded as one of the most influential hymnals in English literature. It includes timeless classics such as "When I survey the wondrous cross" and...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

The book, "" The Bores: A Comedy in Three Acts "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present...

Samuel Smiles, (born Dec. 23, 1812, Haddington, Berwickshire, Scot.--died April 16, 1904, London), Scottish author best known for his didactic work Self-Help (1859), which, with its successors, Character (1871), Thrift (1875), and Duty (1880), enshrined the basic Victorian values associated with the "gospel of...

Are we being played? Is our understanding of the traditionally fixed and static concepts of philosophy based on an oversimplification? This book explores some of the theories of the self since Descartes, together with the rationalism and the empiricism that sustain these ideas, and...

With over 900 biographical entries, more than 600 novels synopsized, and a wealth of background material on the publishers, reviewers and readers of the age the Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction is the fullest account of the period's fiction ever published. Now in a...

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Reading-Literature, Sixth Reader: Adapted And Graded (1915) is a book edited by Harriette Taylor Treadwell. The book is a collection of classic literary works that have been adapted and graded to suit the reading level of sixth-grade students. The book includes stories, poems, and...

The Tempest is one of the most suggestive, yet most elusive of all Shakespeare's plays, and has provoked a wide range of critical interpretations. It is a magical romance, yet deeply and problematically embedded in seventeenth-century debates about authority and power. In this updated...

The present volume covers 30 Pre-Revolutionary French women, providing a representative sampling of their manifold and varied contributions to intellectual and cultural history. This volume is unique in its grouping of essentially French writers from the Pre-Revolutionary period. The authors included here range from...

To paraphrase silent movie queen Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder's classic 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, "The epic miniseries are big! It's television that got small!" This is especially true when one compares such iconic epic miniseries as Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), Roots (1977),...

In this study Karen Lawrence presents Joyce's Ulysses as it evolves through radical changes of style. She traces the abandonment of a narrative norm for a series of rhetorical masks, regarded as conscious aesthetic experiments, and considers the theoretical implication of this process, for...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

Author: Sven WahlroosISBN-10: 0595138071ISBN-13: 9780595138074Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2001Pages: 664Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.13lbsSize: 9.22h x 6.02w x 1.61d

English is increasingly becoming the world's lingua franca. If we are not native speakers of one of the many varieties of English, then we may be students of English, or use English regularly for academic or business purposes. The English Language series, which is...

A reissue of a controversial analysis of the literature profession.When it first appeared in 1976, this groundbreaking exploration of the influences of capitalism on the profession of English touched a nerve among educators and inspired Library Journal to declare, "This book should be read...

This book explores one of the richest dialect families in the world: Chinese dialects. It covers all aspects of Chinese dialectology, from descriptive investigations, to dialect geography and philology, history, variation, language contact and sociolinguistics, and also includes a unique bibliography of dialect works...

A cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United States In 1967, the US government funded the National Theatre of the Deaf, a groundbreaking rehabilitation initiative employing deaf actors. This project aligned with the postwar belief that transforming bodies, minds, aesthetics,...