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Kilvert's World of Wonders: Growing Up in Mid-Victorian England
ISBN: 9780718893019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Kilvert's World of Wonders takes a fresh look at the Victorian era, one that does not turn away from the smoke stacks and crowded streets of popular imagining, but which sees them from the distance of the rural countryside. Though a countryman and lover of country ways, here the well know diarist is shown to be deeply stirred by what he saw as a society being changed and improved by science, technology, and by the liberal, enlightened ideas that were starting to circulate. The social changes seen by Kilvert resonated with the vision of progress that was imbued in him by his Victorian...
Kilvert's World of Wonders takes a fresh look at the Victorian era, one that does not turn away from the smoke stacks and crowded streets of popular i...
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187,61 zł |
Kilvert's Diary and Landscape
ISBN: 9780718830953 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Why do I keep this voluminous journal'" Francis Kilvert asked himself. "Partly because life appears to me such a curious and wonderful thing that it almost seems a pity that even such a humble and uneventful life as mine should pass all together away without some such record as this..." Kilvert's Diary was an effort to tell the story of his life as well as to picture rural society, which Victorians were prone to idealise. Kilvert's loving portraits of landscapes and country characters were often juxtaposed with the grimmest scenes of squalor and suffering. John Toman presents here the first...
"Why do I keep this voluminous journal'" Francis Kilvert asked himself. "Partly because life appears to me such a curious and wonderful thing that it ...
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204,96 zł |
Lincoln and Chicago
ISBN: 9781540252975 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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148,11 zł |