Although 150 years have passed since Princess Victoria became Queen, the first twelve months of her reign remain relatively unexplored. In the first literary history to focus specifically on the year 1837-1838, Richard L. Stein examines a wide variety of cultural products--in visual art and architecture, statistics and maps, scientific writing and popular journalism, and literature itself--to reconstruct the thought and experience of England in "Victoria's Year." Surveying such figures as Carlyle, Cruikshank, Darwin, Dickens, Martineau, Ruskin, Tennyson, and Turner, this wide-ranging volume...
Although 150 years have passed since Princess Victoria became Queen, the first twelve months of her reign remain relatively unexplored. In the first l...
Within the covers of this book are page upon page of delightful drawings for the young, or not so young, to read, to absorb, and to embellish with colors of their choice. The first color-me story deals with a restless young octopus who is tired of his home environs and decides to explore the world. And, in doing so, little readers learn or review the basic colors and get to enjoy the story in rhyme. The second adventure centers around a big problem in Grayville and an even bigger one on Nothing Hill. Both problems are solved by a really unusual, amazing event. Kids of all ages will enjoy...
Within the covers of this book are page upon page of delightful drawings for the young, or not so young, to read, to absorb, and to embellish with ...
