The Short Oxford History of English Literature provides in a single volume a comprehensive beginner's guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. Separate chapters trace the development of English literature from Beowulf to the "post-modern" fictions of Seamus Heaney and Angela Carter. The History provides detailed discussion of Old and Middle English Literature, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Romantics, Victorian and Edwardian literature, Modernism, and post-war writing. Discussions of key writers...
The Short Oxford History of English Literature provides in a single volume a comprehensive beginner's guide to the literature of the British Isles fro...
When John Harmon--who has been left a fortune if he will marry the girl his miserly father chose for him--is found floating dead in the Thames, he sets in motion a story overflowing with cases of deception and mistaken identity, of murder and attempted murder, of sin and redemption. The influence of the notorious Harmon inheritance ripples through a large cast of vividly drawn characters from every level of society, including Noddy Boffin, known as "the Golden Dustman"; the one-legged villain Silas Wegg; willful Bella Wilfer; saintly Lizzie Hexam; the sharp-witted doll's dressmaker Jenny...
When John Harmon--who has been left a fortune if he will marry the girl his miserly father chose for him--is found floating dead in the Thames, he ...
Macbeth: How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags? What is't you do?
Three Witches: A deed without a name.
Macbeth, Act 4, Scene I
What lessons can we learn from witch beliefs and witch-hunts in traditional societies and in earlier times?
This fascinating cross-cultural survey of witchcraft aims to provide undergraduate students of anthropology and history with a comprehensive introduction to the figure of the witch. Case studies of witch-hunts in a broad range of societies -- from medieval Europe to America and tribal Africa -- demonstrate how those...
Macbeth: How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags? What is't you do?
Writers and Their Work is a series of innova tive critical studies that introduces writers and their part icular genres to a wide range of readers. This study relates Trollope to the broad Victorian culture in which he lived a nd responded artistically. '
Writers and Their Work is a series of innova tive critical studies that introduces writers and their part icular genres to a wide range of readers. Th...
