The Parlour magazine of the literature of all nations
Title | The Parlour magazine of the literature of all nations PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 448 |
Release | 1851 |
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Family pastime; or, Homes made happy [by R.K. Philp. With] Solutions
Title | Family pastime; or, Homes made happy [by R.K. Philp. With] Solutions PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Kemp Philp |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 114 |
Release | 1852 |
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Punch
Title | Punch PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 338 |
Release | 1851 |
Genre | Caricatures and cartoons |
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The Indian News and Chronicle of Eastern Affaires
Title | The Indian News and Chronicle of Eastern Affaires PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 576 |
Release | 1851 |
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The Turning Point
Title | The Turning Point PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Douglas-Fairhurst |
Publisher | Knopf |
Total Pages | 369 |
Release | 2022-03-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0525655948 |
A major new biography that takes an unusual and illuminating approach to the great writer—immersing us in one year of his life—from the award-winning author of Becoming Dickens and The Story of Alice. The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, poverty, and disease. It is also a turbulent year in the private life of Charles Dickens, as he copes with a double bereavement and early signs that his marriage is falling apart. But this formative year will become perhaps the greatest turning point in Dickens's career, as he embraces his calling as a chronicler of ordinary people's lives and develops a new form of writing that will reveal just how interconnected the world is becoming. The Turning Point transports us into the foggy streets of Dickens's London, closely following the twists and turns of a year that would come to define him and forever alter Britain's relationship with the world. Fully illustrated, and brimming with fascinating details about the larger-than-life man who wrote Bleak House, this is the closest look yet at one of the greatest literary personalities ever to have lived.
Toys in the Age of Wonder
Title | Toys in the Age of Wonder PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Rich |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 345 |
Release | 2020-08-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1476639787 |
By the middle 1800s, toys were appearing in forms that drew upon--and that inspired--advances in areas such as optics, biology, geography, transportation, and automation. In these decades, too, a new type of wonder tale was being brought to maturity by a Poe-inspired Jules Verne. The modern wonder tale's highly-charged vision expressed the hopes and the fears, and the delights and the traumas, engendered by "new worlds idealism"--that Western pursuit of both mechanical and geographical conquest. Exploring realms belonging to childhood, literature, science, and history, this innovative study weaves together the histories of wonder tales and children's toys, focusing specifically on their modern aspects and how they reflect and express the social attitudes of that time period beginning around 1859 and ending around 1957.
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Title | Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum PDF eBook |
Author | British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 810 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | English literature |
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