Saddest Words. William Faulkner's Civil War, Hardback - Michael Gorra

Michael Gorra, one of America's most preeminent literary critics, asks how we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century.Illustrations: 10 b...

With this "rich, complex, and eloquent" (Drew Gilpin Faust, Atlantic) work, Pulitzer Prize finalist Michael Gorra charts the evolution of an author...

DescriptionAmerica's evolution during the mid-19th century just prior to the Civil War was amazing. The six-fold increase in population from 1800 t...

A revelatory anthology of poems, experimental prose and previously unpublished work by Madeline Gins, the transdisciplinary writer-artist-thinker f...

"Describes the Siege of Vicksburg and the Battle of Gettysburg, including Pickett's Charge, that turned the tide of the American Civil War. Include...

Civil War provides a vigorous, direct, clear, third-personal, impassioned account of Caesar's campaigns during the civil war of 49--48 BC, drawn fr...

Reducere. "How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home, " says Darl Bundren in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. How much Faulkne...

The life of William Davenant -Shakespeare's godson and potential biological son -reads as entertainingly as his plays.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books ...

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Featuring modernised spelling and detailed explanatory notes, this anthology of Civil War-era women poets is perfect for students of English litera...

This first new novel in two years from the Nation's Favourite Storyteller is a sweeping story of love and rescue - an unforgettable journey to the ...

Reducere. Swashbuckling stories of the Union naval blockade of the Southern states and the blockade runners who smuggled goods to the Confederacy have long b...

DescriptionThe War Criminal's Son brings to life hidden aspects of the Civil War through the sweeping saga of the firstborn son in the infamous Con...

Traditional histories of the Civil War describe the conflict as a war between North and South. Kenneth Noe, following the lead of environmental his...

Reducere. Out of the ashes of Imperial China arose two new contenders to lead a reformed nation; the Chinese Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang, and the Chine...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Michael NapierIllustration(s): Fully illustrated throughout in colour and black and whiteNumber of p...

An original exploration of how the English Civil War has been portrayed over the centuries.

Examines at the reception of the Spanish Civil War in British popular culture, and how supporters of both sides in Britain used the rhetoric and im...

As the Civil War unfolded, Murfreesboro became hotly contested by Confederate and Union forces. Both sides occupied the town for significant period...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Michael LynchIllustration(s): Fully illustrated in colour and black and whiteNumber of pages: 144Col...

The First World War was to lead to the first major step in Britain's railways becoming a unified system.Illustrations: 116 black and white illustra...

Reducere. "First at Bethel, farthest at Gettysburg and Chickamauga and last at Appomattox" is a phrase that is often used to encapsulate the role of North Ca...

Reducere. More Strange Tales of the Civil War presents readers with more predictions, coincidences, medical oddities, and other bizarre events of the Civil W...

Reducere. In the Southern Appalachian Mountains, no character was more loved or despised than Union officer George W. Kirk. He led a group of deserters on nu...

This is the first scholarly edition of William Empson's The Structure of Complex Words (1951), a classic of literary criticism and a major statemen...

A timely call for recovering the true meanings of the nineteenth-century terms that are hobbling current political debatesPublisher: Yale Universit...

During the Civil War, William H. Gregg served as William Clarke Quantrill's de facto adjutant from December 1861 until the spring of 1864, making h...

Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816--1890) served on the nation's highest trib...

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Comprehensive and authoritative work on the whole range of Second World War Red Army weaponry.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Michael Gr...

Reducere. Bushwhackers recounts hundreds of incidents that brought the Civil War home to the mountains of the Old North State. Some are violent, some humorou...

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