Elizabeth: 10009 books
by Elizabeth Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Elizabeth Bishop's prose is not nearly as well known as her poetry, but she was a dazzling and compelling prose writer too, as the publication of her letters has shown. Her stories are often on the borderline of memoir, and vice versa. From her college days, she could find the most astonishing yet...
Enchantment the Art and Life of Lilian Westcott Hale
America's Linear Impressionist
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
As the title suggests, this book concerns the art and life of the world's only "American Linear Impressionist", Lilian Westcott Hale. Born in Connecticut in 1881, Hale was educated primarily at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and lived for many years in nearby Dedham, moving...
by Margaret Preston, Elizabeth Butel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Never shy of voicing an opinion, artist Margaret Preston launched into print on a variety of subjects, from flower arranging and furnishing a bedroom, to Aboriginal art and design, Pokerwork and Wood-blocking. Selected from the pages of Australia's journals by Elizabeth Butel, this collection addresses...
by Elizabeth Gaskell, Elisabeth Jay
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2004
Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Brontë was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains the most significant study of the enigmatic author who gave Jane Eyre the subtitle An Autobiography. It recounts Charlotte Brontë's life from her isolated childhood,...
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
'It is in every way worthy of what one great woman should have written of another.' Patrick Brontë Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Brontë, and, having been invited...
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson (29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was a British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very...
by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Joseph Pennell
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
A peasant in peaked hat and blue shirt, with trousers rolled up high above his bare knees, crossed the road and silently examined the tricycle. “You have a good horse,” he then said; “it eats nothing.” —from An Italian Pilgrimage The 1880s was an exhilarating time for cycling pioneers like...
Beauty Out of Barrenness
A Journey Through the Inability to Conceive
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
“He settles the barren woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD”. Psalm 113:9 Barren. Even now, the pain is still very real. The reality of the failure I felt as a woman in not being able to conceive is beyond what I can put into words. The empty feeling of barrenness is...
by Lord Byron, Golden Deer Classics, Christina Rossetti
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love 3. Walt Whitman - A Glimpse 4. W.Shakespeare - Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds 5. John Donne - The Good-Morrow 6. K.Gibran - Love One Another 7. Robert Browning - Meeting At Night 8. E.Dickinson...
Best poems from Best Poets - 1
Love Poems
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
A Red, Red Rose
by Robert Burns
O my Luve's like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve's like the melodie
That’s sweetly play'd in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I:
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry:
Till...
Fantastic Stories Presents The Vampire Super Pack
Over 225,000 words of startling Vampire fiction by writers such as Bram Stoker, F. Marion Crawford, Steve Rasnic Tem, Robert E. Howard, Jay O'Connell, John William Polidori, and many, many more!
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Vampires have fascinated mankind for centuries. These creatures of the night enthrall us, terrify us, and seduce us. The Vampire Super Pack brings together 42 vampires stories spanning almost 200 years. With over 225,000 words of fascinating fiction this is the Vampire anthology you’ve been waiting...
Picturing Experience in the Early Printed Book
Breydenbach’s Peregrinatio from Venice to Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Bernhard von Breydenbach’s Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (Journey to the Holy Land), first published in 1486, is one of the seminal books of early printing and is especially renowned for the originality of its woodcuts. In Picturing Experience in the Early Printed Book, Elizabeth Ross considers...
by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Mary Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer (July 26, 1822, London - January 4, 1904) was an English-American writer, both of original works and translations. A number of her works were volumes dealing popularly with contemporary European history.
by Elizabeth Sarah Kite
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
IF “good wine needs no bush” and a “good play needs no epilogue,”—and we have high authority for both these maxims,—then it should also be true that a good book needs no prologue, especially where, as in the case of Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence, the author has prefaced...