Richardson: 1439 books

As a boy growing up in Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas, I had no objective conception of evil. We were practicing Roman Catholics in our family, so our consideration of evil was focused on self: urges which could lead to sinurges which themselves constituted sin. Evil was what lay in the barely...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Clarissa Harlowe, the tragic heroine of Clarissa, is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become very wealthy only in recent years and is now eager to become part of the aristocracy...

Of the five major Shakespearean tragediesHamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and OthelloKing Lear is perhaps the most challenging. Issues of rulership, family and blood, are overlaid with bastardy, loyalty, lust, and deceit. Add to this the apparently gratuitous on-stage blinding of Gloucester,...

Coriolanus is a man afflicted by a tragic flaw: Hubris (Hybris), overweening pride. His thoughts are immediately expressed in his speech, never mind the setting or the audience. This, combined with his near total naivete, leads to his downfall, especially when confronted by the machinations of Brutus...

Jane Ann Rogers is 15 years old when she travels from Britain to America with her parents in 1852. They were hoping she would enjoy looking for gold in California so much that she would forget about dreaming how to paint portraits as she was. On their way by wagon, they are trapped in an avalanche...

Just returned from an airing with my charmer, complied with after great importunity. She was attended by the two nymphs. They both topt their parts; kept their eyes within bounds; made moral reflections now-and- then. O Jack! What devils are women, when all tests are got over, and we have completely...

In Watching TV with a Linguist, Fägersten challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. Rather, she champions the use of fictional television to learn about linguistics and at the same time promotes enriched television viewing experiences...

When Miss Lydia Garrett's guardian is murdered, and the authorities refuse to investigate the odd circumstances, she vows to catch the culprit. The same night the Earl of Danbury is murdered in his bed. Against all odds it appears that the murders are related - and Anthony Douglas, the new Lord Danbury,...

Illustrated with 23 maps and plans of the campaign and engagements at Chickamauga. Probably the most unpredictable variable in the "Fog of War" next to leadership, is the command and control process, comprised of three components: organizations, process, and facilities. Organizations include...

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Justus Gerhardt ist ein Büromensch. Als eines Tages das Tor zu einer anderen Welt für ihn geöffnet wird, glaubt er zunächst an einen Irrtum. Als dann aber noch in ihm mystische Kräfte erwachen, ist er vollkommen überfordert. Es beginnt eine Jagd zwischen zwei Welten; seinem Büro zum einen und...

She chooses an unlikely setting, a nursing home in a small town, where the heroine is trapped and speechless over 23 years, then with a few surprises and some twists and turns, all the curves straighten out and light is focused partly because of the birds, and partly because of Robin's persistence to known who this unknown heroine really is.

Hard candies is a journey told in wisdom of emotions and feeling . The very essence at a time when men enter the golden years and begin to mellow and women begin to appeal to a finer quality . Becoming more appealing then ever at a rationally level . These poems express love turmoil and tragedy an joy . Enjoy the silvery moon and years with me and turn a page in the twilight . DeVal