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*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).  *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.  *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. It is a light-hearted work that presents many characters...

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).  *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.  *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. The Rose and The Ring is a satirical work of fantasy...

In 1963, Noel Perrin, a 35-year-old professor of English at Dartmouth College, bought an 85-acre farm in Thetford Center, Vermont. For the next forty years he spent half his time teaching, half writing, and half farming. "That this adds up to three halves I am all too aware," he said, sounding a characteristic,...

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).  *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.  *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.  In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning...

For the depiction of Venice by artists, it's a high bar that's been set, but Adam Van Doren, grandson of the Pulitzer-prize-winning poet Mark Van Doren, convincingly confronts the competition in this charming memoir, a verbal and visual account of his love affair with the city. His story is personal;...

Rosemary Verey was the last of the great English garden legends. Although she embraced gardening late in life, she quickly achieved international renown. She was the acknowledged apostle of the "English style," on display at her home at Barnsley House, the "must have" adviser to the rich and famous,...

Over twenty years ago, Godine published the first English translation of Georges Perec's masterpiece, Life A User's Manual, hailed by the Times Literary Supplement, Boston Globe, and others as "one of the great novels of the century." We are now proud to announce a newly revised twentieth anniversary...

Canadian history begins with the inhabitance of aboriginal peoples for thousands of years. The present Canada has been evolved from a group of French and British colonies into a bilingual, multicultural federation. The French settlers inhabited the country in the 17th century. They were conquered by the Great Britain in 1763. The present constitution of Canada evolved in 1867.

Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes. The...

This book Critical Perspectives on T.S. Eliots Poetry is the ceaseless exploration of the genius of T.S. Eliot by several scholastic minds. A. K. Awasthi reflects on the beliefs that influence T.S. Eliots mind in his paper T.S. Eliot: Poetry and Belief-A Reflection. How thought develops in the poets...

In this moving account, Peter Korn explores the nature and rewards of creative practice. We follow his search for meaning as an Ivy-educated child of the middle class who finds employment as a novice carpenter on Nantucket, transitions to self-employment as a designer/maker of fine furniture, takes a...

We don’t usually know what we are born to do. We certainly also don’t know what kinds of obstacles we will face, or what forms they will take. When we understand how the world has been connected through history—through the movement of people, goods, languages, music, movies, and many other things—we...

Join Neil Haverson on his 50-year ride through the Norfolk and Suffolk newspaper industry. Neil has witnessed it all in the ever-changing regional media world - from flongs, hot metal and office cricket to full colour printing, digital editions and the web. For much of his career, Neil worked...

KARDINÄLE WEINEN NICHT ... in Rom wird der IT-Leiter der Erzdiözese München und Freising, Dr. Michael Renner tot aufgefunden. Der Leiche wurden beide Hände abgetrennt. Jacob Fuller vom BKA und Anne von Feldhaus, jüngste stellvertretende Leiterin der Münchner Mordkommission, fliegen nach...