Lewis Melville: 21 books
by Lewis Melville
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Of the eight papers printed here, “Some Eighteenth-Century Men About Town,” “A Forgotten Satirist: ‘Peter Pindar’,” “Sterne’s Eliza,” and “William Beckford, of Fonthill Abbey,” have appeared in the Fortnightly Review; “Charles James Fox” appeared in the Monthly Review, “Exquisites...
The Windsor Beauties
Ladies of the Court of Charles II
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
"The Duchess of York wished to have the portraits of the most beautiful women at Court," Anthony Hamilton wrote in the Memoirs of Count Grammont. "Lely painted them, and employed all his art in the execution. He could not have had more alluring sitters. Every portrait is a masterpiece."
The...
by Lewis Melville
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
This 1906 collection of short biographies includes chapters on Benjamin Disraeli, William Makepeace Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, Mrs. Gaskell, Mrs. Oliphant, Charles Kingsley, Charles Reade, and Walter Besant, among others. Melville asserts that the Victorian period was a time synonymous with “big” writing.
by Lewis Melville
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
This work is an attempt to portray the character of George III and to present him alike in his private life and in his Court. It is, therefore, not essential to the scheme of this book to treat of the political history of the reign, but it is impossible entirely to ignore it, since the King was so frequently...
by G.K. CHESTERTON, LEWIS MELVILLE
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Amid all the eulogies and all the slanders that are lavished upon the English character, very few people would appear to take any real trouble to obtain a sincere view of it. Rhetorical phrases about its inarticulate strength and nobility do not commonly bring us very much further, for it may be...
by Lewis Melville
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
A compelling life story and shrewd analysis of King George III, who ascended the throne with his mother’s advice, “Be King, George” ringing in his ears. His scheming belied his nickname, “Farmer George;” this was a name George was given by satirists—a tribute to his seeming simple mindedness, but later George used the name to identify himself with the people.
by Lewis Melville
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "John Gay (30 June 1685 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names."
by Lewis Melville
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
A compelling life story and shrewd analysis of King George III, who ascended the throne with his mother’s advice, “Be King, George” ringing in his ears. His scheming belied his nickname, “Farmer George;” this was a name George was given by satirists—a tribute to his seeming simple mindedness, but later George used the name to identify himself with the people.
Taming the Wild Grape
Botany and Horticulture in the Vitaceae
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
This book places grapes in the context of their family, the Vitaceae. It begins by focusing on the relationship of the family to other angiosperms and the interrelationships and characteristics of its genera. Two chapters emphasize the structure and development of its major vegetative and reproductive...
Die großen Klassiker der englischen Literatur (40+ Titel in einem Buch)
Das Herz der Finsternis, Moby-Dick, Sturmhöhe, Sherlock Holmes, Stolz und Vorurteil, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, Alice im Wunderland, Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit, Adam Bede, Robinson Crusoe, Walden...
Language: German
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Dieses eBook: "Die großen Klassiker der englischen Literatur (40+ Titel in einem Buch)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt: Das Herz der Finsternis (Joseph Conrad) Stolz und Vorurteil (Jane Austen) Sturmhöhe...
Große Klassiker der englischen Literatur: 40+ Titel in einem Band
Sturmhöhe, Sherlock Holmes, Stolz und Vorurteil, Das Herz der Finsternis, Moby-Dick, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, Alice im Wunderland, Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit, Adam Bede, Robinson Crusoe, Walden...
Language: German
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Dieses eBook: "Große Klassiker der englischen Literatur: 40+ Titel in einem Band" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt: Das Herz der Finsternis (Joseph Conrad) Stolz und Vorurteil (Jane Austen) Sturmhöhe...
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by Rabindranath Tagore, Mark Twain, D. H. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!
The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning...
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