5744 results for "Literature"

The Thunderbolt

Arthur W. Pinero
Considered one of Pinero's most influential plays, The Thunderbolt is a gripping drama that explores the themes of love, guilt, and revenge. Set in a small English village, this play is a powerful exploration of the darker aspects of human nature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Creative Media Partners, LLC 2023-07-18 270 pages

Iris

Arthur Wing Pinero
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Creative Media Partners, LLC 2016-05-23 248 pages

The darkness and the light

Hecht, Anthony
The critic George P. Elliott once declared: "Hecht's voice is his own, but his language, more amply than that of any other living poet writing in English, derives from, adds to, is part of the great tradition." The Darkness and the Light , Anthony Hecht's seventh volume - whose 44 poems include fine translations of poems by Horace, Baudelaire, Goethe, Vaillant and d'Orleans - vividly demonstrates that Elliott's claim is as apt now as it was when he made it, a quarter of a century ago.
Waywiser Press 2002-10-31 79 pages

The Dominant Sex

Annie Nathan Meyer
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Creative Media Partners, LLC 2019-02-26 110 pages

The Romance of a Shop

Levy, Amy
"Amy Levy's The Romance of a Shop (1888) follows the four Lorimer sisters in the wake of their father's death. Penniless and reliant on each other, they decide to open a photography studio at 20B Baker Street, offering the citizens of London quality portraits. It's the 1880s and photography is not only growing in popularity and accessibility, but those with a critical eye are elevating the medium associated with quick and steady cash into a true art form. With more women entering the workforce out of necessity and rebellion, the Lorimer sisters take advantage of newfound independence as they work to survive poverty, the grind and smoke of London, fraught courtships, and melodramatic twists of fate. A novel of sisterhood, love, the female gaze and postmortem photography Levy deftly balances along the thin lines of romance and realism, art and commerce"--
Unnamed Press 2025-10-28 150 pages

Reuben Sachs

Levy, Amy
Amy Levy(1861-89) was born in London to a relatively wealthy Anglo-Jewish family. At the age of 15 she was sent to Brighton High School and later attended Cambridge University where she was the first Jewish student at Newnham College. She left Cambridge without taking her degree but became a prolific writer of poetry, essays and articles and in 1888 published her first novel The Romance of a Shop. The central theme of Reuben Sachs, also published in 1888, is the relationship between Reuben and Judith Quixano, but some understanding of the history of the Jewish community in England is necessary for a full appreciation of this deeply moving novel. Much progress had been made and economic prosperity achieved since Jews returned to England in the 1650s, having been expelled by Edward 1 in 1290. A significant theme of the novel is the difference between the so-called Sephardi Jews (from Spain via Amsterdam) and Ashkenzi Jews (from Poland and Eastern Europe). Reuben Sachs is Ashkenazi while Judith Quixano is Sephardi. Amy Levy did not shrink from criticising some features of the Jewish community, which she consistently refers to in Reuben Sachs as ‘the tribe’. He frankness led to her being accused by some of anti-semitism. She in turn was openly critical of what she considered to be an inaccurate and over-romanticised view of British Jews as portrayed in the novel Daniel Deronda published by George Elliott in 1876. She was particularly critical of Elliot’s portrayal of Jews as orientals yearning for a return to Palestine
Aspal Classics 2023-05-08 127 pages

Anima Dramma in Tre Atti - Primary Source Edition

Amelia Rosselli
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
BiblioLife 2013-10 160 pages

The sighted singer: two works on poetry for readers and writers

Grossman, Allen R.
The Sighted Singer makes available a revised and significantlyexpanded version of Against Our Vanishing and includes Grossman's recent treatise "Summa Lyrica: A Primer of the Commonplaces in Speculative Poetry." This combined edition provides a sophisticated yet accessible discussion--across generations--of "the fundamental discourse of poetic structure."
Johns Hopkins University Press 1992-01-01 387 pages

The Science of Dress in Theory and Practice (1885) by Ada S. Ballin. / Illustrated Edition /

Ada S. Ballin
Ada Sarah Ballin or Ada Ballin (4 May 1863 - 14 May 1906) was a British magazine editor and proprietor, and writer on health. Ballin was born in Bloomsbury in 1863. She attended University College London and she was one of the women admitted to their first degree course. She was at UCL from 1878 to 1870 and gained a Hollier scholarship for Hebrew the following year. She won other awards and trained under Professor William Henry Corfield. She does not appear to have completed her degree.She was living in Tavistock Square in 1881 with her retired father and her elder brother and still a student at UCL. She published the Science of Dress in 1885 which gave a range of advice to women and their children. She continued her association with UCL and she was attending their UC Society meetings in 1886. Ballin was the editor of the monthly illustrated journal Baby: the Mothers' Magazine in 1887 which proposed that babies should be dressed in wool with their arms free.
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2018-01-26 124 pages