At the age of 17, the poet Shelley fell in love with his cousin, Harriet Grove. She returned his affection, and for a time the youthful romance flourished. Drawing on Harriet's diaries for 1809-10, on letters and journals written at the time by Shelley and on the accounts of their family and friends, this book examines the development of their ...
"War Report" was first broadcast after the nine o'clock news on D-Day, 6 June 1944, and continued until the signature of the armistice on 5 May 1945. Published in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of D-Day, these reports from the Western Front in the last year of World War II feature reports from Chester Wilmot, Frank Gillard, Wynford Vaughan ...
The publication of the diaries of successive generations of the Grove family is of considerable importance. Spanning more than a century from 1809 to 1925, they chart the rise of an English family from country gentry to aristocratic Victorian grandees before finally tracing the much steeper trajectory of the family's decline.
This is the second in a series of regional anthologies. Covering Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset and Avon, the author draws on a range of literary and historical sources to evoke the distinctive character of the area: the sea and coast, landscape, wildlife, trade and farming, and the Wessex people.
This is the second in a series of regional anthologies. Covering Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset and Avon, the author draws on a range of literary and historical sources to evoke the distinctive character of the area: the sea and coast, landscape, wildlife, trade and farming, and the Wessex people.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thomas Nelson & Sons
Date Published: 1955
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 24mo-over 5"-5¾" tall 479 pg. Pages are clean and tight, dj is price clipped with minor rubbed to corners and is covered in clear protective mylar. 1T2. read more
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