What would Christmas be without "A Christmas Carol"? Charles Dickens's famous ghost story is as much a part of the season as plum pudding and mistletoe. This edition of the Dickens classic is part of the Norton "Annotated Series", and delves into the engrossing story of the book's publication, when it first captivated Victorian England. It ...
A CHRISTMAS CAROL is Dickens's tender and comic tale of the Cratchit family, Tiny Tim, and Ebenezer Scrooge--a favorite ever since it was written, in 1843. Badly in need of money, Dickens produced A CHRISTMAS CAROL in six weeks; the first printing of 6,000 copies sold out instantly. In Dickens's original version, Tiny Tim was Tiny Fred, and ...
For more than ten years the intelligence community has warned of the risk of terrorist attacks. The West's concern with its own affluence and dominion has created disparities and resentments. But military establishments have continued to be transfixed by weapons systems with ever greater firepower, and politicians by the size of defence budgets. ...
Americans have long regarded themselves as responsible for the destiny of the world. Now, it appears that destiny is being settled without their help. Drawing on the opinions of influential experts from the U.S., Great Britain, Italy, Germany and France, this timely book lists the considerations on which today's and tomorrow's decisions have to be ...
Experts from the Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) network and their American colleagues contributed these essays to a New transatlanitic Agenda research project for the European Commission. They evaluate the impact of current and future EU enlargement on transatlantic relations and effects of political, economic and strategic ...
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889) was an English writer, poet, and the author of Proverbial Philosophy. In 1837 appeared his first series of Proverbial Philosophy, a long series of didactic moralisings. This work, which spread its author's name far and wide, was met at first with moderate success in England, while in the United States it was ...
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