The story of a monk who succumbs to the temptations of a young girl, Lewis's early 19th-century novel was vilified in its time as obscene, blasphemous, and morally corrupt. It was, however, admired by many of the great writers of its time--from the Marquis de Sade to Emily Brontė.
Every man of humanity must wish that slavery, even in its best and most mitigated form, had never found a legal sanction, and must regret that its system is now so incorporated with the welfare of Great Britain as well as of Jamaica, as to make its extirpation an absolute impossibilitiy, without the certainty of producing worse mischiefs than the ...
The story of a monk who succumbs to the temptations of a young girl, Lewis's early 19th-century novel was vilified in its time as obscene, blasphemous, and morally corrupt. It was, however, admired by many of the great writers of its time--from the Marquis de Sade to Emily Brontė.
The companion volume to a permanent exhibition at the Atlanta Historical Society, "Considerable Passions" is the definitive work on the legendary Bobby Jones and the early days of modern American golfing. Color photos.
A photographic documentary of American military life offers insight into the lives of the nation's elite units, new recruits, and MPs on outposts, strategic bases, and in the cockpits of fighter planes.
Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818) was a British author. From Westminster School, he passed to Christ Church, Oxford. Already he was busy over tales and plays, and wrote at college a farce, never acted, a comedy, The East Indian, and also a novel, never published, called The Effusions of Sensibility, which was a burlesque upon the sentimental ...
Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy return to Narnia for the first time since The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to help Prince Caspian in his fight for the throne.
1898. These Selections aim to present, in the briefest possible compass, what is most characteristic in Arnold's criticism of literature and life. His conception of the critic was as guardian of culture, as called upon to pass judgment on the various expressions of life, and especially upon books in their relation to life, and especially upon ...
Macabre and melodramtic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothic tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly interventions, the novel was an immediate success, and influenced numerous followers. These ...
In 1958, facing court-ordered integration, a Virginia governor closed public schools in three cities. White moderates quickly protested against the school closings and eventually defeated the resistance to school desegregation in 1959. This text explores this period in the history of Virginia.
The magical world of Narnia is in trouble! An evil king has forced all the Talking Animals and magical creatures into hiding. It's up to Prince Caspian to make the land safe again. But he will need help from both old and new friends of Narnia to succeed. Together with Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, a heroic mouse named Reepicheep, and the ...
This annotated volume is a version of the three volumes of the German edition compiled by Jill Lewis, University of Wales, and Oliver Rathkolb, director of the Stiftung Bruno Kreisky Archiv.
In Two Volumes. 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, ...
English novelist MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS (17751818) earned the nickname "Monk" Lewis after the success of his novel The Monk. But here, in this nonfiction work, he dramatizes, often in humorous and insightful fashion, his two year-long stays on the island of Jamaica, in 18156 and in 1817. Lewis died at sea the next year returning from the West ...
Part of a series of photocopiable books designed to save busy primary teachers hours of preparation time, this collection of maths activities addresses all the National Curriculum Attainment Targets ranging from level 1 to level 6, and allows children to work individually or collaboratively, independently of the teacher and therefore to practise ...
First appearing in 1798 during the scandal that followed the publication of M.G. Lewis's "The Monk," "The New Monk" is a ruthless parody of Lewis's Gothic masterpiece. In this dismantling of the "Monk" tale by "R.S., Esq.," Lewis's Spanish monk Ambrosio is replaced by Joshua Pentateuch, a Methodist minister in London. Like Lewis's monk, Joshua is ...
Fiona Shaw gives a wonderfully fresh reading of Carroll's classic adventures of Alice, making his fantastical characters thoroughly believable. The great children's classic of Dorothy's journey to Oz, written in 1900 and immortalized in the Judy Garland film, retains its charm in this reading by Liza Ross, with some of the music that made the film ...
Lewis' Journal of a Residence Among the Negroes in the West Indies was first published posthumously in 1834 under the title Journal of a West Indian Proprietor, Kept During a Residence in the Island of Jamaica. It describes the author's visits to his estate on the island in 1815-1816 and 1817, after the abolition of the slave trade but before ...
This report analyzes the role of the emerging global information infrastructure in helping higher-education institutions to improve learning and teaching, improve the creation of infrastructional and learning materials, create educational communities, compete with new providers, and address policy and planning issues.
This work seeks to provide a grounding in international marketing, de-mystify its language and remove the jargon associated with it. It instructs the reader on: understanding the changing nature of the international trading environment; identifying information sources for international marketing; developing suitable approaches for entering ...
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