Product Description: Raffles

Product Description: In the first of the Bulldog Drummond stories, the wealthy former WWI officer looks for adventure as a private detective "Demobilized officer, finding peace incredibly tedious, would welcome diversion. Legitimate, if possible; but crime, if of a comparatively humorous description, no objection...read more

Product Description: Robert Giddings introduces and analyses Dickens' major works and explores, especially, his use of audience feedback in his creative processes. Dickens' childhood experiences and his treatment of women in his fiction are analysed, as well as his social critique of a society increasingly de-humanised by materialsim and greed...read more

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This book critically examines the long established tradition of adapting classic novels to film or TV screen, encompassing novelists from Jane Austen to Michael Ondaatje. The early cinema ransacked literature for stories suitable for retelling in moving pictures, and as the art of the cinema matured, and cinematography, music, special effects and sound were improved, the art of dramatization began to produce high quality versions of respected novels. The authors in this book analyze a wide variety of literary dramatizations. (view table of contents)

A re-assessment of the work of the poets of World War I, putting their individual stories and the poems they created into the historical context of their time. The book is illustrated with facsimiles, paintings and photographs, many of which have not appeared before in print.

Product Description: A collection of critical literary studies focusing on the relationship between literature and imperialism in an artistic, historical and cultural context.

Product Description: For the people who fought in it, the World War I was a cataclysm. The sheer scale of its horror and carnage transformed their lives and attitudes to an extent that has coloured the way in which every subsequent generation has thought of war...read more

The theme of this book is the relationship between literature and the contemporary means of production and distribution collectively termed 'the media' - film, radio and television. It attempts to explore and evaluate the mutual opportunites and restrictions in this relationship.

Product Description: Book by Bold, Alan, Giddings, Robert

Product Description: This is a used book. Although it is used, it is in excellent condition. No markings, or damage. Like new condition.

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Product Description: Frederick, Md.: Aletheia Books, 1982 [1981]. University Publications of America. x, 289 p.: ill.; 23 cm. [Tolkien, J. R. R. -- (John Ronald Reuel), -- 1892-1973. -- Lord of the rings. -- Sources. / Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism.]