Product Description: General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1892 Original Publisher: Edwards, Dunlop

Product Description: Book by John P Miller

Discusses the causes and effects of the revolution which assured the failure of Catholic absolutism and assured the continuation of parliamentary government and the rule of law in England. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Miller, John

Product Description: The Wakefields were a family of adventurers with a vision of empire which was to color the thinking of the Victorian age. This study describes in detail their attempt to impose an early Victorian pattern on one corner of Polynesia and the tensions that resulted therefrom...read more

Gathers essays by Dos Passos, Hemingway, Garcia Lorca, Mann, Orwell, Koestler, Bunuel, Neruda, Dreiser, Dali, Auden, Malraux and Millay about the Spanish Civil War

Recounts the efforts of Allied forces to keep Russia fighting against Germany in World War I, and explains how these actions caused the initial antagonism between the Soviet Union and the Western powers

A comparison of monarchy in France and England during the seventeenth century examines the weaknesses which led to civil war in both countries and the resilience which enabled the monarchies to emerge from their respective crises

A collection of short stories by young writers features the works of Jonathan Meades, Louis Jones, Theresa Yunker, and others and contains the baroque 'Fur and Skin,' the well-tuned 'Margaritas,' and other striking tales

An outstanding collection of writings about the city on the bay offers intriguing literary views of San Francisco's history, landmarks, colorful inhabitants, and unique culture, in works by Jack Kerouac, Annie Lamott, Jack London, Tom Wolfe, and other distinguished authors. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The celebrated garden at Sissinghurst, created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson, has an unsurpassed romantic atmosphere. This book records the garden in all its seasons and moods, as well as the hosts of special plants and the inventive planting schemes...read more

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Product Description: The author describes one of the most beautiful areas of France - Alsace, its food and wine. Included are more than sixty recipes from the area along with beautiful pictures.

Product Description: Most Seventeenth Century European Monarchs ruled territories which were culturally and institutionally diverse. Forced by the escalating scale of war to mobilise evermore men and money they tried to bring these territories under closer control, overriding regional and sectional liberties...read more

Product Description: Endless fascinating, glamorous and amazing, Los Angeles is revealed in all its glory in Los Angeles Stories. Authors include: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Webb, & Tom Clark

Alive with jazz and tropical flowers, its streets an intoxicating 24-hour party, New Orleans exerts a hypnotic effect on virtually every visitor and resident, but perhaps none have been more susceptible to its exotic charm than the writers who have lived there. From Mark Twain to William Faulkner to Anne Rice; from Kate Chopin to Zora Neale Hurston to Ellen Gilchrist; from Tennessee Williams to Truman Capote to Walker Percy, the authors in this remarkable collection celebrate the city that stirs their imaginations as no other can. Third in our best-selling series of anthologies centered around America's great cities, New Orleans Stories includes not only "literature," but also interviews, ghost stories, and voodoo charms. Perfect for first-time visitors as well as longtime residents, it re-creates the heady, mesmerizing atmosphere of New Orleans itself.

The renowned actor draws on his experiences with Shakespeare's plays, as both actor and director, to illuminate the challenges of staging Shakespeare's works.

Product Description: In 1985 the Soviet Union was a recognized superpower and its political system, whilst looking clumsy to the outside world, also looked tenacious. Less than seven years later the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was banned, the notorious KGB broken up and the Soviet Union itself dissolved into 15 independent states...read more

An anthology of insightful reflections on the concept of suicide includes passages from the poetry of Sylvia Plath, commentary by William Styron, a glimpse at the constructed literary despair of Madame Bovary, and more. Original.

Photographs capturing the landscape of the Southwestern desert are accompanied by native American creation myths

A selection of stories, articles, poems, and excerpts from longer works about Chicago by Saul Bellow, Eliot Ness, Edna Ferber, Langston Hughes, and others