Product Description: This book examines Rossini within the context of his own time, one of Napoleonic domination of Italy, restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in Naples in 1815, and the 1830 Revolution in Paris. Using the techniques of the historian,and reading librettos as texts, the author analyzes the five operas treated in detail in the book (Il barbiere di Siviglia, Cenerentola, La gazza ladra, Matilde di Shabran, and Il viaggio a Reims) as responses, each in its own way, to the history that the composer experienced...read more

Product Description: Croydon, England, was the setting of the famous three-way friendship of D. H. Lawrence, Jessie Chambers, and Helen Corke, all of whom made literary records of their association, and all of whom appeared as characters in Lawrence novels...read more

Product Description: Warren Roberts's Bibliography has long been established as the preeminent research tool for students and scholars of Lawrence, as well as an indispensable reference guide for book collectors and booksellers worldwide. This third edition, initially prepared by Warren Roberts before his death in 1998, has been extensively revised, updated and expanded by Paul Poplawski...read more

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Driven away from home and hearth--and his sweetheart--by his father's interference, Ben Ide seeks refuge in the remote wilderness of Forlorn River and gets involved in a cattle rustling scheme. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book argues that Jane Austin did know of the French Revolution and its effects on the European world, even though she never refers to it directly in her writing.

Lawrence's family, friends, and various environments are brought to light in this pictorial review of his life and literary career

Product Description: This volume contains 848 letters from the period June 1921 to March 1924. Lawrence decides to leave the old world - 'my heart - and my soul are broken in Europe' - to live in Taos, New Mexico. This period is characterised by the travelling he and Frieda do, from Australia to New York, via Mexico, back to England and finally to New York again...read more

Product Description: When a person set out to build his house in southern Indiana a century ago, a series of complex decisions had to be made: Shaped log or hewn-and-chinked? Dog-trot or I-house? Which neighbors can help? How many of the seventy-five necessary tools must be bought or made? How much time is available? How these decisions were made and how these structures were built can be found in Log Buildings of Southern Indiana, an invaluable book for anyone interested in the history, construction, and preservation of log buildings and the architecture of the American Midwest...read more

Product Description: This collection includes all the poems from the incomplete "Collected Poems" of 1929 and from the separate smaller volumes issued during Lawrence's lifetime; uncollected poems; an appendix of juvenilia and another containing variants and early drafts; and all Lawrence's critical introductions to his poems...read more