A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L
A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L

Author: T. Bose

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13: 0774844833

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The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.

Cock Lane and Common Sense
Cock Lane and Common Sense

Author: Andrew Lang

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-04-11

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1609776496

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Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of "Psychical Research," and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897), Magic and Religion (1901) and The Secret of the Totem (1905). He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Epic (1893); a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns (1899), with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age (1906). He also wrote Ballades in Blue China (1880) and Rhymes la Mode (1884).

Cock Lane and Common-Sense - Primary Source Edition
Cock Lane and Common-Sense - Primary Source Edition

Author: Andrew Lang

Publisher: Nabu Press

Published: 2013-12

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9781293358870

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Who's who
Who's who

Author: Henry Robert Addison

Publisher:

Published: 1898

Total Pages: 936

ISBN-13:

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An annual biographical dictionary, with which is incorporated "Men and women of the time."

Haunted Greece and Rome
Haunted Greece and Rome

Author: Debbie Felton

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2010-07-22

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 0292789246

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Stories of ghostly spirits who return to this world to warn of danger, to prophesy, to take revenge, to request proper burial, or to comfort the living fascinated people in ancient times just as they do today. In this innovative, interdisciplinary study, the author combines a modern folkloric perspective with literary analysis of ghost stories from classical antiquity to shed new light on the stories' folk roots. The author begins by examining ancient Greek and Roman beliefs about death and the departed and the various kinds of ghost stories which arose from these beliefs. She then focuses on the longer stories of Plautus, Pliny, and Lucian, which concern haunted houses. Her analysis illuminates the oral and literary transmission and adaptation of folkloric motifs and the development of the ghost story as a literary form. In her concluding chapter, the author also traces the influence of ancient ghost stories on modern ghost story writers, a topic that will interest all readers and scholars of tales of hauntings.