Little Pedlington and the Pedlingtonians (Classic Reprint)
Little Pedlington and the Pedlingtonians (Classic Reprint)

Author: John Poole

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-07-21

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9781527639256

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Excerpt from Little Pedlington and the Pedlingtonians Guide that for the assistance of such readers as are unacquainted with it, and to whom, consequently, those allusions would be unintelligible, it has been deemed expedient that it should be inserted in the Introduction; they, therefore, who, by its aid, or haply, by a visit to the place, are already familiar with the history and localities of Little Pedlington, will pardon its reappearance in favour of those who are less fortunate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Little Pedlington and the Pedlingtonians
Little Pedlington and the Pedlingtonians

Author: John Poole

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08-21

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 9780461320626

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This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Little Pedlington and the Pedlingtonians
Little Pedlington and the Pedlingtonians

Author: John Poole

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-11-10

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9781535229630

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After chancing upon a copy of Felix Hoppy, Esq. M.C.'s 'The Strangers Guide Through Little Pedlington', the book's intrepid traveller forgoes the more exotic sights of Europe for the delights of an English Country Town, described by it's celebrated resident poet Jubb in the following glowing terms; "Hail, Pedlingtonia, Hail, thou favoured spot! What's good is found in thee; what's not, is not." Whilst there he meets many of the prominent townspeople, including: Rummins the antiquariuan and curator of the 'Rumminsian Museum', containing such wondrous artifacts as the 'two sword blades' - one of which bears a striking resemblance to a modern scythe, the other to a carving knife - amongst it's many exhibits. Another of Peddlington's illustrious residents is Felix Hoppy (author of the famous guide), who, alongside his literary credentials is also the town's Master of Ceremonies and renowned 'Dancing Master'. It is Hoppy who puts on the town's third 'positively last' performance by "The Unrivalled and Never to be Equalled SIGNOR RUMBELLO DEL SQUEAKI! Principal Pandea-tympanist to his Majesty the King of Naples" (a.k.a. Rob Squeaks from Winklemouth fair). There is, of course, also the famous Jubb - author of the inspirational words above - as well as a varied assemblage of the townsfolk. First published in 1836, but now available in this brand new modern edition, the book is a first class example of British humour and brings together an hilarious selection of characters, as recognisable today in any high street in a British country Town as they were then.

William Gilmore Simms's Selected Reviews on Literature and Civilization
William Gilmore Simms's Selected Reviews on Literature and Civilization

Author: William Gilmore Simms

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2014-02-07

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1611172969

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During William Gilmore Simms's life (1806-1870), book reviews and critical essays became vital parts of American literary culture and intellectual discourse. Simms was an assiduous reviewer and essayist, proving by example the importance of those genres. William Gilmore Simms's Selected Reviews on Literature and Civilization publishes for the first time in book form sixty-two examples of the writer's hundreds of newspaper and periodical reviews and book notes as well as four important critical essays. Together, the reviews and essays reveal the regional, national, and international dimensions of Simms's intellectual interests. To frame the two distinct parts of Selected Reviews, James Everett Kibler, Jr., and David Moltke-Hansen have written a general introduction that considers the development of book reviewing and the authorship of essays in cultural and historical contexts. In part one, Kibler offers an introduction that examines Simms's reviewing habits and the aesthetic and critical values that informed the author's reviews. Kibler then publishes selected texts of reviews and provides historical and cultural backgrounds for each selection. Simms was an early proponent of the critical theories of Romantics such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Edgar Allan Poe. Widely read in European history and literature, he reviewed works published in French, German, and classics in original Greek and Latin and in translation. Simms also was an early, ardent advocate of works of local color and of southern "backwoods" humorists of his day. Simms published notices of seven of Herman Melville's novels, the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and favorably reviewed Henry David Thoreau's Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Simms published numerous review essays of twenty thousand or more words in literary journals and also republished two collections in book form. These volumes treated such subjects as Americanism in literature and the American Revolution in South Carolina. Yet, as part two of Selected Reviews demonstrates, Simms ranged much more widely in the intellectual milieu. Such cultural and political topics as the 1848 revolution in France, the history of the literary essay, the roles of women in the American Revolution, and the activities of the southern convention in Nashville in 1850 captured Simms's attention. Moltke-Hansen's introduction to part two examines Simms's roles in, and responses to, the Romantic critical revolution and the other revolutions then roiling Europe and America.