A People and a Nation Study Guide
A People and a Nation Study Guide

Author: Norton

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Published: 2000-08

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 9780618005543

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Provides supplementary instruction and increases students' chances for academic success by helping them get the most out of their textbooks.

A Study Guide for William Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us"
A Study Guide for William Wordsworth's

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 141035136X

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A Study Guide for William Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

A Little History of the World
A Little History of the World

Author: E. H. Gombrich

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2014-10-01

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0300213972

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E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book is available worldwide in almost thirty languages. Gombrich was of course the best-known art historian of his time, and his text suggests illustrations on every page. This illustrated edition of the Little History brings together the pellucid humanity of his narrative with the images that may well have been in his mind's eye as he wrote the book. The two hundred illustrations—most of them in full color—are not simple embellishments, though they are beautiful. They emerge from the text, enrich the author's intention, and deepen the pleasure of reading this remarkable work. For this edition the text is reset in a spacious format, flowing around illustrations that range from paintings to line drawings, emblems, motifs, and symbols. The book incorporates freshly drawn maps, a revised preface, and a new index. Blending high-grade design, fine paper, and classic binding, this is both a sumptuous gift book and an enhanced edition of a timeless account of human history.

Castle Rackrent
Castle Rackrent

Author: Maria Edgeworth

Publisher: Standard Ebooks

Published: 2023-08-28T18:08:16Z

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13:

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In eighteenth-century Ireland, a privileged class of Anglo-Irish landowners known as the “Protestant Ascendancy” lived on great estates, with the mostly-Catholic Irish as their tenants and servants. Maria Edgeworth was part of this Anglo-Irish aristocracy. Castle Rackrent, her best known novel, satirizes the failures and follies of her Anglo-Irish peers, their mismanagement of their estates, and their abuse of their Irish tenants. The narrator of Castle Rackrent is Thady Quirk, whose family has served on the Rackrent estate for generations. Thady relates the life stories of four successive lords of Castle Rackrent and how their individual character and personality affect the lives and families that depend on them. Castle Rackrent was one of the first historical novels written in English, and Walter Scott later cited it as inspiration for his own Scottish historical novels. Edgeworth included two sets of explanatory notes on aspects of Irish life and culture for her English readers, footnotes in the main text and a “glossary” added in the second edition. These have been merged into a single set of endnotes in this Standard Ebooks edition. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Scorpions in a Bottle
Scorpions in a Bottle

Author: John P. Darby

Publisher: Minority Rights Group Publications

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13:

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Scorpions in a Bottle describes the interlocking elements which make up the 'Northern Ireland Problem'. Political and constitutional differences, inequalities, violence and its legacy, and religion and ethnicity are closely examined. New perspectives are offered on the conflict, the people and the history of Northern Ireland. Discussion is set firmly within the context of conflict analysis, and policy options are suggested for Northern Ireland and pluralist societies. Scorpions in a Bottle will be of value to scholars of Northern Ireland, comparative ethnic studies and conflict management.