Warwick, or, The flower of chivalry
Author: Brenchley Beaumont
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Published: 1886
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Author: Brenchley Beaumont
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Published: 1886
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 458
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Victoria Shorr
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2019-03-12
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 132400147X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExquisite and nuanced in its storytelling, Midnight crafts intimate, humanizing portraits of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc that ask us to behold the women behind the icons. Midnight is a study in the courage of three women—Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc. Jane Austen was poor in 1802, unmarried and homeless. She had outlines, ideas, and first drafts of her future novels but no place to sit and write them. It is at this bleak moment that she receives an offer of marriage from a rich man. Midnight takes us to the hour of her decision between financial security and her writing life. When sixteen-year-old Mary Godwin elopes to France with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, she scoffs at the cost—life as an outcast. Together they travel through Europe, reading and writing, but Midnight finds her alone, eight years later, pacing a terrace overlooking the Italian shore, watching for Shelley to sail home over stormy seas in a shaky boat. Joan of Arc, imprisoned in chains, kept her faith for a long year. Be brave, daughter of God, her saints had whispered, you will be saved—and she believes it, until she is taken to be burned at the stake. Midnight is the story of Joan’s final days, between her terrified recantation and her heroic return to the stake.
Author: R. L. Storey
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Lillie Craik
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Velma Bourgeois Richmond
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-09-24
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 147661735X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKnights and ladies, giants and dragons, tournaments, battles, quests and crusades are commonplace in stories for children. This book examines how late Victorians and Edwardians retold medieval narratives of chivalry--epics, romances, sagas, legends and ballads. Stories of Beowulf, Arthur, Gawain, St. George, Roland, Robin Hood and many more thrilled and instructed children, and encouraged adult reading. Lavish volumes and schoolbooks of the era featured illustrated texts, many by major artists. Children's books, an essential part of Edwardian publishing, were disseminated throughout the English-speaking world. Many are being reprinted today. This book examines related contexts of Medievalism expressed in painting, architecture, music and public celebrations, and the works of major authors, including Sir Walter Scott, Tennyson, Longfellow and William Morris. The book explores national identity expressed through literature, ideals of honor and valor in the years before World War I, and how childhood reading influenced 20th-century writers as diverse as C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Siegfried Sassoon, David Jones, Graham Greene, Ian Fleming and John Le Carre.
Author: Hans Claude Hamilton
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 292
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Published: 1874
Total Pages: 650
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