The Lore of the Land
The Lore of the Land

Author: Jennifer Westwood

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 940

ISBN-13:

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Where can you find the 'Devil's footprints'? What happened at the 'hangman's stone'? Did Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, ever really exist? Where was King Arthur laid to rest? Bringing together tales of hauntings, highwaymen, family curses and lovers' leaps, this magnificent guide will take you on a magical journey through England's legendary past.

Happy Endings in Hollywood Cinema
Happy Endings in Hollywood Cinema

Author: James MacDowell

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2014-11-28

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0748680209

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This wide-ranging investigation probes traditional associations between the 'happy ending' and homogeneity, closure, 'unrealism', and ideological conservatism, testing widespread assumptions against the evidence offered by a range of classical and contemp

William Wallace
William Wallace

Author: Graeme Morton

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2014-10-08

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0748685650

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A deconstruction of the national biography and mythology of William Wallace. Freed from the historian's bedrock of empiricism by a lack of corroborative sources, the biography of this short-lived late-medieval patriot has long been incorporated into the i