“The” Caxton Novels
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 516
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Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
Publisher:
Published: 1860
Total Pages: 516
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frank Muir
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 1162
ISBN-13: 9780192803795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this magisterial collection, Frank Muir guides the reader on a journey of discovery and delight through five centuries of humorous prose in the English language.Starting in London with William Caxton and a Preface written and printed in 1477, and ending with P. G. Wodehouse whose last novel was published in 1977, the route is meandering: from England to Ireland and Scotland, back to England again, on to America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. There areexamples chosen from humorous fiction, letters, and journalism written by over 200 authors and ranging from medieval jests to the New Yorker and Beachcomber; from Thomas Nashe and Tom Brown's galloping bawdy to Jane Austen and on to Garrison Keillor and Arthur Marshall; from the jokes in SamuelJohnson's Dictionary to Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim and his hangover. The great humorous writers such as Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and P. G. Wodehouse are given a kind of mini-anthology of their own so that the range and versatility of their work can be appreciated.The extracts are embedded in a commentary that sets the writers in their historical context with items of contemporary gossip and anecdotal biography.As tour leader of this enjoyable enterprise, there could be no one better than Frank Muir to entertain, inform, and above all amuse the reader in his own distinctive fashion.
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 526
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Valerie Hotchkiss
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008-04-02
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0252033469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA landmark collection of early English books, with many gorgeous illustrations
Author: Lotte Hellinga
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780712350884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work takes a fresh approach to the first 60 years of printing in England by placing Caxton, his contemporaries and the later generations in the broad context of the history of book production between the middle of the 15th century and the Reformation.
Author: Des Cowley
Publisher: The Miegunyah Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 0522853781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCelebration of the book drawing on the collections of the State Library of Victoria.
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 394
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Kuskin
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 432
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection, the first such work on Caxton and his contemporaries, consists of ten original essays that explore early English culture, from Caxton's introduction of the press, through questions of audience, translation, politics, and genre, to the modern fascination with Caxton's books.
Author: Raoul Lefèvre
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 552
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Wellington
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2007-05-22
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0307393607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book in the Laura Caxton Vampire series from the author of the Monster Island trilogy. All the official reports say that vampires are dead--extinct since the late ’80s, when FBI agent Arkeley defeated the last vampire in a fight that nearly killed him. But when state trooper Laura Caxton calls the FBI looking for help in the middle of the night, Arkeley is unsurprised to hear that it sounds like a vampire attack. He’s been expecting such a call to come eventually. Sure, it has been years since any signs of an attack, but Arkeley knows what most people don’t: there is one left. In an abandoned asylum she is rotting, plotting, and biding her time in a way that only the undead can. Laura Caxton is out of her league on this case and more than a little afraid. Arkeley made it clear there is only one way out. The worst thing is the feeling that the vampires want more than just her blood. They want her for a reason, one she can’t guess; a reason her sphinxlike partner knows but won’t say; a reason she has to find out-or die trying.