The History of a Tame Robin
The History of a Tame Robin

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan

Published: 2024-08-12

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13:

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"The History of a Tame Robin" is a charming and touching narrative that recounts the story of a pet robin and its interactions with its human caretakers. Though the author is anonymous, the book is beloved for its simple yet profound portrayal of the bond between humans and animals. The story details the robin's life from its early days as a fledgling, through its growth and development, to its eventual role as a beloved companion. The robin's antics, personality, and the emotional connections it forms with its human family are depicted with warmth and affection. The book captures the essence of the human-animal relationship, highlighting themes of care, companionship, and the joy that pets bring to our lives. Its straightforward narrative and endearing illustrations make it a heartwarming read for animal lovers of all ages.

The Secret Life of Things
The Secret Life of Things

Author: Mark Blackwell

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9780838756669

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This collection enriches and complicates the history of prose fiction between Richardson and Fielding at mid-century and Austen at the turn of the century by focusing on it-narratives, a once popular form largely forgotten by readers and critics alike. The volume also advances important work on eighteenth-century consumer culture and the theory of things. The essays that comprise The Secret Life of Things thus bring new texts, and new ways of thinking about familiar ones, to our notice. Those essays range from the role of it-narratives in period debates about copyright to their complex relationship with object-riddled sentimental fictions, from anti-semitism in Chrysal to jingoistic imperialism in The Adventures of a Rupee, from the it-narrative as a variety of whore's biography to a consideration of its contributions to an emergent middle-class ideology.

The Robin
The Robin

Author: Stephen Moss

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2017-11-02

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1473546109

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Acclaimed naturalist and birdwatcher Stephen Moss brings us a year in the life of Britain's favourite bird - the robin. In The Robin Moss records a year of observing the robin both close to home and in the field to shed light on the hidden life of this apparently familiar bird. We follow its life cycle from the time it enters the world as an egg, through its time as a nestling and juvenile, to the adult bird; via courtship, song, breeding, feeding, migration - and ultimately, death. At the same time, we trace the robin's relationship with us: how did this bird - one of more than 300 species in its huge and diverse family - find its way so deeply and permanently into our nation's heart and its social and cultural history? It's a story that tells us as much about ourselves as it does about the robin itself. No other bird is quite so ever-present and familiar, so embedded in our culture, as the robin. But how much do we really know about this bird? 'There is no doubt that Moss's book, with its charming cover and quaint illustrations, will make it into many a stocking this year' The Times

British It-Narratives, 1750-1830, Volume 1
British It-Narratives, 1750-1830, Volume 1

Author: Mark Blackwell

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-08-01

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1040244602

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It-narratives are prose fictions that take as their central characters animals or inanimate objects. This four-volume reset collection includes numerous examples of narratives in different forms, including short stories, excerpts from novels, periodical fiction and serialized works.