The Real Robert Burns
Author: James Laughlin Hughes
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 228
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Author: James Laughlin Hughes
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Burns
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Published: 1824
Total Pages: 480
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Laughlin Hughes
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. L. Hughes
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Published: 1973-01-01
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780827402928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Burns
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2009-01-15
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 184767450X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted-up and toasted. He is famous as the author of 'Auld Lang Syne', and he has long been the patron saint of the heartsore and the hungover. But what about the poems? Beneath the cult of Burns Nights and patriotic yawps, there is the work itself, among the purest and most truthful created in any age. This is a Burns collection like no other, introduced, arranged and contextualised by the award-winning novelist and essayist Andrew O'Hagan. Above all, it is an accessible edition made for the pleasure of reading that brings Burns' timeless work to full, riotous, colourful life.
Author: James Alexander Mackay
Publisher: Stenlake Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 749
ISBN-13: 9780907526858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1992 by Mainstream Publishing Company (Edinburgh) Ltd.
Author: Robert E. Burns
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2011-08-15
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0820343013
DOWNLOAD EBOOKI Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is the amazing true story of one man's search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over injustice. In 1921, Robert E. Burns was a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who found himself at the mercy of Georgia's barbaric penal system when he fell in with a gang of petty thieves. Sentenced to six to ten years' hard labor for his part in a robbery that netted less than $6.00, Burns was shackled to a county chain gang. After four months of backbreaking work, he made a daring escape, dodging shotgun blasts, racing through swamps, and eluding bloodhounds on his way north. For seven years Burns lived as a free man. He married and became a prosperous Chicago businessman and publisher. When he fell in love with another woman, however, his jealous wife turned him in to the police, who arrested him as a fugitive from justice. Although he was promised lenient treatment and a quick pardon, he was back on a chain gang within a month. Undaunted, Burns did the impossible and escaped a second time, this time to New Jersey. He was still a hunted man living in hiding when this book was first published in 1932. The book and its movie version, nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1933, shocked the world by exposing Georgia's brutal treatment of prisoners. I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is a daring and heartbreaking book, an odyssey of misfortune, love, betrayal, adventure, and, above all, the unshakable courage and inner strength of the fugitive himself.
Author: Liam McIlvanney
Publisher: John Donald
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 278
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study of poet Robert Burns's politics uncovers the intellectual context of the poet's political radicalism. Burns is revealed as a sophisticated political poet whose work draws on the democratic, contractarian ideology of Scottish Presbyterianism; the English and Irish Real Whig tradition; and the political theory of the Scottish Enlightenment. Casting new light on the poet's education and his early reading, this book provides detailed new readings of Burns's major poems and offers research on his links with Irish poets and radicals, providing a major reinterpretation of the man who is coming to be recognized as the poet laureate of the radical Enlightenment.
Author: Robert Burns
Publisher: Waverley Books Limited
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781849342322
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Robert Burns is more than Scotland's national poet. With Shakespeare, Burns is an icon for the UK and Scotland he is a national symbol. This volume of poems and songs is a best selling, beautiful edition of his work."--Publisher description.