This is intended as a critical, rather than encyclopaedic, history of literature on both sides of the Atlantic between the end of World War I and the political... Læs mere
From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, George Santayana was a highly esteemed and widely read writer of philosophy, poetry, essays, memoirs, and even a best-selling novel, The Last Puritan
Provides an account of how popular theatre developed from the fairground booths of the eighteenth century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment in the following century.
Britain has an immense range of environmental law and the reputation for largely ignoring it. This book describes the story of the political growth of that law, and... Læs mere
As the essays in this book attest, in a time of specialization John McCormick chose diversification, a choice determined by a life spent in many occupations and many countries
From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, George Santayana was a highly esteemed and widely read writer of philosophy, poetry, essays, memoirs, and even a best-selling novel, The Last Puritan
Critics of fiction have long been aware that the romantic movement in Europe and America gave a powerful impulse to the art of fiction
This book is a direct product of World War II, of the long years at sea that gave the author the feeling that the past was no... Læs mere
Ernest Hemingway, best-known to layman and aficionado alike, in his fiction described bullfighting, or toreo, as a cross between romantic risk and a drunken party, or as an elaborate substitute for war, ending in wounds or death
Ernest Hemingway, best-known to layman and aficionado alike, in his fiction described bullfighting, or toreo, as a cross between romantic risk and a drunken party, or as an elaborate substitute for war, ending in wounds or death
Critics of fiction have long been aware that the romantic movement in Europe and America gave a powerful impulse to the art of fiction