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Les miserables (Classics Illustrated - 1944)
Les Misérables, translated variously from the French as The Miserable Ones, The Wretched, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, or The Victims), is an 1862 French novel by author Victor Hugo and is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century. It follows the lives and interactions of several French characters over a seventeen-year period in the early nineteenth century, starting in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion
The American and British poets of the Victorian period balanced tradition and innovation, paving the way for the stylistic departures of modernism. The poets featured in this title include Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Robert Browning; Rudyard Kipling; Christina Rossetti; Gerard Manley Hopkins; and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Students studying this period in literature will find this selection of critical essays helpful in understanding these poets and their works. An introductory essay by Harold Bloom, a bibliography, a chronology, and an index add to this volume.
The Culture of Cloth in Early Modern England - Textual Constructions of a National Identity
Through its exploration of the intersections between the culture of the wool broadcloth industry and the imaginative literature of the early modern period, this study contributes to the expanding field of material studies in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The author argues that it is impossible to comprehend the development of emerging English nationalism during that time period, without considering the culture of the cloth industry. She shows that, reaching far beyond its status as a commodity of production and exchange, that industry was also a locus for organizing sentiments of national solidarity across social and economic divisions.
This book is an introduction to the war machine of New Kingdom Egypt from c. 1575 bc–1100 bc. # Focuses on the period in which the Egyptians created a professional army and gained control of Syria, creating an “Empire of Asia”. # Written by a respected Egyptologist. # Highlights new technological developments, such as the use of chariots and siege technology. # Considers the socio-political aspects of warfare, particularly the rise to power of a new group of men. # Evaluates the military effectiveness of the Egyptian state, looking at the logistics of warfare during this period. # Incorporates maps and photographs, a chronological table, and a chart of dynasties and pharaohs
Our Hidden Lives: The Everyday Diaries of a Forgotten Britain 1945-1948 (Audiobook, MP3)
A skillfully woven tapestry of diary entries of ordinary Britons in the rarely discussed but pivotal period of 1945 to 1948. The result is a moving digest of thoughts and emotions in the post-war period.
