Madeleine was sure she looked younger than her 37 years, but despite her charms, she has yet to meet a man worthy of her virginity. Until she gets to know a colleague. Together they plan a weekend away, but neither of them know that Madeleine has another admirer, who is tracking their every move.
The Russian Revolution – four young people, Yury, Tonya, Lara and Pasha, find love and lose it in this extraordinary time. Their heart-breaking stories make Dr Zhivago one of the greatest romantic books, and films, of the century.
An engaging, full-color illustrated guide to the romantic and transcendentalist era in American literature, this updated volume provides important information on the foundations of romantic thought, romanticism and the new nation, gothic romance and sentimentalism, transcendentalism, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, and romanticism and poetic voice.
Gr. 9-12. One of 5 volumes in the Backgrounds to American Literatureseries, this book focuses on American Romantic literature and transcendentalism. In addition to discussions of those two movements, the book also addresses the historical and philosophical foundations of Romantic thought; the impact of social reform movements, such as the abolitionists, on literature; and the emergence of uniquely American poets, specifically Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. The brief chapter on transcendentalism offers no more information than what one would find in a standard American literature textbook, and the book also glosses over a discussion comparing the American and English Romantic movements.
After 20 years as a London-based reporter, American journalist Bryson ( The Mother Tongue ) set out to retrace a youthful European backpacking trip, from arctic Norway's northern lights to romantic Capri and the "collective delirium" of Istanbul.
