436 results for '"Geoffrey Holland'

Bestselling author James Lee Burke tells his most thrilling and insightful story yet through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Bessie Holland At the beginning of the twentieth century, as America...

The complete screenplay of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is a mythic action epic shot using brand new IMAX(R) film technology. The film stars Matt Damon, Tom...

A recount of 19th Century European Civilization History during the years of 1815 to 1914. According to Geoffrey Brun "The years from 1815 to 1914 were remarkably peaceful and prosperous years, during...

Dans une Hollande imaginaire se dresse l'histoire de la princesse Maleine que la guerre sépare du prince Hjalmar, le jour de leurs fiançailles. Enfermée dans une tour, elle s'échappe et rejoint le...

The gruff widower Holland has two possessions he cherishes above all others: his sprawling property of eucalyptus trees and his ravishingly beautiful daughter, Ellen. When Ellen turns nineteen...

This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others,...

In a series of debates with Oliver Cromwell in Civil War England of 1647, the Levellers argued for democracy for the first time in British history.Evolving from Oliver Cromwell’s New Model army in...

Was It For This ...?: Wordsworth And The Birth Of The Gods / Geoffrey Hartman -- Facing Language: Wordsworth's First Poetic Spirits / Andrzej Warminski -- Monument And Inscription: Wordsworth's Rude...

Zadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath“Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend.She plays...

For the Western world as a whole, the period from about 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. It is the thesis of this...

In Wild, Cheryl Strayed writes of The Ten Thousand Things: "Each of Dermoût’s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the...

Why centrist politics in France is bound to failThis book analyses the French political crisis, which has entered its most acute phase in more than thirty years with the break-up of traditional left...

Reading De Man Reading was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the...

In this groundbreaking study, Susan Handelman examines the theological roots of the modern science of interpretation. She defines current structures of thought and patterns of organizing reality,...

Geoffrey G. O’Brien’s third collection opens with a set of lyric experiments whose music and mutable syntax explore the social relations concealed in material things. O’Brien’s poems measure the...

edited and designed by Monte BeauchampThis volume features Geoffrey Grahn's The Man Who Saved the World, which tells the tale of Vasily Arkhipov, the Russian sub brigade commander who did not follow...

The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author's first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade...

Containing over 600 entries on British economic writers and thinkers, this dictionary covers the period between John Duns Scotus in the 14th century to John Maynard Keynes and his followers in the...

Among the distinguished scholars and critics who contribute their analyses to this volume, David Bromwich examines Elizabeth Bishop in terms of her "dream houses," Gary Smith discusses Gwendolyn...

Tom Stoppard's stimulating, funny play Night and Day is set in a fictional African country, Kambawe, which is ruled by a leader not unlike Idi Amin. The nation is faced with a Soviet-backed...