1781 results for '"Weiss, Charles'

A scholarly edition of the Royal Proclamations of King Charles I. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Editors Henry Rothschild, Fred Allison, Jr., Calderon Howe ; Coordinating Editor, Charles F. Chapman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Recounts the life of the first Duke of Buckingham, describes his relationships with James I and Charles I, and examines his role in English politics

This second posthumous collection from Charles Bukowski takes readers deep into the raw, wild vein of writing that extends from the early 70s to the 1990s.

An in-depth look into the life of Romantic essayist Charles Lamb and the legacy of his work "[An] electrifying portrait of Charles Lamb."--New Yorker A pioneer of urban Romanticism,...

This edition is a reprint of the 1951 edition on the history of the south. It includes a critical essay on recent works by Charles B Dew. This is volume 9 in a series on the History of the South.

To refer to the private life of Charles II is to abuse the adjective. His personal life was anything but private. His amorous liaisons were largely conducted in royal palaces surrounded by friends,...

Discusses the achievements of the best British poets of the past twenty years - Charles Tomlinson, Donald Davie, R.S. Thomas, Stevie Smith, Thomas Kinsella, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, and W.S. Graham.

Sir Robert Naunton's career as Secretary of State and Master of the Court of Wards under both James I and Charles I is a case study of the problems and possibilites of serving the first two Stuart...

The Eisner Award-nominated tribute to Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz--repackaged for the beloved strip's 75th anniversary Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) believed that the key to cartooning was to...

Martin Amis’s first novel, The Rachel Papers, tells the story of Charles Highway and his relationship with his girlfriend in the year before going to university—with a new introduction by Paul Murray...

William Wells Brown, Frances E.W. Harper, and Charles W. Chesnutt, three black writers who bore witness to the experience of their people under slavery, create a portrait of black life in the 19th...

England in the 1950's. Celia, desperate for distraction, fills her time with tennis and gin; Charles, a pathologist is buried in his work among the living and the dead; and their gifted son, Holly,...

This collection of essays by pre-eminent scholars in nineteenth-century history aims to respond to Charles Sellers' "The market revolution", reflecting upon the historiographic accomplishments...

Book of Clouds is a haunting, masterfully wrought debut novel about a young woman adrift in Berlin, where a string of fateful encounters leads to romance, violence, and revelation. Having escaped her...

This is a narrative history of England and France during the Hundred Years War, from the triumphs of Henry V to the defeat of the English and loss of Gascony and Bordeaux - a huge blow to English...

From the award-winning author of Night of the Living Rez comes a masterful and unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture and inheritance, and what--if anything--we owe one another. ...

A classic account of the relationship between the human brain and the human mindCan the mind be explained by what we know about the brain? Is a person’s being determined by their body alone or by...

In her illuminating history of "On the Origin of Species," Browne, Charles Darwins foremost biographer, shows why it can fairly claim to be the greatest science book ever published. What emerges is a...

From the Publisher: Dividing the nation and causing massive political change, the English Civil War remains one of the most decisive and dramatic conflicts of English history. The Causes of the...