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“brian unwin”

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  • Terrible Exile

    The Last Days of Napoleon on St Helena

    by Brian Unwin ...
    At its height, the Napoleonic Empire spanned much of mainland Europe. Fêted and feared by millions of citizens, Napoleon was the most powerful and famous man of his age. But following his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo the future of the one-time Emperor of France seemed irredeemably bleak. How did the brilliant tactician cope with being at the mercy of his captors? How did he react to a life in ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • With Respect, Minister

    A View from Inside Whitehall

    by Brian Unwin ...
    How have the workings of the British civil service changed over the past forty years? In this new memoir, Sir Brian Unwin discloses his veritable wealth of experience behind the scenes of British government. His reflections chart a course from his education at Oxford and Yale, through to a seven year stint as President of the European Investment Bank. On the way, his vivid and diverse career ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • A Tale in Two Cities

    Fanny Burney and Adèle, Comtesse de Boigne

    by Brian Unwin ...
    Fanny Burney and Adele, Comtesse de Boigne, were two of the most remarkable female writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: one a famous novelist, the other an aristocrat from one of France's most ancient families. This was the tumultuous era which saw the French Revolution, the Napoleonic years and the July 1830 Revolution in France; and in England the 'madness' of George ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

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    Travel across the rugged landscapes of 18th-century Scotland in this classic adventure of betrayal, inheritance, and political intrigue. Young David Balfour is sold into servitude by his wicked uncle but finds an unlikely ally in the Jacobite soldier Alan Breck Stewart. Their flight across the Highlands is a masterclass in pacing, character development, and historical atmosphere, exploring the ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare: A Life

    by Park Honan ...
    In the most complete, accurate, and up-to-date narrative of Shakespeare's life ever written, Park Honan uses a wealth of fresh information to dramatically alter our perceptions of the actor, poet, and playwright. The young poet's relationships, his early courtship of Anne Hathaway, their marriage, his attitudes to women such as Jennet Davenant, Marie Mountjoy, and his own daughters, are seen in a ... Read more

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  • Mr Darcy’s Guide to Courtship

    The Secrets of Seduction from Jane Austen’s Most Eligible Bachelor

    by Emily Brand ...
    A Publisher's Weekly 'Pick of the Week'Perfect for fans of Bridgerton and the high society lifestyle of the Regency period.Fitzwilliam Darcy's universally acknowledged primer for single men in possession of a good fortune, should they be in want of a wife.Mr Darcy's Guide to Courtship is no ordinary Regency courtship manual, composed as it is by a Fitzwilliam Darcy as yet unmellowed by contact ... Read more

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  • Cymbeline

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    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    In Cymbeline, Ancient Britain's female heir to the throne is slandered by a decadent Italian while the Romans invade Britain to retain it as part of their empire. Shakespeare's late romance is full of unpredictable conjunctions that are explored in the comprehensive introduction to this new, fully-illustrated Arden edition. Valerie Wayne takes a transformative look at the play's critical and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry

    by Maureen N. McLane ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical ... Read more

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  • The White Devil: A Critical Reader

    by Paul Frazer, Dr Adam Hansen ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    The White Devil is one of the most violent and most fascinating plays in English theatrical history. It is also a notoriously challenging work; this volume offers a practical, accessible and thought-provoking guide to the play, surveying its major themes and critical reception. It also provides a detailed and up-to-date history of the play's performance, beginning with its first staging in 1611 ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Memory and Intertextuality in Renaissance Literature

    by Raphael Lyne ...
    This book uses theories of memory derived from cognitive science to offer new ways of understanding how literary works remember other literary works. Using terms derived from psychology – implicit and explicit memory, interference and forgetting – Raphael Lyne shows how works by Renaissance writers such as Wyatt, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Milton interact with their sources. The poems and plays in ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain

    by Betty A. Schellenberg ...
    The Professionalisation of Women Writers in Eighteenth Century Britain is a full study of a group of women who were actively and ambitiously engaged in a range of innovative publications at the height of the eighteenth century. Using personal correspondence, records of contemporary reception, research into contemporary print culture and sociological models of professionalisation, Betty A. ... Read more

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  • Polish Armies of the Partitions 1770–94

    by Vincent W. Rospond ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    The tragic national epic of Polish history began in these late 18th-century wars.Under Poland's Saxon monarchy, Russia and Prussia constantly meddled in the affairs of the Kingdom. In 1768 a civil war broke out between pro-Russian 'Commonwealth' Poles and 'Confederate' patriots who opposed foreign intervention; Russia intervened directly, and the First Partition followed in 1772. Guerrilla ... Read more

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