This biography of the poet is “acute in its examination of Tennyson’s character and his importance for Victorian culture” (The Times Literary Supplement). Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria’s favorite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other of his time. His ascendancy was neither the triumph of pure genius nor an accident of history: he skillfully crafted his own career and his relationships with his audience. Fame and recognition came, lavishly and in abundance, but the hunger for more never left him. Resolving never to be anything except “a poet,” he wore his hair long, smoked incessantly, and sported a cloak and wide-brimmed Spanish hat. Tennyson ranged widely in his poetry, turning his interests in geology, evolution, and Arthurian legend into verse, but much of his work relates to his personal life. The poet who wrote “The Lady of Shalott” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” has become a permanent part of our culture. This enjoyable and thoughtful new biography shows him as a Romantic as well as a Victorian, exploring both the poems and the pressures of his era, and the personal relationships that made the man.
A fascinating, richly illustrated exploration of the poignant origins of Rudyard Kipling's world-famous children's classic From "How the Leopard Got Its Spots" to "The Elephant's Child," Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories have delighted readers across the world for more than a century. In this original study, John Batchelor explores the artistry with which Kipling created the Just So Stories, using each tale as an entry point into the writer's life and work--including the tragedy that shadows much of the volume, the death of his daughter Josephine. Batchelor details the playful challenges the stories made to contemporary society. In his stories Kipling played with biblical and other stories of creation and imagined fantastical tales of animals' development and man's discovery of literacy. Richly illustrated with original drawings and family photographs, this account reveals Kipling's public and private lives--and sheds new light on a much-loved and tremendously influential classic.
Temporarily transferring power to the vice president while on disability in the year 2003, President Ted Jay is shocked when the vice president refuses to relinquish command five months later, an action that threatens to tear the nation in two. Reprint.
Virginia Woolf (1882-941) is one of the most interesting writers of our century. In this introductory book, John Batchelor tells the story of her life and writing career, highlighting the important aspects of Woolf's temperament: her passion, her learning, her acute intelligence, her lesbianism, her self-absorption. He discusses the works, devoting separate chapters to the five major novels: Jacob's Room, with its highly ironic celebration of masculinity; Mrs Dalloway, with its odd time structures and pointed observation of 1920s London society; To the Lighthouse, which can be read as an elegy for Woolf's own family as well as a great work of modernism; The Waves, extending the narrative methods of its predecessors; and Between the Acts, Woolf's complex satire of the Condition-of-England novel. In addition, Professor Batchelor looks at Woolf's uneasy relation to modernism and the question of her feminism. This book, equipped with a chronology and guide to recommended further reading, is an ideal companion for students and new readers of Woolf.
Joseph Conrad, who was born in the Ukraine in 1857, brought up in Poland and schooled in the merchant marine, died near Canterbury in 1924, having become the major British novelist of the period 1895-1920. John Batchelor's important new biography of this most extraordinary, enigmatic figure reveals the especially close relationship between the life and the work, and shows Conrad to have been one of the most tormented and self-defeating of our literary figures.
I will be judged harshly by some for my actions, but it is not about right or wrong or good or bad, it is only about what happened and led me to develop into the person that I have become, through my many adventures and what I did about them. I have no intention of trying to flower it up, to be more appealing, it is not a fictional story. I have included situations that stick out the most in my mind and just omitted many other experiences that were interesting to me, but probably not to others. I have also just omitted some names of those who do not wish to be identified. My intention is not to embarrass anybody else, but just maybe myself.
I have always been interested in good health, but was never quite sure what that was. Like most people, I would just hear a little something from whomever and accept that as fact. I spent my life working two jobs, struggling with bills, raising a family and trying to find ways to enjoy my life as well and I suspect that many others do and have done the same. 24/7, we are bombarded with nonsense from many quarters, most of it from money mongers that would fleece us out of our hard earned money. This is not restricted to nutrition and weight control, but many other things as well. We are attacked from all sides, T.V. commercials, cooking shows that have no interest in our health, only what money they can make by showing us how to cook in an unhealthy and irresponsible way. I think that I have compiled some useful information, not only for myself, but information that may help many, many others, I feel like I have discovered the Holy Grail. I hope you find it useful as well. I suspect that 99% of people that read my little book will find many things that they didnt know before and improve their own lives, as well as avoiding much of the nonsense and wasting time and money chasing those magic rainbows. It is much simpler than you might think.
An insightful look into the culture, religion, and magic of the native people of Japan: the Ainu. John Batchelor gives a first-hand account of the Ainu people who are indigenous to the Northern Japanese island Hokkaido. Having been sent as a Christian missionary to the community, Batchelor details the Ainu religion and culture. He describes their animistic rituals and their belief that all things, including nature, animals, and objects, possess a godly spirit. First published in 1901. This volume features the following chapters: - The Nature of Witchcraft - The Use of the Fox and Bird’s Skulls - External Methods of Bewitching
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Figureheads — those magnificent carvings that once adorned the prows of early sailing vessels — are the focus of this intriguing coloring book. Twenty-seven illustrations of these splendid embellishments depict the figure of a sailor ("Jolly Jack Tar"), the warrior chief "Tecumseh," Eurydice, a Scottish soldier of the Blackwatch regiment, and many others.
Plane Essentials' is a series of concise aviation guides, which will profile many of the famous military and civil aircraft from the 20th century. The books combine the illustrations of technical artist John Batchelor with the text of aviation historian Malcolm V. Lowe.
Thirtyauthentic sentinels include accurate depictions of the ancient Pharos light in Alexandria, Egypt (one of the Seven Wonders of the World);an early 18th-century construction in Riga, Latvia; and 28 other structures.
The Aino people of Japan are very little known and where treated as savages when discovered by western travellers. Their religion was rich and cultured and this book opens the eyes of the reader to a culture that so few people know of. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
This fleet of 28 accurately detailed ships includes the ill-fated PT-109, commanded by a young John F. Kennedy, a German U-boat, and the USS Missouri, the battleship on which the Japanese surrendered.
The separation of white and black schools remained largely unquestioned and unchallenged in North Carolina for the first half of the twentieth century, yet by the end of the 1970s, the Tar Heel State operated the most thoroughly desegregated school system in the nation. In Race and Education in North Carolina, John E. Batchelor, a former North Carolina school superintendent, offers a robust analysis of this sea change and the initiatives that comprised the gradual, and often reluctant, desegregation of the state’s public schools. In a state known for relative racial moderation, North Carolina government officials generally steered clear of fiery rhetorical rejections of Brown v. Board of Education, in contrast to the position of leaders in most other parts of the South. Instead, they played for time, staving off influential legislators who wanted to close public schools and provide vouchers to support segregated private schools, instituting policies that would admit a few black students into white schools, and continuing to sanction segregation throughout most of the public education system. Litigation—primarily initiated by the NAACP—and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 created stronger mandates for progress and forced government officials to accelerate the pace of desegregation. Batchelor sheds light on the way local school districts pursued this goal while community leaders, school board members, administrators, and teachers struggled to balance new policy demands with deeply entrenched racial prejudice and widespread support for continued segregation. Drawing from case law, newspapers, interviews with policy makers, civil rights leaders, and attorneys involved in school desegregation, as well as previously unused archival material, Race and Education in North Carolina presents a richly textured history of the legal and political factors that informed, obstructed, and finally cleared the way for desegregation in the North Carolina public education system.
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