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The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction

By: John Sutherland

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The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction

By: John Sutherland

With over 900 biographical entries, more than 600 novels synopsized, and a wealth of background material on the publishers, reviewers and readers of the age the Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction is the fullest account of the period's fiction ever published. Now in a second edition, the book has been revised and a generous selection of images have been chosen to illustrate various aspects of Victorian publishing, writing, and reading life. Organised alphabetically, the information provided will be a boon to students, researchers and all lovers of reading. The entries, though concise, meet the high standards demanded by modern scholarship. The writing - marked by Sutherland's characteristic combination of flair, clarity and erudition - is of such a high standard that the book is a joy to read, as well as a definitive work of reference.

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Routledge

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131786333X

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9781317863335

Winning at All Costs

A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer

By: John Foot

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Winning at All Costs

A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer

By: John Foot

The 2006 World Cup final between Italy and France was a down-and-dirty game, marred by French superstar Zidane's head-butting of Italian defender Materazzi. But viewers were also exposed to the poetry, force, and excellence of the Italian game; as operatic as Verdi and as cunning as Machiavelli, it seemed to open a window into the Italian soul. John Foot's epic history shows what makes Italian soccer so unique. Mixing serious analysis and comic storytelling, Foot describes its humble origins in northern Italy in the 1890s to its present day incarnation where soccer is the national civic religion. A story that is reminiscent of Gangs of New York and A Clockwork Orange, Foot shows how the Italian game -- like its political culture -- has been overshadowed by big business, violence, conspiracy, and tragedy, how demagogues like Benito Mussolini and Silvio Berlusconi have used the game to further their own political ambitions. But Winning at All Costs also celebrates the sweet moments -- the four World Cup victories, the success of Juventus, Inter Milan, AC Milan, the role soccer played in the resistance to Nazism, and the great managers and players who show that Italian soccer is as irresistible as Italy itself.

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626

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Bold Type Books

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1568586523

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9781568586526

The Lives of the Chief Justices of England

Vol. I

By: John Campbell

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The Lives of the Chief Justices of England

Vol. I

By: John Campbell

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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474

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3368841262

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9783368841263

The Diary of John Evelyn

By: John Evelyn

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The Diary of John Evelyn

By: John Evelyn

A three-volume 1906 edition of the memoirs and diary of Stuart writer John Evelyn, up to his death in 1706.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108078850

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9781108078856

Victorian Fiction: Writers, Publishers, Readers

By: John Sutherland

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Victorian Fiction: Writers, Publishers, Readers

By: John Sutherland

The proportion of Victorian novels in print today represents only a tiny fraction of what was published by this vast writing industry. Exact figures will never be known but we can estimate that around 50,000 works were produced by around 3,500 novelists during the Victorian era. But who wrote these novels and what inspired them to write? How were their novels published and how did they adapt their techniques to ensure the public's appetite for fiction was fed? Drawing on extensive research, John Sutherland builds up a fascinating picture of the cultural, social and commercial factors influencing the content and production of Victorian fiction. Collins, Dickens, Eliot, Thackeray and Trollope are discussed in tandem with writers also very popular with the reading public - Reade, Lytton and Mrs Humphry Ward - but whose fame has not endured. As John Sutherland demonstrates, author-publisher relations played a central role in determining the success of new novels, with some impressive achievements on both sides. Richly informative on the Victorian literary and cultural scene, this important study by one of our leading scholars is set to become essential reading for all those interested in the evolution of the Victorian novel.

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209

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Springer

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1349239372

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9781349239375

The Uses of Sport

A Critical Study

By: John Hughson,David Inglis,Marcus Free

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The Uses of Sport

A Critical Study

By: John Hughson,David Inglis,Marcus Free

The Uses of Sport provides an essential resource for the study of sport within culture and popular culture.

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232

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Psychology Press

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0415260477

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9780415260473

Pewter at Colonial Williamsburg

By: John D. Davis

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Pewter at Colonial Williamsburg

By: John D. Davis

Pewter was the metal of choice for household goods in England and America in the seventeenth and into the eighteenth centuries. Immense quantities of porringers, candlesticks, plates, and other items could be found on both sides of the Atlantic. The collection of British pewter at Colonial Williamsburg, which illustrates the development of basic forms and types of decoration, is remarkable for its breadth and detail. The collection also contains a number of American examples that often exhibit regional and individual preferences.

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Colonial Williamsburg

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0879352183

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9780879352189

The English Novel in History 1700-1780

By: John Richetti

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The English Novel in History 1700-1780

By: John Richetti

The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eigtheenth-century Britain. It traces the social and moral representations of the period in extended readings of the major novelists, as well as evaluatiing the importance of lesser known ones. John Richetti traces the shifting subject matter of the novel, discussing: * scandalous and amatory fictions * criminal narratives of the early part of the century * the more disciplined, realistic, and didactic strain that appears in the 1740's and 1750's * novels promoting new ideas about the nature of domestic life * novels by women and how they relate to the shift of subject matter This original and useful book revises traditional literary history by considering novels from those years in the context of the transformation of Britain in the eighteenth century.

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304

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Routledge

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1134656424

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9781134656424

Proteins, Peptides and Amino Acids SourceBook

By: John Stephen White,Dorothy Chong White

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Proteins, Peptides and Amino Acids SourceBook

By: John Stephen White,Dorothy Chong White

Proteins, Pep tides and Amino Acids SourceBook is the second in a series of reference books conceived to cover the explosive growth in commercially available biological reagents. The success of our first reference work, Source Book of Enzymes published in 1997, encouraged us to continue this series. Choosing proteins, peptides, and amino acids as the subject matter for the second volume was simple, given their preeminence in regulating biochemical processes and their importance to modern molecular biology. The SourceBook series was inspired by our difficulty in locating a suitable replacement for a depleted reagent in the midst of an urgent research project. To our dismay, we found the reagent supplier out of business and the product line no longer available. Other reagent catalogs on our library bookshelf offered a narrow selection and incom plete functional information. We were ultimately able to locate a satisfactory alternative only by making countless inquiries and paging through innumerable product catalogs and technical data sheets. We needed-but could not find-a single resource that cataloged available compounds, organized them in a logical and accessible format, provided critical technical information to distinguish one from another, and told us where we could buy them.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1592591701

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9781592591701

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The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction

The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction

Winning at All Costs

Winning at All Costs

The Lives of the Chief Justices of England

The Lives of the Chief Justices of England

The Diary of John Evelyn

The Diary of John Evelyn

Victorian Fiction: Writers, Publishers, Readers

Victorian Fiction: Writers, Publishers, Readers

The Uses of Sport

The Uses of Sport

Pewter at Colonial Williamsburg

Pewter at Colonial Williamsburg

The English Novel in History 1700-1780

The English Novel in History 1700-1780

Proteins, Peptides and Amino Acids SourceBook

Proteins, Peptides and Amino Acids SourceBook

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