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After London

By: John Richard Jeffries

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The meadows were green, and so was the rising wheat which had been sown, but which neither had nor would receive any further care. Such arable fields as had not been sown, but where the last stubble had been ploughed up, were overrun with couch-grass, and where the short stubble had not been ploughed, the weeds hid it. Jefferies' novel can be seen as an early example of post-apocalyptic fiction. After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life. The first part, The Relapse into Barbarism, is the account by some later historian of the fall of civilisation and its consequences, with a loving description of nature reclaiming England. The second part, Wild England, is an adventure set many years later in the wild landscape and society.

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Jovian Press

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1537802305

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9781537802305

Field and Hedgerow

By: John Richard Jefferies

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Field and Hedgerow

By: John Richard Jefferies

It is sweet on awaking in the early morn to listen to the small bird singing on the tree. No sound of voice or flute is like to the bird's song; there is something in it distinct and separate from all other notes. The throat of woman gives forth a more perfect music, and the organ is the glory of man's soul. The bird upon the tree utters the meaning of the wind-a voice of the grass and wild flower, words of the green leaf; they speak through that slender tone. Sweetness of dew and rifts of sunshine, the dark hawthorn touched with breadths of open bud, the odour of the air, the colour of the daffodil-all that is delicious and beloved of spring-time are expressed in his song. Genius is nature, and his lay, like the sap in the bough from which he sings, rises without thought. Nor is it necessary that it should be a song; a few short notes in the sharp spring morning are sufficient to stir the heart. But yesterday the least of them all came to a bough by my window, and in his call I heard the sweet-briar wind rushing over the young grass. Refulgent fall the golden rays of the sun; a minute only, the clouds cover him and the hedge is dark. The bloom of the gorse is shut like a book; but it is there-a few hours of warmth and the covers will fall open. The meadow is bare, but in a little while the heart-shaped celandine leaves will come in their accustomed place. On the pollard willows the long wands are yellow-ruddy in the passing gleam of sunshine, the first colour of spring appears in their bark. The delicious wind rushes among them and they bow and rise; it touches the top of the dark pine that looks in the sun the same now as in summer; it lifts and swings the arching trail of bramble; it dries and crumbles the earth in its fingers; the hedge-sparrow's feathers are fluttered as he sings on the bush.

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180

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0368396533

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9780368396533

Africans

The History of a Continent

By: John Iliffe

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Africans

The History of a Continent

By: John Iliffe

An updated and comprehensive single-volume history covering all periods from human origins to contemporary African situations.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107198321

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9781107198326

Language, Metaphysics, and Death

By: John Donnelly

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Language, Metaphysics, and Death

By: John Donnelly

Available in a new digital edition with reflowable text suitable for e-readers This standard work in thanatology is updated with ten essays new to the second edition, and features a new introduction by Donnelly. The collection addresses certain basic issues inherent in a philosophy of death.

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Fordham Univ Press

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1531510922

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9781531510923

D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912

The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence

By: John Worthen

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D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912

The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence

By: John Worthen

Originally published in 1991, the first volume of the three-volume Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence reveals a complex portrait of an extraordinary man.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521254191

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9780521254199

Reading Old Friends

Essays, Reviews, and Poems on Poetics 1975-1990

By: John Matthias

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Reading Old Friends

Essays, Reviews, and Poems on Poetics 1975-1990

By: John Matthias

Reading Old Friends includes essays, reviews, and poems on poetics. Matthias, who has spent much time in England, concentrates on British poetry ranging from late modernist figures such as David Jones and Hugh MacDiarmid to contemporaries such as Geoffrey Hill, Seamus Heaney, Michael Hamburger, and John Fuller. He also seeks to establish, or re-establish, meaningful trans-Atlantic connections between Wendell Berry and Jeremy Hooker, for example, or between Robert Duncan and David Jones. Other, more generally acknowledged figures, are also discussed, including Wordsworth, Pope, Crabbe, Constable, Turner, Britten, Tippet, Lowell, Auden, and Berryman. The book also contains three poems on poetics that engage many of the theoretical issues left implicit in most of the essays.

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State University of New York Press

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1438412231

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9781438412238

Reading and the Art of Librarianship

Selected Essays of John B. Nicholson, Jr.

By: John B. Nicholson

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Reading and the Art of Librarianship

Selected Essays of John B. Nicholson, Jr.

By: John B. Nicholson

This book, first published in 1986, contains a collection of remarkable essays analysing such topics as the nature of reading, the power of books, literary creation, libraries and technology, and the freedom to read.

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Routledge

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1000759067

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9781000759068

Style

By: John Haynes

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Style

By: John Haynes

In Style, John Haynes provides a lively introduction to the study of expression in relation to meaning. Style: * introduces readers to the key areas in the study of style through practical exercises * encourages an interest in and sensitivity to words and structures * enables students to recognize contrasts within and between texts * heightens awareness with regards to word choice, meaning, communicative purpose and stylistic convention * examines an enormous variety of text-types; both literary and non-literary, spoken and written * in addition to numerous exercises, contains suggestions for project work.

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1134849206

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9781134849208

Military Marxist Regimes in Africa

By: John Markakis,Michael Waller

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Military Marxist Regimes in Africa

By: John Markakis,Michael Waller

First published in 1986. This is a collection of editorial and articles covering military Marxist regimes in the African locations of the Horn of Africa, Benin, the People's Republic of Congo, Madagascar, and Burkina Faso.

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1135176612

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9781135176617

Political Correctness and Higher Education

British and American Perspectives

By: John Lea

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Political Correctness and Higher Education

British and American Perspectives

By: John Lea

This book is the first major study of political correctness in post compulsory education to be published in the UK. For readers in the UK unfamiliar with the nature of the controversies in US college campuses this book offers a comprehensive assessment of the key themes, including who and what was behind key campaigns. For readers in the US unfamiliar with how this cultural export has faired in the UK, this book looks at the significant similarities and differences in the ways that the phrase has been used in both societies.

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1135895880

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9781135895884

Doggett's New York City Directory

By: John Doggett

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Doggett's New York City Directory

By: John Doggett

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385263557

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9783385263550

Pierce's Register

Register of the Certificates Issued by John Pierce, Esquire, Paymaster General and Commissioner of Army Accounts for the United States, to Officers and Soldiers of the Continental Army Under Act of July 4, 1783

By: United States. War Department. Pay Department,John Pierce

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Pierce's Register

By: United States. War Department. Pay Department,John Pierce

Published as Senate Documents, Vol. 9, no. 988, 63rd Congress, 3rd Session.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806305274

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9780806305271

Southside Virginia Chronicles

By: John Caknipe Jr.

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Southside Virginia Chronicles

By: John Caknipe Jr.

Virginia's Southside and Piedmont regions have produced some of the finest religious, educational and community leaders in the Old Dominion. Lewis Burwell was a founding father of the commonwealth who served in the House of Burgesses. John Ravenscroft was an early behemoth of regional religious thought known for his passionate promotion of the Episcopal Church and its teachings. The region's history is rich beyond its leaders as well. From early mining operations to the formation of the Christianville Academy to the impact of the Civil War, Southside Virginia is not exempt from the commonwealth's storied past. Join author, historian and local columnist John Caknipe as he compiles his most fascinating columns for the first time to regale readers with Southside Virginia's historic heroes, overlooked history and more.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625850212

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9781625850218

A Modern History of Tanganyika

By: John Iliffe

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A Modern History of Tanganyika

By: John Iliffe

The first comprehensive and fully documented history of modern Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania).

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Cambridge University Press

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0521296110

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9780521296113

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After London

After London

Field and Hedgerow

Field and Hedgerow

Africans

Africans

Language, Metaphysics, and Death

Language, Metaphysics, and Death

D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912

D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912

Reading Old Friends

Reading Old Friends

Reading and the Art of Librarianship

Reading and the Art of Librarianship

Style

Style

Military Marxist Regimes in Africa

Military Marxist Regimes in Africa

Political Correctness and Higher Education

Political Correctness and Higher Education

Doggett's New York City Directory

Doggett's New York City Directory

Pierce's Register

Pierce's Register

Southside Virginia Chronicles

Southside Virginia Chronicles

A Modern History of Tanganyika

A Modern History of Tanganyika

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