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Memoir of Robert Chambers (1872) with Autobiographic Reminiscences of William Chambers

By: William Chambers,Robert Chambers

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Memoir of Robert Chambers (1872) with Autobiographic Reminiscences of William Chambers

By: William Chambers,Robert Chambers

A quiet Peebles childhood and education is disrupted by war and rapid economic change, resulting in 1813 in the move of the Chambers family to Edinburgh and a new life, initially in 'one of the second-rate streets in the southern suburbs'. In this second, 1872, edition of the history of the personal and business life of the publisher Robert Chambers, his brother William adds his own reflections on the story that followed. It is a lively, fascinating slice of social history - stretching from 'an almost ceaseless drudgery' to a 'luxurious and learned leisure'. At its core is the world of 19th century Scottish book - selling and publishing - book auctions, premises on Leith Walk, publishers' agents, trade-sales, remainders, book - stalls in the open air, printers, book-binders and publishers, book-hawkers, poets, essayists and editors, and patronage and finance. It was also an age of 'progressive steps towards a thoroughly cheap yet original and wholesome literature' for education and entertainment; the establishment of W. & R. Chambers; and the influence and legacy of Sir Walter Scott.

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1849211957

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9781849211956

Memoir of William and Robert Chambers

By: Robert Chambers,William Chambers

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Memoir of William and Robert Chambers

By: Robert Chambers,William Chambers

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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410

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385323630

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9783385323636

The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns

By: Robert Burns

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The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns

By: Robert Burns

The first volume in Oxford's new edition of The Collected Works of Robert Burns, this volume brings together Burns' prose works for the first time.

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449

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199603170

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9780199603176

Dickens, Journalism, Music

'Household Words' and 'All The Year Round'

By: Robert Terrell Bledsoe

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Dickens, Journalism, Music

'Household Words' and 'All The Year Round'

By: Robert Terrell Bledsoe

Dickens, Journalism, Music presents the first full analysis of the articles on music published in the two journals conducted by Charles Dickens, Household Words and its successor, All the Year Round. Robert Bledsoe examines the editorial influence of Dickens on articles written by a range of writers and what it reveals about his own developing attitude to music and its social role in parks, community singing groups, music halls and on the streets. The book also looks at the difference between the two journals and how the greater coverage of classical music and opera in All the Year Round reflects the increasing importance of music to Dickens in his later life.

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228

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441130993

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9781441130990

The Bard

Robert Burns, A Biography

By: Robert Crawford

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The Bard

Robert Burns, A Biography

By: Robert Crawford

No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns. Wonderfully readable, The Bard catches Burns's energy, brilliance, and radicalism as never before. To his international admirers he was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel, to a fellow poet he was "sprung . . . from raking of dung," and to his political enemies a "traitor." Drawing on a surprising number of untapped sources--from rediscovered poetry by Burns to manuscript journals, correspondence, and oratory by his contemporaries--this new biography presents the remarkable life, loves, and struggles of the great poet. Inspired by the American and French Revolutions and molded by the Scottish Enlightenment, Burns was in several senses the first of the major Romantics. With a poet's insight and a shrewd sense of human drama, Robert Crawford outlines how Burns combined a childhood steeped in the peasant song-culture of rural Scotland with a consummate linguistic artistry to become not only the world's most popular love poet but also the controversial master poet of modern democracy. Written with accessible elan and nuanced attention to Burns's poems and letters, The Bard is the story of an extraordinary man fighting to maintain a sly sense of integrity in the face of overwhelming pressures. This incisive biography startlingly demonstrates why the life and work of Scotland's greatest poet still compel the attention of the world a quarter of a millennium after his birth.

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Princeton University Press

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1400832845

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9781400832842

Chambers's Educational Course Classical Section. Advanced Latin Exercises with selections for reading and a vocabulary

New and greatly Improved Edition

By: William Chambers,Robert Chambers

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Chambers's Educational Course Classical Section. Advanced Latin Exercises with selections for reading and a vocabulary

New and greatly Improved Edition

By: William Chambers,Robert Chambers

Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.

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3375006071

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9783375006075

Selected Poems and Songs

By: Robert Burns

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Selected Poems and Songs

By: Robert Burns

This volume offers Burns's work as it was first encountered by contemporary readers, presenting the texts in the contexts in which they were originally published. It includes the whole of Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786), a generous selection of songs with full scores, comprehensive notes, some important letters and a glossary.

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0199603928

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9780199603923

Shakespeare's Money

How much did he make and what did this mean?

By: Robert Bearman

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Shakespeare's Money

How much did he make and what did this mean?

By: Robert Bearman

There is no doubting Shakespeare's literary genius, immortalised in his published work. However, statements along these lines are frequently followed by laments of how little is known about this life. This is true if we wish to know about Shakespeare's movements on even a month-by-month basis, or about his working practices and relationships with his theatrical fellows. However, too great an emphasis on this dearth of material not only leads to ill-informed comment that this is somehow 'suspicious' but also tends to downgrade the importance of what material has survived, often dismissed instead simply as evidence of his business dealings which have little bearing on his creative work. However, this material does at least help us to evaluate how successful Shakespeare was in earning a living in a profession which, in his day, was far from mainstream. By calculating his income from theatrical sources and exploring how this affected his financial circumstances and his ability to invest for his and his family's security, we can come to a better understanding of his social standing at different periods in his life, the most obvious evidence to his late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century contemporaries of his success. Shakespeare undoubtedly died a man of comfortable means, but, as this book demonstrates, there is little to justify claims that he died possessed of great wealth. The circumstances of his daughters' marriages are a sufficient indication that he had not achieved true gentlemanly status. Other evidence suggests that he had not broken convincingly into the ranks of leading figures even of a small market town. Moreover, following a period of increasing prosperity, these 'business records' also reflect a declining income during the last ten years or so of his life and of his efforts to safeguard his assets. On the other hand, when compared with his father's business failure, mainly the result of a loss of credit, it is clear that, consciously or unconsciously, Shakespeare had the good sense or foresight not to over-reach himself.

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Oxford University Press

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0191077062

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9780191077067

Self-Rule

A Cultural History of American Democracy

By: Robert H. Wiebe

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Self-Rule

A Cultural History of American Democracy

By: Robert H. Wiebe

A new analysis of American government over the last 200 years; political debate & a new viewpoint.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226895629

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9780226895628

The Beginning and the End of the World

St. Andrews, Scandal, and the Birth of Photography

By: Robert Crawford

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The Beginning and the End of the World

St. Andrews, Scandal, and the Birth of Photography

By: Robert Crawford

In a work of spectacular imagination and remarkable synthesis, poet Robert Crawford celebrates St Andrews, the first town in the world to have its people, buildings and natural environment thoroughly documented through photography. The Beginning and the End of the World tells the stories of several pioneering Scottish photographers, linking their work to one of the nineteenth century's most scandalous and hotly debated publications. Here is the extraordinary intellectual life of an eccentric society rich in apocalyptically-minded Victorian inventors and authors whose work has had an international impact. The protagonists include a very quarrelsome professor, a cello-playing ex-military golfer, a notorious scientist, a married couple coping with mental breakdown and a physician obsessed with sewage. In paying full attention to these people's inter-relationship, implicitly and explicitly this book suggests that their lasting legacies may have a bearing on our own arguments about environmental sustainability and the possibility of largescale extinction.

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Birlinn

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0857900587

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9780857900586

Book's by Robert Chambers Ed By William Chambers

Memoir of Robert Chambers (1872) with Autobiographic Reminiscences of William Chambers

Memoir of Robert Chambers (1872) with Autobiographic Reminiscences of William Chambers

Memoir of William and Robert Chambers

Memoir of William and Robert Chambers

The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns

The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns

Dickens, Journalism, Music

Dickens, Journalism, Music

The Bard

The Bard

Chambers's Educational Course Classical Section. Advanced Latin Exercises with selections for reading and a vocabulary

Chambers's Educational Course Classical Section. Advanced Latin Exercises with selections for reading and a vocabulary

Selected Poems and Songs

Selected Poems and Songs

Shakespeare's Money

Shakespeare's Money

Self-Rule

Self-Rule

The Beginning and the End of the World

The Beginning and the End of the World

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