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The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins

By: Robert Patlock

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The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins

By: Robert Patlock

The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins (1751) is an adventure novel by Robert Paltock. No doubt inspired by Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719), Paltock’s novel is a brilliant work of fiction in its own right, earning praise from such figures as Walter Scott and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Republished in an influential 1884 edition with an introduction by editor and academic Arthur Henry Bullen, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins remains a uniquely entertaining novel of shipwreck, romance, and discovery. “It was about the middle of June, when the days are there at the shortest, on a very starry and moonlight night, that we observed at some distance a very black cloud, but seemingly of no extraordinary size or height, moving very fast towards us, and seeming to follow the ship, which then made great way.” While sailing around Cape Horn, the crew of the Hector spots a mysterious object flying toward them in the sky. Alarmed, the men open fire, causing the object to crash into the sea. Soon, cries for help alert them to an old man afloat on the waves, grasping the remnants of his flying machine for dear life. Safely on board, the man introduces himself as Peter Wilkins. Decades prior, he left his home and family in Cornwall to embark on a voyage to Africa. There, he was stolen into slavery by Portuguese settlers, but managed to escape with the help of the native Glanlepze and his wife. Later, Wilkins fell in with a group of English prisoners, who managed to steal a Portuguese vessel before being shipwrecked and lost at sea. The sole survivor, Wilkins washed ashore on a desert island, where he would fight every second to survive. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Robert Paltock’s The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

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Graphic Arts Books

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1513217429

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9781513217420

Before Tom Brown

The Origins of the School Story

By: Robert J. Kirkpatrick

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Before Tom Brown

The Origins of the School Story

By: Robert J. Kirkpatrick

The use of school life as a closed narrative environment is well documented, and modern examples such as Malory Towers and Harry Potter show the genre's continued appeal. While there have been several histories of the school story, especially in children's literature, almost all of them take as their starting point Tom Brown's Schooldays. Although occasionally acknowledged in passing, there has never been a complete study of earlier school stories, or of other fictional portrayals of school life before the middle of the eighteenth century. In Before Tom Brown, Robert Kirkpatrick traces the roots of the school story back to 2500BC, when school life was a feature of Sumerian, Egyptian and Graeco-Roman texts written as teaching aids for children. From Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to Shakesperean comedies, he explores for the first time the use of school dialogues in the classroom, in print and on stage, and presents new evidence that the first school novel appeared in 1607. Finally, he examines the role of the school story in the broader development of the novel as the genre became established through the eighteenth century. Readers will be rewarded with a whole new perspective on the history of children's literature.

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248

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Lutterworth Press

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0718897382

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9780718897383

Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names

By: Robert L. Ramsay

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Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names

By: Robert L. Ramsay

This bulletin is one in a series published by the College of Arts and Science in which pertinent and interesting information that has been collected and analyzed in the research activities of regular departments of the College is made available to the public. The study of Missouri place names has been a project of Professor Robert L. Ramsay of the Department of English for a number of years. He has directed a series of eighteen masters theses in the field, and as a result of the research conducted by his students and through his own activities, a master file of Missouri place names has been prepared. This bulletin is only a sample of the information that has been collected and classified. The College of Arts and Science is making it available to the citizens of the State at a nominal price so that the public can have some knowledge and appreciation of this interesting and worthwhile study. The bulletin records a very significant part of our history and culture.

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164

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University of Missouri Press

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0826205860

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9780826205865

Panic Attacks

Media Manipulation and Mass Delusion

By: Robert Bartholomew,Hilary Evans

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Panic Attacks

Media Manipulation and Mass Delusion

By: Robert Bartholomew,Hilary Evans

Examining the ability of the media to whip up a panic and our tendency to fall victim to mass delusion and hysteria, this title discusses America's "kissing bug" scare of 1899; Seattle's atomic fallout fiasco of 1954; the phantom slasher of Taipei in 1956; Belgium's recent Coca-Cola poisoning scare and the "mad gasser" of Mattoon, and more.

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168

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The History Press

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0752494708

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9780752494708

The Moon-Maker

By: Arthur Train,Robert Williams Wood

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The Moon-Maker

By: Arthur Train,Robert Williams Wood

Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron MillerIncludes the original illustrations Featured in Ron Millers _The Conquest of Space Book Series.Ó An atomic-powered spaceship on a mission to divert an asteroid from an impending collision with earth might sound like an up-to-date SF scenario...unless the book was written in 1916! Discoverer of the asteroid and passenger on the dangerous space mission is beautiful Rhoda Gibbs, an extraordinary woman 50 years ahead of her time. The novel's science is impeccable and remains accurate even by today's standards. Includes the prequel, The Man Who Rocked the Earth, which includes the first-ever realistic description of a nuclear explosion...right down to the gruesome effects of lingering radiation poisoning. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

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Baen Publishing Enterprises

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1625790007

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9781625790002

Skeleton in the Sope House

By: Robert Charles

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Skeleton in the Sope House

By: Robert Charles

Skeleton in the Sope House is set in the early sixteenth century. The hero is William of Widford. At Westminster School, he finds a skeleton linked to gold stolen two centuries ago. He visits Italy and finds a clue and an amorous woman bandit. He returns to England to continue his search; he is assisted by Joan, the headmaster's daughter. Joan is abducted by a band of Knights of Saint John who wants the treasure. William rescues Joan, and they find the treasure. He goes up to Cambridge, where he is abducted by vengeful Knights of Saint John and taken to Rhodes. He escapes but is captured by Barbary pirates and enslaved. He escapes and returns to Cambridge to take his degree. He is employed in King Henry VII's intelligence service. He collects information at home and abroad.

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575

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AuthorHouse

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1477251049

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9781477251041

The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt Vol 4

By: Robert Morrison,Michael Eberle-Sinatra

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The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt Vol 4

By: Robert Morrison,Michael Eberle-Sinatra

This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set will include all of Hunt's poetry, and an extensive selection of his periodical essays.

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429

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Routledge

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1000749096

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9781000749090

A Plunge into Space

By: Robert Cromie

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A Plunge into Space

By: Robert Cromie

Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron Miller Featured in Ron Millers _The Conquest of Space Book Series.Ó Robert Cromie's 1890 novel contains a detailed description of a spacecraft, a realistic description of the deserts of Mars and some fascinating technological prophecies, such as televised broadcasts of concerts and plays. As most authors of interplanetary stories of his era did, Cromie uses the Martian civilization to comment on his own. Interestingly, the book contains an extremely well-drawn heroine in the form of a Martian girl, Mignonette. Foreword by Jules Verne, frontispiece and map. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

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Baen Publishing Enterprises

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1625790368

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9781625790361

The English Novel, 1700-1740

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Robert Letellier

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The English Novel, 1700-1740

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Robert Letellier

The English novel written between 1700 and 1740 remains a comparatively neglected area. In addition to Daniel Defoe, whose Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders are landmarks in the history of English fiction, many other authors were at work. These included such women as Penelope Aubin, Jane Barker, Mary Davys, and Eliza Haywood, who made a considerable contribution to widening the range of emotional responses in fiction. These authors, and many others, continued writing in the genres inherited from the previous century, such as criminal biographies, the Utopian novel, the science fictional voyage, and the epistolary novel. This annotated bibliography includes entries for these works and for critical materials pertinent to them. The volume first seeks to establish the existing studies of the era, along with anthologies. It then provides entries for a wide-ranging selection of works which cover fictional, theoretical, historical, political, and cultural topics, to provide a comprehensive background to the unfolding and understanding of prose fiction in the early 18th century. This is followed by an alphabetical listing of novels, their editions, and any critical material available on each. The next section provides a chronological record of significant and enduring works of fiction composed or translated in this period. The volume concludes with extensive indexes.

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654

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313016909

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9780313016905

The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley

1733-1764

By: Robert Dodsley

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The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley

1733-1764

By: Robert Dodsley

This fully annotated edition sheds much light on eighteenth-century British literary and publishing history.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521522080

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9780521522083

The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt

By: Robert Morrison

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The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt

By: Robert Morrison

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Routledge

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1000743969

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9781000743968

The Poetical Works of Robert Southey

Vol. VIII

By: Robert Southey

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The Poetical Works of Robert Southey

Vol. VIII

By: Robert Southey

Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3375107153

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9783375107154

The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt Vol 6

By: Robert Morrison,Michael Eberle-Sinatra

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The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt Vol 6

By: Robert Morrison,Michael Eberle-Sinatra

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1000749118

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9781000749113

The Land and Literature of England

A Historical Account

By: Robert Martin Adams

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The Land and Literature of England

A Historical Account

By: Robert Martin Adams

Professor Adams seems to have read the whole library and yet. . .retained his pith, vigor, suppleness, and good cheer. In addition, he knows how to tell a story. . . .One of the pleasure. . .lies in [the book's] rich texture of cross-references between history and literature. . . .Exhilarating." --Daniel Albright, New York Review of Books

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393303438

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9780393303438

Allen's Dictionary of English Phrases

By: Robert Allen

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Allen's Dictionary of English Phrases

By: Robert Allen

Allen’s Dictionary of English Phrases is the most comprehensive survey of this area of the English language ever undertaken. Taking over 6000 phrases, it explains their meaning, explores their development and gives citations that range from the Venerable Bede to Will Self. Crisply and wittily written, the book is packed with memorable and surprising detail, whether showing that 'salad days' comes from Antony and Cleopatra, that 'flavour of the month' originates in 1940s American ice cream marketing, or even that we’ve been 'calling a spade a spade' since the sixteenth century. Allen’s Dictionary of English Phrases is part of the Penguin Reference Library and draws on over 70 years of experience in bringing reliable, useful and clear information to millions of readers around the world – making knowledge everybody’s property.

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Penguin UK

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0141917687

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9780141917689

Book's by Robert Paltock

The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins

The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins

Before Tom Brown

Before Tom Brown

Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names

Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names

Panic Attacks

Panic Attacks

The Moon-Maker

The Moon-Maker

Skeleton in the Sope House

Skeleton in the Sope House

The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt Vol 4

The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt Vol 4

A Plunge into Space

A Plunge into Space

The English Novel, 1700-1740

The English Novel, 1700-1740

The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley

The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley

The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt

The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt

The Poetical Works of Robert Southey

The Poetical Works of Robert Southey

The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt Vol 6

The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt Vol 6

The Land and Literature of England

The Land and Literature of England

Allen's Dictionary of English Phrases

Allen's Dictionary of English Phrases

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