Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England write by Roy A. Adkins. This book was released on 2014. Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A cultural portrait of everyday life in Regency England and the world of Jane Austen draws on contemporary sources to depict how everyday people shared experiences ranging from marriage and sexuality to health care and religion
Jane Austen's England
Jane Austen's England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jane Austen's England write by Roy Adkins. This book was released on 2013-08-15. Jane Austen's England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An authoritative account of everyday life in Regency England, the backdrop of Austen’s beloved novels, from the authors of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018) Jane Austen, arguably the greatest novelist of the English language, wrote brilliantly about the gentry and aristocracy of two centuries ago in her accounts of young women looking for love. Jane Austen’s England explores the customs and culture of the real England of her everyday existence depicted in her classic novels as well as those by Byron, Keats, and Shelley. Drawing upon a rich array of contemporary sources, including many previously unpublished manuscripts, diaries, and personal letters, Roy and Lesley Adkins vividly portray the daily lives of ordinary people, discussing topics as diverse as birth, marriage, religion, sexual practices, hygiene, highwaymen, and superstitions. From chores like fetching water to healing with medicinal leeches, from selling wives in the marketplace to buying smuggled gin, from the hardships faced by young boys and girls in the mines to the familiar sight of corpses swinging on gibbets, Jane Austen’s England offers an authoritative and gripping account that is sometimes humorous, often shocking, but always entertaining.
Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust
Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust write by Ann Gaylin. This book was released on 2002. Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Table of contents
Empires of the Plain
Empires of the Plain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empires of the Plain write by Lesley Adkins. This book was released on 2004-12-13. Empires of the Plain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Well-told story of a life dedicated to scholarship, with great adventures and derring-do an unexpected bonus." - Kirkus Reviews From 1827 Henry Rawlinson, fearless soldier, sportsman and imperial adventurer of the first rank, spent twenty-five years in India, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan in the service of the East India Company. During this time he survived the dangers of disease and warfare, including the disastrous First Anglo-Afghan War. A gifted linguist, fascinated by history and exploration, he became obsessed with cuneiform, the world's earliest writing. An immense inscription high on a sheer rock face at Bisitun in the mountains of western Iran, carved on the orders of King Darius the Great of Persia over 2,000 years ago, was the key to understanding the many cuneiform scripts and languages. Only Rawlinson had the physical and intellectual skills, courage, self-motivation and opportunity to make the perilous ascent and copy the monument. Here, Lesley Adkins relates the story of Rawlinson's life and how he triumphed in deciphering the lost languages of Persia and Babylonia, overcoming his brilliant but bitter rival, Edward Hincks. While based in Baghdad, Rawlinson became involved in the very first excavations of the ancient mounds of Mesopotamia, from Nineveh to Babylon, an area that had been fought over by so many powerful empires. His decipherment of the inscriptions resurrected unsuspected civilizations, revealing intriguing details of everyday life and forgotten historical events. By proving to the astonished Victorian public that people and places in the Old Testament really existed (and, furthermore, that documents and chronicles had survived from well before the writing of the Bible), Rawlinson became a celebrity and assured his own place in history.
Nelson's Trafalgar
Nelson's Trafalgar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nelson's Trafalgar write by Roy Adkins. This book was released on 2006-10-31. Nelson's Trafalgar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An explosive chronicle of history's greatest sea battle, from the co-author of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018) In the tradition of Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, Nelson's Trafalgar presents the definitive blow-by-blow account of the world's most famous naval battle, when the British Royal Navy under Lord Horatio Nelson dealt a decisive blow to the forces of Napoleon. The Battle of Trafalgar comes boldly to life in this definitive work that re-creates those five momentous, earsplitting hours with unrivaled detail and intensity.
