Shylock: Four Hundred Years in the Life of a Legend

John Gross

Literature & Fiction

Vintage

A Double Thread

Biographies & Memoirs

In this survey, John Gross gives portraits of major literary figures from Frances Jeffrey, the first editor of the "Edinburgh Review", through Thomas Carlyle, Matthew Arnold and many others to the advent of F.R.Leavis and Raymond Williams. He looks at "the higher journalism", the expansion of the reading public, the byways of British liberalism, the rise of English literature as an academic subject and the impact of T.S. Eliot and modernism. In a new afterword he provides updates on the later careers of Cyril Connolly, Geoffrey Grigson and Leavis and discusses the new style of literary critics who have evolved from the universities. Finally he considers the dominant role of the media and entertainment.

Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters

Penguin Putnam~trade

Oxford Book of English Prose

Short Stories & Anthologies

Oxford Univ. Press

Never has one character of the stage provoked such controversy or achieved such infamy as Shakespeare's enigmatic Shylock. For four centuries the money lender of "The Merchant of Venice" has been reinvented as both villain and victim, as an object of tragedy and comedy, and has been used as an economic symbol and often as a lightning rod for anti-Semitism. But what was Shakespeare's attitude toward the character described on the play's title page in 1600 as "a man of extreme crueltie", and what should be our own? With brilliant historical perspective and insight, theater critic John Gross explores the complex and influential history that has given Shylock a life beyond the play and established him as a figure of world mythology. Illuminating Shylock's evolution on the stage, his importance to writers and psychologists, and his enduring influence on society and culture, John Gross sheds as much light on our own shifting attitudes and beliefs as on the rich and disquieting figure Shakespeare created.

Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy

Humor & Entertainment

Simon&Schuster

Food Preserving at Home will be welcomed by the growing number of people who conserve fruit windfalls and other food surpluses. It gives practical, easy-to-understand advice on - Canning (bottling) fruit and vegetables, meat and seafood. - Pickling cucumbers, peppers, mixed vegetables, fruits, olives, grape leaves. - Making jam and marmalade, fruit jellies, chutney and preserves. - Freezing raw and cooked foods, and how to thaw and use them. - Drying foods outdoors and in a dehydrator, including how to make fruit leathers. - Smoking fish and meat in homemade smokers.

Food Preserving at Home

Choice Books

If you have a heart for missions, but feel totally unqualified and unequipped, just follow the author and his friends to Africa and learn that God can use weak and broken vessels for his glory.

The River Flows Down: A Call to Missions for Ordinary Christians

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Ambassador Press

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