Field Marshal Alexander Leslie was the highest ranking commander from the British Isles to serve in the Thirty Years' War. Though Leslie's life provides the thread that runs through this work, the authors use his story to explore the impacts of the Thirty Years' War, the British Civil Wars and the age of Military Revolution.

Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (Warfare, Society and Culture)

Grosjean, Alexia

Murdoch, Steve

History

Pickering & Chatto Ltd

The Informer and Other Stories (The Complete Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad)

Conrad/Joseph

HYNES, Samuel

Trollope the Traveller: Selections from Anthony Trollope's Travel Writings

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was an industrious writer and an insatiably curious traveller.Early in 1858 he was sent by the GPO to negotiate a postal treaty in Egypt. From there he visited Palestine and returned home via Malta, Gibraltar and Spain; in the same year he travelled to the West Indies on a postal mission and in 1859 completed his first travel book, The West Indies and the Spanish Main. He accumulated material for a wide-ranging study of North America in 1861, travelling extensively in New England, the Midwest and Canada. In 1871 Trollope and his wife sailed to Australia to visit their son, returning to England in the winter of 1872. Australia and New Zealand was completed on the voyage home. Five years later he travelled throughout South Africa and produced another travel book.

Literature & Fiction

TROLLOPE, ANTHONY

British & Irish

Matilda, Dramas, Reviews & Essays, Prefaces & Notes: Dramas, Reviews & Essays, Prefaces & Notes (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Selections, 2)

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Clemit, Pamela

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Valperga (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Selections, 3)

The Last Man is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and was virtually unknown until a scholarly revival beginning in the 1960s. It is notable in part for its semi-biographical portraits of Romantic figures in Shelley's circle, particularly Shelley's late husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Mary Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 - 1 February 1851) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Until the 1970s, Mary Shelley was known mainly for her efforts to publish Percy Shelley's works and for her novel Frankenstein, which remains widely read and has inspired many theatrical and film adaptations. Recent scholarship has yielded a more comprehensive view of Mary Shelley's achievements. Scholars have shown increasing interest in her literary output, particularly in her novels, which include the historical novels Valperga (1823) and Perkin Warbeck (1830), the apocalyptic novel The Last Man (1826), and her final two novels, Lodore (1835) and Falkner (1837). Studies of her lesser-known works such as the travel book Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844) and the biographical articles for Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia (1829-46) support the growing view that Mary Shelley remained a political radical throughout her life. Mary Shelley's works often argue that cooperation and sympathy, particularly as practised by women in the family, were the ways to reform civil society. This view was a direct challenge to the individualistic Romantic ethos promoted by Percy Shelley and the Enlightenment political theories articulated by her father, William Godwin. (Wikipedia)

The Last Man (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Selections, 4)

Blumberg, Jane

Crook, Nora

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Lodore (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Selections, 6)

Stafford, Fiona

Literary

The Correspondence of H.G. Wells

Biographies & Memoirs

Smith, David C.

Wells., H.G

Professionals & Academics

This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2000 letters, both business and personal. Wells's private correspondence includes letters to Winston Churchill.

This twelve-volume edition of the major works of Maria Edgeworth makes available one of the most important but most neglected of women writers in English. Born in England in 1768 of an English mother and an Anglo-Irish father, Edgeworth lived from the age of 14 on her father's estate in the Irish Midlands. She was introduced by her father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, inventor, educationalist and Enlightenment polymath, to a remarkable range of books and current ideas. Her sparkling comedies of high-life English manners influenced Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott. Her four remarkable Irish tales, beginning with Castle Rackrent (1800), initiate the national or regional novel, which feeds the nineteenth-century historical novel and the modern post-colonial novel. The fiction she wrote herself for and about children, which stayed in print for more than a century, remains among the very best of its kind. The educational treatises, handbooks and teaching materials she wrote in collaboration with R L Edgeworth are part of her period's breakthrough in understanding of the world of childhood. This first collected edition since the nineteenth century makes available to scholars, students and general readers all the major fiction for adults, much of the best of juvenile fiction, and a generous selection of the educational and occasional writings of Maria Edgeworth. This edition restores to prominence Jane Austen's leading contemporary rival - a comic, original and often brilliant analyst of her world whose work John Ruskin declared, constituted 'the most re-readable books in existence'.

The Works of Maria Edgeworth (12 Volume Set)

EDGEWORTH, Maria

Classics

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