Edmund: 703 books

3 works of Edmund Crosby Quiggin Instructor of Celtic languages at Cambridge University (1875-1920) This ebook presents a collection of 3 works of Edmund Crosby Quiggin. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - A Dialect of Donegal - Druidism - Saint Patrick

Edition first published in 1887. According to Wikipedia: "Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the...

In this revelatory biography of Jean Genet, we have the first full-scale life of one of the great -- and controversial -- figures of twentieth-century literature. Edmund White shows us the writer in all his permutations: poet, dandy, homosexual, thief; a 'thug of genius', as Simone de Beauvoir called...

This famed Payne edition of Select Works of Edmund Burke is universally revered by students of English history and political thought. Volume 1, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents and The Two Speeches on America, contains Burke’s brilliant defense of the American colonists’...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley - E. C. Bentley (10 July 1875 – 30 March 1956) was a popular English novelist and humorist of the early twentieth century, and the inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics. One of the best known is this (1905): His detective...

More than three hundred years ago there lived in England a poet named Edmund Spenser. He was brave and true and gentle, and he loved all that was beautiful and good. Edmund Spenser wrote many poems, and the most beautiful of all is the one called ‘The Faerie Queen.’ He loved so dearly all things...

Poetical Works Edmund Waller, english poet and politician (1606-1687) This ebook presents «Poetical Works», from Edmund Waller. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- THE LIFE OF EDMUND WALLER...

Nenhuma das 264 miniaturas japonesas entalhadas em madeira e marfim era maior que uma caixa de fósforos. Edmund de Waal ficou fascinado ao encontrar essa coleção em Tóquio, no apartamento de seu tio-avô, Ignace. Mais tarde, quando Edmund herdou os netsuquês, eles revelaram uma história muito...

More than three hundred years ago there lived in England a poet named Edmund Spenser. He was brave and true and gentle, and he loved all that was beautiful and good. Edmund Spenser wrote many poems, and the most beautiful of all is the one called ‘The Faerie Queen.’ He loved so dearly all things...

From the SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal sample introduction to the fantastic work of Edmund Cooper. A respected critic and writer, whose work spanned four decades, Cooper began publishing SF in the 1950s and often portrayed...

A new memoir from acclaimed author Edmund White about his life as a reader. Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which...

More than four hundred years ago there lived in England a poet named Edmund Spenser (1552 – 1599). He was brave and true and gentle, and he loved all that was beautiful and good. Edmund Spenser wrote many poems, and the most beautiful of all is the one called ‘The Faerie Queen’ from which the 8...

The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who "burned like a comet" in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory carvings,...

Étude sur les notions de beau et de sublime.Edmund Burke nous emmène dans un méthodique examen, d'une ambition originale, qui s'attache à osciller entre beau et sublime. Sur nos appréciations et notre goût, l'auteur cherche à révéler, par une forme de psychophysiologie avant l'heure, notre rapport...