Jane Brown: 37 books

Book cover of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, 1716-1783

Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, 1716-1783

The Omnipotent Magician

by Jane Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011

Lancelot Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century England, designing country estates and mansions, moving hills and making flowing lakes and serpentine rivers, a magical world of green. This English landscape style spread across Europe and the world. At home, it proved so pleasing that Brown's...
Book cover of Angel Dorothy

Angel Dorothy

How an American Progressive Came to Devon

by Jane Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017

Angel Dorothy is the inspiring biography of a formidable woman: wealthy American heiress Dorothy Elmhirst, who poured her considerable resources into founding Dartington Hall in 1925. What started as a progressive school rapidly transformed into a magnet for artists, architects, writers, philosophers...
Book cover of Sherlock Holmes and The Affair of The Contentious Contralto
by Fiona-Jane Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014

It is 1910, a widowed Dr Watson moves back to Baker Street to discover that age has done nothing to dim his old friend's thirst for mystery and deduction. One morning after Watson returns from a client to find Holmes in a bright mood - the reason? Holmes and Watson have been invited to the farewell...
Book cover of Shoreline of Infinity 11½ - Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition
by Jane Yolen, Eric Brown, Holly Schofield
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018

A special edition of Shoreline of Infinity published in partnership with the Edinburgh International Science Festival in 2018 on the theme of sustainability. Featuring stories abd poems gathered together for the first time. Can SciFi Save Us? – Jane Yolen A Cure for Homesickness...
Book cover of 50 Eternal Masterpieces of Gothic Stories

50 Eternal Masterpieces of Gothic Stories

Dracula, Frankenstein, The Black Cat, The Picture Of Dorian Gray...

by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Robert Maturin, Mary Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2017

The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole The History of Caliph Vathek - William Beckford The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe Caleb Williams - William Godwin Wieland: or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Melmoth the Wanderer (Lock...
Book cover of 50 Classic Gothic Works Vol. 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

50 Classic Gothic Works Vol. 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

Dracula, Frankenstein, The Black Cat, The Picture Of Dorian Gray...

by Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019

The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole The History of Caliph Vathek - William Beckford The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe Caleb Williams - William Godwin Wieland: or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Melmoth the Wanderer (Lock...
Book cover of The Persistence of Allegory

The Persistence of Allegory

Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner

by Jane K. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013

In an impressively comparative work, Jane K. Brown explores the tension in European drama between allegory and neoclassicism from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. Imitation of nature is generally thought to triumph over religious allegory in the Elizabethan and French classical theater,...
Book cover of Goethe's Allegories of Identity
by Jane K. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014

A century before psychoanalytic discourse codified a scientific language to describe the landscape of the mind, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe explored the paradoxes of an interior self separate from a conscious self. Though long acknowledged by the developers of depth psychology and by its historians,...
Book cover of Of Gratitude & Happiness - The Thanksgiving Storybook

Of Gratitude & Happiness - The Thanksgiving Storybook

60+ Holiday Tales & Poems: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, The Genesis of the Doughnut Club, The Purple Dress, Thankful, The Kingdom Of Greedy, The Night before Thanksgiving, The Master of the Harvest…

by Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, O. Henry
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018

Enjoy this meticulously edited collection, dedicated to the holiday of gratefulness and forgiveness: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen (O....
Book cover of In Your Face
by Tehani Wessely, Thoraiya Dyer, Tansy Rayner Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016

In Your Face = Trigger Warnings This book contains twenty-two original and reprinted speculative fiction stories dealing with provocative themes. These stories are confronting, but with a firm purpose. They will make you uncomfortable, because they are a bit too hard-hitting or close to the bone....
Book cover of Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories
by Michael Earp, Michael Earp, Benjamin Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019

Twelve of Australia’s best writers from the LGBTQ+ community are brought together in this ground-breaking collection of YA short stories. What does it mean to be queer? What does it mean to be human? In this powerful #LoveOzYA collection, twelve of Australia’s finest writers from the LGBTQ+...
Book cover of Favorite Chapter Books Sampler
by Jane O'Connor, Dan Gutman, Dave Keane
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012

Sample five chapter books from four awesome authors, and you'll surely want to read more! Meet the weirdest zookeeper in history in My Weirder School #1: Miss Child Has Gone Wild! by Dan Gutman; discover how Flat Stanley deals with being flattened (again) in Stanley, Flat Again! by Jeff Brown; solve...
Book cover of The Parent’s Guide to College for Students on the Autism Spectrum
by Jane Thierfeld Brown EdD, Lorraine E. Wolf PhD, Lisa King MEd
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011

The Parent’s Guide to College for Students on the Autism Spectrum is a result of 100 plus years of combined experience as disability services professionals for authors, parents, teachers, and clinicians Jane Thierfeld Brown, EdD, Lorraine E. Wolf, PhD, Lisa King, MEd, and G. Ruth Kukiela Bork, MEd....
Book cover of More Alternative Truths
by Bob Brown, Gwyndyn T. Alexander, Lou J. Berger
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017

More Alternative Truths is an exploration of the potential consequences of today’s politics in our daily lives. More than our individual lives, but our American identity. This exploration defines this anthology.  So many of the stories ask what has America become?  What will it be in the...
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