Familiar studies men books

 Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson  Title:          Familiar Studies of Men and Books; Virginibus Puerisque  ISBN: n/a   Publisher: Collins  This Edition: Collins Edition 1956  Place Of Publication: Great Britain Binding: hardcover  Dustjacket: n/a  Number of pages: 383 Weight: 257g  Condition: Back end page has come away from binding (see pictures below).  No pages missing 

2012 paperback with 235 pages in good condition. R50 postage in SA. Seedlings is a collection of his essays from journals and magazines on South African topics not covered in his books and includes a new study of children's verse of the first half of the twentieth century. Chapters include entertaining, broad-ranging discussions of familiar and obscure books and writers both past and present, placing them in national and international context. His historical studies provide new insights into the cultural history of English-speaking white South Africans. Two innovative chapters examine published collections of writing by young people from the apartheid era through to the present, ending with the testimonies of young refugees. He concludes with two chapters on researching South African children's literature.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days "African Literature in the Twentieth Century " was first published in 1976. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This paperback makes available the major part of Professor Dathorne's "The Black Mind."It concentrates on the writings of Africans in various African and European languages and provides insight, both broad and deep, into the Black intellect. Professor Dathorne examines the literature of Africans as spoken or written in their local languages and in French, Portuguese, and English. This extensive survey and interpretation gives the reader a remarkable pathway to an understanding of the Black imagination and its relevance to thought and creativity throughout the world. The author himself lived in Africa for ten years, and his view is not that of an outsider, since it is as a Black man that he speaks about Black people. Throughout the book, a major theme is the demonstration that, despite slavery and colonialism, Africans remained very close to their own cultures. Professor Dathorne shows that African writers may be, like some Afro-American writers, "marginal men," but that they are Black men and it is as Black men that they feel the nostalgia of their past and the corrosive influences of their present. O. R. Dathorne is a member of the Department of Black Studies and of the Department of English at Ohio State University. He has taught at universities in Nigeria and Sierra Leone and served as a UNESCO adviser in Sierra Leone. He also has taught at Ohio State University, Howard University, and the University of Wisconsin and lectured at Yale, Federal City College, Michigan State, and other universities in and out of the United States. He is the author of two novels and editor of a number of anthologies of Black literature, and has written widely in journals on his subject. Features Summary Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible to scholars, students, researchers, and general readers... Author D.A. Thorne Publisher University of Minnesota Press Release date 19760501 Pages 406 ISBN 0-8166-0769-9 ISBN 13 978-0-8166-0769-3

Published by David and Charles, 1992 Hardcover with pictorial boards in excellent condition. There is a previous owner name on the flyleaf.  In this fourth title in her "Masterclass Embroidery" Series, acclaimed textile artist Helen M. Stevens reveals the secrets of achieving lifelike effects using pure silk thread."Embroidered Animals" features over 20 inspirational studies from nature. In five chapters, Helen creates a variety of animal portraits: from ferocious predators to familiar countryside dwellers.Each of the five chapters builds toward an in-depth project, which includes templates, colour keys and step-by-step stitching instructions. Easy-to-follow colour photographs illustrate the working stages of each masterclass project, ensuring that perfect results can be achieved when recreating these delightful animal studies. Helen M. Stevens has become an internationally acclaimed embroiderer since opening her studio, True Embroideries, in 1981. She lectures and has her unique work in collections throughout the world. Helen has published nine books with David & Charles and lives near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.   

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days `A riveting account of the pre-First World War years... The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times `A magnificent account of a less than magnificent epoch.' Jonathan Meades, Literary Review The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She commanded a vast empire. She bestrode international commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties their grandparents only dreamt of, and enjoying an expanding range of comforts and pastimes. The mood of pride and self-confidence is familiar from Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches, newsreels of George V's coronation and the London's great Edwardian palaces. Yet things were very different below the surface. In The Age of Decadence Simon Heffer exposes the contradictions of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain. He explains how, despite the nation's massive power, a mismanaged war against the Boers in South Africa created profound doubts about her imperial destiny. He shows how attempts to secure vital social reforms prompted the twentieth century's gravest constitutional crisis and coincided with the worst industrial unrest in British history. He describes how politicians who conceded the vote to millions more men disregarded women so utterly that female suffragists' public protest bordered on terrorism. He depicts a ruling class that fell prey to degeneracy and scandal. He analyses a national psyche that embraced the motor-car, the sensationalist press and the science fiction of H. G. Wells, but also the Arts and Crafts of William Morris and the nostalgia of A. E. Housman. And he concludes with the crisis that in the summer of 1914 threatened the existence of the United Kingdom - a looming civil war in Ireland. He lights up the era through vivid pen-portraits of the great men and women of the day - including Gladstone, Parnell, Asquith and Churchill, but also Mrs Pankhurst, Beatrice Webb, Baden-Powell, Wilde and Shaw - creating a richly detailed panorama of a great power that, through both accident and arrogance, was forced to face potentially fatal challenges. `A devastating critique of prewar Britain... disturbingly relevant to the world in which we live.' Gerard DeGroot, The Times `You won't put it down... A really riveting read.' Rana Mitter, BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Features Summary `A riveting account of the pre-First World War years... The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times `A magnificent account of a less than magnificent epoch... Author Simon Heffer Publisher Windmill Books Release date 20181030 Pages 912 ISBN 0-09-959224-X ISBN 13 978-0-09-959224-2