Emily: 3337 books

Emily Constance Baird (1884-1903) wrote this popular book that continues to be widely read today despite its age.

Shoes, gloves, umbrellas, cigars that are not just objects—the topic of fetishism seems both bizarre and inevitable. In this venturesome and provocative book, Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French...

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?’ Set on the bleak moors of Yorkshire, Lockwood is forced to seek shelter at Wuthering Heights, the home of his new landlord, Heathcliff. The intense...

The Russian writer Lydia Ginzburg (1902–90) is best known for her Notes from the Leningrad Blockade and for influential critical studies, such as On Psychological Prose, investigating the problem of literary character in French and Russian novels and memoirs. Yet she viewed her most vital work to...

Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at each calendar month through the eyes and minds of our most...

Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights tells the story of the ill-fated love of Catherine Earnshaw for the dark and brooding Heathcliff, and is set on the bleak Yorkshire moors where Heathcliff acts out his cruel revenge against Edgar and Isabella Linton. This book is considered by many to be the most passionate and original novel in English literature.

Emily Post was born in Baltimore, Maryland on October 27, 1872 and died September 25, 1960.  In between, she, apparently had excellent manners.  A recent Internet search for her name turned up 153,000,000 hits.  She is, of course, most famous for her book ofter thought to have been...

Peter Hammarstedt and Benjamin Potts of Sea Shepherd fame and co-stars of televisions Whale Wars . Enei Begaye a Navajo/Dine activist bringing green jobs to the reservation. Rob Stewart award-winning filmmaker of Sharkwater . Jamie Henn co-founder of 350.org. Wen Bo founder of Chinas Greenpeace. Tanya...

'Dark and hilarious ... these stories are as full of wit as they are of warnings' Cosmopolitan 'Funny, sad, fiercely feminist and completely brilliant' Tatler Tales from the happily never after At a wedding, one woman’s revenge comes in the shape of her heavily pregnant belly....

Emily is an ordinary mom and wife living in the colonial city of Williamsburg, Virginia. When she got a job working in a 300 year old southern plantation turned time share, she started witnessing some of the most bizarre and well documented paranormal activity in recent times. In this book about her...

Reading 'Piers Plowman' is an indispensable scholarly guide to a magnificent - and notoriously difficult - medieval poem. With 'Piers Plowman', the fourteenth-century poet William Langland proved that English verse could be at once spiritually electrifying and intellectually rigorous, capable of imagining...

Much of American popular culture depicts the 1930s South either as home to a population that was intellectually, morally, and physically stunted, or as a romantic, sentimentalized haven untouched by the nation’s financial troubles. Though these images stand as polar opposites, each casts the South...

Dieses eBook: "Große Klassiker der englischen Literatur: 40+ Titel in einem Band" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt: Das Herz der Finsternis (Joseph Conrad) Stolz und Vorurteil (Jane Austen) Sturmhöhe...

An examination of remedies for violent rage rediscovered in ancient Greek myths Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer’s Iliad, Euripides’ Hecuba, and Sophocles’ Ajax show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and...