George eliot
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This is a sensitive and revealing portrait of a modern and highly unorthodox life, giving a fuller treatment than any other biography on george eliot, by an author who has been studying eliot for 15 yearsoxfam bookshop cheltenham this biography of eliot sets her vividly in the political, social and religious context of the timesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit was whilst she was working on this journal that she found her writer's voice - ironic, sceptical and broadly sympathizingshe arrived in london in , determined to make her way as a journalist on the "westminster review", a paper until then exclusively dominated by menthe author examines her relationship with lewes (the subject of a previous biography), his encouragement, battling both against her pride and her fear of failure, her unrequited love for chapman, her employer on the review and her love for spencer, the recipient of her extraordinary love letters, begging attention, yet at the same time strong, self-aware and witty at her own expense
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Silas marner by george eliot - heinemann useful for gcse english literature
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Only ÂŁ10 george eliot pe kitposted by steve in clothes, footwear & accessories, other in nuneaton
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2 sets of george eliot commemorationoxfam bookshop newport mint stamps from and issues2 strips of the christmas issue, 3d valuesee oxfam website for delivery information read morepart sheet of queen mother issue (12 stamps)2 strips of the 5 value railway issue
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Oxfam bookshop ashbourne an anthology taken from the writings of george eliot, both from her own perspective and quoted from the characters in her novels  small mark on the front coversee oxfam website for delivery information read more  owner's name and date handwritten in ink facing front cover   attractively bound, intended as a gift book  gilded at head  rubbing to the corners of the cover and head and tail of spinecondition: good  green cloth, decoratively blocked spotting to the deckle page edges
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Oxfam shop thornbury haight was completely absorbed in the life and work of george eliot and had the distinction, before he died, of being asked to speak at the dedication of her memorial in westminster abbeythis biography is rich in the knowledge and affection born of thirty years' studysee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Life's handicap- rudyard kipling good condition silas marner - george eliot the front cover is detached but present little minister - j m barrie (pre ) good condition adam bede - george eliot () the front cover is detached but present kim - rudyard kipling good condition the days work- rudyard kipling good condition the naulahka - rudyard kipling front cover is detached but present otherwise good condition considering agereasonable condition considering the agethe days work - rudyard kipling front cover is detached but present otherwise good condition considering age what katy did - susan coolidge good condition lorna doone - r d blackmore good condition kenilworth - sir walter scott () good condition for age count robert of paris - sir walter scott good condition captain courageous- rudyard kipling () good condition just so stories - rudyard kipling () good condition mary barton - mrs gaskell () good condition actions and reactions - rudyard kipling () good condition quentin durwood - sir walter scott () good condition
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Contributors include george herbert, christina rossetti, robert browning, george eliot, walt whitman and many otherssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreno highlighting or other notes; text-block clean/intactoxfam bookshop newport pocket-sized anthology of thoughts in poetry and short fiction, one for each day of the yeargood condition for agenot dated, but pen inscription on ffep reads: "to laura / with love from / angela k / xmas "some discolouration on cover, hence low price for this scarce item
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eliot drew heavily on the writing of edward grim, a clerk who was an eyewitness to the eventsome material that the producer asked eliot to remove or replace during the writing was transformed into the poem "burnt norton"eliot harcourt brace, ny - first american edition first printing - 86p, 18cmx15cm - condition: very good, name on ffep, in first issue price unclipped dust jacket in good condition with minor wearmurder in the cathedral is a verse drama by t"murder in the cathedral" by tare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikieliot, first performed in , that portrays the assassination of archbishop thomas becket in canterbury cathedral during the reign of henry ii inplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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eliot angel - angel records  tracklist teliot reads his four quartets - t it is also graded aurally where noted in the condition descriptionoxfam bookshop lymington tsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewe recommend that the record is cleaned professionally to maximise the sound qualitymedia - ex sleeve - vg+ records are graded visually to rare record price guide grades for media (record) and sleeve (cover)eliot: four quartets () a1 burnt norton a2 east coker b1 the dry salvages b2 little gidding the record looks in excellent condition, with very little evidence of usethe sleeve is in very good condition, slightly worn and age discoloured
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Tracing the narrative of the jewess from its beginnings in romantic and evangelical literature, and reading canonical writers including walter scott, george eliot and anthony trollope alongside more minor figures such as charlotte elizabeth tonna, grace aguilar and amy levy, valman demonstrates the remarkable persistence of this narrative and its myriad transformations across the centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read morereading a range of texts from popular romance to the realist novel, she investigates how the complex figure of the jewess brought the instabilities of nineteenth-century religious, racial and national identity into uniquely sharp focusoxfam bookshop knutsford stories about jewesses proliferated in nineteenth-century britain as debates about the place of the jews in the nation ragedwhile previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in this period, nadia valman argues that the figure of the jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire
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Enjoy a christmas day as described by samuel pepys, anthony trollope, george eliot, or nancy mitfordsee oxfam website for delivery information read morelike charles dickens's ghosts of christmas past and present, they are representative of times old and new-from john donne's elizabethan hymn over the baby jesus to benjamin zephaniah's "talking turkeys," from thomas tusser counting the cost of a tudor feast to pventure out into the snow in the company of jane austen, henry james, and dickens's mrwodehouse's wry story about christmas on a dietoxfam bookshop cheltenham this seasonal compendium collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the english languageentertain the children with the seasonal tales of dylan thomas, kenneth grahame, and oscar wilde
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Oxfam shop walthamstow the mill on the floss by george eliot (folio society ) see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop shirley middlemarch author: george eliot, (illustrated by robin jacques)otherwise, all pages and text are clean and tight with no evident markings or annotations, 28 full-page illustrations, including frontispiece drawn by robin jacquespublisher: folio society, london binding: hardcover condition: good with good slipcasepictorial endpapers see oxfam website for delivery information read more ex-libris label with the name of the owner on half-title page which appears to have had an excess of adhesive causing rippling of several onward pagesisbn10:  isbn 13: folio societycondition is good with good slipcase, red board covers slightly faded and rubbed on the spine
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Oxfam shop ulverston published by w see oxfam website for delivery information read morenicholson & sons, ltdvery good condition, slight discoloration to the boards, binding intact
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The first section on 'predecessors' considers the impact of ford's reading of trollope, george eliot, and turgenevsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe spent more time in america from the later s, spending time with southern agrarians, and poets such as william carlos williams, charles olson, and robert lowellbut he was a prolific writer in many different modes, which include criticism of others' writing, and reminiscences of the many writers he had knownbut it also explores contacts with literary textsit includes two pieces published here for the first time: one by ford himself, on turgenev; the other a memoir about ford by his contemporary, marie belloc lowndes (the sister of hilaire belloc)in edwardian london he founded the english review, publishing these writers alongside his new discoveries, ezra pound, dford has been described as 'a writer's writer'this volume reveals how true that has been, and in how many ways, as it sheds new light on his relationships with other writers, both familiar and surprisingthis series of international ford madox ford studies was founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in himin the south-east of england at the fin-de-siècle, he collaborated for a decade with joseph conrad, and befriended henry james, and hbyatt, whose literary contacts with ford have been as his admiring readers and eloquent criticsthe present book is part of a large-scale reassessment of his roles in literary historythe final section discusses 'successors': writers such as graham greene, burgess, and aeach volume is based upon a particular theme or issue; and relates aspects of ford's work, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his timehe was always a tireless promoter of younger writers, reading manuscripts and recommending them to publishersafter the war he moved to france, founding the transatlantic review in paris, taking on hemingway as a sub-editor, discovering another generation of modernists such as jean rhys and basil bunting, and publishing them alongside joyce and gertrude steinford is best-known for his fiction, especially the good soldier, long considered a modernist masterpiece; and parade's end, which anthony burgess described as 'the finest novel about the first world war'; and samuel hynes has called 'the greatest war novel ever written by an englishman'one of the most striking features of his career is his close involvement with so many of the major international literary groupings of his timethis book takes ford's 'literary contacts' to include such creative friendships, editorial involvements, and influential biographical encounters; and they form the most substantial, central section on 'contemporaries and confrères', covering figures like proust, carlos williams, rebecca west, herbert read, and hemingwaylawrence, and wyndham lewisoxfam shop magdelen street the controversial british writer ford madox ford () is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature
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george eliot, scenes of clerical life see oxfam website for delivery information read morejane austen, pride and prejudice 2five classic novels 1anthony trollope, the eustace diamonds 3wilkie collins, the woman in white 4virginia woolf, mrs dalloway 5
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george eliot, the mill on the floss 4jane austen, pride and prejudice 5joseph conrad, heart of darkness and other tales see oxfam website for delivery information read morefive firm favourites from the classic canon 1d h lawrence, sons and lovers 2wilkie collins, the moonstone 3
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By eliot schrefereliot schrefer graduated from harvard college in and lives in new york city
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eliot see oxfam website for delivery information read moreeliot is generally recognized as one of the very few first-rate critical studies of arguably our finest poetlight foxing to cover and wear to edges and cornersbased on a series of lectures delivered at oxford university, this study begins where drmatthiessen left off in his achievement of tlight pencil markings to text on a few pagesprevious owners name to title pageoxfam shop kendal paperback in good condition
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham volume two covers the early years of his editorship of the criterion (the periodical that eliot launched with lady rothermere's backing in ), publication of the hollow men and the course of eliot's thinking about poetry and poetics after the waste landsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The enlightenment edited by simon eliot and keith whitlock open university textbookcan post email me for detailshas some creasing on cover but otherwise a good copy
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The king george vi threepence features obverse the bare head of george vi facing leftthe king george vi era australian threepence obverse features the bare head of george vi, facing leftaustralian king george vi silver threepence coin the coin is in excellent condition for its age the king george vi era australian threepence obverse features the bare head of george vi, facing leftthe reverse shows a sheaf of wheat with three stems tied in a ribbonthe date is divided either side of the sheaf with australia above and three pence belowthe date is divided to either side of the sheaf, with 'australia' above, and 'three pence' below
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King george discovery (psychedelic rock, prog rock) king george discovery ?– king george discovery (haparanda al 02) made in germany original first pressing lp | vinyl: nm (mint-) | cover: nm (mint-) george clemons has an illustrious past to say the leastonce here, they made a couple of recordings together, and as it happened, king george remained in swedena scandinavian promoter found out about king george and asked him to come over to europe for a three month tour with the sweden based band harlem kiddiesupon leaving covay's band, george clemons added 'king' to his name and released his first solo single ”drive on james” in , backed by members of ray charles' band and legendary soul drummer bernard purdie”king george discovery” is on one hand funkier than what the preceding single suggested it would be, on the other softer and a tad more psychedelic (sometimes in the direction of 'b' grade soul outfit the chambers brothers)in he teamed up with guitarist anders nordh and bassist paul sundlin, both formerly of trolls that made a couple of singles in the 60's and later to form lifecompleting the line-up was lennart 'lilly' bergman, and together they made one 7”, the motown sounding ”i'm the best” backed with pop soul track ”hold me closer” for the swedish columbia label inare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiborn in and raised in virginia, he moved to new york in the 60's where he performed at the legendary apollo theater with soul singer don covayhe played gigs in harlem, made friends with jimi hendrix and performed with jimmy castor (of the jimmy castor bunch)clemons sang back-up on his classic ”have mercy”, covered by the rolling stones the following yearan album followed in , curiously enough the second outing on the haparanda label that later turned to swedish dance bands and budget albums with uncredited cover versions of current hitsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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george edjali's father is indian, his mother scottisharthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; george a solicitor in birminghamoxfam bookshop cheltenham arthur and george grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century britain: arthur in shabby-genteel edinburgh, george in the vicarage of a small staffordshire villagearthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, george remains in hardworking obscuritythey appeal to the police, to no less than the chief constable, but to their dismay he appears to suspect george of being the letters' authorwhile those already familiar with his work will enjoy its elegance, its wit, its profound wisdom about the human condition, arthur & george will surely find him an entirely new audiencewhen the family begins to receive vicious anonymous letters, many about their son, they put it down to racial prejudicesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethen someone starts slashing horses and livestockbut as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events which made sensational headlines at the time as the great wyrley outrageshe is arrested and, on the flimsiest evidence, sent to trial, found guilty and sentenced to seven years' hard labourincensed at this obvious miscarriage of justice, he is galvanised into trying to clear george's namewith a mixture of detailed research and vivid imagination, julian barnes brings to life not just this long-forgotten case, but the inner lives of these two very different menthis is a novel in which the events of a hundred years ago constantly set off contemporary echoes, a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race; about what we think, what we believe, and what we knowarthur conan doyle, famous as the creator of the world's greatest detective, is mourning his first wife (having been chastely in love for ten years with the woman who was to become his second) when he hears about the edjali casejulian barnes has long been recognised as one of britain's most remarkable writersagain the police seem to suspect the shy, aloof birmingham solicitorthe reader sees them both with stunning clarity, and almost inhabits them as they face the vicissitudes of their lives, whether in the dock hearing a verdict of guilty, or trying to live an honourable life while desperately in love with another woman
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Artist:harrison, georgetitle:harrison, george - george harrison live in japan: remasteredharrison, george - george harrison live in japan: remasteredyour item will be previously owned but still in great conditioncan't find what you're looking for?
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george freeman - george the bomb! title: george freeman - george the bomb! artist: freeman,georgeyou are also entitled to have the goods repaired or replaced if the goods fail to be of acceptable quality and the failure does not amount to a major failure
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george & the dragon & datedking george v 22ct gold full sovereign british cointranslating george v king of britton in god we trustfor sale: a beautiful king george v 22ct gold full sovereign british coin datedthe coin is in excellent condition & depicts the bust of king george v on one side & bust facing leftthe coin weights a total of:8gthe coin was minted in 22ct solid gold at the royal mint englandfc) uncirculatedpaypal acceptedthe coin is written in latin georgious v d:g brittomanthe coin diameter is:21mmthe coin is a lovely antique piece of history & would make a lovely addition to any numismatic collectionthe bust is in excellent condition (upostage availableon the reverse can be seen in excellent condition stthe coin is sold as seen & includes display case
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