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 timeshe 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 expensesee 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 sympathizing
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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 commemoration2 strips of the 5 value railway issuepart sheet of queen mother issue (12 stamps)2 strips of the christmas issue, 3d valuesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop newport mint stamps from and issues
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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   attractively bound, intended as a gift book spotting to the deckle page edges  gilded at head  rubbing to the corners of the cover and head and tail of spinesee oxfam website for delivery information read more  owner's name and date handwritten in ink facing front covercondition: good  green cloth, decoratively blocked  small mark on the front cover
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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 abbeysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis biography is rich in the knowledge and affection born of thirty years' study
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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 presentthe days work - rudyard kipling front cover is detached but present otherwise good condition considering age 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 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 conditionreasonable condition considering the age
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Contributors include george herbert, christina rossetti, robert browning, george eliot, walt whitman and many othersnot dated, but pen inscription on ffep reads: "to laura / with love from / angela k / xmas "good condition for ageno highlighting or other notes; text-block clean/intactsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop newport pocket-sized anthology of thoughts in poetry and short fiction, one for each day of the yearsome 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 weareliot, first performed in , that portrays the assassination of archbishop thomas becket in canterbury cathedral during the reign of henry ii inmurder in the cathedral is a verse drama by tare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store"murder in the cathedral" by tplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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eliot angel - angel records  tracklist teliot reads his four quartets - toxfam bookshop lymington twe recommend that the record is cleaned professionally to maximise the sound qualitysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe sleeve is in very good condition, slightly worn and age discolouredmedia - 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 use it is also graded aurally where noted in the condition description
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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 centurywhile 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 desiresee 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 raged
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Enjoy a christmas day as described by samuel pepys, anthony trollope, george eliot, or nancy mitfordventure out into the snow in the company of jane austen, henry james, and dickens's mrwodehouse's wry story about christmas on a dietsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam 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 wildelike 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 p
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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) see oxfam website for delivery information read morepublisher: folio society, london binding: hardcover condition: good with good slipcasecondition is good with good slipcase, red board covers slightly faded and rubbed on the spineotherwise, all pages and text are clean and tight with no evident markings or annotations, 28 full-page illustrations, including frontispiece drawn by robin jacques 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 pagespictorial endpapersisbn10:  isbn 13: folio society
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See oxfam website for delivery information read morevery good condition, slight discoloration to the boards, binding intactnicholson & sons, ltdoxfam shop ulverston published by w
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The first section on 'predecessors' considers the impact of ford's reading of trollope, george eliot, and turgenevford 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'oxfam shop magdelen street the controversial british writer ford madox ford () is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literaturethis 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 hemingwayone of the most striking features of his career is his close involvement with so many of the major international literary groupings of his timehe was always a tireless promoter of younger writers, reading manuscripts and recommending them to publishersthe present book is part of a large-scale reassessment of his roles in literary historyeach volume is based upon a particular theme or issue; and relates aspects of ford's work, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his timeit 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)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 surprisinglawrence, and wyndham lewissee oxfam website for delivery information read moreford has been described as 'a writer's writer'this series of international ford madox ford studies was founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in himafter 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 steinhe 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 lowellthe final section discusses 'successors': writers such as graham greene, burgess, and ain edwardian london he founded the english review, publishing these writers alongside his new discoveries, ezra pound, dbut 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 textsbyatt, whose literary contacts with ford have been as his admiring readers and eloquent criticsin the south-east of england at the fin-de-siècle, he collaborated for a decade with joseph conrad, and befriended henry james, and h
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george eliot, scenes of clerical life see oxfam website for delivery information read morejane austen, pride and prejudice 2virginia woolf, mrs dalloway 5wilkie collins, the woman in white 4anthony trollope, the eustace diamonds 3five classic novels 1
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george eliot, the mill on the floss 4d h lawrence, sons and lovers 2five firm favourites from the classic canon 1wilkie collins, the moonstone 3jane austen, pride and prejudice 5joseph conrad, heart of darkness and other tales see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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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 pencil markings to text on a few pagesoxfam shop kendal paperback in good conditionmatthiessen left off in his achievement of tprevious owners name to title pagebased on a series of lectures delivered at oxford university, this study begins where drlight foxing to cover and wear to edges and corners
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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 textbookhas some creasing on cover but otherwise a good copycan post email me for details
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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 date is divided to either side of the sheaf, with 'australia' above, and 'three pence' belowthe 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 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)are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikian 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 hitsborn 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 covaycatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableclemons sang back-up on his classic ”have mercy”, covered by the rolling stones the following yearour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecompleting 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 inin 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 lifehe played gigs in harlem, made friends with jimi hendrix and performed with jimmy castor (of the jimmy castor bunch)please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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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 audiencejulian barnes has long been recognised as one of britain's most remarkable writersthen someone starts slashing horses and livestockhe is arrested and, on the flimsiest evidence, sent to trial, found guilty and sentenced to seven years' hard labourwith 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 mensee oxfam website for delivery information read moreincensed at this obvious miscarriage of justice, he is galvanised into trying to clear george's namethe 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 womanbut 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 outragesagain the police seem to suspect the shy, aloof birmingham solicitorarthur 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 casethis 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 knowwhen the family begins to receive vicious anonymous letters, many about their son, they put it down to racial prejudice
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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 diameter is:21mmthe bust is in excellent condition (uthe coin was minted in 22ct solid gold at the royal mint englandthe coin is written in latin georgious v d:g brittomanfc) uncirculatedon the reverse can be seen in excellent condition stthe coin weights a total of:8gthe coin is a lovely antique piece of history & would make a lovely addition to any numismatic collectionthe coin is sold as seen & includes display casepaypal acceptedpostage available
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