A new collection of twenty ghostly tales of Yuletide terror, collected from rare Victorian periodicalsSeeking to capitalize on the success of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843), Victorian newspapers and magazines frequently featured ghost stories at Christmas time, and reading them by candlelight or the fireside became an annual tradition, a tradition Valancourt Books is pleased to continue with our series of Victorian Christmas ghost stories. This...

Der Autor berichtet über massive Gewalt und Vernachlässigung in seiner Kindheit. Er beschreibt seine eigene Geschichte. In vielen Kapiteln, erfährt der Leser, wie die Ereignisse in Simons Kindheit ihn im Erwachsenenalter beeinflussen, und ihn letztlich am Leben hindern, am Glücklichsein. Simon, geboren im Jahre 1972 in Berlin, wäre gern ein normales Kind. Der "Krieg" im Elternhaus macht es ihm nicht möglich, zu lernen und zu erfahren, was Glück ist, was Eltern-Liebe ist. Er ist mittlerweil...

In this volume of essays, scholars of the interdisciplinary field of law and literature write about the role of emotion in English law and legal theory in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The law’s claims to reason provided a growing citizenry that was beginning to establish its rights with an assurance of fairness and equity. Yet, an investigation of the rational discourse of the law reveals at its core the processes of emotion, and a study of literature that engages wi...

Reflections on Sentiment not only addresses current scholarly interest in feeling and affect but also provides an occasion to celebrate the career of George Starr, who, in more than fifty years of incisive scholarship and committed teaching, haselucidated the work of Daniel Defoe and the role of sentimentalism in what was once reductively termed an age of reason and realism. Due to the critique Starr spearheaded, scholars today can approach with greater assurance the complex interplay of r...

'Mr Kitchin is an enjoyably ruthless writer.' - Punch'Ten Pollitt Place is written in another language. It is another world. . . . [T]he observation is delightful. It is beautifully done.' - The Observer'Mr Kitchin is still writing the traditional, well-bred, upper-English-middle-class novel. He does it finely, with a loving art.' - The Spectator'Before the end of this year someone in this house is going to die.' This is the terrible prophecy of fifteen-year-old Hug...

Nineteenth-century America witnessed some of the most important and fruitful areas of intersection between the law and humanities, as people began to realize that the law, formerly confined to courts and lawyers, might also find expression in a variety of ostensibly non-legal areas such as painting, poetry, fiction, and sculpture. Bringing together leading researchers from law schools and humanities departments, this Companion touches on regulatory, statutory, and common law in nineteenth-...

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus AureliusV. 3: Bacon, Milton, BrowneV. 4: John Milton

Wir befinden uns im Jahre 2300 nach Christus. Der vierte Planet unseres Sonnensystems, Mars, war bereits seit über Einhundert Jahren besiedelt. Es war eine aufstrebende, junge Generation, die sich hier entwickelte. Einer der jungen Marsianer war Cailan Count. Er hatte noch eine Schwester, Fia. Sie und ihr Bräutigam waren einer Gemeinschaft angeschlossen, welche der sogenannten Kollektiven Nostalgie anhing. Sie verinnerlichten regelrecht die gute alte Zeit, das goldene Zeitalter vor der Bes...

Marvin kann die Vergangenheit nicht verlassen. Er befindet sich unvermittelt in einem 25 Jahre alten Körper und in der Gefangenschaft der Aliens. Jetzt erst beginnt sein Überlebenskampf in einer Welt des Chaos, die vom Kampf zweier außerirdischen Machtgruppen zerrieben zu werden droht. Die Welt ist vor 200 Jahren untergegangen. Die Kontinente sind radioaktiv verstrahlt und biologisch verseucht. Mutanten bevölkern nun die mehr als zu zwei Drittel zerstörte Oberfläche des Planeten. Er ist ei...

A Record in Stone is a comprehensive investigation into the different ways in which archaeologists use flaked stone artefacts as a basis for reconstructing the distant human past. The authors not only describe the range of flaked stone artefact forms recovered from Australian archaeological sites, but also place Australian studies alongside the major international theories surrounding the description of stone artefacts. Includes over 130 black and white labelled images of actual artefacts ...

SARS from East to West is the production of international collaboration investigating the first major pandemic in the new millennium, SARS. As the only major outbreak of a deadly infectious disease in modern times, the SARS case is an excellent example of an emerging contagious disease in an interdependent and interconnected world and provided the bases for how subsequent pandemics, like the bird flu and swine flu, are viewed and managed.Eva-Karin Olsson and Lan Xue bring together ...

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus AureliusV. 3: Bacon, Milton, BrowneV. 4: John Milton