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...

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

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 ...

Auf der Jungfernfahrt der Titanic begegnen sich zwei Menschen, die sich nie hätten begegnen dürfen: Nora, eine junge irische Auswanderin in der dritten Klasse, und Alexander Winslow, britischer Offizier – gebunden an Pflicht, Rang und Regeln. Zwischen engen Gängen und sternklaren Nächten wächst eine Liebe, die keinen Platz haben darf. Als das Unvorstellbare geschieht und das Schiff im Atlantik versinkt, müssen beide sich entscheiden: füreinander – oder für das Leben der anderen. Inmitten v...

Sie trägt einen Stern in sich. Er sollte sie ausliefern. Aristea ist auf der Flucht. Seit Jahren wird sie gejagt – nicht wegen dessen, wer sie ist, sondern wegen der Macht, die in ihr schläft. Ein gefallener Stern lebt in ihr weiter, eine Kraft, die Königreiche besitzen, kontrollieren oder vernichten wollen. Vertrauen ist für sie lebensgefährlich geworden. Als sie einem Angriff nur knapp entkommt, rettet ausgerechnet ein Fremder ihr das Leben: Aric. Ein Krieger mit ruhiger Stimme, tödliche...

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

Die ZUKUNFT I, einstiges Fernraumschiff der Erde, erreichte den Planeten „Kepler 452b“. Das Schiff wurde durch die Annäherung an einen Neutronensterns weit in die Vergangenheit geschleudert, ohne dass es die Besatzung bemerkte. Luna taufte ihn Eden! In den kommenden Äonen von Jahren wurde aus den einstigen Kolonisten der Erde die Tongva und ihre Welt nannten sie TERSLAR. In einer verschlossenen Energiekammer, tief im Untergrund in der Chron-Bastion Ereškigal verborgen, lagen zwei einst kün...