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Occupation
In this "well-written, carefully researched, often fascinating story of the long and little known French ordeal" ("Kirkus Reviews"), the author vehemently challenges the myth that France was liberated "by the whole of France." Included are eyewitness accounts from Jean-Paul Sarte, Simone de Beauvoir, Charles de Gaulle, and others. 16 photos.
The Road to Verdun
On February 21, 1916, the Germans launched a surprise offensive at Verdun, an important fortress in northeastern France, sparking a brutal and protracted conflict that would claim more than 700,000 victims. The carnage had little impact on the course of the war, and Verdun ultimately came to symbolize the absurdity and horror of trench warfare. Ian Ousby offers a radical reevaluation of this cataclysmic battle, arguing that the French bear tremendous responsibility for the senseless slaughter. He shows how the battle’s roots lay in the Franco-Prussian war and how its legacy helped lay the groundwork for World War II. Merging intellectual substance with superb battle writing, The Road to Verdun is a moving and incisive account of one of the most important battles of the twentieth century. From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Wordsworth Companion to Literature in English
This volume is a reference source to literature in the English language throughout the world. It provides a survey of the world-wide literary tradition of this area, and offers explanations of genres, movements, critical terms and literary concepts.
The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Literature in English
Derived from the parent Guide to Literature in English, this volume offers in concise form over 4,000 entries on literature in English from cultures throughout the world. Writers and major works from the UK and the USA are represented, as are those from Canada, the Caribbean, Australia, India, and Africa. The coverage is broad - from the classics of English literature to the best of modern writing. Additionally, the Guide has a wealth of entries on literary movements, groups or schools in literature and criticism, literary magazines, genres and sub-genres, critical concepts, and rhetorical terms.
Fighters in the Shadows
The French Resistance has an iconic status in the struggle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe, but its story is entangled in myths. Gaining a true understanding of the Resistance means recognizing how its image has been carefully curated through a combination of French politics and pride, ever since jubilant crowds celebrated Paris’s liberation in August 1944. Robert Gildea’s penetrating history of resistance in France during World War II sweeps aside “the French Resistance” of a thousand clichés, showing that much more was at stake than freeing a single nation from Nazi tyranny. As Fighters in the Shadows makes clear, French resistance was part of a Europe-wide struggle against fasci...
Bleak House
Textual notes and critical essays accompany Dickens's satire of Victorian society built around an interminable suit at the court of Chancery
The Englishman's England
"If my journals should remain legible, or be perused at the end of 200 years, there will, even then, be little curious in them relative to travel, or the people, because our island is now so explored; our roads, in general, are so fine; and our speed has reach'd the summit." Or so one late eighteenth century traveller thought, reminding us that the English tourist industry is not the modern creation we often suppose. In this fascinating and original study Ian Ousby investigates the landmarks chosen by the English for their leisure travel over the centuries. He looks in particular at four types of attraction still prominent on the tourist map of England: literary shrines, country houses, pict...
The Englishman's England
In this original study, Ian Ousby investigates the landmarks chosen by the English for their leisure travel over the centuries, looking in particular at four types of attraction: literary shrines, country houses, ruins and landscape.
James Plumptre's Britain
James Plumptre was an Evangelical clergyman and Cambridge don who, between the ages of 19 and 29, made several tours of Britain. (Journal of a Tour Through Part of North Wales, 1792; Journal of a Tour into Derbyshire, 1793; Journal of Pedestrian Tour by the Caves in the West Riding of Yorkshire to the Lakes and Home Thro Part of North Wales in the Year 1799; A Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey Through Some Parts of Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland to the Highlands of Scotland and Home by the Lakes and some Parts of Wales in the Summer of 1799; Memorandums Taken During a Five Weeks Tour in the Summer of 1800; Journal of a Tour to the Source of the River Can in July 1800).
