Includes essays on Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, George Orwell, 1984, Mountbatten, Winston Churchill, among others.
Here is a colorful collection of writings by well known scholars and critics on modern Britain's literature and history. From British personalities, politics, and culture, to Britain's interaction with other...
A collection of essays on British life and culture.
This book brings together the interpretations of outstanding writers on the literature, politics, and history of modern Britain.
Including a comparison of A.J.P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper by Adam Sisman, a new appraisal of Prince Albert by Rosemary Hill, an assessment of Keats by Ferdinand Mount and a Diamond Jubilee portrait of Elizabeth II by Max Hastings, this ...
Assembling the reflections of prominent writers on the political and intellectual history of modern Britain, this book deals with a rich variety of themes, taking the reader on an excursion through British life and manners.
For twenty years, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin has sponsored a British Studies seminar. The scope includes not only the personalities, politics,...
There is detailed consideration of the works of leading figures in art, literature, politics, and scholarship - including portraits of Hugh Trevor-Roper by Neal Ascherson, Nye Bevan by Kenneth O. Morgan, and Margaret Thatcher by Archie ...
Eclectic and enjoyable historical and literary collection from distinguished contributors
... Eden to Eisenhower, 5 Aug. 1956, in Peter Boyle, ed., The Eden-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1955–1957 (Chapel Hill, 2005), pp. 158–59. 7. Anthony Nutting, No End of a Lesson: The Story of Suez (London, 1967), p. 35. 8. George Kennedy ...
If he's good and lucky enough. THE ADVENTURES OF COLONEL BRITANNIA by Jim Doherty with stunning cover art by the legendary Joe Staton. From Pro Se Productions