English This Way

Goodman, Anthony: The Wars of the Roses: Military Activity and English Society, 1452-97, Barnes & Noble 1996 ISBN: 0880294841
,,This bitter struggle for the Crown of England took all the last half of the fifteenth century, embroiling father, son and grandson. Yet its major battles rarely lasted eight hours. The longest campaigns, only a few weeks. The heartbreak was that neither side would call it quits. They just kept on slugging and killing each other. So how did they keep it going, those Kings and Earls and Dukes who fought on foot alongside their men? For that, as foreigners marveled, was the reckless English way. How did they recruit? How did they pay, feed and billet their men? Choose the battle grounds? Get the troops to march thirty miles in one day then fight without breakfast? Why trust the English longbow more than the new handguns? These hows and wherefores usually are lost in the political history books. That, and the way the common folk ''live in mykel dread''. This singular work delves into old chronicles, civic records and letters, to tell it how it was for the men who fought and the civilians who e

Condition;Very Good / Very Good ,Hardcover ,This bitter struggle for the Crown of England took all the last half of the fifteenth century, embroiling father, son and grandson. Yet its major battles rarely lasted eight hours. The longest campaigns, only a few weeks. The heartbreak was that neither side would call it quits. They just kept on slugging and killing each other. So how did they keep it going, those Kings and Earls and Dukes who fought on foot alongside their men? For that, as foreigners marveled, was the reckless English way. How did they recruit? How did they pay, feed and billet their men? Choose the battle grounds? Get the troops to march thirty miles in one day then fight without breakfast? Why trust the English longbow more than the new handguns? These hows and wherefores usually are lost in the political history books. That, and the way the common folk ''live in mykel dread''. This singular work delves into old chronicles, civic records and letters, to tell it how it was for the men who fought and the civilians who e

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Ambler, Eric: The Dark Frontier, NY The Mysterious Press 1990 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; sig.; 1. Ed. ISBN: 0-89296-413-8
0-89296-413-8 Fine in Fine Dust Jacket Dust Jacket Design By William Sloane

xxiv, 280pp. Black quarter-cloth, black paper boards, gilt spine lettering, black endpapers. Dust jacket price 18.95. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to half-title page. 1st printing of first US edition of Ambler's first book [originally published in 1936 by Hodder & Stoughton], revised, and with a lengthy introduction, for this edition. Graham Greene said, "our greatest thriller writer." "Eric Ambler was an influential English writer who essentially invented the modern spy novel. Five of his six early works are regarded as classic thrillers. [His fiction was written in two distinct periods (1935-1940; 1951-1991)]. A recurring theme in Ambler's books is having as the main character an amateur who finds himself unwillingly in the company of hardened criminals and/or spies. Typically, the protagonist is out of his depth and often seems for much of the book a bumbling anti-hero, yet eventually manages to surprise himself as well as the professionals by a decisive action which comletely outwits his far more experienced opponents. Such plots occur, for example, in 'Journey into Fear', 'The Light of Day', and 'Dirty Story'. Unlike with most other thriller writers, in Ambler's books the main protagonist is only rarely a professional spy or policeman." - wikipedia. Recipient of four Gold Dagger Awards and one Silver. 1975 Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. "To read or not to read the great espionage novels of Eric Ambler? That is the question most people ignore because they are not familiar with Mr. Ambler and his particularly talent. Alfred Hitchcock noted in his introduction to 'Intrigue' (an omnibus volume containing 'Journey into Fear', 'A Coffin for Dimitrios',' Cause for Alarm' and 'Background to Danger'), "Perhaps this was the volume that brought Mr. Ambler to the attention of the public that make best-sellers. They had been singularly inattentive until its appearance -- I suppose only God knows why." He goes on to say, "They had not even heeded the critics, who had said, from the very first, that Mr. Ambler had given new life and fresh viewpoint to the art of the spy novel -- an art supposedly threadbare and certainly cliche-infested." So what's new and different about Eric Ambler's writing? His heroes are ordinary people with whom almost any reader can identify, which puts you in the middle of a turmoil of emotions. His bad guys are characteristic of those who did the type of dirty deeds described in the book. His angels on the sidelines are equally realistic to the historical context. The backgrounds, histories and plot lines are finely nuanced into the actual evolution of the areas and events described during that time. In a way, these books are like historical fiction, except they describe deceit and betrayal rather than love and affection. From a distance of many years, we read these books today as a way to step back into the darkest days of the past and relive them vividly. You can almost see and feel a dark hand raised to strike you in the back as you read one of his book's later pages. In a way, these stories are like a more realistic version of what Dashiell Hammett wrote as applied to European, Middle Eastern and Central American political intrigue and espionage. If you want to taste, touch, smell, see and hear evil from close range and move through fear to defeat it, Mr. Ambler's your man. [Re: The Dark Frontier] Debut novel. Written in 1936. The book varies quite a lot from the rest of his work, and will be less satisfying to almost any reader. Serious Ambler fans, however, would be making a mistake if they passed up this book. Seeing this effort will help them appreciate the mature Ambler talent even more. Most Ambler fans would do well to wait to read this one until they have read all the others, because it is clearly a lesser work for several reasons. First, it is an extreme parody of two popular English novelists that Ambler fans will undoubtedly not have read. As such, some of the pleasure of reading the parody is lost. Second, the book depends in part on Ambler's concepts of what might develop in weaponry after 1936. He did pretty well for his day, but not being surprised by the astonishing conjectures of "science fiction" element of the story also causes it to lose what was powerful color for contemporary readers. Third, the plot complications are not quite as delicious as those in the later Ambler works, and are intended to be pretty transparent as part of the parody. That having been said, the sense of local color and suspense are strong and compelling. Mr. Ambler's story telling talents come through the parody quite well." - Donald Mitchell. Book and dust jacket appear in as new, unread condition. Scarce signed. Signed by Author First Edition Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; First Edition

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Toni,Rudat: Twelfth Night, and the Renaissance Idea of Man, GRIN Verlag, Juni 2010, Dieses Buch wird extra für Sie gedruckt, da es vergriffen ist! Die Lieferzeit beträgt ca. 10-14 Tage. ISBN: 3640647343
SHAKESPEARE was one of the most famous renaissance writers. His play Twelfth Night was written during the English renaissance and maybe overlapped with the creation of the great tragedy Hamlet. The aim of this paper is to analyse in what way Shakespeare presented the characters of the play. Central to this discussion are the contemporary understandings of the human nature as well as the psychological assumptions concerning the mental distraction of people. It is undisputable that CICERO and his work De officiis had a great impact on the English renaissance humanists. The term humanism is a translation of the Italian word 'umanista' which denotes someone who teaches humanae literae. WELLS rightly claims that the ruling ambition of the humanists was to recover the values of classical civilisation. Their ideal form of government was a just society, ruled by a wise and responsible oligarchy. And a humanist was someone who made it his business to understand humankind. So now the audience of Twelfth Night is confronted with an unordered society that consists of characters that absolutely lack the renaissance ideal of how humans should be. It is proposed to show how SHAKESPEARE manages to reorder the mad state Illyria - the setting of the play. Moreover the process of metamorphosing into ideal humans in the sense of the Renaissance understanding will be traced. Since there are reams of publications on SHAKESPEARE'S works a choice of some of them had to be carried out. ROBIN WELLS' monograph Shakespeare's Humanism served as a basis for this paper. WELLS portrays a very detailed image of what concerned the English renaissance humanists. Moreover he classifies SHAKESPEARE and his plays in the contemporary world-view. In order to reconstruct the nature of melancholy and madness ROBERT BURTON'S monograph The Anatomy of Melancholy was consulted. In this way it was possible to develop an understanding of the renaissance notion on mental derangement. BURTON'S examinations of this topic will be checked against SHAKESPEARE'S way of presenting mental illnesses. In a final step the question will be answered in how far SHAKESPEARE must have been acquainted with the disease pattern of distracted subjects.

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Kovel, Ralph: KOVELS' DICTIONARY OF MARKS, New York Random House Information Group 1996
0-517-70137-5 As New Condition

Completely different from any other book of marks ever published, this dictionary provides the quickest way to identify American, English, and European porcelain. Once a piece is identified, research and experience (the color, texture, weight, and general "feel") tell the rest of the story. The unique index of 5,000 marks, listed by prominent features and with a complete cross-reference, shows at a glance geographical location of mark, factory or family name of manufacturer, type of ware, method of producing the mark on the object, color of the mark, and date when the mark was used. The authors have included a foreword, bibliography, index of manufacturers, and a reliable guide to the often misunderstood marks of Delft, Sevres, and England 1842-1883. Synopsis Completely different from any other book of marks ever published, this dictionary provides the quickest way to identify American, English, and European porcelain. Once a piece is identified, research and experience (the color, texture, weight, and general "feel") tell the rest of the story. The unique index of 5,000 marks, listed by prominent features and with a complete cross-reference, shows at a glance geographical location of mark, factory or family name of manufacturer, type of ware, method of producing the mark on the object, color of the mark, and date when the mark was used. The authors have included a foreword, bibliography, index of manufacturers, and a reliable guide to the often misunderstood marks of Delft, Sevres, and England 1842-1883. Annotation This dictionary provides a unique and quick way to identify American, English, and European pottery and porcelain. The index of 5,000 marks shows at a glance the geographical location and factory and family name of the manufacturer, the type of ware, the production method and color of the mark, and the date when the mark was used. 5,000 line drawings. Biography Long before Antiques Roadshow made everyone an amateur appraiser, Ralph and Terry Kovel were helping people navigate the tricky world of antiques and collectibles with their specific, comprehensive guides designed for every niche. Hardcover 6 x 9"

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