Bierce A Horseman

Linda Marland Illustrator: NA: Victorian Literature: A Collection of Fiction and Non-Fiction (Series: Cambridge Collections) Cambridge University Press 2007 ISBN: 9780521703178

New Softcover NA A carefully selected collection of extracts from novels, newspaper articles, poems and short stories, providing an accessible view of the Victorian age. A variety of texts make up each of the four themed sections: Adventures, Childhood, Urbanisation and Relationships. The collection includes texts by Isabella Beeton, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope, Mark Twain and Jules Verne. Contents 1. Adventures The Water Babies, Charles Kingsley Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne How to Reach the Pole, article from The Graphic Messages Without Wires, Guglielmo Marconi A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, Isabella Bird The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells Activities 2. Childhood The Way of all Flesh, Samuel Butler The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain David Copperfield, Charles Dickens Ragged Schools, article from The Illustrated London News A London Child of the Seventies, Molly Vivian Hughes A Horseman in the Sky, Ambrose Bierce War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy Activities 3. Urbanisation: Children in the Coal Mines: The 1842 Report, R.H. Horne The Cry of the Children, Elizabeth Barrett Browning Narrative of a Pickpocket, Henry Mayhew Song of the Shirt, Thomas Hood Mary Barton, Mrs Gaskell The Disturbance in the Manufacturing Districts, article from The Illustrated London News 1851 or the Adventures of Mr & Mrs Sandboys, Henry Mayhew Bleak House, Charles Dickens Activities 4. Relationships: The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens The Son's Veto, Thomas Hardy Laws Concerning Women, Barbara Bodichon The Small House at Allington, Anthony Trollope Definition of a Gentleman, John Henry Newman Adam Bede, George Eliot The Book of Household Management, Mrs Isabella Beeton My Rights, Susan Coolidge A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen Activities Notes on authors. Printed Pages: 272. First edition

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Bierce, Ambrose. Tales Of Soldiers And Civilians. San Francisco, E.L.G. Steele, 1891..

First edition. Bierce's first collection of short stories including "A Horseman in the Sky" and "An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge." Bound in publisher's original full brown cloth with the title stamped in gold on the spine and cover. Minor wear to corners and head and heel of spine, some water stains spotting to front cover, otherwise very good.

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Bierce, Ambrose: SON OF THE GODS AND A HORSEMAN IN THE SKY, Paul Elder (1907) San Francisco ; fester Einband / hard cover

Hardcover Good+ in Fair dust jacket Spine missing from DJ, some edge wear and yellowing; Good+, prev. Owner's name, 'withdrawn' stamps on first and last FirstEdition cloth 12mo pastedowns, DJ-fair, spine is missing, small tear andchip top edge, held together with plastic sleave ; 12mo; Ephemera us history tm histcat

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