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Author : Mike Winters,Bernie Winters
Publisher : W H Allen
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0491017650
Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 1166 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Allusions
ISBN : 1840223103
This work explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the colloquial and the proverbial. It embraces archaeology, history, religion, the arts, science, mythology and characters from fiction.
Author : Jonathon Green
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 1600 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0304366366
With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results
Author : Margaret Deefholts,Glenn Deefholts
Publisher : Calcutta Tiljallah Relief Inc
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0975463934
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rex Bookstore, Inc.
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9712328562
Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1426 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134963652
The definitive work on the subject, this Dictionary - available again in its eighth edition - gives a full account of slang and unconventional English over four centuries and will entertain and inform all language-lovers.
Author : G.S. Cheema
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351372664
The Ascent of John Company is the story of the founding of the British empire in India. The process of founding empires is rarely, if ever, edifying. It is invariably a sordid story of brutality and violence, tempered to some extent by blatant lies, corruption, skullduggery and intrigue. Robert Clive and Warren Hastings, the two names that come most readily to mind when one thinks of the founders, were no heroes in their times. Still less were Vansittart, Verelst, or Coote ‘Bahadur’. We have a governor who was overthrown and imprisoned by his own Councillors, and a general who had to be bribed to take the field! Many of them were accused of atrocious crimes, of murder and extortion. Bribe taking, peculation and corruption were the least of their ‘high misdemeanours’ and the most egregious were ruined by the judicial processes to which they were subjected on their return. The word nabob, which was applied to them by their own countrymen was anything but complimentary. The romanticization of the empire came much later; it was a phenomenon of the later Victorian period, but in spite of the fact that the empire has long since faded away, nostalgia for the Raj still lingers among some circles. For such people this volume will be a useful corrective; the past always seems better than the contentious present. Even for others, who may not see the past through rose tinted glasses, this book will help to place things in perspective. To paraphrase Dickens, ‘this is the best of times, and the worst of times’ – and it has always been so.
Author : Yuri Dolgopolov
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786459957
Covering over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which do not show corresponding similarity in their meanings, this dictionary presents a unique cross-section of the English language. Though it is designed specifically to assist readers in avoiding the use of inappropriate or erroneous phrases, the book can also be used as a regular phraseological dictionary providing definitions to individual idioms, cliches, and set expressions. Most phrases included in the dictionary are in active current use, making information about their meanings and usage essential to language learners at all levels of proficiency.
Author : Louise Jordan Miln
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547194682
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Vintage of Yon Yee" by Louise Jordan Miln. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Charles Reade
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 13593 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Although famed for his meticulously researched medieval masterpiece 'The Cloister and the Hearth', Charles Reade also penned some of the Victorian era’s most gripping sensation novels, creating controversial works that strove to end social evils and fight injustice. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Charles Reade, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Reade's life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL 15 novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works such as THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Rare story collections and plays appearing here for the first time in digital print * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Includes Reade's non-fiction seminal work on copyright: THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT – available no where else * Special criticism section, with five essays evaluating Reade’s contribution to literature * Features two biographies, including the seminal memoir compiled by Reade’s family - discover Reade's literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels PEG WOFFINGTON CHRISTIE JOHNSTONE IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND WHITE LIES ‘LOVE ME LITTLE LOVE ME LONG.’ THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH VERY HARD CASH GRIFFITH GAUNT FOUL PLAY PUT YOURSELF IN HIS PLACE A TERRIBLE TEMPTATION A SIMPLETON THE WANDERING HEIR A WOMAN HATER A PERILOUS SECRET The Tales THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH THE BOX TUNNEL CREAM A GOOD FIGHT SINGLE HEART AND DOUBLE FACE GOOD STORIES OF MAN AND OTHER ANIMALS THE JILT AND OTHER STORIES The Short Stories LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Plays THE COURIER OF LYONS MASKS AND FACES TWO LOVES AND A LIFE IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND The Non-Fiction THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT TRADE MALICE A HERO AND A MARTYR The Criticism DICKENS, READE, AND COLLINS: SENSATION NOVELISTS by Walter C. Phillips CHARLES READE by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch CHARLES READE by William Dean Howells CHARLES READE by David Christie Murray LETTERS AND REMINISCENCES OF CHARLES READE by Kinahan Cornwallis The Biographies CHARLES READE: DRAMATIST, NOVELIST, JOURNALIST CHARLES READE AS I KNEW HIM by John Coleman Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles
Author : George Augustus Sala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Algeria
ISBN : NYPL:33433082449459
Author : Rupa Gupta,Gautam Gupta
Publisher : Hachette India
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789391028022
A history of the rediscovery of India's history... Through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Western world had very little knowledge - or an extremely distorted view - of the glorious and fascinating history of the Indian subcontinent. In fact, with little of the region's 3000-year-old heritage formally preserved and documented, it was widely believed that the country's history had begun with the reign of the Mughals. When the British gained control over the subcontinent, the scholars, explorers and Indophiles among them discovered things and areas of great historical wonder but found few answers. Armed with great intellectual curiosity, they set out to uncover things no one had given a thought to earlier. From William Jones who identified Chandragupta Maurya as 'Sandrocottus' mentioned in Greek sources and set the first chronological point of reference for recorded Indian history to Charles Wilkins who designed the first typeface of the Bengali script; from Henry Colebrooke who shone light on the wonders of ancient Indian scientific knowledge to Alexander Cunningham, the father of Indian archaeology, who led the first excavation of the Harappa site in the Punjab - Forgotten Civilizations brings together the intriguing stories of fifteen intrepid Englishmen who dedicated their lives to rediscovering India's ancient heritage and redefining the significance of its pluralistic and sophisticated culture to the rest of the world.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Missions, British
ISBN : OXFORD:555007334
Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 6031 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781135795429
Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Local government
ISBN : UCAL:B2863191
