Ian Littlewood Livres

Le roman le plus populaire de Jane Austen, l'histoire inoubliable d'Elizabeth Bennet et de M. Darcy. Maintenant en version grands caractères. Mrs Bennet a 5 filles à marier. Pas facile quand elles ont une petite dot, et que les prétendants se font rares. Mais un nouveau et jeune gentilhomme vient d'arriver à Netherfield Park, la propriété voisine, et les bonnes manières de la gentry anglaise de l'époque Régence ont vite fait d'organiser un bal pour le rencontrer. Rapidement, M. Bingley se lie avec l'ainée des filles, Jane, et l'on parle presque de mariage. On ne peut pas en dire autant de sa cadette, Elizabeth, qui de son côté a rencontré l'homme qui est certainement le plus orgueilleux de la comté en la personne de M. Darcy, ami de M. Bingley, avec qui elle entretient des relations glaciales et tout juste polies. Ce personnage assez odieux et hautain s'intéresse toutefois beaucoup à cette jeune femme impertinente, spirituelle et indépendante. Dans la comédie de moeurs de Jane Austen, préjugés intellectuels et de classe, orgueil personnel et orgueil familial seront les victimes de ces rencontres, pour faire de ce roman l'oeuvre la plus célèbre de Jane Austen, reconnue pour son esprit caustique et ses observations fines.

Who was Jezebel? What was the Wooden Horse? When was the Enlightenment? Who were the Luddites? And what is blank verse? The Literature Student’s Survival Kit gives students about to embark on a literature degree all the background information they need to stay afloat. Designed to help literature students stay afloat in their studies Brings together the biblical, classical, historical and academic information that literature students need Provides an overview of the Bible, its books, characters, episodes and places. Contains a guide to classical mythology Features timelines that situate literary figures in relation to historical events and key social, cultural and linguistic changes Presents essential information on individuals, events, movements, and concepts that had an impact on the literature of each period Includes glossaries of literary and critical terms, and a list of key literary critics Offers advice on how to write essays and how to avoid common linguistic and stylistic errors Enables students to approach their studies with self-assurance.

Here, said the reviewer for Salon.com, is a book that is "lively and accessible and erudite. . . the perfect companion for anyone who wouldn't be cauth dead with an airport paperback -- though I wouldn't want to wager which one provides more juice."Historically, the sexual motives of travel have rarely been spelled out in travel guides and brochures. Sultry Climates is an alternative history of tourism, made up of precisely the details that usually go unmentioned. As Ian Littlewood demonstrates with dazzling elegance and wit, if we want to make sense of the celebrated "Grand Tour" of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, for example, it's as important to take account of travelers' visits to Dresden streetwalkers and Venetian courtesans as it is to reckon with their visits to the Picture Gallery and the Doge's Palace. To understand the Victorian passion for the Mediterranean is to be aware of Greek and Italian attractions that extended far beyond the historical. From Byron in Greece to Isherwood in Germany, from American expatriates on the Left Bank to Orton in Morocco and right up to the present day, what emerges from these experiences is a continuing motif of tourism, previously neglected or ignored, that comes into full view only with the twentieth century's cult of the sun. Suffice it to say that after reading Sultry Climates , you'll never look at tourists in quite the same way again.