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  • The Life of William Wordsworth

    A Critical Biography

    by John Worthen ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
    By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth’s early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet’s most creative period of life and writing.Features new research into Wordsworth’s financial situation, and into how the poet and his family survived financiallyOffers a new understanding of the role of his great unwritten poem ‘The ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • T. S. Eliot

    A Short Biography

    by John Worthen ...
    Biographical writing about Eliot is in a more confused and contested state than is the case with any other major twentieth-century writer. No major biography has been released since the publication of his early poems, Inventions of the March Hare, in 1996, which radically altered the reading public's perception of Eliot. There have been attempts to turn the American woman Emily Hale into the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Johannes Brahms

    by John Worthen ...
    Series Book 129 - Critical Lives
    Johannes Brahms is often cast as repressed or emotionally distant. This nuanced biography by acclaimed biographer John Worthen reveals a more complex and human figure – brilliant, passionate and deeply committed both to his art and to those he loved. Brahms’s lifelong devotion to Clara Schumann shaped much of his personal and creative life, while his refusal to conform to social expectations kept ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • D. H. Lawrence

    The Life of an Outsider

    by John Worthen ...
    D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider is an illuminating and clear-sighted portrait of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant, radical and misunderstood writers.John Worthen follows Lawrence's from his awkward and intense youth in Nottinghamshire, through his turbulent relationship with Frieda and the years of exile abroad to his premature death at the age of 44. His account is an ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Regicide

    The Trials of Henry Marten

    by John Worthen ...
    An illuminating biography of a republican convicted of regicide, drawing on the letters he wrote from within the Tower of London.Henry Marten—soldier, member of parliament, organizer of the trial of Charles I, and signatory of the King’s death warrant—is today a neglected figure of the seventeenth century. Yet his life was both extraordinary and emblematic: he was at the fulcrum of English history ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley

    A Critical Biography

    by John Worthen ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
    Drawing especially on the many scholarly discoveries of recent years, this biography examines the life – and death ‒ of one of the greatest Romantic poets. Based on sceptical historical investigation and featuring an in-depth look at Shelley’s personal, financial and familial situation, it builds a compelling narrative about a controversial writer and thinker whose personal and philosophical ... Read more

    $121.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    by John Worthen ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Author of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Kubla Khan' and 'Christabel', and co-author with Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads in 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the great writers and thinkers of the Romantic revolution. This innovative introduction discusses his interest in language and his extraordinary private notebooks, as well as his poems, his literary criticism and his biography. ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Cooking Up Death

    by Lyn Worthen, John M. Floyd, Annie Reed, Lauryn Christopher, Alan Orloff, Bethany Maines, Abigail Leigh Reed, Debra Henry, S.B. Watson, Wayland Smith, Sally Milliken, Jena Rey, Susan Madon, Melissa Behrend, Sheila Dene' Lawrence, Mary Birk, Kirlagh James ...
    Deadly mushrooms in the souffle, toxic leaves in the tea... villains have been killing in culinary ways for as long as there have been knives in kitchens. And when Death dons the chef's hat, your first bite might be your last!In COOKING UP DEATH, we've whipped up a menu of sixteen cozy mysteries featuring toxic treats and lethal luncheons sure to leave the other characters worrying about the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cozy Villages of Death

    by Lyn Worthen, John M. Floyd, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Annie Reed, Lauryn Christopher, C.C. Guthrie, Joseph S. Walker, Margaret S. Hamilton, Ben Harshman, CJ Mattison, Clifford Royal Johns, D.T. Langdale, Kelly Zimmer, Merrilee Robson, N.K. Wardley, Ursula Hoult ...
    Secrets hide behind those peacefully shuttered windows...Deception awaits around the next curve in the road. Rumors spread over garden hedges, fishing ponds, and knitting circles. Neighborhood cats discover a boneyard.And when Death strolls through the tranquil countryside or checks into the quaint village inn for the weekend, it's the intrepid - and often accidental - investigators who must find ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

    A Drama in Three Acts

    by D. H. Lawrence, John Worthen ...
    Series series Pine Street Books
    The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, written immediately after Sons and Lovers, is one of D. H. Lawrence's most significant early works. The play, Lawrence's first, is the alter ego of the story "Odour of Chrysanthemums" and, like the short story, deals with a catastrophe in the lives of a coal mining family. Drawing upon the intensity of events that unfold in the miner's kitchen, the play explores a ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

    A Drama in Three Acts

    by D. H. Lawrence, John Worthen ...
    Series series Pine Street Books
    The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, written immediately after Sons and Lovers, is one of D. H. Lawrence's most significant early works. The play, Lawrence's first, is the alter ego of the story "Odour of Chrysanthemums" and, like the short story, deals with a catastrophe in the lives of a coal mining family. Drawing upon the intensity of events that unfold in the miner's kitchen, the play explores a ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • A Social History of Medicines in the Twentieth Century

    To Be Taken Three Times a Day

    by John Crellin, Dennis B Worthen ...
    Get a fresh perspective on the day-to-day use of medicine!A Social History of Medicines in the Twentieth Century explores the most perplexing issues concerning the uses of prescriptions and other medicines on both sides of the Atlantic. The book equips you with a thorough understanding of the everyday use of medicine in the United States, Canada, and Britain, concentrating on its recent past. Dr. ... Read more

    $138.99 CAD