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“victor watson”

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  • Time After Time

    by Victor Watson ...
    A young Anglo-Saxon woman is travelling across an empty East Anglian landscape. She’s dressed as a man, for safety. But when her only companion is murdered, she knows she faces discovery, and almost certainly much worse.In the Napoleonic period, a little boy has to walk several miles to market, on his own, for the first time.In the present day, a mixed-race teenage girl – along with her best ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Reading Series Fiction

    From Arthur Ransome to Gene Kemp

    by Victor Watson ...
    This book investigates the 'series' in children's literature. The works of several well-known children's authors - UK and the US, traditional and contemporary - are analyzed, and using these examples, the book explores the special nature and appeal of series writing for children. As well as providing an historical overview of the series, the author raises important questions about the nature of ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Where Texts and Children Meet

    Edited by Eve Bearne, Victor Watson ...
    It is impossible to reflect upon children's books without considering the children who read them. Where Texts and Children Meet explores the ways in which children make meaning of the various texts they meet both in and out of school.Eve Bearne and Victor Watson have brought together chapters on all the major issues and topics in children's literacy including:* the meaning and relevance of terms ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Opening The Nursery Door

    by Mary Hilton, Morag Styles, Victor Watson ...
    Opening the Nursery Door is a fascinating collection of essays inspired by the discovery of a tiny archive: the nursery library of Jane Johnson 1707-1759, wife of a Lincolnshire vicar. It has captured the scholarly interest of social anthropologists, historians, literary scholars, educationalists and archivists as it has opened up a range of questions about the nature of childhood within English ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

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  • Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd

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  • How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

    by Leah Price ...
    How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Brontës

    Edited by Heather Glen ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The extraordinary works of the three sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë have entranced and challenged scholars, students, and general readers for the past 150 years. This Companion offers a fascinating introduction to those works, including two of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century - Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights. In a series of original essays, contributors ... Read more

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    by J.M. Coetzee ...
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  • The Ghost Woods

    by C.J. Cooke ...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London

    by Lawrence Manley ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works in English, from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials, the essays in this volume explore the London of Langland and the Peasants' Rebellion, of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage, of Pepys and the Restoration coffee house, of Dickens and Victorian wealth ... Read more

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