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Excerpt from Original Matter Contained in Sutherland's Memoir on the Kaffers, Hottentots, and Bosjemans, of South Africa, Heads 1st and 2nd About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original fo...

An irreverent new account of the life and work of George Orwell, exploring the 'scent narratives' that abound in his writing.

Not a rule book or primer, but a deliciously challenging parlour game approach to the perennially thorny complexities of grammar. Enjoyable, enriching and illuminating, written by 'the definitive grand old man of linguistics.

Excerpt from The Province of Quebec: Geographical and Social Studies Though written chiefly for the general reader, this book can fairly claim to be a pioneering work in one essential way, because it is the first which has made any connected attempt to describe a Canadian province in accordance with the scientific principles of modern regional geography. During the last thirty years geographical literature has been developing along new lines...

Lively and immensely readable, this masterful account is a work of major biographical scholarship. John Sutherland examines the darker areas of Scott's life in a skeptical, yet sympathetic, manner creating an illuminating chronicle of his life. Sutherland justifies Scott as a writer to be read and understood today as much as in his heyday in the nineteenth century.

Every kid has heard of Harry Houdini, the famous magician who could escape from handcuffs, jail cells, and locked trunks. But do they know that the ever-ambitious and adventurous Houdini was also a famous movie star and the first pilot to fly a plane in Australia? This well-told biography is full of the details of Houdini's life that kids will really want to know about and illustrated throughout with beautiful black-and-white line drawings.Ill...

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In the spirit of Dr. Johnson's "Lives of the Poets, " acclaimed critic and scholar Sutherland tours the history of fiction in English.

Excerpt from Presidential Address: Delivered Before the American Institute of Homoeopathy It is natural and fitting that, on the first evening of assem bling at an old-home hearth, the talk should travel far back ward and far forward, taking as long views as may be, in both directions, so I would ask you to look far backward into the causes of our coming together, and far forward into the largest uses that we can serve in coming together. Ab...

John Crace (Author) John Crace is the Guardian's parliamentary sketch writer and author of the ¿Digested Read¿ columns and he writes regularly for Grazia. He is the author of I Never Promised you a Rose Garden: A short guide to modern politics, the coalition and the general election and also Baby Alarm: A Neurotic¿s Guide to Fatherhood, Vertigo: One Football Fan's Fear of Success , Harry's Games: Inside the Mind of Harry Redknapp, Brideshead A...

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The ultimate test to bring you up to scratch with your grammar. Neither a rule book nor a primer, this guide takes you through the mysteries and magic of the world's greatest language.

Excerpt from Memoir Respecting the Kaffers, Hottentots, and Bosjemans, of South Africa, Vol. 2 of 2 Since my return to Cape Town I have read the first Article in the CXV. No. Of The Quarterly Review, and other works relating to South Africa. But it is now too late to alter what I might find to be wrong or useless in my speculations, if, indeed, those speculations had not already extended to an unreasonable length. About the Publisher Forgot...

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This work of reference on Victorian fiction captures the full range and depth of the Victorian novel. With over 900 biographical entries, more than 600 novels synopsied, and a wealth of background material on the publishers, reviewers, and readers of the age, the Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction is the fullest account of the period's fiction every published. Now in a second edition, the book has been revised and enlarged, and a generous ...

John Sutherland examines the intergenerational conflict as a new kind of 'war' in which institutional neglect and universal indifference to the old has reached aggressive, and routinely lethal, levels.