The Britannica Guide to World Literature
Title | The Britannica Guide to World Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Sean Michael Wilson |
Publisher | Rosen Education Service |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010-07-30 |
Genre | Authors |
ISBN | 9781615301591 |
Details the evolution of literature and explores the writers, works, and events that have shaped literature.
English Literature from the Restoration Through the Romantic Period
Title | English Literature from the Restoration Through the Romantic Period PDF eBook |
Author | J. E. Luebering Manager and Senior Editor, Literature |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2010-08-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1615301151 |
Introduces the elements considered essential to English literature, in which writing became more personal and had a new sense of humanity.
Christianity
Title | Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Stefon Assistant Editor, Religion |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2011-08-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1615304932 |
Describes the basic doctrines, history, and religious practices of Christianity, including Christian concepts of human nature, and profiles famous Christian figures throughout history.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Title | Encyclopaedia Britannica PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Chisholm |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1090 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN |
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
English Literature from the Old English Period Through the Renaissance
Title | English Literature from the Old English Period Through the Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | J. E. Luebering Manager and Senior Editor, Literature |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2010-08-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1615301100 |
Details the evolution of literature during a period representing a staggering amount of change, moving from one-dimensional action stories and religious lessons to stories with subtleties of plot and character development.
The Britannica Guide to Theories and Ideas That Changed the Modern World
Title | The Britannica Guide to Theories and Ideas That Changed the Modern World PDF eBook |
Author | Britannica Educational Publishing |
Publisher | Britannica Educational Publishing |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2009-10-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1615300635 |
There was a time when people assumed that the world was flat. Once an alternate theory was proposed, however, that conceit was challenged and, eventually, disproved. In short, theories and ideas can be potent agents of changenone more so than those that are extensively detailed in this book.
The Britannica Guide to Literary Elements
Title | The Britannica Guide to Literary Elements PDF eBook |
Author | Sharon Jensen (Rn) |
Publisher | Britannica Educational Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-08-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781615306411 |
The advent of the written word and the attendant transformation of language and literature sparked the development of new forms of expression and copious literary devices. Such instruments of poetry and prose can finesse turns of phrase, render the foreign familiar, or simply texture plot lines. The literary terms surveyed in these fascinating volumes describe the content, structure, and characteristics of some of the worlds most celebrated bodies of verse and drama, fiction and nonfiction. Sidebars spotlight some of the modern and traditional writers and works that have enriched discourse and communication.