David Daiches

Contains volumes one and two of the edition first published 1969

A Critical History of English Literature

In Beatrice Miller's masterful transcription of Tchaikovsky's most-beloved work, the popular themes undergo several transformations that capture the spirit of the symphonic score. A must-have for every piano studio! A Federation Festivals 2014-2016 selection.

Virginia Woolf

The Penguin Companion to English Literature

A compendium of information on Scottish life, work, play and imagination. Over 400 alphabetical articles with over 3500 index entries. When The Companion appeared in 1981 it was hailed as a remarkable achievement: here was the first reference book to cover all the significant aspects of Scottish life, thought and imagination throughout history, with articles on individuals, movements and institutions. This new and completely revised edition takes in the events of the past decade which has seen a flowering of Scottish art, music and literature and a growing awareness that Scotland's rich and diverse culture has much to be celebrated for its distinctiveness. Over 400 articles range from childrens' street games to portrait painting, from eating habits to great industrialists, and from football to the Scottish Enlightenment.

The New Companion to Scottish Culture

A Companion to Scottish Culture

The Restoration to 1800

An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood

Two Worlds

The Ewing Lectures, University of California at Los Angeles, 1967

Some Late Victorian Attitudes

From Anglo-Saxon times to the present, the poetry, prose, and dramatic achievements of each period in English literature.

Anglo-Saxon literature

Anthony Thorlby

Literature and Western Civilization

Peter Jones

Jean Jones

University of Edinburgh. Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

In 'Hotbed of Genius', David Daiches explains what the term Scottish Enlightenment means. Examining the period between 1730 and 1790, this book looks at the lives of notable individuals such as David Hume, Adam Smith, Joseph Black and James Hutton, as well as looking at the relationship between Scotland and America.

The Scottish Enlightenment, 1730-1790

A Hotbed of Genius

from the beginnings to the sixteenth century

William Charvat

1530 - 1940

Poems in English

The Life and Times of Bonnie Prince Charlie

Charles Edward Stuart

Shakespeare to Milton

The Penguin Companion to Literature

Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by the English author Mary Anne Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. It first appeared in eight instalments (volumes) in 1871 and 1872. Set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midland town in 1829 to 1832, it follows distinct, intersecting stories with many characters. Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Despite comic elements, Middlemarch uses realism to encompass historical events: the 1832 Reform Act, early railways, and the accession of King William IV. It looks at medicine of the time and reactionary views in a settled community facing unwelcome change. Eliot began writing the two pieces that formed the novel in 1869-1870 and completed it in 1871. Initial reviews were mixed, but it is now seen widely as her best work and one of the great English novels.

George Eliot: Middlemarch

Literature and Western Civilization: The modern world III: reactions

The Modern World

David Daiches

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