Robert Morrison

A surprising and lively history of an overlooked era that brought the modern world of art, culture, and science decisively into view.

During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern

The Regency Years

Edge of the Grave by Robbie Morrison is a dark historical crime novel set in Glasgow, 1932. A city still recovering from the Great War; split by religious division and swarming with razor gangs. For fans of William McIlvanney's Laidlaw, Denise Mina and Philip Kerr. When Charles Geddes, son-in-law of one of the city's wealthiest shipbuilders, is found floating in the River Clyde with his throat cut, his beautiful widow Isla Lockhart asks for Inspector James Dreghorn to lead the murder case. Dreghorn has a troubled history with the powerful Lockhart family that stretches back to before the First World War and is reluctant to become involved. But facing pressure from his superiors, he has no choice in the matter. The investigation takes him and his partner 'Bonnie' Archie McDaid from the flying fists and flashing blades of the Glasgow underworld to the backstabbing upper echelons of government and big business in order to find out who wanted Charles Geddes dead and why. As the case deepens, the pair will put their lives on the line in the pursuit of a sadistic killer who is ready to strike again . . .

Edge of the Grave

'Superb' The Economist 'Elegant, entertaining and frequently surprising' New York Times The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world. The Regency began on 5 February 1811 when the Prince of Wales replaced his violently insane father George III as the sovereign de facto. It ended on 29 January 1820, when George III died and the Prince Regent became King as George IV. At the centre of the era is of course the Regent himself, who was vilified by the masses for his selfishness and corpulence. Around him surged a society defined by brilliant characters, momentous events, and stark contrasts; a society forced to confront a whole range of pressing new issues that signalled a decisive break from the past and that for the first time brought our modern world clearly into view. The Regency Revolution is the most thorough and vivid exploration of the period ever published, and it reveals the remarkably diverse ways in which the cultural, social, technological and political revolutions of this decade continue both to inspire and haunt our world.

Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lord Byron and the Making of the Modern World

The Regency Revolution

Examines the life of the drug-influenced 19th-century author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, who rubbed elbows with the likes of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge and influenced such literary figures as Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens and William Burroughs.

A Biography of Thomas de Quincey

The English Opium Eater

Antonio Montucci

Urh-chih-tsze-teen-se-yin-pe-keaou; Being a Parallel Drawn Between the 2 Intended Chinese Dictionaries (etc.) ... Together with Morrison's Horae Sinicae, a New Ed.. Text of Primer San-Tsi-King

“A” Dictionary of the Chinese Language, in Three Parts; Part the First, Containing Chinese and English, Arranged According to the Radical; Part the Second, Chinese and English Arranged Alphabetically; And Part the Third, English and Chinese

Vocabulary of the Canton Dialect

Containing a Sketch of Chinese Chronology, Geography, Government, Religion & Customs, Designed for the Use of Persons who Study the Chinese Language

A View of China for Philological Purposes

This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set will include all of Hunt's poetry, and an extensive selection of his periodical essays.

The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt

in three parts, part the first containing Chinese and English, arranged according to the radicals, part the second, Chinese and English arranged alphabetically and part the third English and Chinese

A dictionary of the Chinese language

In Three Parts

A Dictionary of the Chinese Language

A Dictionary of the Chinese Language in Three Parts,...

Chris Baldick

Blackwood's was the most important and influential literary-political journal of its time, and a major institution not just in Scottish letters, but in the development of British and American Romanticism. Intemperate in political polemic and feared for its literary assassinations, the magazine became just as notorious for the shocking power of its fictional offerings. These set a new standard of concentrated dread and precisely calculated alarm, and were to establish themselves as a landmark in the development of the short magazine story. The influence of Blackwood's quickly reached many major authors, including Dickens, Emily Bronte, Robert Browning, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine

马礼逊回忆录

Urh-chih-tsze-tëen-se-yin-pe-keáou; Being a Parallel Drawn Between the Two Intendend Chinese Dictionairies; by the Rev. Robert Morrison, and Antonio Montucci, LL. D. Together with Morrison's Horae Sinicae, a New Edition, with the Text to the Popular Chinese Primer ... San-Tsi-King

A Grammar of the Chinese Language

Robert Morrison

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