Best Selling Books by Richard Price

"The twentieth-century novelist Neil M. Gunn is best remembered for his evocative accounts of Highland life as given in The Silver Darlings, Morning Tide and Highland River. In The Fabulous Matter of Fact, Richard Price goes beyond this starting point and provides the reader with both a comprehensive study of all Gunn''s extant novels (including an early unpublished novel), and a detailed account of the literary context within which Gunn worked. Close textual criticism is enriched by references to Gunn''s poetry, short stories, essays and letters, and many of his key sources and allusions are identified for the first time. Price explores Gunn''s early literary relationship with the Celtic Twilight writers of the late nineteenth century, and his subsequent relation to the work of modernists such as Eliot and Proust, showing that Gunn was much more aware of literary movements than has been believed." "Price also describes the historical context of the 1940s, focusing on Gunn''s complex reaction to the war and his views on the nature of freedom, and he traces the extent, in Gunn''s later novels, of his increasing interest in the limitations and loci of human compassion." "Including useful plot summaries and a radical re-reading of the novels from the mid-1940s onwards, this is the most wide-ranging, approachable and informative guide to the work of Neil M. Gunn available."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Natural landscapes through which love and lyricism flicker and flare are the backdrop for these poems. The sparrows, pigeons, and magpies of the urban periphery lighten the atmosphere as they edge the collection toward the city in the humorous elegy "Bird List," while "Hand Held," a personal and vulnerable piece, delicately celebrates the author''s experience of fathering a child with severe learning difficulties. The collection is filled out with pieces of love and memory, affirming in the end the luck intrinsic to survival.

At times angry and despairing, these poems evoke hospital conditions and social attitudes toward the ill, but focus on the intricate reality of living day to day and trying to bring memory to bear on the future. In this collection, "The Patient" suffers a brain hemorrhage, causing the poet to carefully examine the days before and after this heartbreaking event. A multilayered compilation, it builds a rich portrait of love under almost intolerable pressure.

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Library of Congress W002326 The Massachusetts Historical Society copy does not include the statement of price in the imprint. Publishers'' prospectus, p. [62]. [Philadelphia]: London, printed, and Philadelphia: re-printed by M. Carey and Co. for W. Spotswood, J. Rice, and T. Seddon, booksellers, in Market Street, M, DCC, LXXXV. [1785] Price one-shilling. [2],60, [2]p.; 22 cm

''Greenfields'' is Richard Price''s second book of poems, in which he writes for the first time about growing up in a fast-changing corner of Scotland.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T012969 With a half-title. Dublin: printed for J. Exshaw, S. Price, W. Whitestone, W. Sleater, D. Chamberlaine [and 15 others in Dublin], 1776. [8],180p., table; 12°

The First Council of Ephesus (431) was the climax of the so-called Nestorian Controversy. Convoked by the emperor Theodosius II to restore peace to the Church, it immediately divided into two rival councils, both meeting at Ephesus. Attempts by the emperor''s representatives to get the bishops on both sides to meet together had no success, and after four months the council was dissolved without having ever properly met. But a number of decrees by the larger of the two rival councils, in particular the condemnation of Nestorius of Constantinople, were subsequently accepted as the valid decrees of the ''ecumenical council of Ephesus''. The documentation, consisting of conciliar proceedings, letters and other documents, provides information not only about events in Ephesus itself, but also about lobbying and public demonstrations in Constantinople. There is no episode in late Roman history where we are so well informed about how politics were conducted in the imperial capital. This makes

Nesse estudo, dois antropólogos acrescentam uma voz comedida ao debate sobre as raízes da cultura afro-americana. Explorando os vínculos culturais entre africanos e afro-americanos, os autores argumentam que não houve nenhuma cultura isolada que os africanos escravizados tenham transportado intacta para as Américas. Sugerem, que escravos africanos de muitas sociedades começaram a forjar uma nova cultura já durante o pesadelo da travessia oceânica, a partir de uma compreensão comum e de crises compartilhadas, e que essa cultura tinha instituições, crenças religiosas e papéis de parentesco distintos.