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  • A Guide to Byron's Verse in Fifty Poems

    by Richard Lansdown ...
    This book extends our understanding of Lord Byron's poetry--as opposed to his life and legend--by offering fifty very short discussions of his best poems, be they lyrics, four cantos of poetic travelogue in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, narrative poems set in the Middle East and elsewhere, dramas (neoclassical, Faustian, or Biblical), satires, love songs, or the seventeen cantos of his comic epic, ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Bostonians

    by Henry James, Richard Lansdown ...
    Published in 1886, The Bostonians begins with the arrival in Boston of Basil Ransom, a young Mississippi lawyer in search of a career. Through his cousin, Olive Chancellor, Ransom comes to meet Verena, the beautiful daughter of a charlatan faith-healer and showman. When they hear Verena talk, Olive hopes to win the girl over to the feminist cause, Ransom is attracted to her looks, and a battle for ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Byron

    by Richard Lansdown ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Author of the most influential long poem of its era (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) and the funniest long poem in European literature (Don Juan), Lord Byron was also the literary superstar of Romanticism, whose effect on nineteenth-century writers, artists, musicians and politicians - but also everyday readers - was second to none. His poems seduced and scandalized readers, and his life and legend ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Byron's Letters and Journals

    A New Selection

    Edited by Richard Lansdown ...
    Alongside Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful letters and journals tells the story from the inside, in Byron's own racy and passionate style. Though Byron is chiefly known as a poet, his letters ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Key to the Aquatic Plants of Northern and Central Europe including Britain and Ireland

    by Jens Christian Schou, Bjarne Moeslund, Dr. Klaus van de Weyer, Gerhard Wiegleb, Richard V. Lansdown, Peter Holm, Lars Baastrup-Spohr, Kaj Sand-Jensen ...
    Series series WILDGuides
    A richly illustrated identification key that makes an invaluable companion to Aquatic Plants of Northern and Central Europe including Britain and IrelandFeaturing more than 400 color illustrations, this succinct, fixed-layout ebook provides a handy identification guide to all of the region’s aquatic plants. The book’s dichotomous keys to botanical features makes it a perfect companion to the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Aquatic Plants of Northern and Central Europe including Britain and Ireland

    by Jens Christian Schou, Bjarne Moeslund, Dr. Klaus van de Weyer, Gerhard Wiegleb, Richard V. Lansdown, Peter Holm, Lars Baastrup-Spohr, Kaj Sand-Jensen ...
    Series series WILDGuides
    The first comprehensive guide to the aquatic plants of the regionBeneath the surface of bodies of freshwater—springs, streams, rivers, ponds and lakes—there is a world of plants of great variety and beauty, a realm that is often poorly known and understood. Correctly identified, these plants can tell us much about the character and condition of the habitats in which they live. A collaboration of ... Read more

    $135.99 CAD

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  • Byron

    Life and Legend

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    Fiona MacCarthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron's life and poetry drawing on John Murray's world-famous archive.She brings a fresh eye to his early years: his childhood in Scotland, embattled relations with his mother, the effect of his deformed foot on his development. She traces his early travels in the Mediterranean and the East, throwing light on his relationships with adolescent ... Read more

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  • Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life

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  • Grafting Fruit Trees

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