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  • Colour in woven design

    The science and technology of textile colouring (woollen, worsted, cotton and silk materials)

    by Roberts Beaumont ...
    Roberts Beaumont's Colour in Woven Design is a rigorous and remarkably lucid treatise on the principles governing colour in textiles across woollen, worsted, cotton, and silk manufacture. Combining scientific explanation with practical application, the book examines dyeing, colour harmony, optical effects in woven structure, and the technical conditions that shape successful textile design. Its ... Read more

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  • The Railway King

    by Robert Beaumont ...
    George Hudson - the eponymous Railway King - started his career with a stroke of luck, inheriting £27,000 (a fortune in 1827) from a distant relative. He invested successfully in the North Midland Railway, then formed his own Midland Railway, raising £5 million and bribing MPs along the way. But from his glory in 1845 he fell into disgrace, admitting corruption and selling land he did not own. He ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Stories by English Authors: The Orient

    Exploring Eastern Cultures Through Victorian Literature

    by Rudyard Kipling, Mary Russell Mitford, Morley Roberts, Netta Syrett, Mary Beaumont, Sir Robert K. Douglas ...
    Stories by English Authors: The Orient presents a compelling anthology that navigates the intercultural encounters and complex colonial narratives crafted by six distinguished English authors. The stories transport readers to the enchanting tapestry of the Orient'Äîa region often romanticized in Western literature'Äîthrough a spectrum of literary styles from realistic descriptions to imaginative ... Read more

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  • 7 best short stories - Orientalism

    by August Nemo, H. G. Wells, Mary Russell Mitford, Morley Roberts, Netta Syrett, Rudyard Kipling, Mary Beaumont, R. K. Douglas ...
    Series Book 43 - 7 best short stories - specials
    In art history, literature and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world. These depictions are usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the West. In particular, Orientalist painting, depicting more specifically "the Middle East". Check out the stories with this theme selected by the critic August Nemo: - The Rajah's Treasure by H. G. ... Read more

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  • Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners)

    by Mary Beaumont, Netta Syrett, Robert Kennaway Douglas, Mary Russell Mitford, Rudyard Kipling, Morley Roberts ...
    The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow. I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy. I have still to be brother to a Prince, though I once came near to kinship with what might have been a veritable King, and was promised the reversion of a Kingdom— army, law-courts ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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    Born in England – Exploring English Poetry - The Lords, Knights & Gentlemen of the Realm

    A celebration of English poems

    by Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir John Suckling, Sir John Davies, Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Byron, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Lord Alfred Douglas, Francis Beaumont ...
    Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Robert Maskell, Ghizela Rowe ...

    Unabridged

    Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD