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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The influence of French culture on Willa Cather	Stephanie Durrans	xiii, 280 pages ; 24 cm	OL11769809W
Mark Twain, unsanctified newspaper reporter	James Edward Caron	"A fresh perspective on the early years of Samuel Clemens's career as a writer and newspaper reporter. Caron examines Clemens's developing comic voice in his journalism in Nevada and San Francisco, t…	OL11892255W
Dickens in his time	Ivor John Carnegie Brown	Discussion of the social and working conditions in England, with frequent reference to the characters and events in Dickens' novels.	OL1197442W
Cervantes in Algiers : a captive's tale	María Antonia Garcés	"Returning to Spain after fighting in the Battle of Lepanto and other Mediterranean campaigns against the Turks, the soldier Miguel de Cervantes was captured by Barbary pirates and taken captive to A…	OL12285588W
Lordship and tradition in barbarian Europe	Hermann Moisl	"In this work, the author aims to acquaint the novice with not only the techniques but also the values of the hunter. The work covers the famous hunters of legend, the moral value of hunting, and the…	OL14850741W
Birthing a nation	Susan J. Rosowski	xiii, 242 p. ; 24 cm	OL14850885W
Mr. Dickens Goes to the Play	Alexander Woollcott,Charles Dickens	A few chapters by Woollcott on Charles Dickens's love of the theatre and a great many reprinted selections from Dickens's writings.	OL14870064W
Le véritable secret des rois de France	Arnaud de L'Estoile	« C’est du fantastique exact », confia Jules Bois à propos de l’œuvre de Maurice Leblanc. Cette phrase étonnante lève le voile sur la réalité de l’histoire cachée, sur les noces de l’ésotérisme et de…	OL15394152W
Verdi's Shakespeare	Garry Wills	This book is a dazzling study of the operas Verdi adapted from Shakespeare -- and a spellbinding account of their creation. In Verdi's Shakespeare, Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong opera devotee Ga…	OL15951845W
Divine machines	Justin E. H. Smith	"Though it did not yet exist as a discrete field of scientific inquiry, biology was at the heart of many of the most important debates in seventeenth-century philosophy. Nowhere is this more apparent…	OL16121396W
Jane Austen and her readers, 1786-1945	Katie Halsey	viii, 290 p. ; 24 cm	OL16489804W
The One Thomas More	Travis Curtright	"Thomas More" the humanist. "Sir Thomas More" the statesman. "Saint Thomas More" the martyr. Who was Thomas More? Which characterization of him is most true? Despite these multiple images and th…	OL16509828W
Khantili Nari	Deepak Pithwa	Prestigious & Excellent ‘Khantili Nari’ Book by Mr Deepak Pithwa Prestigious Enterprising Kuchhi Women Issue 2005 stating Lifestory of 60 Women of the Gujarati Kutchhi Community from India. Sur…	OL16640871W
Kate style	Alisande Healy Orme	Details every aspect of Kate Middleton's style, including her favorite shops and designers; her clothes; and the secrets behind her appearance, in a book that includes coverage of her legacy engageme…	OL18168224W
Strindberg	Per Hedstrom,Erik Hook,Agneta Lalander,Goran Soderstrom,Douglas Feuk	"The literary works of August Strindberg are admired throughout the world, but few people outside his native Scandinavia are aware of his accomplishments as a painter and photographer. This book brin…	OL18453962W
Shakespeare and the Middle Ages	Sid Ray,Martha W. Driver	"Every generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices/emphases the Shakespeare it values. Shakespeare himself was deeply involved in his own kind of hist…	OL18769525W
Julie and Julia	Julie Powell	Pushing 30, living in a rundown apartment and working at a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell is, in a word, stuck. In her desperate search for an escape, she comes up instead with a deranged ass…	OL21011664W
Le Léonard des enfants, petits et grands	Hélène Lamarche	Ce livre sert de guide à l'exposition Léonard de Vinci, ingénieur et architecte, organisée par le Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal à l'occasion du centenaire de l'ingénierie canadienne et présentée d…	OL24279352W
Vergangenheit als innere Welt	Johannes Wiele	Doctoral thesis exploring the historical implications of the work of the German jurist, poet and musician E.T.A. Hoffmann. Special attention is paid to the narratives "Doge und Dogaresse" and "Madame…	OL2586588W
Regulating confusion	Thomas Reinert	With the urbanization of eighteenth-century English Society, moral philosophers became preoccupied with the difference between individual and crowd behavior. In so doing, they set the stage for a for…	OL2947441W