This volume compiles the first 3 books of One Story a Day for Beginners, a series of 12 books designed to develop a love of reading in children ages 5 to 7, now divided into 4 volumes. Written by a team of professional writers, these books comprise high-interest topics and motivational content that makes children excited about reading. The stories are based on everyday life, funny tales of friendship and family, fables from around the world, and stories about nature, science, and history. ...

The year 1859 produced major works by writers including George Eliot, Charles Darwin, and Charles Dickens. They represent some of the greatest literary, political, social, and scientific achievements of the Victorian period, and have come to embody a substantial part of what we mean by the term 'Victorian'. In Britain in 1859: Custom, History, Modernity, these enduring texts are read alongside key events of the year; other significant publications from authors such as Collins, Smiles, Mill...

This volume compiles the first 3 books of One Story a Day for Beginners, a series of 12 books designed to develop a love of reading in children ages 5 to 7, now divided into 4 volumes. Written by a team of professional writers, these books comprise high-interest topics and motivational content that makes children excited about reading. The stories are based on everyday life, funny tales of friendship and family, fables from around the world, and stories about nature, science, and history. ...

This volume compiles the first 3 books of One Story a Day for Beginners, a series of 12 books designed to develop a love of reading in children ages 5 to 7, now divided into 4 volumes. Written by a team of professional writers, these books comprise high-interest topics and motivational content that makes children excited about reading. The stories are based on everyday life, funny tales of friendship and family, fables from around the world, and stories about nature, science, and history. ...

This volume compiles the first 3 books of One Story a Day for Beginners, a series of 12 books designed to develop a love of reading in children ages 5 to 7, now divided into 4 volumes. Written by a team of professional writers, these books comprise high-interest topics and motivational content that makes children excited about reading. The stories are based on everyday life, funny tales of friendship and family, fables from around the world, and stories about nature, science, and history. ...

One Story a Day for Beginners is a series of 365 little stories in 12 books that touch on a wide variety of topics. The series is designed to foster children's total development—linguistic, intellectual, social, and cultural—through the joy of reading.

Focuses on David Garrick and the leading actors of his company at Drury Lane. This book tells how, in their time, Garrick, Macklin and Woffington were as famous for their achievements on the stage as they were infamous for their activities off it. It draws a selection of the actors' own words with those of their contemporaries and critics.

Focuses on David Garrick and the leading actors of his company at Drury Lane. This book tells how, in their time, Garrick, Macklin and Woffington were as famous for their achievements on the stage as they were infamous for their activities off it. It draws a selection of the actors' own words with those of their contemporaries and critics.

Focuses on David Garrick and the leading actors of his company at Drury Lane. This book tells how, in their time, Garrick, Macklin and Woffington were as famous for their achievements on the stage as they were infamous for their activities off it. It draws a selection of the actors' own words with those of their contemporaries and critics.

Establishing a fresh critical paradigm, this volume shows how the 1850s was significantly defined by forms of increasing intellectual, class, and geographical mobility. It saw the flourishing of major Victorian writers, including George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, W. M. Thackeray, Matthew Arnold, Charles Kingsley, Anthony Trollope, Tennyson, and Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Outputs by these writers were read alongside a variety of other genres, including travel wri...

Collected here are the biographies which revealed aspects of their subjects that the more favourable "official" accounts tended to hide. The life of the author of each text is described, and their relation to the writers they portray is sketched in.

During the eighteenth century, theatrical writing developed as a genre. The publishing market responded to a seemingly insatiable appetite for accounts of the personalities, social lives and performances of celebrated entertainers. This series features actors who were significant in their development of new ways of performing Shakespeare.