Ford masterfully combines his trademark subtlety and complexity in this masterful tetralogy that follows Christopher Tietjens, an officer and a gentleman, as he traverses the tumultuous path leading from Edwardian England to World War I. Against the chaotic backdrop of a world at war, the complicated sexual warfare between Tietjens and his sadistic wife, Sylvia, comes to a head while Tietjens is faced with a deteriorating sense of self and an increasingly ruinous life.

A renowned Bible scholar examines how the Hebrew text has been interpreted—and misinterpreted—from the Renaissance to modern times.In this wide-ranging and authoritative study, Gerald Hammond sheds light on how the Bible has evolved over centuries of English-language translation. His extensive analysis begins in the sixteenth century with William Tyndale's pioneering work. This early text is contrasted with the seventeenth century authorized version, showing how ea...

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This book presents a collection of works of John Skelton, the first great modern English poet, who wrote in a vigorous vernacular, taking literary English out of the medieval world and enriching it with new forms and tones. It provides notes and glossary illuminating Skelton's works for the reader.

In dictionary form but offering much more than dictionary definitions, The Language of Horse Racing presents a guide to the history, development and usage of words and phrases employed on the racecourse, by those who train and look after horses, those who ride them, and those who lose their money betting on them. Here the reader will discover exactly what the distance is, and why it is so called; what the cap was in handicap; what relation the wild goose chase had to the steeple-chase; wha...

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning series, the first four novels featuring an American who comes of age during the turbulent years of the early 20th century.In World's End, Lanning "Lanny" Budd's language skills and talent for decoding messages are in high demand as WWI bursts over Europe. When the hostilities conclude, Lanny joins the Paris Peace Conference as the assistant to a geographer asked by President Woodrow Wilson to redraw the map of Europe.

The daring, inventive novel (a sprawling family saga set in Kentucky that combines southern gothic with the drama of horse racing) from a brilliant young author named one of The New Yorker's "20 Best Writers Under 40."Here is the ambitious, strikingly original, and dazzling new novel from a young writer whose first novel, All the Living, received passionate praise and rave reviews, and earned her one of the highly coveted spots on The New York...

Inspired by the diary of a countess who lived through the turbulent years of the Third of May Constitution (1790s). "All the sweep and romance of Gone with the Wind and Doctor Zhivago." ~India Edghill on Push Not the RiverThe story, characters, and setting will draw you in and hold you!2018 GOLD MEDAL IPPY WINNER2020 First Place Chanticleer Award for Series...

My Family and Other Animals is the first book in The Corfu Trilogy, the inspiration for ITV's The Durrells.The bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald DurrellEscaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Gerry, along with their long-suffering ...

A deeply moving and unflinching portrayal of war through the eyes of a young soldier. The novel follows Paul Bäumer, a German soldier who enters World War I with idealism, only to face the brutal realities of trench warfare. As the conflict unfolds, he and his companions struggle with fear, loss, and the emotional toll of survival. Through vivid and honest storytelling, the narrative captures the physical and psychological impact of war, showing how it strips away innocence and reshapes id...

Gathering F. Scott Fitzgerald's five novels with the four story collections issued in his lifetime, this volume traces the full arc of one of American modernism's most lucid imaginations. From the collegiate restlessness of This Side of Paradise to the glittering fatalism of The Great Gatsby, the wounded expatriate world of Tender Is the Night, and the unfinished Hollywood anatomy of The Last Tycoon, Fitzgerald's prose fuses lyrical elegance with social diagnosis. The stories—from Flappers...

THE BASIS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TV SENSATION BABYLON BERLIN"Cabaret on cocaine...captures the dark glamour of a briefly exhilarating time between the wars." --NPRBabylon Berlin is the first book in the international-bestselling series from Volker Kutscher that centers on Detective Gereon Rath caught up in a web of drugs, sex, political intrigue, and murder in Berlin as Germany teeters on the edge ...