Do you have a broken life?Have your relationships ben marred by childhood trauma?Did you begin as we all do as an innocent toddler, trusting, loving, reaching out for love to those around you?Did you discover those early relationships were not as wholesome as they should have been?This book is for you.This is the story of one woman's journey through the long dark tunnel that trapped her, to a life of freedom beyond. Read her story to...

This book explores the relationship between nineteenth-century poetry and liberal philosophy. It carries out a reassessment of the aesthetic possibilities of liberalism and it considers the variety of ways that poetry by William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Meredith, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold and Algernon Charles Swinburne responds to and participates in urgent philosophical, social and political debates about liberty and the rule of law. It prov...

She never worried about her baby until listening to her nephew of eighteen months expressing exactly what he wanted. It seems odd that this would be alarming, but this mom's own child of two hasn't started using ten words yet - and tantrums are rampant. Immediately she questions what is wrong with her precious child.If this, or a similar experience sounds familiar, Ready, Set, Talk is a perfect resource for you. Boost your child's speech through techniques listed within th...

This is a book about a longstanding network of writers and writings that celebrate the aesthetic, socio-political, scientific, ecological, geographical, and historical value of trees and tree spaces in the landscape; and it is a study of the effect of this tree-writing upon the novel form in the long nineteenth century.Trees in Nineteenth-Century English Fiction: The Silvicultural Novel identifies the picturesque thinker William Gilpin as a significant influence in this li...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Her husband vanished after the wedding. No goodbye. No explanation. Had he ever been real at all?Sienna never expected her Roman holiday to end in heartbreak. Lars was everything she'd dreamed of—charming, mysterious, devastatingly handsome. Their whirlwind romance felt like fate. When he proposed on a sun-drenched hillside, she said yes without hesitation.The next morning, she woke up alone.No n...

Twisty scares with heartGhosts, sea monsters and a rest home for troublesome witches all feature in this collection of paranormal stories set in Wellington New Zealand. By turns spooky and laugh out loud funny, these tales stew with malevolence and mischief.Climb aboard the ghost bus for a wild ride of sci-fi, fantasy, horror and humour and hop off a little more in love with Aotearoa's capital city.

In the rugged Australian outback, a mysterious gentleman arrives at a remote station, seeking refuge from a shadowy past. As he becomes entangled in the lives of the station's inhabitants, secrets unravel, and the true nature of his identity is called into question. Andrew Barton Paterson's "In Re a Gentleman, One" is a gripping tale of intrigue, adventure, and the complexities of human nature. Set against the backdrop of the unforgiving Australian wilderness, this classic work explores th...

In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging modern w...

"Those at the periphery of society often figure obsessively for those at its center, and never more so than with the rogues of early modern England. Whether as social fact or literary fiction-or both, simultaneously-the marginal rogue became ideologically central and has remained so for historians, cultural critics, and literary critics alike. In this collection, early modern rogues represent the range, diversity, and tensions within early modern scholarship, making this quite simply the b...

Victorian poetry was read and enjoyed by a much larger audience than is sometimes thought. Publication in widely-circulating periodicals, reprinting in book reviews, and excerpting in novels and essays ensured that major poets such as Tennyson, Browning, Hardy and Rossetti were household names, and they remain popular today. The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry provides an accessible overview of British poetry from 1830 to 1901, paying particular attention to its role in mass med...

This 2004 volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The first part of the volume focuses on broad themes inclu...