Andrew Sanders Knihy

Whose Dog is This? is the outrageously funny follow-up to Where Has all the Cake Gone? by Andrew Sanders and Aysha Awwad.

A brilliantly funny, laugh-out-loud story about a missing cake, a pack of criminally-minded, cake-stealing penguins and a little boy with a talent for the tallest of tales!

This book, first published in 1988, reveals the great care Dickens took with the planning and preparation of A Tale of Two Cities and its roots. It also explores the aspects of Dickens's life which contributed to the genesis of the novel.

'The saddest story I ever wrote.' Mrs Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers is set during the French Revolutionary Wars in the remote whaling-port of Monkshaven in Yorkshire. The sea dominates the lives of the inhabitants: whalers returning from their long and dangerous trips to Greenland bring crowds to the quayside, every local man has tales to recount of his exploits at sea, and smuggling is rife. The people of Monkshaven hate the French, but they live in greater and more immediate fear of the dreaded incursions of the callous press-gang, who snatch sailors returning from whaling trip before they have even spoken to their friends or families. In Mrs Gaskell's provincial England war is seen to mirror a private violence which has already disrupted the lives of her fictional characters. Sylvia is a heroine loved by two men of completely different types--the bold sailor Charley Kinraid and the cautious and conventional Philip Hepburn, who idolizes her. The novel follows her development from a wilful, imaginative, but not especially clever girl, to an alert woman who has been matured by her acute suffering. The text is that of the one-volume fourth edition, published in December 1863.

Set during the French Revolution, the two cities in question are Paris and London and the tale is one of the tragedies that take place therein.

The Short Oxford History of English Literature provides a comprehensive and authoritative introductory guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day, including a full treatment of Irish, Scottish, and Welsh writing in English. The chapters are arranged chronologically, covering all major periods of English literature from Old English to the post-war era, including the medieval period, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Romanticism, the Victorians, Modernism, and Postmodernism. In addition to a detailed discussion of all major figures and their works, Andrew Sanders examines throughout the relationship between the literary landscape and wider contemporary social, political, and intellectual developments. This edition contains a range of new entries on important contemporary authors and an increased focus on female writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as well as a fully updated and revised bibliography.

The idea for Tom Brown's Schooldays came one day when Thomas Hughes was wondering what to say to his son, aged 8, before he went off to Rugby. He decided that good might be done by writing a real novel for boys, written in a right spirit but distinctly aimed at being interesting.

This book examines the role of the United States of America in the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process. Featuring interviews with former government figures from the US, UK, and Ireland, it analyses the complicated diplomatic relationship between the three countries during the years of violence.