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Agincourt B Signedby Juliet BarkerISBN 035624444X (0-356-24444-X)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made Englandby Juliet BarkerISBN 0316015040 (0-316-01504-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England'Book summary:From a master historian comes an astonishing chronicle of life in medieval Europe and the battle that altered the course of an empire.Although almost six centuries old, the Battle of Agincourt still captivates the imaginations of men and women on both sides of the Atlantic. It has been immortalized in high culture (Shakespeare's Henry V) and low (the New York Post prints Henry's battle cry on its editorial page each Memorial Day).It is the classic underdog story in the history of warfare, and generations have wondered how the English-outnumbered by the French six to one-could have succeeded so bravely and brilliantly. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, eminent scholar Juliet Barker casts aside the legend and shows us that the truth behind Agincourt is just as exciting, just as fascinating, and far more significant. She paints a gripping narrative of the October 1415 clash between outnumbered English archers and heavily armored French knights.But she also takes us beyond the battlefield into palaces and common cottages to bring into vivid focus an entire medieval world in flux. Populated with chivalrous heroes, dastardly spies, and a ferocious and bold king, AGINCOURT is as earthshaking as its subject-and will confirm Juliet Barker's status as both a historian and a storyteller of the first rank. [via]
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Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battleby Juliet BarkerISBN 034911918X (0-349-11918-X)
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Brontesby Juliet BarkerISBN 0312145551 (0-312-14555-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brontes'Book summary:The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addicted wastrel of a brother, wild romantic Emily, unrequited Anne and "poor Charlotte". Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely that - imaginary - created by amateur biographers from Mrs Gaskell onwards who were primarily novelists, and were attracted by the tale of an apparently doomed family of genius. Later biographers still repeat her mistakes, and have, without exception, relied on the bowdlerised texts published by T.J. Wise, a forger. Juliet Barker's landmark book is the first definitive history of the Brontes. It demolishes the myths, yet provides startling new information that is just as compelling - but true. Based on firsthand research among all the Bronte manuscripts, many so tiny they can only be read by magnifying glass, and among contemporary historical documents never before used by Bronte biographers, this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable. [via]
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The Brontes: A Life in Lettersby Juliet BarkerISBN 0670872121 (0-670-87212-1)
Hardcover, Viking
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brontes: A Life in Letters'Book summary:In this carefully chosen selection of their letters, diaries and autobiographical fragments, we hear the authentic voices of the three novelists, as well as their brother Bramwell and father, the Reverend Patrick Bronte. The collection follows their progress from exuberant childhood to years of hardship, followed by immense literary success and then tragic later years. [via]
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The Brontes Selected Poemsby Juliet BarkerISBN 046001496X (0-460-01496-X)
Softcover, Dent
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Charlotte Bronte: Juvenilia 1829-1835by Charlotte Brontë, Juliet BarkerISBN 0140439625 (0-14-043962-5)
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Clinical Problems in General Medicine and Surgeryby Juliet Barker , Jonathan Mitchell, Peter Devitt, Christian Hamilton-CraigISBN 0443073236 (0-443-07323-6)
Softcover, Churchill Livingstone
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Juvenilia 1829-1835by Charlotte Bronte, Juliet BarkerISBN 0140435158 (0-14-043515-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Selected Poems of Brontesby Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Patrick Branwell Bronte, Juliet BarkerISBN 0460870939 (0-460-87093-9)
Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Wordsworth: A Lifeby Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Patrick Branwell Bronte, Juliet BarkerISBN 0060787368 (0-06-078736-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wordsworth: A Life'Book summary:Wordsworth was a large-boned, somewhat shambling, brilliant and big-nosed man, and Juliet Barker has written a biography to match him on every one of these points. Like its subject it is huge, nearly a thousand pages, and it contains multitudes of fascinating facts--a biographer can hardly go wrong with a subject who lived through such interesting times and knew such interesting people: revolutionary France (where Wordsworth travelled and fathered an illegitimate child), the Napoleonic wars, Coleridge, Southey, and writing a series of astonishing poems. Barker's easy style draws on an enormous wealth of research, but is never bogged down by it, and she manages to make her sometimes obstinate subject always human and likeable. This is an especial achievement in the later years, when Wordsworth's politics calcified into hang 'em and flog 'em Toryism; Barker manages to make even this grumpy old poet a figure you care about. The passages at the end of the book when Wordsworth's daughter Dora dies of tuberculosis, are genuinely moving. It is not a perfect book; like its subject, too it is a little dull. Its readings of the poetry itself (and the poetry is the reason why Wordsworth is so important, after all) are a little meagre; Barker limits herself to observations along the lines of "this is a great poem", "this is an important poem", "this sonnet is an exquisite work of art" and the like. Of the "Intimations Ode" ("the greatest William ever wrote") she limits herself to observing that, so familiar is it nowadays, "reading it is like going through a dictionary of quotations". Steven Gill's William Wordsworth, which has been the standard biography hitherto, does the job of critical reading of the verse much better. And like its subject Barker's book is big-nosed too, in several senses. For one thing, it traces the Wordsworthian "Roman" profile from father to children; Dora had a portrait painted of herself "with swept back black hair and large nose", and later travelled to the artist's London studio "to have my nose reduced a little". But Barker also sniffs haughtily at some of the modern attitudes to Wordsworth's life and times. To the notorious suggestion that Wordsworth had an incestuous relationship with his sister Dorothy, Barker snorts that people only think so because they view the couple "through Freud's distorting lens", and dismisses the--let's be honest, intriguing--notion as "prurient speculation". This said, however, this is nevertheless a noble biographical exercise, absorbing and solid. --Adam Roberts [via]
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- Wordsworth: A Life: ISBN 0060787317 (0-06-078731-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Wordsworth : A Life: ISBN 0140261621 (0-14-026162-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - Wordsworth: A Life: ISBN 067087213X (0-670-87213-X)
Hardcover, Viking - Wordsworth: A Life: ISBN 0060787368 (0-06-078736-8)
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- Wordsworth: A Life: ISBN 0060787317 (0-06-078731-7)
Wordsworth : A Life in Lettersby Juliet Barker , William WordsworthISBN 0141442131 (0-14-144213-1)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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