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The Wonders

Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, the Circus and the Victorian Age

by John Woolf ...

A radical history of the extraordinary Freak performers whose talents and disabilities helped define the Victorian era and beyond.Ladies and gentlemen, step right up…On 23 March, 1844, General Tom Thumb, at 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this event marked a tipping point in the nineteenth century: the age ... Read more

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A radical history of the extraordinary Freak performers whose talents and disabilities helped define the Victorian era and beyond.Ladies and gentlemen, step right up…On 23 March, 1844, General Tom Thumb, at 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this event marked a tipping point in the nineteenth century: the age
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Black Victorians

Hidden in History

by Keshia N. Abraham, John Woolf ...

Beyond the patrician vision of Victorian Britain traditionally advanced in our textbooks, there always existed another, more diverse Britain, populated by people of colour marking achievements both ordinary and extraordinary.In this deeply researched and dynamic history, Woolf and Abraham reach into the archives to recentre our attention on marginalised Black Victorians, from leading medic George ... Read more

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Beyond the patrician vision of Victorian Britain traditionally advanced in our textbooks, there always existed another, more diverse Britain, populated by people of colour marking achievements both ordinary and extraordinary.In this deeply researched and dynamic history, Woolf and Abraham reach into the archives to recentre our attention on marginalised Black Victorians, from leading medic George
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The Wonders

by John Woolf ...

On March 23, 1844, General Tom Thumb, just 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed low to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this meeting marked a tipping point in the nineteenth century, and the age of the freak was born.Bewitching all levels of society, it was a world of curiosities and astonishing spectacle—of dwarfs, giants, bearded ladies, ... Read more

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On March 23, 1844, General Tom Thumb, just 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed low to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this meeting marked a tipping point in the nineteenth century, and the age of the freak was born.Bewitching all levels of society, it was a world of curiosities and astonishing spectacle—of dwarfs, giants, bearded ladies,
... Read more
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The Wonders

by John Woolf ...

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Ladies and gentlemen, step right up…On 23 March, 1844, General Tom Thumb, at 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this event marked a tipping point in the nineteenth century: the age of the ‘Freak’ was born.Bewitching all levels of society, the ‘Freak Show’ was a world of astonishing spectacle and entertainment ... Read more

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Ladies and gentlemen, step right up…On 23 March, 1844, General Tom Thumb, at 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this event marked a tipping point in the nineteenth century: the age of the ‘Freak’ was born.Bewitching all levels of society, the ‘Freak Show’ was a world of astonishing spectacle and entertainment
... Read more
Vitruvius Britannicus

Second Series

by J. Badeslade, J. Rocque, John Woolfe, James Gandon ...

The Baroque excesses of the early eighteenth century inspired a rebellion among a consortium of British architects and their patrons. Taking their cue from the Renaissance works of Andrea Palladio, these Neo-Palladians returned the direction of British architecture toward classical principles. The Vitruvius Britannicus (British Vitruvius) reflects their vision, offering magnificent copperplate ... Read more

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The Baroque excesses of the early eighteenth century inspired a rebellion among a consortium of British architects and their patrons. Taking their cue from the Renaissance works of Andrea Palladio, these Neo-Palladians returned the direction of British architecture toward classical principles. The Vitruvius Britannicus (British Vitruvius) reflects their vision, offering magnificent copperplate
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50+ Great Novellas and Short Stories. Vol.1.

Selections from Poe, London, Twain, Melville, Kipling, Dickens, Tolstoy, Joyce, Hemingway, Bradbury, Christie and many more

by Washington Irving, Prosper Mérimée, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ivan Turgenev, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Robert Louis Stevenson, Leo Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Rainer Maria Rilke, Saki, O. Henry, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Katherine Mansfield, Willa Cather, D.H. Lawrence, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sherwood Anderson, Virginia Woolf, Ring Lardner, John Galsworthy, Joseph Conrad, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, E.M. Forster, H. P. Lovecraft, Agatha Christie, H. G. Wells, James Joyce, Anton Chekhov ...

This collection is a compilation of novels and short stories by some of the greatest masters of fiction literature. The collection includes works spanning over 150 years from the beginning of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century. The works vary in genre, including humorous, lyrical, psychological, romantic, detective, fantastic, adventurous, and mystical prose. It features ... Read more

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This collection is a compilation of novels and short stories by some of the greatest masters of fiction literature. The collection includes works spanning over 150 years from the beginning of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century. The works vary in genre, including humorous, lyrical, psychological, romantic, detective, fantastic, adventurous, and mystical prose. It features
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100 Books You Must Read Before You Die [volume 1]

by Alexandre Dumas, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theodore Dreiser, Henri Barbusse, Honoré de Balzac, Louisa May Alcott, E. M. Forster, George Eliot (Eliot, George), Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Joseph Conrad, Miguel de Cervantes, Lewis Carroll, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, D. H. Lawrence, Dante Alighieri, Leo Tolstoy, H.P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Homer, Victor Hugo, Washington Irving, Henry James, Gaston Leroux, Jack London, Arthur Machen, Herman Melville, Marcel Proust, Mary Shelley, Stendhal, Sun Tzu, Jonathan Swift, William Makepeace Thackeray, Mark Twain, Theodor Fontane, Guy de Maupassant, Alphonse Daudet, George Sand, Sir Walter Scott, Henry Fielding, Blaise Pascal, John Webster, Thomas Dekker, Virginia Woolf ...

This 1st volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler ... Read more

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This 1st volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler
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3 Stories - Describes Nature

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

by Virginia Woolf, John Galsworthy, Ivan Turgenev ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

38 min

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Read more
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Stories About Obsession that AREN'T Moby Dick

The name that first comes to mind isn't always the best

by H P Lovecraft, Franz Kafka, Alexander Pushkin, D H Lawrence, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Virginia Woolf, John Buchan, Sherwood Anderson, E T A Hoffman, Vernon Lee, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Rudyard Kipling, Robert W Chambers ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Christopher Ragland, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

12 hours 36 min

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just over-looked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit.Each of their works is laden with talent, has purpose, and is rich and textured ... Read more

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In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just over-looked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit.Each of their works is laden with talent, has purpose, and is rich and textured
... Read more
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The Man Born To Be King

A BBC Radio 4 drama collection

by Dorothy L. Sayers ...

Narrated by Full Cast, Mary Wimbush, Gabriel Woolf, John Westbrook, Norman Shelley, Miriam Margolyes, John Laurie ...

Unabridged

8 hours 28 min

Dorothy L. Sayers' classic play cycle based on the life and times of JesusDorothy L. Sayers was best known for her mystery novels featuring aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. But she was also a poet, playwright and committed Christian, and in The Man Born to Be King she combined art and evangelism to powerful effect, making the story of Christ accessible, relevant and every bit as ... Read more

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Dorothy L. Sayers' classic play cycle based on the life and times of JesusDorothy L. Sayers was best known for her mystery novels featuring aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. But she was also a poet, playwright and committed Christian, and in The Man Born to Be King she combined art and evangelism to powerful effect, making the story of Christ accessible, relevant and every bit as
... Read more
The Great Scientists

From Euclid to Stephen Hawking

by John Farndon, Anne Rooney, Alex Woolf ...

From skyscrapers to jet aircraft, from mobile phones to computers, the products of modern science surround us on all sides.Perhaps the most significant product of science, however, is not the microwave, or the space station or the widescreen TV; it is the scientific method itself. Those societies that have actively embraced this method have flourished.The men and women who appear in The Great ... Read more

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From skyscrapers to jet aircraft, from mobile phones to computers, the products of modern science surround us on all sides.Perhaps the most significant product of science, however, is not the microwave, or the space station or the widescreen TV; it is the scientific method itself. Those societies that have actively embraced this method have flourished.The men and women who appear in The Great
... Read more
3 Stories - Describes Nature

by Ivan Turgenev, Virginia Woolf, John Galsworthy ...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these mo ... Read more

$1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these mo
... Read more

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