A son follows the breadcrumbs through a volume of Grimms’ Fairy Tales in search of his estranged fatherOn his eighteenth birthday, Carlos receives a strange gift: his father, whom he never knew, has died and left him hi...Loe edasi...
This book shows how inheritance is, and has always been, more than the set of legal processes for the distribution of wealth and property upon death. It makes a compelling case for placing the social and legal practices of inheritance centre stage t...Loe edasi...
This book investigates how Victorian fiction reconfigures the narrative and social conventions of inheritance by revealing its unsettling affinities with speculative forms. The book takes an interdisciplinary historical and formal approach, reading...Loe edasi...
This book shows how inheritance is, and has always been, more than the set of legal processes for the distribution of wealth and property upon death. It makes a compelling case for placing the social and legal practices of inheritance centre stage t...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the complex relationships between inheritance, work, and desert in literature. It shows how, from its manifestation in the trope of material inheritance and legacy in Victorian fiction, “inheritance” gradually took on additional,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Aug-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Thorndike Press Large Print, ISBN-13: 9781432899370)
Stone Barrington must battle a nasty opponent in the latest action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.After returning home from a treacherous adventure, Stone Barrington is all t...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the complex relationships between inheritance, work, and desert in literature. It shows how, from its manifestation in the trope of material inheritance and legacy in Victorian fiction, “inheritance” gradually took on additional,...Loe edasi...
This book draws the attention of readers of Jane Austens work to important aspects which have never been taken into due consideration by critics and are yet keys to the meaning of the relationship between individual, family and society in her writin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-May-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Mint Editions, ISBN-13: 9781513283005)
Babes in Toyland (1903) is a libretto by Glen MacDonough. Written for an operetta composed by Victor Herbert, MacDonoughs libretto is a story for children and adults alike. Taking inspiration from beloved Mother Goose nursery rhymes, MacDonough craf...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Feb-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198851424)
Impossible bequests of the soul; an outlawed younger son who rises to become justice of the kings forests; the artificially-preserved corpse of the heir to an empire; a medieval clerk kept awake at night by fears of falling; a seventeenth-century no...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Dec-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198778172)
Moments of royal succession, which punctuate the Stuart era (1603-1714), occasioned outpourings of literature. Writers, including most of the major figures of the seventeenth century from Jonson, Daniel, and Donne to Marvell, Dryden, and Behn, seized...Loe edasi...
The first book-length study examining how the Shakespearean theatre shaped attitudes about primogeniture, one of Englands most important and longstanding socio-economic systems. This book offers a new understanding of the history of both inheritance...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Dec-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198814078)
Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne is the first detailed study of the final Stuart succession crisis. It demonstrates for the first time the centrality of debates about royal succession to the literature and politic...Loe edasi...
The #1 New York Times bestselling “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark crafts a thrilling mystery in which a news reporter develops an interest in her birth parents just as she is assigned to cover the high-profile trial of a woman accused o...Loe edasi...
“Dead hand” is the English translation of the Latin term “mortmain,” which the law dictionary defines as “the influence of the past regarded as controlling the present.” For Rachel Gold, a more accurate term would be “zombies.” In particular, the wea...Loe edasi...
Lawyer Rachel Gold finds herself representing two women whose late husbands have placed unusual inheritance stipulations in their wills, each case only becoming more difficult when both litigations turn deadly. Book 10 in the Rachel Gold Myst...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-May-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: Thomas Dunne Books, ISBN-13: 9781250052421)
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Representing a host of Charlestons most notorious defendants in the aftermath of her divorce, successful lawyer Sally Baynard finds herself advocating on behalf of a feline beneficiary of a multimillion-dollar trust who is at the center of a custody...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Apr-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: Plaza & Janes S.A., ISBN-13: 9788401018213)
Television journalist Delaney Wright tries to find her birth mother just as she is assigned to cover the high-profile trial of a woman accused of murdering her wealthy husband. Mary Higgins Clark, la reina indiscutible del suspense,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Apr-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691643052)
Arguing that satiric potential is latent in virtually all dispensation, succession, and inheritance narratives, Michael Seidel suggests a new and comprehensive understanding of satires place in the more general context of narrative theory. The no...Loe edasi...
