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“The Iron Horse,” authored by R. M. Ballantyne, is a riveting historical adventure novel that delves into the remarkable era of the railway expansion in 19th-century America. This story revolves around the experiences of Charlie Kennedy, one of the courageous young man who finds himself embroiled in the awe-inspiring construction of the transcontinental railroad. Set…
“Good for evil” is an ancient Victorian era, Novel story book written by Madeline Leslie. The masterpiece amazing story, which is ready within the Victorian era, follows the tale of Clara Talbot, a young girl of profound perception who endures many varieties of issues and tribulations as she struggles to uphold her Christianbeliefs inside the…
The book “Flemington” is a historical novel written by Violet Jacob. The story of the book is about the Jacobite rising of 1715 in Scotland and continues to follow the lives of Grahams and describes the struggles they faced during the raging in Scottish history. The main protagonist of whole story is Elspeth Blair, a…
The book “God’s Country and The Woman” is a kind of western novel written by James Oliver Curwood. A heartfelt no one which is set on the Canadian wilderness ender human drama. The story is about a loyal dog and his fellow Jim who used to live in the remote wilderness, living a simple and…
The Prince was written in 1513 but published only in 1532, after Machiavelli’s death. It was written at a time of political conflict, violence, instability and intrigue, when Italy was repeatedly won and controlled by foreigners. It was meant to be a practical guide to the Italian leader, Lorenzo Di Medici to act in this…
Sfar So Far is the first monograph in any language devoted to the graphic novels of Joann Sfar, an artist whose abundant and innovative work has profoundly marked the contemporary French comics scene. This book examines how, over the past two decades, Sfar has constructed an idiosyncratic universe with its own thematic and stylistic recurrences:…
Girls’ comics were a major genre from the 1950s onward in Britain and the most popular titles sold between 800,000 and a million copies a week. However, this genre was slowly replaced by magazines, which now dominate publishing for girls. Remembered Reading is a readers’ history that explores the genre, and memories of those comics,…
This volume is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays in the fields of nineteenth-century history, adaptation, word/image and Victorianism. Featuring new writing by some of the most influential, respected and radical scholars in these fields, Transforming Anthony Trollope constitutes both a close companion to Simon Grennan’s 2015 graphic novel Dispossession–an adaptation of Anthony Trollope’s 1879 novel…
Bringing together the work of an array of North American and European scholars, this collection highlights a previously unexamined area within global comics studies. It analyses comics from countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain like East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine, given their shared history of WWII and Communism. In addition to…
Postcolonialism and migration are major themes in contemporary French comics and have roots in the Algerian War (1954-62), anti-racist struggle, and mass migration to France. This volume studies comics from the formal dismantling of the French colonial empire in 1962 up to the present. French cartoonists of ethnic minority and immigrant heritage are a major…
Comics and cartoons from Japan, or manga and anime, are an increasingly common feature of visual and popular culture around the world. While it is often observed that these media forms appeal to broad and diverse demographics, including many adults, eroticism continues to unsettle critics and has even triggered legal action in some jurisdictions. It…
Bumbling Through Borneo, an educational yet comical trek through Borneo’s hinterland, takes the reader on an entertaining journey of discovery by following the misadventures of a fictitious cast of bumbling characters as they stumble across the natural treasures and indigenous cultures of the Malaysian state of Sarawak – including the environmental challenges they currently face….
Bumbling Through Sumatra is an educational yet comical adventure through the Strait of Malacca, various ports in Malaysia, and across the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The reader is taken on an entertaining journey of discovery by following the misadventures of a fictitious cast of bumbling characters as they stumble across the natural treasures and indigenous…
Bumbling Through Hong Kong is an educational yet comical adventure through the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and its many manmade and natural environments. The reader is taken on an entertaining journey of discovery by following the misadventures of a fictitious cast of bumbling backpackers as they stumble across the cultural traditions, natural assets and…
Imagine living in a high-rise mini-city that people built with their own hands. This city took up only the size of a sports stadium, but it was home to sixty thousand people! What would it be like to live in the most tightly packed place on Earth? Fiona wanted to find out, so she went…
Award winning team of Sean Michael Wilson and Akiko Shimojima have ventured into new territory in this, their ninth book together, on the explorer Mamiya Rinzo (間宮 林蔵) who mapped Sakhalin Island in the early years of the 19th century. “Mamiya’s Maps” is about exploration, culture clash, the making of maps and how they are…
