English Or England In The Title
Top 10 English Or England In The Title
: The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories, Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, The History of the Kings of Britain, I Hate English!, England, Their England, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, The English Teacher, She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth, Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota
| Author | Michael Cox |
| ISBN | 0192840851 |
With their evocative settings amid mists and shadows, in ruinous houses, on lonely roads and wild moorlands, in abandoned churches and over-grown gardens, ghost stories have long exercised a universal fascination. Responding to people's overwhelming attraction to anything frightening, this...
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
Two hundred years ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of Children’s and Household Tales. Now, at a veritable fairy-tale moment—witness the popular television shows Grimm and Once Upon a Time and this year’s two movie adaptations of “Snow White”—Philip Pullman,...
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain’s ‘conscious and deliberate bleeding of India… [was the] greatest crime in all history’. He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and his assessment was not exaggerated. Almost...
| Author | Geoffrey of Monmouth |
| ISBN | 0140441700 |
Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous...
| Author | Ellen Levine |
| ISBN | 0590423045 |
"I Hate English" is a realistic-fiction book who tells the story in which a young girl Mei Mei hates English like the title suggests. She is a immigrant girl who just moved from Hong Kong. She misses everything that has to do with her hometown, but most importantly the language. She struggles throughout...
| Author | A.G. Macdonell |
| ISBN | 0330280414 |
Banished from his native Scotland by a curious clause in his father’s will, Donald Cameron moves to London and decides to conduct a study of the English people; a strange race who, he is told, have built an entire national identity around a reverence for team spirit and the memory of Lord Nelson . . .
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
| Author | Rick Atkinson |
| ISBN | 1627790438 |
In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental...
| Author | R.K. Narayan |
| ISBN | 0099282283 |
As always with Narayan, the writing is a joy to read. The prose flows smoothly, the descriptions come to life and dialogue reads as true. I liked the story too (I won't spoil it by giving it away) but the metaphysical aspects were not believable and once I reached that part of the book, it became a bit heavy-going....
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
| Author | Helen Castor |
| ISBN | 0571237053 |
When Edward VI - Henry VIII’s longed-for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left to claim the title King of England. For the first time, all the contenders for the crown were female.
In 1553, England was about to experience the ‘monstrous regiment’ - the unnatural rule...
| Author | Marion Dane Bauer |
| ISBN | 0439220270 |
"Land of the Buffalo Bones" is the diary of Mary Rodgers, known as Polly. Promising religious freedom and fertile land, Polly's father, Reverend Rodgers, moves their Baptist community from England to the Minnesota prairie. After a treacherous journey across the sea and across this country, Polly...
The Stolen Crown: The Secret Marriage that Forever Changed the Fate of England
| Author | Susan Higginbotham |
| ISBN | 1402237669 |
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The Stolen Crown begins is told from the alternating POV of Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham and his wife Katherine Woodville. Henry (Harry) was married as a young child to Katherine, younger sister of Elizabeth Woodville - Queen of England and wife to Edward IV (no small feat for those...
