Play Up and Play the Game (1973) examines the type of fictional hero most embodied in the work and character, poetry and philosophy of Sir Henry Newbolt. 'Newbolt Man', imbued with the spirit of fairplay, loyalty, fearlessness, conformity (while remaining slightly philistine and sexless), can be traced in the work of Rider Haggard, Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace, Anthony Hope and P.C. Wren. The book traces his development from the Victorian schoolboy (Tom Brown's School Days and Kipling) to the twentieth-century secret agent (Buchan's Richard Hannay), and on to his demise in Sheriff's Journey's End and Aldington's Death of a Hero.

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In "For Your Eyes Only," Ben Macintyre reveals where the world of Ian Fleming ends and the world of James Bond begins. Macintyre looks at the actual people on whom the writer based his fictional creations--friends, colleagues, lovers, and, of course, the notorious villains. Exploring the tradition of spy fiction past and present, with specific attention to the Cold War, Macintyre explains how Bond was based on the realities--and fantasies--of Fleming's life as a wartime spymaster and peacetime bon vivant.
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Serving as both a chronicle of the intellectual environment that has surrounded Joycean hypertext over the last decade, and also a means to map out the future scholarship, this collection of essays brings together a wide range of scholars and academic projects. A pioneering book, it will be a vital resource for all those studying Joyce criticism, textual criticism, and hypertext media.

Virginia Woolf, figurehead of the Bloomsbury Group and an innovative writer whose experimental style and lyrical prose ensured her position as one of the most influential of modern novelists, was also firmly anchored in the reality of the houses she lived in and those she visited regularly. Detailed and evocative accounts appear in her letters and diaries, as well as in her fiction, where they appear as backdrops or provide direct inspiration. Hilary Macaskill examines the houses that meant the most to Woolf, including: 22 Hyde Park Gate, London - where Virginia Woolf was born in 1882 Talland House, St Ives, Cornwall - the summer home of Virginia's family until 1895 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London - the birthplace of the Bloomsbury Group - Virginia lived here from 1904 to 1912 Hogarth House, Richmond, London - where the newly married Woolfs set up home and founded the Hogarth Press Asheham House, East Sussex - the summer home of the Woolfs, 1912-1919 52 Tavistock Square, London - a return to Bloomsbury, the heart of London Monk's House, Rodmell, East Sussex - where Virginia lived from 1919 until her death in 1941

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Originally published in 1978, this concordance to Conrad's Almayer's Folly includes a verbal index and field of reference, along with some notes on why they are useful. This volume is part of an experimental series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad's works.

Originally published in 1980, the Concordances to Conrad's The Shadow Line and Youth: A Narrative provide complete verbal indexes and tables of frequency keyed to a field of reference for the text. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad's works.

Originally published in 1981, this concordance to A Set of Six will assist readers in understanding the vocabulary of a group of stories of considerable artistic merit and also of importance to our grasp of Conrad's total works. It is particularly important, however, that this volume of tables be available to the serious scholar of Conrad, because it provides a basis for comparison of his various short works. This volume gives a verbal index, listing all the words used by Conrad in A Set of Six with the page and line number in which the word occurs. The user turns from the verbal index to the field of reference to see the word in its full context. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad's works.

Originally published in 1981, this volume tabulates the vocabulary of one of Conrad's most interesting works. This volume contains a complete verbal index to the text, a table of word frequencies, and a field of reference allowing the user to locate the context of each word cited. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad's works. This book is a re-issue pertaining to a title originally published in 1897. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.

Originally published in 1981, this concordance can afford particular benefits to the critic and textual scholar because of several specialized problems that The Arrow of Gold presents. It should be able to shed light on problems distinct to The Arrow of Gold even as it provides information on questions pertinent to Conrad's work as a whole. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad's works.

Originally published in 1982, this volume follows others in the series. By looking at the word frequency table, the user will find how many times the word occurs in the work. The verbal index tells at what page and line number the word occurs. By looking at the field of reference, the reader can see the word in its full context. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad's works.

Originally published in 1979, this concordance consists of a Verbal Index listing the location of all words used by Conrad, a Word Frequency Table listing number occurrences for each word in his text, and a Field of Reference in which the user can locate in its context a word cited in the Verbal Index. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad's works.

Originally published in 1982, this title supplies a complete verbal index, listing all the words in the texts with their locations, a word frequency table, and a field of reference which establishes a page/line reference system for locating each context. The user will look first in the word frequency table to see whether or not the word in question occurs in these works. Then they will turn to the verbal index to find the line and page on which it occurs, and finally, turning to the location in the field of reference, they will find the context for their word.

Originally published in 1983, this volume follows others in the series. The user is provided with a Verbal Index, citing each type and its location, a Word Frequency Table, and a Field of Reference. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad's works.

Originally published in 1983, this volume follows others in the series. For each work, this volume provides a Verbal Index, a Word Frequency Table, and a Field of Reference. The user may look to the Word Frequency Table to see how often the word in question occurs. In the Verbal Index they will find its location(s) listed by page and line number. The Field of Reference provides page and line numbers which allow them to find the word in its context(s).

Originally published in 1985, as with the earlier volumes in the series, the reader of The Rover is here provided a Verbal Index, citing each type and its location, a Word Frequency Table, and a Field of Reference. Using the tables in this concordance, the reader should be better able to address the issue of style and determine on a more informed basis whether Conrad has deliberately eschewed the adjectival and even the figurative in favour of a lean, spare style, or whether he has simply tangled his style in rhetorical excesses and imprecisions.

Originally published in 1984, this volume falls in to three parts: the verbal index, the word frequency table, and the field reference. The user can look to the alphabetical listing in the word frequency table to see how many times a word occurs in the text of An Outcast of the Islands. Then turning to the verbal index they can see the page number and line at which each occurrence falls. Then turning to the field of reference they can look at the actual context of each word in the text.

Originally published in 1984, this volume follows others in the series. By looking up a word in the word frequency table, the user can find how often it occurs in the text. The verbal index indicates at what page and line the word occurs so that the user can turn to the field of reference to see the word in each of its contexts. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad's works.

Originally published in 1985, this volume follows others in the series. An alphabetical frequency table lists all the words indexed with the frequency of their appearance in the field of reference. There is also a table arranged by descending frequency. The verbal index lists the location of the context of each word in the field of reference. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad's works.

Originally published in 1985, this concordance lists all the words in the text indexed, along with the locations of their appearance in the Field of Reference. The Verbal Index lists the location of the context of each word in the Field of Reference. There is also a table listing alphabetically all words employed in the text and giving their frequency of occurrence. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad's works.

Originally published in 1979, The Concordance to Conrad's Victory is intended to provide access to certain information on the text of the novel in a manner convenient to Conrad scholars. To this end the authors have included an alphabetical list of word frequencies and a type/token ratio table as well as a list of word frequencies in rank order. In the concordance itself, each specific word in the text is listed in alphabetical order along with an identifier number and a context for the word. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad's works.

Originally published in 1979, this concordance to Heart of Darkness is intended for use by the general student of Conrad who wants to determine the exact denotation and connotation of Conrad's vocabulary, or the patterns of imagery in his work, quickly and effortlessly. It prints under each word every logical context in which it occurs. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad's works.

Originally published in 1990, this is a comprehensive and annotated bibliography of the writings on Joseph Conrad and his works. Covering the years from 1895 to 1975 it also includes indexes of authors, secondary works, periodicals and newspapers, foreign languages and primary titles. Part of a series of annotated bibliographies on English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 this will be a valuable resource for students of literature.