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The Operation Primer provides excellent photographic step-by-step
guidance to the surgical procedure. It has been produced to
describe the operation in the simplest manner possible without
over-simplifying. The core of the Operation Primer is the section
on Nodal Points, where the surgical key steps are described in
detail. This surgical guide book provides essential reference
material to surgeons wishing to update their knowledge in this
specific area
The articles in this volume cover a wide range of intellectually
exciting issues, written by people who were considered at the
summit of their fields of enquiry. Though the individual topics
addressed are diverse, each article can be taken as representative
of 'humanistic understanding' of its stated subject. The volume is
the first of a series based upon lectures given under the auspices
of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
The Operation Primer provides excellent photographic step-by-step
guidance to the surgical procedure. It has been produced to
describe the operation in the simplest manner possible without
over-simplifying. The core of the Operation Primer is the section
on Nodal Points, where the surgical key steps are described in
detail. This surgical guide book provides essential reference
material to surgeons wishing to update their knowledge in this
specific area
James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified
Sinner is a Scottish classic, a quintessentially Gothic tale of
psychological horror, and a relentless attack on Calvinist dogma.
The Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and
notes by Karl Miller. Robert Wringham's family is composed of a
dissolute father and brother, a pious mother, and a rival father in
the person of a fanatical Calvinist minister. He comes to believe
that he is one of the elect, predestined to be saved, while others
are damned. Sure of his freedom from the dictates of morality, he
embarks on a series of crimes in the company of a new friend
Gil-Martin, a man of many likenesses who can be mistaken for
Robert, and who explains that they are as one in the holy work of
purifying the world. But who is Gil-Martin? And what does he truly
desire? The Gothic double or doppelganger is nowhere more
powerfully imagined than in Confessions of a Justified Sinner, once
called 'the greatest novel of Scotland'. This new edition has an
introduction by Karl Miller, which discusses the presence of the
novel in the life and times of James Hogg. It also contains two of
Hogg's most interesting stories, 'Marion's Jock' and 'John Gray o'
Middleholm'. James Hogg (1770-1835) born in Ettrick, in the
Scottish Borders. A shepherd for many years, Hogg was writing poems
by the 1790s, aiding Walter Scott with material for his collection
of ballads, The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. In 1810 he moved
to Edinburgh, where he published several volumes of verse, and
worked on the Spy and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Confessions
of a Justified Sinner was published anonymously in 1824, and is now
generally seen as his masterpiece. If you enjoyed Confessions of a
Justified Sinner, you might like Matthew Lewis's The Monk, also
available in Penguin Classics. 'A Scottish classic, a world
classic' Ian Rankin 'A sinister, funny, moving tale of demonic
possession, murder and religious fanaticism' Sunday Telegraph
In his latest book of essays Karl Miller turns his attention to
appreciate certain writers of the English-speaking modern world. A
new ruralism has come to notice in this country, and the book is
drawn to country lives as they have figured in the literature of
the last century. An introductory essay is centred on the
Anglo-Welsh borderlands. Journeys taken with Seamus Heaney and
Andrew O'Hagan to this countryside, and others, are threaded
throughout the book. The poets Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes are
discussed, together with the fiction of Ian McEwan, the Canadian
writer Alistair Macleod, the Irish writer John McGahern and the
Baltimorean Anne Tyler. Scotland is a preoccupation of the later
pieces, including the letters of Henry Cockburn, a lifelong
interest of the author, who is also interested here in foxes and
their current metropolitan profile.
'This is a book about the magazines I have edited. I have written
it in order to describe what they were like, and what literary
journalism was like, and to do honour to the writers I worked
with.' So begins Karl Miller's understated, droll and lucid
retrospect of English post-war literary culture. Dark Horses is the
vade mecum and memoir of an eminent literary critic and teacher,
who also edited several of the most influential literary magazines
of his time, and who founded the most influential literary journal
of our time, the London Review of Books. It is the testament of a
watchful and undeceived intelligence, of wide and sometimes
surprising sympathies, as observant about football as about
politics and letters. In its feeling for outsiders as well as its
understanding of insiders, Dark Horses fulfills the promises of its
title. 'Frank Kermode has written of "the good writing that cannot
help eliminating truth from autobiography." Karl Miller comes
marvellously close to bringing the two together.' Financial Times
'Miller's prose is elegant, spare and unforced. He has the true art
of the memoirist.' Jonathan Bate
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