This elegant feminine range of stationery consists of a tinned set of notecards a handy paperback journal a set of four mini notebooks in a slipcase & a large address book all featuring evocative images chosen especially from Romantic Style & Table Settings (both published by Ryland Peters & Small). ...

If you love elegant furniture & soft colours & a home filled with flowers & candlelight then youll adore Romantic Style. In this beguiling new book stylist Selina Lake & interiors writer Sara Norrman show you real homes beautifully decorated with an eye for the elegant. First explore Romantic Inspirations
- Vintage Romantic Simple Romantic Elegant Romantic & Modern Romantic
- four very different facets of the romantic look. Next Romantic Styling outlines the key ingredients of any romantic scheme
- colours flowers & fabrics collectables & lighting. Romantic Rooms takes a room-by-room tour of the home with explanations of how to create such a scheme yourself. Finally Sources will help you find the perfect pieces for your romantic home.


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This new edition of the groundbreaking Romanticism: An Anthology" is the only book of its kind to contain complete texts of a wide range of Romantic works including Blakes " Songs of Innocence & of Experience" " The Marriage of Heaven & Hell & Urizen"; Wordsworth & Coleridges " Lyrical Ballads" (1798); Wordsworths " Two-Part Prelude"; early & revised versions of Coleridges " The Eolian Harp" " This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison" " Frost at Midnight" & " The Ancient Mariner"; Shelleys " Prometheus Unbound" " Epipsychidion" & " Adonais"; Byrons Childe Harolds " Pilgrimage Canto III & Don Juan Dedication & Cantos I & II"; & Keats Odes " The Two Hyperions" " Lamia" " Isabella" & " The Eve of St Agnes". It also carries explanatory annotations & author headnotes. Updated to incorporate the latest scholarly findings it remains the essential text on Romanticism. It

Includes:: all texts from the third edition with the addition of Keats " Isabella" & Shelleys " Epipsychidion" as well as a selection of the poems of Walter Scott. It

Includes:: a wider & deeper selection of texts by the Big Six male poets (Blake Wordsworth Coleridge Keats Byron & Shelley) than any competing volume. It

Includes:: a generous range of texts by female Romantic poets. All editorial materials including annotations author headnotes & prefatory materials have been revised for the new edition. This is the only book to contain complete texts edited for this volume from manuscript & early printed sources by Wu along with explanatory annotations & author headnotes. It contains everything teachers & students require for an in-depth survey of the principal writings to emerge from the British Romantic period. This is the most widely-used teaching anthology in the field in the UK. The companion website features a dynamic timeline detailing significant events of the romantic period & providing images suggestions for further reading & useful links to other online resources."





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Ideal for business or leisure ' City Pack Rome' is succinct with all the practical information you need for a perfect trip. Presented in a handy compact format the guide also contains a separate fold-out map within a concealed poppered pocket to help you navigate the city. This new edition lists Top 25 sights & experiences in one chapter & features 3 new sections; City Tours section contains self-guided tours that show you the best of the city; More To See sights is ideal if you have extra time on your hands & Focus On helps you get know the city in more depth. ...

For almost a thousand years Rome held sway as the spiritual & artistic centre of the world. Hughes vividly recreates the ancient Rome of Julius Caesar Marcus Aurelius Nero Caligula Cicero Martial & Virgil. With the artistic blossoming of the Renaissance he casts his unwavering critical eye over the great works of Raphael Michelangelo & Brunelleschi shedding new light on the Old Masters. In the seventeenth eighteenth & nineteenth centuries when Romes cultural predominance was assured artists & tourists from all over Europe converged on the city. Hughes brilliantly analyses the defining works of Caravaggio Velasquez Rubens & Bernini. Hughes Rome is a vibrant contradictory spectacular & secretive place; a monument both to human glory & human error. In equal parts loving iconoclastic enraged & wise peopled with colourful figures & rich in unexpected details ROME is an exhilarating journey through the story of one of the worlds most glorious cities. ...

The idea of empire was created in ancient Rome & even today the Roman empire offers a powerful image for thinking about imperialism. Traces of its monuments & literature can be found across Europe the Near East & North Africa
- & sometimes even further afield. This is the story of how this mammoth empire was created how it was sustained in crisis & how it shaped the world of its rulers & subjects
- a story spanning a millennium & a half. Chapters that tell the story of the unfolding of Romes empire alternate with discussions based on the most recent evidence into the conditions that made the Roman imperial achievement possible & also so durable covering topics as diverse as ecology slavery & the cult paid to gods & men. Rome was not the only ancient empire. Comparison with other imperial projects helps us see what it was that was so distinctive about ancient Rome. Ancient Rome has also often been an explicit model for other imperialisms. Rome An Empires Story shows quite how different Roman imperialism was from modern imitations. The story that emerges outlines the advantages of Rome had over its neighbours at different periods
- some planned some quite accidental
- & the stages by which Romes rulers successively had to change the way they ruled to cope with the problems of growth. As Greg Woolf demonstrates nobody ever planned to create a state that would last more than a millennium & a half yet the short term politics of alliances between successively wider groups created a structure of extraordinary stability. Romes Empire was able in the end to survive barbarian migrations economic collapse & even the conflicts between a series of world religions that had grown up within it in the process generating an imagery & a myth of empire that is apparently indestructible.



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This small slender volume aims to provide essential information when visiting a city. The city is broken down geographically focusing on areas of interest
- a double page that lists a selection of eateries shops bars theatres & music venues in ascending price order as well as visitor attractions. The entries are short providing contact details & a brief account of what is on offer. Every entry has a map reference & the double page unfolds to reveal a clear detailed street map allowing you to quickly pinpoint the venues. The volume also

Includes:: a short introduction with useful information such as a calendar of events websites & the address of the local tourist office. The guide closes with a map of the transport network which opens to reveal a short hotel list & further transport information.


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The long & complicated story of Ancient Rome is told as never before
- without being long or complicated! Ten comic-strip capers
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The present day but a very different one to the world we know.. . The Roman Empire stretches across the Atlantic & far into Asia yet it is an unstable time. Strange fires burn out of control; the Emperor falls suddenly ill & a massacre in the shadow of the Great Wall of Terranova brings the world to the brink of a global war. At this critical time three years after a conspiracy against his life forced him into hiding the young heir to the throne Marcus Novius must take command of the greatest power on Earth. But his ambitious cousin Drusus
- spurred on by a riddling Sybilline prophecy
- threatens this last chance to avoid a world conflict & Una a former slave whose love for Marcus seems out of place at the Roman court is drawn into the political intrigue & a dangerous enmity. Though many of Marcus friends & supporters are scattered he can rely on the driven sharp-witted Una her idealistic brother Sulien now working to relieve the suffering of slaves & Varius wounded & disillusioned by the past but still committed to the vision of a better Rome. But even these three will find their lives at risk & their loyalties tested as they encounter unforeseen conflicts & the manoeuvrings of shadowy forces. Both within the Empire & far beyond its borders simmering tensions are starting to reach boiling point.. .

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Genuinely pocket-sized Rome Inside Out is the perfect guide for your short break. Combining destination expertise with 2 award-winning Pop Out maps this ultra-portable guide will provide all the information you need to get the most out of your few precious days away. This innovative little travel companion comprises 2 detailed fold-out maps with a 64 page full-colour illustrated guide. The guide opens with 2 of our favourite itineraries. If youre short of time & want to see all the best bits these itineraries are sure to help you explore & savour the best that Rome has to offer. The guide is then divided in to 7 chapters: see it
- the best places to see from museums & cathedrals to markets monuments & much more; buy it
- pinpoints the key shopping areas & stores to target; watch it
- places to be entertained: shows theatres music venues ballet comedy cinema & nightlife; taste it
- from ethnic cuisine to local fare to the top places for an evening cocktail; all the best places to eat & drink; know it
- all the practical information you need to get the best out of your trip; directory
- hotel listings additional places to visit annual events & useful websites; speak it
- essential local words & phrases. In addition to the 2 detailed street maps there is also a transit map.






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