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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century's growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the free time to pursue leisure activities, their desires were satiated by determined entrepreneurs building new venues for popular amusement. Contrary to their reputation as dour, buttoned-up prudes, the Victorians reveled in these newly created "palaces of pleasure." In this vivid, captivating book, Lee Jackson charts the rise...
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World is the first encyclopedia to cover the entire world during a period of astounding achievement and change: the reign of Great Britain's Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1901. While focused on Britain, the book's scope is universal, with entries that represent nearly every nation and region and every field of human endeavor - politics, art, literature, music, science, philosophy, war, business, recreation, architecture,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since her mother died when she was born Sara and her father became very close. Sara has to go away to an all girl boarding school in Britian, because her father has to fight in the war. One day a messenger comes and tells her that her father is dead. Since Sara will lose all the money her father has she is forced to be a maid with the other maid who is black named Becky just so she can have a place to live. She finds out that her father is not dead,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the nineteenth century, ten-year-old Florence Crutchfield leaves a London orphanage to live with her great-uncle, great-aunt, and sickly cousin James, but she soon realizes the home has another resident, who means to do her and James harm.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is a story of moral corruption. A gothic melodrama, it is full of subtle impression and epigram. It touches on many of Wilde's recurring themes, such as the nature and spirit of art, aestheticism and the dangers inherent in it.In the wealthy and vain hedonist Dorian Gray, London painter Basil Hallward has found his muse. Only when the portrait of Dorian begins to age, while the man himself remains untouched by time, do they realize they may have...
Author
Series
Infernal devices volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
As the Council attempts to strip Charlotte of her power, sixteen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray works with the London Shadowhunters to find the Magister and destroy his clockwork army, learning the secret of her own identity while investigating his past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2000"
Karen Chase, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of Eros and Psyche: The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot. She has also written a book-length critical study of Middlemarch.
Michael Levenson is also Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of A Genealogy of Modernism: A Study...
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
"Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as Through the Looking Glass or Mopsa the Fairy lurks the spectre of an intense nineteenth-century debate about the very nature - and ownership - of childhood. In the engagingly written Ventures into Childland, U.C. Knoepflmacher illuminates this debate. Offering brilliant rereadings of classics from the "Golden Age of Children's Literature" as well as literature commonly considered "grown-up,"...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the lives of the five daughters of England's Queen Victoria: Vicky, mother of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm; Alice, mother of Alexandra, Tsarina of Russia; Helena, literary executor of her father, Prince Albert; Louise, who became Canada's First Lady and a respected sculptor; and Beatrice, who was her mother's right-hand woman until Victoria's death.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The unearthing of lively, telling anecdotes is the special province of Christopher Hibbert, who delights in forcing readers, in the most entertaining way, to reassess all their notions about some of the world's most intriguing historical figures. His biography of Victoria is no exception. We learn in these pages that not only was she the formidable, demanding, capricious Queen of popular imagination, but she was also often shy and vulnerable, prone...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Groomed to be the perfect highborn Victorian young lady, Audrey Rose Wadsworth has a different plan in mind. After the devastating loss of her mother, she is determined to understand the nature of death itself. She begins secretly apprenticing in forensics and soon gets drawn into the disturbing investigation of serial killer Jack the Ripper. But to her horror, the search for clues brings her far closer to her sheltered world than she ever thought...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While on the run from her brother Sherlock, the world's most famous detective, Enola Holmes has been hiding in plain sight, lodging with Mrs Tupper. Mrs Tupper may be half-deaf and a terrible cook, but she is the closest thing Enola has to a family. So when she discovers that her dear land lady has been abducted, Enola is shocked but determined to find out why. Especially when she finds cryptic codes within a crinoline underskirt in Mrs Tupper's upturned...
16) The Sepoy mutiny
Author
Series
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The sepoys, native soldiers serving in the British army, are massing in response to a prophecy predicting the end of the reign of the British East India Company. Alexander Sheridan-in command of a scratch cavalry force of civilian volunteers, unemployed officers and loyal Indian soldiers stands against atrocities on both sides of the conflict, judging all by their merit rather than by the color of their skin or the details of their religion.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1866 tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School when a mysterious accident takes the life of a student. Among the student's circle of friends are Hugh Pilaster; Hugh's older cousin Edward, dissolute heir to the Pilaster banking fortune; and Micky Miranda, the handsome son of a brutal South American oligarchy. The death and its aftermath begin the spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine many lives.
Author
Series
Infernal devices volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Gray's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
Author
Series
W.A.R.P volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, Albert Garrick, an assassin-for-hire, and his reluctant young apprentice, Riley, are transported via wormhole to modern London, where Riley teams up with a young FBI agent to stop Garrick from returning to his own time and using his newly acquired scientific knowledge and power to change the world forever.
20) Constable & Toop
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, an undertaker's son who can see ghosts and is haunted by their constant demands for attention must decide whether to help when a horrible disease imprisons ghosts into empty houses in the world of the living.