Nick Groom is Professor in English at the University of Exeter, and Director of ECLIPSE (Exeter Centre for Literatures of Identity, Place, and Sustainability). He has written widely on literature, music, and contemporary art in both academic and popular publications, and is the author of several books including Introducing Shakespeare and The Forger's Shadow. He lives on Dartmoor. The Union Jack was published by Atlantic in 2006.
17 Ebooks von Nick Groom
Nick Groom: The Union Jack
Known the world over as a symbol of the United Kingdom, the Union Jack is an intricate construction based on the crosses of St George, St Andrew and St Patrick. Nick Groom traces its long and …
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Nick Groom: The Seasons
Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award and runner-up for Countryfile Book of the Year.
For millennia, the passing seasons and their rhythms have marked our progress through the year. …
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Nick Groom: Introducing Shakespeare
Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism …
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€4.99
Ann Radcliffe: Italian
‚Among his associates no one loved him, many disliked him, and more feared him.’Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. …
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Ann Radcliffe: Italian
‚Among his associates no one loved him, many disliked him, and more feared him.’Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. …
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€10.41
Horace Walpole: Castle of Otranto
‚Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!’The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic …
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Horace Walpole: Castle of Otranto
‚Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!’The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic …
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€5.20
Matthew Lewis: Monk
‚He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.’The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and …
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Matthew Lewis: Monk
‚He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.’The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and …
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€9.34
Nick Groom: Gothic: A Very Short Introduction
The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and …
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€9.36
Nicholas Allen & Nick Groom: Coastal Works
In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured …
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€86.10
Groom Nick Groom: Vampire
An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori’s publication of The Vampyre, …
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Nick Groom: El vampiro
Tres siglos después de que un brote vampírico aterrorizara a la Europa central y dos siglos después de que el The Vampyre de Polidori irrumpiera en la escena literaria, llega esta nueva historia …
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Nicholas Allen & Nick Groom: Coastal Works
In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured …
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€86.63
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Frankenstein
By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his …
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Frankenstein
By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his …
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€6.23
Nick Groom: Twenty-First-Century Tolkien
'Fascinating…. Wonderfully exhilarating.' Mail on Sunday
Finalist for The Tolkien Society Best Book Award
An engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing …
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