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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. How can students with widely varied levels of literary experience learn to write poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama -- over the course of only one semester? In Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief, David Starkey offers some solutions to the challenges of teaching the introductory creative writing course: (1) concise, accessible instruction in the basics of writing poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama; (2) short models of literature to analyze, admire and emulate; (3) inventive and imaginative assignments that inspire and motivate. In the third edition, in response to reviewer requests, the literature and writing prompts have been significantly refreshed and expanded, while new treatment of getting published and the growing trend of hybrid creative writing have been added.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. How can students with widely varied levels of literary experience learn to write poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama -- over the course of only one semester? In Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief, David Starkey offers some solutions to the challenges of teaching the introductory creative writing course: (1) concise, accessible instruction in the basics of writing poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama; (2) short models of literature to analyze, admire and emulate; (3) inventive and imaginative assignments that inspire and motivate. In the third edition, in response to reviewer requests, the literature and writing prompts have been significantly refreshed and expanded, while new treatment of getting published and the growing trend of hybrid creative writing have been added.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Queen Elizabeth I was an extraordinary ruler. Her remarkable leadership abilities, mastery of political theater, and immensely successful policies ushered in England's golden age. But she was also the most unlikely of monarchs. The daughter of Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn, she was only three when her mother was executed. Her Catholic sister Mary imprisoned her for treason, a crime punishable by death. How Elizabeth managed to go from the Tower of London to the throne of England is a thrilling tale of bravery, wit and at times pure chance. Historian David Starkey captures the danger and excitement of Elizabeth's early years, from her birth in 1533 to her coronation at the age of 25. Elizabeth is a masterful biography, offering a new and vivid portrait of the vicissitudes of fortune that shaped England's greatest queen.David Starkey is a historian and commentator, and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He is the author of several works on the Tudor period, including The Reign of Henry VIII and The English Court: From the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War. He lives in London."The very model of a worthy popular history." -- Baltimore Sun. …

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Queen Elizabeth I was an extraordinary ruler. Her remarkable leadership abilities, mastery of political theater, and immensely successful policies ushered in England's golden age. But she was also the most unlikely of monarchs. The daughter of Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn, she was only three when her mother was executed. Her Catholic sister Mary imprisoned her for treason, a crime punishable by death. How Elizabeth managed to go from the Tower of London to the throne of England is a thrilling tale of bravery, wit and at times pure chance. Historian David Starkey captures the danger and excitement of Elizabeth's early years, from her birth in 1533 to her coronation at the age of 25. Elizabeth is a masterful biography, offering a new and vivid portrait of the vicissitudes of fortune that shaped England's greatest queen.David Starkey is a historian and commentator, and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He is the author of several works on the Tudor period, including The Reign of Henry VIII and The English Court: From the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War. He lives in London."The very model of a worthy popular history." -- Baltimore Sun. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Queen Elizabeth I was an extraordinary ruler. Her remarkable leadership abilities, mastery of political theater, and immensely successful policies ushered in England's golden age. But she was also the most unlikely of monarchs. The daughter of Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn, she was only three when her mother was executed. Her Catholic sister Mary imprisoned her for treason, a crime punishable by death. How Elizabeth managed to go from the Tower of London to the throne of England is a thrilling tale of bravery, wit and at times pure chance. Historian David Starkey captures the danger and excitement of Elizabeth's early years, from her birth in 1533 to her coronation at the age of 25. Elizabeth is a masterful biography, offering a new and vivid portrait of the vicissitudes of fortune that shaped England's greatest queen.David Starkey is a historian and commentator, and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He is the author of several works on the Tudor period, including The Reign of Henry VIII and The English Court: From the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War. He lives in London."The very model of a worthy popular history." -- Baltimore Sun.…

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual--though, as she maintained, a virgin--Elizabeth I is famed as England's most successful ruler. David Starkey's brilliant new biography concentrates on Elizabeth's formative years--from her birth in 1533 to her accession in 1558--and shows how the experiences of danger and adventure formed her remarkable character and shaped her opinions and beliefs. From princess and heir-apparent to bastardized and disinherited royal, accused traitor to head of the princely household, Elizabeth experienced every vicissitude of fortune and extreme of condition--and rose above it all to reign during a watershed moment in history. A uniquely absorbing tale of one young woman's turbulent, courageous, and seemingly impossible journey toward the throne, Elizabeth is the exhilarating story of the making of a queen.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual--though, as she maintained, a virgin--Elizabeth I is famed as England's most successful ruler. David Starkey's brilliant new biography concentrates on Elizabeth's formative years--from her birth in 1533 to her accession in 1558--and shows how the experiences of danger and adventure formed her remarkable character and shaped her opinions and beliefs. From princess and heir-apparent to bastardized and disinherited royal, accused traitor to head of the princely household, Elizabeth experienced every vicissitude of fortune and extreme of condition--and rose above it all to reign during a watershed moment in history. A uniquely absorbing tale of one young woman's turbulent, courageous, and seemingly impossible journey toward the throne, Elizabeth is the exhilarating story of the making of a queen.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual--though, as she maintained, a virgin--Elizabeth I is famed as England's most successful ruler. David Starkey's brilliant new biography concentrates on Elizabeth's formative years--from her birth in 1533 to her accession in 1558--and shows how the experiences of danger and adventure formed her remarkable character and shaped her opinions and beliefs. From princess and heir-apparent to bastardized and disinherited royal, accused traitor to head of the princely household, Elizabeth experienced every vicissitude of fortune and extreme of condition--and rose above it all to reign during a watershed moment in history. A uniquely absorbing tale of one young woman's turbulent, courageous, and seemingly impossible journey toward the throne, Elizabeth is the exhilarating story of the making of a queen.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Profiles the six marriages of King Henry VIII against the political drama of the Tudor era, tracing his relatively stable twenty-four- year first marriage to Catherine of Aragon and subsequent whirlwind decade of new brides, including two who were executed.

Paperback. Condition: Good. This is a rhetoric designed to cover the basics of a college writing course in a concise, student-friendly format. Anything inessential to the business of college writing has been excluded. Each chapter concentrates on a crucial element of composing an academic essay and is capable of being read in a single sitting.…

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. An exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. With a new chapter on Royal Weddings this is essential reading for those who want to understand more about how monarchy has shaped the British nation.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the court, she had to live by her wits, surrounded by betrayal and suspicion, not knowing who to trust with her desire to be queen, or her desire to be a lover.

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