18th Century Literature – 6 Vols Critical Heritage set: Comprises of individual volumes on: Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, Samuel Johnson, Horace Walpole, Oliver Goldsmith, George Crabbe and Robert Burns The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary
19th Century Novelists – 7 Vols Critical Heritage Set. Comprises of individual volumes on Jane Austen (2 volumes), William Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, The Brontes and George Eliot. The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses
Alchi Ladakh’s Hidden Buddhist Sanctuary – The Three-Storeyed Temple or Sumtsek , as its name indicates, is a three storey building dedicated to a triad of Bodhisattvas and their secondary deities located in three niches (◊ Sumtsek sculpture gallery). The interior of the ground floor measures 5.4 x 5.8 meters
Automata The Golden Age 1848-1914 – The automaton is the playful collaboration of the artist and the artisan, with sculpture, painting, music, costume, and mechanics all playing a part in its creation. In Automata: The Golden Age, Christian Bailly opens with a depiction of mid-19th-century Paris, where French automaton-makers lived and worked.
The five novels in The Leatherstocking Tales (collected in two Library of America volumes), Cooper’s great saga of the American wilderness, form a pageant of the American frontier. Cooper’s hero, Natty Bumppo, is forced ever farther into the heart of the continent by the advance of civilization that he inadvertently serves as advance
When Cooper’s most memorable hero, Leatherstocking, started an American tradition by setting off into the sunset in The Pioneers, one early reader said of his departure, “I longed to go with him.” American readers couldn’t get enough of the Leatherstocking saga (collected in two Library of America volumes) and, fourteen years after
