Leavis, Q. D. (Queenie Dorothy)

Dickens, the novelist by F. R Leavis( Book )

68 editions published between 1970 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,539 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Fiction and the reading public by Q. D Leavis( Book )

91 editions published between 1932 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,196 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Collected essays by Q. D Leavis( Book )

7 editions published between 1983 and 2008 in English and held by 811 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lectures in America by F. R Leavis( Book )

15 editions published in 1969 in English and Undetermined and held by 706 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"For many centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement - the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe, a remote land beyond its northwestern frontier, was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed, as the previously despised West won victory after victory, first on the battlefield and in the marketplace, then in almost every aspect of public and even private life." "In this volume, Bernard Lewis examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to understand why things had changed, how they had been overtaken, overshadowed, and to an increasing extent dominated by the West. Lewis provides a fascinating portrait of a culture in turmoil. He shows how the Middle East turned its attention to understanding European weaponry and military tactics, commerce and industry, government and diplomacy, education and culture. He describes how some Middle Easterners fastened blame on a series of scapegoats, both external and internal, while others asked, not "who did this to us?" but rather "where did we go wrong?" and, as a natural consequence, "how do we put it right?" Lewis highlights the striking differences between the Western and Middle Eastern cultures from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries with thought-provoking comparisons of such things as Christianity and Islam, music and the arts, the position of women, secularism and the civil society, the clock and the calendar."--BOOK JACKET

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë( Book )

48 editions published between 1847 and 1988 in 3 languages and held by 544 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The unhappy childhood of Jane, her employment as governess at Thornfield Hall and her love for Mr. Rochester, her employer

Silas Marner by George Eliot( Book )

45 editions published between 1861 and 2003 in English and held by 474 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The tale of an embittered, miserly, reclusive weaver whose spirit is redeemed while providing paternal care to a foundling child

F.R. Leavis : a literary biography by G Singh( Book )

3 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 169 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Collected essays by Q. D Leavis( Book )

36 editions published between 1983 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 154 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Collected essays by Q. D Leavis( Book )

9 editions published in 1989 in English and Undetermined and held by 67 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The American novel and reflections on the European novel by Q. D Leavis( Book )

7 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 34 WorldCat member libraries worldwide