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This volume includes sketches and essays by humorists Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729), an Irish writer and co-founder of the magazine The Spectator; Joseph Addison (1672-1719), an English writer and co-founder of The Spectator; and many more.

Richard Garnett C.B. (1835-1906) was a scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. His literary works include numerous translations, several books of verse, and the book of short stories The Twilight of the Gods (1888).

J.R.R.Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings", it has long been recognized, was shaped and undergirded by his Christian beliefs. But he was not the only writer of fantasy to have a close relationship between his faith and his fiction. This book is a study of such relationships in four writers: Tolkien himself, his friends C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams, and, from an earlier generation, George MacDonald. It seeks to look at their use of other worlds and other beings; at their attitudes towards 'escapism'; at the presence of symbolism and myth in their writings; at the themes and ideas they had in common; and at the extent to which their fiction has a value for Christian apologetics.

A guide to Britain's monarchs and their chequered histories, from pre-Roman times onwards. It explores lives and personalities of each monarch, their involvement in and effect on events in their reign. It provides information on the spirit, traditions and innovations of the nation at the time, including politics, arts, architecture and fashions.