Burke, Prof Edmund, III, PhD

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. [Vol. 4-8 Edited Until 1808 by Walker King, Bishop of Rochester, and French Laurence, and Afterwards by W. King Alone.] Burke, Prof Edmund, III, PhD

Publisher Marketing: Title: The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. [vol. 4-8 edited until 1808 by Walker King, Bishop of Rochester, and French Laurence, and afterwards by W. King alone.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORICAL WORKS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains works in both French and English highlighting the history of the Girondists and the Jacobins, the storming of the Bastille, the Napoleonic Wars, restorations of the monarchy, the spread of secularism, and the role of women. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Burke, Edmund; King, Walker; Laurence; 1803-27. 16 vol.; 8 . 12272.d.8. Contributor Bio:  Burke, Edmund, III Edmund Burke, III is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the editor of "Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam and World History" by Marshall G. S. Hodgson (1993) and co-editor (with Ira Lapidus) of "Islam, Politics, and Social Movements" (California, 1988). Contributor Bio:  Laurence Margaret Laurence was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, in 1926. Upon graduation from Winnipeg's United College in 1947, she took a job as a reporter for the "Winnipeg Citizen," From 1950 until 1957 Laurence lived in Africa, the first two years in Somalia, the next five in Ghana, where her husband, a civil engineer, was working. She translated Somali poetry and prose during this time, and began her career as a fiction writer with stories set in Africa. When Laurence returned to Canada in 1957, she settled in Vancouver, where she devoted herself to fiction with a Ghanaian setting: in her first novel, "This Side Jordan," and in her first collection of short fiction, "The Tomorrow-Tamer," Her two years in Somalia were the subject of her memoir, "The Prophet's Camel Bell," Separating from her husband in 1962, Laurence moved to England, which became her home for a decade, the time she devoted to the creation of five books about the fictional town of Manawaka, patterned after her birthplace, and its people: "The Stone Angel," "A Jest of God," "The Fire-Dwellers," "A Bird in the House," and "The Diviners," Laurence settled in Lakefield, Ontario, in 1974. She complemented her fiction with essays, book reviews, and four children's books. Her many honours include two Governor General's Awards for Fiction and more than a dozen honorary degrees. Margaret Laurence died in Lakefield, Ontario, in 1987.