Books by R. Sales

This book situates John Clare's long, prolific but often badly neglected literary life within the wider cultural histories of the Regency and earlier Victorian periods. The second half recreates asylum culture and places Clare's performances as Regency boxers and Lord Byron within this bleak new world.

Learn French through amusing and challenging puzzles! Easy French Vocabulary Games offers you 48 puzzles and games to increase your word power in French. The word mazes, anagrams, acrostics, trellises, ladders, and cryptograms provide clues in English, which, when worked out, form high-frequency words that can reinforce or help you learn everyday French vocabulary. Each puzzle type challenges and sharpens different aspects of your French spelling and word skills. Complete directions in English at the beginning of each game and many partially worked-out puzzles will show you exactly how to arrive at solutions. You will also be given specific instructions on how to create you own puzzles, so that the fun can continue long after you have completed the games in this book. Easy French Vocabulary Games is designed to bring you hours of pleasure, along with a great deal of French-language practice. And if you have any difficulty with a clue, a French-English Vocabulary, as well as complete puzzles solutions are provided for you at the back of the book.

Learn French through crossword puzzles! Easy French Crossword Puzzles offers you an entertaining but effective way of expanding your knowledge of the French language and culture. The mots croisés in this book cover a wide variety of topics that will challenge and help you develop your French-language skills. Easy French Crossword Puzzles features two levels of difficulty. In the first half of the book, you will find simple English-to-French puzzles that explore topics of grammar and culture normally addressed at the beginning of French studies. In the second half, the puzzles are all in French and thus are somewhat more difficult. While working through this book, the crossword puzzles will test you in the areas of: French vocabulary and grammar Literature French History and Politics Geography and many more topics If you have difficulty with a puzzle clue, solutions are provided at the back of the book. Includes: 23 puzzles with English clues and French answers 28 puzzles with both French clues and answers 1 puzzle with English clues and English and French answers