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Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
and Other Travel Writings
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Temperament and poor health motivated Robert Louis Stevenson to travel widely throughout his short life, and before he was celebrated as the author of Treasure Island, A Child's Garden of Verses, and other immortal works, he was known for his travelogues. This collection presents some of his finest...
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish author who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. With classics such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hude, Stevenson is still one of the most widely read authors today. This edition of Victor Hugo’s Romances includes a table of contents.
by Robert Louis Stevenson, G K Chesterton
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Fr Damien de Veuster – or, as he is now known, St Damien of Molokai – is one of the better-known examples of practical Christianity. His heroic life amongst the lepers of Molokai, and his eventual death amongst them, from leprosy, hardly, or so one would think, admits of criticism from even the...
Turned Out Nice Again
The Story of British Light Entertainment
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
With a cast of thousands, including Peter Cook, Ken Dodd, Dusty Springfield, Spike Milligan, Rolf Harris, Bruce Forsyth, and Reeves and Mortimer, this book reveals a world of comedians and cavorters, dancing girls, and crooners. From the early days of vaudeville, via the golden age of radio, live...
The Civil War
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
One hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America's social and political landscape. Louis P. Masur's The Civil War: A Concise History offers a masterful and...
The Soiling of Old Glory
The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Boston, April 5, 1976. As the city simmered with racial tension over forced school busing, newsman Stanley Forman photographed a white protester outside City Hall assaulting an African American attorney with the American flag. The photo shocked Boston, made front pages across the U.S. and won a Pulitzer...
Autumn Glory
Baseball's First World Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
A suspenseful account of the glorious days a century ago when our national madness began
A post-season series of games to establish supremacy in the major leagues was not inevitable in the baseball world. But in 1903 the owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates (in the well-established National League)...
Lincoln's Last Speech
Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
What did Abraham Lincoln envision when he talked about "reconstruction?" Assassinated in 1865, the president did not have a chance to begin the work of reconciling the North and South, nor to oversee Reconstruction as an official postwar strategy. Yet his final speech, given to thousands...
Christmas Poems & Carols - Premium Collection of the Greatest Christmas Poems in One Volume (Illustrated)
Silent Night, Ring Out Wild Bells, The Three Kings, Old Santa Claus, Christmas At Sea, Angels from the Realms of Glory, A Christmas Ghost Story, Boar's Head Carol, A Visit From Saint Nicholas…
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: "Christmas Poems & Carols - Premium Collection of the Greatest Christmas Poems in One Volume (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Three Kings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Christmas At Sea (Robert...
by Louis Barthou
Language: French
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Beaucoup de femmes ont eu de l'influence sur la vie et l'œuvre de Richard Wagner...trois femmes surtout : sa première épouse, Minna, qui fut plutôt un frein à son élévation artistique ; son grand amour, Mathilde, femme de cœur, fut son inspiratrice, sa muse,...
Cycles of Time
From Infinity to Eternity
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
In Cycles of Time, author Louis Komzsik offers a comprehensive study of time, its relation to astronomy, and its relative nature. He reviews interesting tidbits of the historical evolution of our understanding of time and discusses some philosophical ideas about the topic. He explores the history...
by Louis Menand
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
At each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of William James's nervous breakdown, and of the anti-Semitism in T. S. Eliot's writing. He reveals the reasons for the remarkable commercial successes of William...
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
In a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recounts his childhood in the mill town of Piedmont, West Virginia, in the 1950s and 1960s and ushers readers into a gossip, of lye-and-mashed-potato “processes,” and...
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas...