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We Have the War Upon Us
The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
In this carefully researched book William J. Cooper gives us a fresh perspective on the period between Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860 and the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861, during which all efforts to avoid or impede secession and prevent war failed. Here is the story of the men...
by Field-Marshal Sir William Maynard Gomm G.C.B
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2011
Field-Marshal Gomm’s letters and journals provide a first-rate account of the numerous actions, battles and events that he was involved in during the Napoleonic wars. A seasoned officer from a military family, he was an acute observer of all that went on around him, and the notes and letters he...
Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave
Written by Himself
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
By 1849, the Narrative of William W. Brown was in its fourth edition, having sold over 8,000 copies in less than eighteen months and making it one of the fastest-selling antislavery tracts of its time. The book's popularity can be attributed both to the strong voice of its author and Brown's notoriety...
by William B. Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
William Buel Franklin (February 27, 1823 March 8, 1903) was a career United States Army officer and a Union Army general in the American Civil War. He rose to the rank of a corps commander in the Army of the Potomac, fighting in several notable early battles in the Eastern Theater. Franklin was promoted...
by William C. Gault
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015
William Campbell Gault (1910–1995) was an American writer. He wrote under his own name, as well as (among others) the pseudonyms Roney Scott, Larry Sternig, and Will Duke. He is probably best remembered for his sports fiction, particularly the young-readers’ novels he began publishing in the early...
The Complete Short Stories of W.D. Howells (Illustrated Edition)
Christmas Every Day, Boy Life, Between the Dark and the Daylight, The Daughter of the Storage and Other Things in Prose and Verse, A Fearful Responsibility, Buying a Horse & many more
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
This unique collection of William Dean Howells' complete short stories has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright. Nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters", he was particularly...
Cold New World
Growing Up in Harder Country
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Barbarian Days, this narrative nonfiction classic documents the rising inequality and cultural alienation that presaged the crises of today.
“A status report on the American Dream [that] gets its power [from] the unpredictable, rich specifics of...
by Scott William Carter
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
Everybody dies. Nobody leaves ... Award-winning author Scott William Carter returns with his tenth novel, a spellbinding tale of a man who bridges both sides of the great divide.
After narrowly surviving a near-fatal shooting, Portland detective Myron Vale wakes with a bullet still lodged in...
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated
Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
For Dramatists, Students and Lovers of the Bard! Your Deluxe Complete Shakespeare Collection includes: + Stockley’s treatise on “Some Historical Non-Shakespearean Plays” of the period + “How Shakespeare Learned His Trade” by Brander Matthews + Links to FREE and different audiobook versions...
Harvard Classics Volume 39
Prefaces And Prologues
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Contents: 1. Prefaces and Epilogues, by William Caxton 2. Dedication Of The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, by John Calvin 3. Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, by Nicolaus Copernicus 4. Preface to The History of the Reformation In Scotland, by John Knox 5. Prefatory Letter...
by William Blake
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
In 1809 the little-known artist William Blake held an exhibition of 16 paintings in a private house in Soho in the west end of London. Works inspired by Chaucer's “Canterbury Tales” and John Milton's “Paradise Lost” sat alongside biblical scenes and Arthurian legend. The exhibition was not...
by William Wordsworth
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, late 18th century and early 19th century English lyricist William Wordsworth was one of the most prominent poets of the Romantic era. His first work “Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems” was penned with Coleridge, though most of the volume is by Wordsworth,...
by William Hazlitt
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) was an English critic, social commentator and essayist. In this compendium of impressions of his contemporaries, Hazlitt’s cutting and witty style both celebrates and critiques the intellectual landscape of his time. The collection includes poets, authors, politicians...
The Ordways
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
“Good writing is rare enough. Storytelling is an even rarer skill. A genuinely comic vision is beyond price. The Ordways has all three.” —Time
On the annual graveyard-working day in Clarksville, Texas, families come from all over East Texas to pay respects to their loved ones. The Ordways...