Author: Thomas Woolner
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Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Thomas Woolner, R.A., Sculptor and Poet
Author: Thomas Woolner
Publisher:
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Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Publisher:
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Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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My Beautiful Lady
Author: Thomas Woolner
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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The Letters of Henry Adams
Author: Henry Adams
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674526860
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674526860
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
A Night to Remember
Author: Walter Lord
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805077643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805077643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title.
The Athenaeum
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Author: William Holman Hunt
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Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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The Education of Henry Adams
Author: Henry Adams
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
One of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written, The Education of Henry Adams is told in the third person, as if its author were watching his own life unwind. It begins with his early life in Quincy, the family seat outside of Boston, and soon moves on to primary school, Harvard College, and beyond. He learns about the unpredictability of politics from statesmen and diplomats, and the newest discoveries in technology, science, history, and art from some of the most important thinkers and creators of the day. In essentially every case, Adams claims, his education and upbringing let him down, leaving him in the dark. But as the historian David S. Brown puts it, this is a “charade”: The Education’s “greatest irony is its claim to telling the story of its author’s ignorance, confusion, and misdirection.” Instead, Adams uses its “vigorous prose and confident assertions” to attack “the West after 1400.” For instance, industrialization and technology make Adams wonder “whether the American people knew where they were driving.” And in one famous chapter, “The Dynamo and the Virgin,” he contrasts the rise of electricity and the power it brings with the strength and resilience of religious belief in the Middle Ages. The grandson and great-grandson of two presidents and the son of a politician and diplomat who served under Lincoln as minister to Great Britain, Adams was born into immense privilege, as he knew well: “Probably no child, born in the year, held better cards than he.” After growing up a Boston Brahmin, he worked as a journalist, historian, and professor, moving in early middle age to Washington. Although Adams distributed a privately printed edition of a hundred copies of The Education for friends and family in 1907, it wasn’t published more widely until 1918, the year he died. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1919, and in 1999 a Modern Library panel placed it first on its list of the best nonfiction books published in the twentieth century. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
One of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written, The Education of Henry Adams is told in the third person, as if its author were watching his own life unwind. It begins with his early life in Quincy, the family seat outside of Boston, and soon moves on to primary school, Harvard College, and beyond. He learns about the unpredictability of politics from statesmen and diplomats, and the newest discoveries in technology, science, history, and art from some of the most important thinkers and creators of the day. In essentially every case, Adams claims, his education and upbringing let him down, leaving him in the dark. But as the historian David S. Brown puts it, this is a “charade”: The Education’s “greatest irony is its claim to telling the story of its author’s ignorance, confusion, and misdirection.” Instead, Adams uses its “vigorous prose and confident assertions” to attack “the West after 1400.” For instance, industrialization and technology make Adams wonder “whether the American people knew where they were driving.” And in one famous chapter, “The Dynamo and the Virgin,” he contrasts the rise of electricity and the power it brings with the strength and resilience of religious belief in the Middle Ages. The grandson and great-grandson of two presidents and the son of a politician and diplomat who served under Lincoln as minister to Great Britain, Adams was born into immense privilege, as he knew well: “Probably no child, born in the year, held better cards than he.” After growing up a Boston Brahmin, he worked as a journalist, historian, and professor, moving in early middle age to Washington. Although Adams distributed a privately printed edition of a hundred copies of The Education for friends and family in 1907, it wasn’t published more widely until 1918, the year he died. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1919, and in 1999 a Modern Library panel placed it first on its list of the best nonfiction books published in the twentieth century. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
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Languages : en
Pages : 1800
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Languages : en
Pages : 1800
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The Examiner
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 858
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Julia Margaret Cameron's Women
Author: Sylvia Wolf
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300077815
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Profiles the life and work of a nineteenth century pioneer of photography and offers a selection of her portraits of women
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300077815
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Profiles the life and work of a nineteenth century pioneer of photography and offers a selection of her portraits of women