From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters.Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Lee ...
... French history for English children ; rev . and ed . by G : Cary ... François P : Guillaume . Outlines of the history of France : an abridgment of Guizot's ... ( In author's Works . 32 v . D. 1872-74 . v . 2-4 . ) 824 C v.2 Dumas ...
Serial philanderer. Alexandre Dumas lived an extraordinary life. Who better to tell his story than the man himself? In this first volume of his memoirs, Dumas recounts his early life, from his first memories through to his teenage years.
In this comprehensive account of censorship of the visual arts in nineteenth-century Europe, when imagery was accessible to the illiterate in ways that print was not, specialists in the history of the major European countries trace the use ...
James T. Kloppenberg presents the history of democracy from the perspective of those who established its principles, offering a fresh look at how ideas about representative government, suffrage, and the principles of self-rule and ideals ...
... French neither by origin nor , in his opinion , by character . He takes no ... François F. , Henri IV . , Louis XIV . , and , in our own day , Guizot ... in author of a History of Charles V. in Italy , seems to be awakening , and ...
An exploration of the possible love affair between Goethe and Anna Amalia
The volume explores ways in which American ideas have circulated in different cultures.