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Volume 3 of 4 in the memoirs written by the member of the Directorate: From the 18th Fructidor to the 18th Brumaire.
Francis Lynde (1856-1930) wrote fiction set in the Carolinas concerned with mining and western expansion. "Empire Builders" originally appeared in 1907.
Domenic Mathew Campana describes this book as "written for students desiring to study and learn the plastic art. . . .[and it demonstrates] the best and easiest way to handle clay, stones, wood and do the casting."
Alexandre Dumas, père, (1802-1870) was a French writer best known for his historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were originally serialized. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent. This volume is part 2 of 5.
Anatole France (François-Anatole Thibault, 1844-1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist, a member of the Academie Francais, and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. The Gods Are Athirst (also translated as The Gods Will Have Blood) is set during the French Revolution.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) left unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood at his death. Master Humphrey's Clock revives Mr. Pickwick, but, according to the introduction, "broadened into The Old Curiosity Shop, and Master Humphrey, with his Clock, dropped out of view."
This is novelization of H. B. Somerville's script for Ashes of Vengence, a 1923 film set in the Huguenot days of France and involves a man forced into servitude who falls in love with the sister of his persecutor.
A contemporary review called Through Luther to Liberty "a very interesting story of the Reformation period, with graphic descriptions of the horrors of priest domination and the spiritual slavery under which the people were groaning."
Henry Austin Dobson (1840-1921) was an English poet and essayist best known for his poems in the late 19th century.
Nathan Bailey was a pioneering English lexicographer whose work laid the foundation for modern English dictionaries. His An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1721) was a landmark text that greatly expanded the study of word origins and definitions. Bailey's approach emphasized the etymology of English words, making his dictionary a vital tool for scholars and readers in the 18th century. His contributions significantly influenced later lexicographers, including Samuel Johnson, and helped shape the development of English language reference works.This volume is a handy book containing "exercises in the orthography, derivation, and classification of English words with an introduction and copious notes."
Mary F. Sandars (1864-1934) was a well-respected biographer most noted for her Life of Balzac. Here she chronicles the life of Queen Mary II, daughter of James II and queen of England from 1662-1694, who ruled jointly with her husband King William the III, known as the reign of William and Mary.
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a British geographer, explorer, translator, linguist writer, and spy. He was known for his travels and explorations as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. Burton is best-known for traveling in disguise to Mecca, an unexpurgated translation of One Thousand and One Nights, and bringing the Kama Sutra to publication in English.
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a British geographer, explorer, translator, linguist writer, and spy. He was known for his travels and explorations as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. Burton is best-known for traveling in disguise to Mecca, an unexpurgated translation of One Thousand and One Nights, and bringing the Kama Sutra to publication in English.
A privately published, 1932 genealogy of the descendents of Thomas Whiton, who came to America on the ship Elizabeth & Ann in 1635.
Stephen Caroyl Shadegg (1909-1990) was a Phoenix pharmaceutical manufacturer and political consultant, and was considered as Barry Goldwater's alter ego. Senator Goldwater called this biography "the most accurate and complete sotry of my life I have ever seen recorded."
Barry Morris Goldwater (1909-1998) was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party's nominee for President in 1964. First published in 1960, The Conscience of a Conservative is what's known as a "campaign biography."
Charles Paul de Kock (1793-1871) was a French novelist. His stories are mostly of middle-class Parisian life, of guinguettes and cabarets and equivocal adventures of one sort or another. The most famous are André le Savoyard and Le Barbier de Paris. This is volume 2 of 2.
Móric Jókay de Ásva (Maurus Jokai, 1825-1904) was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. Poor Plutocrats, or Poor Rich, is the most widely known of all Maurus Jókai's masterpieces, which is set in "the wild, romantic, sylvan regions of the Wallachian and Transylvanian Alps, which is the theatre of the exploits of that prince of robber chieftains, the mighty and mysterious Fatia Negra, and the home of those picturesque Roumanian peasants."
Ruth Eleanor McKee (1903-1972) was a novelist, poet, and ghostwriter for the U.S. State Department. Her first novel, The Lord's Anointed, written in 1934, is still considered one of the best fictional treatments of the history of Hawaii.
Voltaire (Francois Marie Aruoet, 1694-1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties. Charles XII was King of Sweden from 1697 to 1718, known for his military leadership in the Great Northern War against Russia, Saxony and Denmark-Norway.
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