Author: John Huddlestone WynnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Choice Emblems, Natural, Historical, Fabulous, Moral, and Divine; for the Improvement and Pastime of Youth: Displaying the Beauties and Morals of the Ancient Fabulists: the Whole Calculated to Convey the Golden Lessons of Instruction ... Written for the Amusement of a Young Nobleman. The Sixth Edition
Author: John Huddlestone WynnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A Bookseller of the Last Century
Author: Charles WelshPublisher:
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Privately printed opuscula issued to the members of the Sette of odd volumes
Author: Sette of odd volumesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
On Some of the Books for Children of the Last Century
Author: Charles WelshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Bookseller of the Last Century
Author: Charles WelshPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108012795
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Charles Welsh's 1885 account of John Newbery, the pioneering publisher of children's books and the founder of various newspapers.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Phaedrus
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: The Education of Henry Adams
Author: Henry AdamsPublisher: 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.
Curiosities of Literature
Author: Isaac DisraeliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description