Author: Thomas Henry HuxleyPublisher:
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Category : Naturalists
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
Author: Thomas Henry HuxleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naturalists
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
Author: Thomas Henry HuxleyPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820318646
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) was one of the intellectual giants of Victorian England. A surgeon by training, he became the principal exponent of Darwinism and popularizer of "scientific naturalism." Huxley was a prolific essayist, and his writings put him at the center of intellectual debate in England during the later half of the nineteenth century. The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley fills a very real and pressing chasm in history of science books, bringing together almost all of Huxley's major nontechnical prose, including Man's Place in Nature and both "Evolution in Ethics" and its "Prolegomena."
The Books in My Life
Author: Henry MillerPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201087
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years.
A Gunner in Lee's Army
Author: Thomas Henry CarterPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469618745
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Gunner in Lee's Army: The Civil War Letters of Thomas Henry Carter
Henry David Thoreau
Author: Laura Dassow WallsPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022634469X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
"[The author] traces the full arc of Thoreau’s life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and precarious, and 'America was a family affair, earned by one generation and about to pass to the next.' By the time he died in 1862, at only forty-four years of age, Thoreau had witnessed the transformation of his world from a community of farmers and artisans into a bustling, interconnected commercial nation. What did that portend for the contemplative individual and abundant, wild nature that Thoreau celebrated? Drawing on Thoreau’s copious writings, published and unpublished, [the author] presents a Thoreau vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos. We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the value of labor made him an uncompromising abolitionist; the solitary walker who found society in nature, but also found his own nature in the society of which he was a deeply interwoven part. And, running through it all, Thoreau the passionate naturalist, who, long before the age of environmentalism, saw tragedy for future generations in the human heedlessness around him."--
The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox
Author: Henry KnoxPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421423456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Combining original epistles with Hamilton's introductory essays, The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox offers important insights into how this relatable and highly individual couple overcame the war's challenges.
Wm & H'ry
Author: J. C. HallmanPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9781609381516
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Readers generally know only one of the two famous James brothers. Literary types know Henry James; psychologists, philosophers, and religion scholars know William James. In reality, the brothers’ minds were inseparable, as the more than eight hundred letters they wrote to each other reveal. In this book, J. C. Hallman mines the letters for mutual affection and influence, painting a moving portrait of a relationship between two extraordinary men. Deeply intimate, sometimes antagonistic, rife with wit, and on the cutting edge of art and science, the letters portray the brothers’ relationship and measure the manner in which their dialogue helped shape, through the influence of their literary and intellectual output, the philosophy, science, and literature of the century that followed. William and Henry James served as each other’s muse and critic. For instance, the event of the death of Mrs. Sands illustrates what H’ry never stated: even if the “matter” of his fiction was light, the minds behind it lived and died as though it was very heavy indeed. He seemed to best understand this himself only after Wm fully fleshed out his system. “I can’t now explain save by the very fact of the spell itself . . . that [Pragmatism] cast upon me,” H’ry wrote in 1907. “All my life I have . . . unconsciously pragmatised.” Wm was never able to be quite so gracious in return. In 1868, he lashed out at the “every day” elements of two of H’ry’s early stories, and then explained: “I have uttered this long rigmarole in a dogmatic manner, as one speaks, to himself, but of course you will use it merely as a mass to react against in your own way, so that it may serve you some good purpose.” He believed he was doing H’ry a service as he criticized a growing tendency toward “over-refinement” or “curliness” of style. “I think it ought to be of use to you,” he wrote in 1872, “to have any detailed criticism fm even a wrong judge, and you don’t get much fm. any one else.” For the most part, H’ry agreed. “I hope you will continue to give me, when you can, your free impression of my performance. It is a great thing to have some one write to one of one’s things as if one were a 3d person & you are the only individual who will do this.”
The Life of George Washington
Author: John MarshallThe Life, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron. By Thomas Moore ... New and Complete Edition, Etc
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron ByronPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
The Life, Correspondence & Collections of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel
Author: Mary Frederica Sophia HerveyPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description