Johnny Tremain

Johnny Tremain
Author: Esther Forbes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1998
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780395900116

After injuring his hand, a silvermith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.

List of Books Received by the American Antiquarian Society from the Sale of the First Part of the Brinley Library

List of Books Received by the American Antiquarian Society from the Sale of the First Part of the Brinley Library
Author: Nathaniel Paine
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2017-10-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780265485385

Excerpt from List of Books Received by the American Antiquarian Society From the Sale of the First Part of the Brinley Library: To Which Is Added a Catalogue of the Mather Publications Previously in the Society's Library The last leaf contains a list of Books to be Sold by Samuel Phillips, at the West end of the town-house in Boston. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Great Cat Massacre

The Great Cat Massacre
Author: Robert Darnton
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2009-05-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0465010482

The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth-century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times? Why in the eighteenth-century version of Little Red Riding Hood did the wolf eat the child at the end? What did the anonymous townsman of Montpelier have in mind when he kept an exhaustive dossier on all the activities of his native city? These are some of the provocative questions the distinguished Harvard historian Robert Darnton answers The Great Cat Massacre, a kaleidoscopic view of European culture during in what we like to call "The Age of Enlightenment." A classic of European history, it is an essential starting point for understanding Enlightenment France.

A Catalogue of Books in the Library of the American Antiquarian Society

A Catalogue of Books in the Library of the American Antiquarian Society
Author: American Antiquarian Society
Publisher:
Total Pages: 584
Release: 1837
Genre: America
ISBN:

Collection includes about 8,000 vols. donated by Isaiah Thomas, founder of the Society. The catalogue is "almost wholly the work of the late lamented librarian, Christopher C. Baldwin ... completed and brought up to the present date by ... Maturin L. Fisher."