The Princess Casamassima; In Two Volumes

The Princess Casamassima; In Two Volumes
Author: Henry James
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2023-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 338730854X

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The Princess Casamassima

The Princess Casamassima
Author: Henry James
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2023-09-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3368939238

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The Princess Casamassima; A Novel, In Two Volumes

The Princess Casamassima; A Novel, In Two Volumes
Author: Henry James
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2023-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3387093624

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Henry Adams: History of the United States Vol. 2 1809-1817 (LOA #32)

Henry Adams: History of the United States Vol. 2 1809-1817 (LOA #32)
Author: Henry Adams
Publisher: Library of America
Total Pages: 1458
Release: 1986-07-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780940450356

This monumental work, the second of two Library of America volumes, culminated Henry Adams’s lifelong fascination with the American past. Writing at the height of his powers, Adams understood the true subject as the consolidation of the American nation and character, and his treatment has never been surpassed. Covering the eight years spanning the presidency of James Madison, this volume chronicles “Mr. Madison’s War”—the most bungled war in American history. The President and Congress delay while the United States is bullied and insulted by both England and France; then they plunge the country into the War of 1812 without providing the troops, monies, or fleets to wage it. The incompetence of the commanders leads to a series of disasters—including the burning of the White House and Capitol while Madison and his cabinet, fleeing from an invading army, watch from the nearby hills of Maryland and Virginia. The war has its heroes, too: William Henry Harrison at Tippecanoe and Andrew Jackson at New Orleans, Commodores Perry and Decatur and the officers and crew of the Constitution. As Adams tells it, though, disgrace, is averted by other means: the ineptitude of the British, the skill of the American artillerymen and privateers, and the diplomatic brilliance of Albert Gallatin and John Quincy Adams, who negotiated the peace treaty at Ghent. The history, full of reversals and paradoxes, ends with the largest irony of all: the United States, the apparent loser of the war, emerges as a great new world power destined to eclipse its European rivals. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Terrorism in the Late Victorian Novel

Terrorism in the Late Victorian Novel
Author: Barbara Arnett Melchiori
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-07-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317208625

First published in 1985, this book looks at the ways in which the spate of terrorist activity in the 1880s was reflected in the novels of the time. Oscar Wilde, George Gissing, Henry James and George Bernard Shaw among others gave the terrorist venture a position in one or more of their novels. This book examines what these novelists made of terrorism and the way they presented it to their readers. Not all of these novels are high literature or take a committed line on the outrages they describe; nevertheless they accept the assumption that terrorism and social protest were synonymous. This book aims to explain how such a view could be held in the context of Victorian society.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: Cincinnati (Ohio), Public Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1888
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