Constance Fenimore Woolson (March 5, 1840 ? January 24, 1894) was an American novelist and short story writer. She was a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper, and is best known for fictions about the Great Lakes region, the American South, and American expatriates in Europe. <p> In 1880 she met Henry James, and the relationship between the two writers has prompted much speculation by biographers, especially Lyndall Gordon in her 1998 book ...
This is a high quality book of the original classic first edition from 1613. <p> This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you and contains the original 1613 text detailing the lives of: <p> William I (c.?1028 ? 9 September 1087), also known as William the Conqueror (Guillaume le Conquerant), was the first Norman King of England from 1066 until 1087. He was a ...
The story of a brave and beautiful woman, whose fame filled Europe and America within the memory of our parents, seems to be worth telling. The human note in history is never more thrilling than when it is struck in the key of love. <p> In what were perhaps more virile ages, the great ones of the earth frankly acknowledged the irresistible power of passion and the supreme desirability of beauty. Their followers thought none the less of ...
This book is truly a work of art, for its simplicity and the beauty of the verses. From the first page to the last, the reader is guided through the life of a man from birth, young manhood, adulthood, middle age, old age, and finally, physical death. An enchanting evening read. I recommend this book to those who appreciate class and beauty. <p> Anyone with a bit of an understanding towards life would enjoy it. Being Persian myslef, and k ...
Mary Brunton started to write her first novel, Self-Control in 1809 and it was published in 1811. One admirer was Charlotte Barrett (1786?1870), niece of the novelists Fanny Burney and Sarah Burney and mother of the writer Julia Maitland. Writing to Sarah on 17 May 1811, she commented, I read Self-Control and like it extremely all except some vulgarity meant to be jocular which tired me to death, but I think the principal character charming and ...
Three of the craftiest royal rogues in Christendom strove hard to cozen and outwit each other in the last years of the fifteenth and the earlier years of the sixteenth century. No betrayal was too false, no trick too undignified, no hypocrisy too contemptible for Ferdinand of Aragon, Maximilian of Austria, and Henry Tudor if unfair advantage could be gained by them; and the details of their diplomacy convey to modern students less an impression ...
In The Life of the Bee, Nobel Prize winner Maurice Maeterlinck offers brilliant proof that no living creature, not even man, has achieved in the center of his sphere, what the bee has achieved. <p> From their amazingly intricate feats of architecture to their intrinsic sense of self-sacrifice, Maeterlinck takes a bees-eye view of the most orderly society on Earth. A classic bee book written in a lively and readable style, The Life of th ...
Sir John Ambrose Fleming (29 November 1849 ? 18 April 1945) was an English electrical engineer and physicist. He is known for inventing the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, the diode, then called the kenotron in 1904. He is also famous for the left hand rule (for electric motors). <p> Excerpt: <p> The immense public interest which has been aroused of late years in the subject of telegraphy without connecting wires has undou ...
This book is a great read! It provides a glimpse into the life and times of the du monde of the period. <p> You will love this woman after reading her story, and will be very intrigued by the beginning, when Georgina writes in a males perspective. <p> The Duchess of Devonshires second book, first published in 1778, chronicles the life of a young, newly married lady of high society not unlike its author. Written in epistolary form ...
