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Author
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Pub. Date
[1974]
Physical Desc
2 v. (xiii, 461 p.) : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
The History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1956
Physical Desc
2 v.
Language
English
Description
The Metamorphoses, by Ovid, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
Author
Series
Publisher
C. Scribner's sons
Pub. Date
1899
Physical Desc
xi, [1], 298 p. front., plates, ports. 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt resigned his post as assistant secretary of the navy to recruit the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry. The legendary Rough Riders-an unlikely combination of cowboys, frontiersmen, Native Americans, African-Americans, and Ivy League alumni-trained in Texas before shipping off to Cuba. The regiment met their enemy in the tropical summer heat, fighting rain, mud, and malaria as well as the...
4) Cape Cod
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1893
Edition
New Riverside ed.
Physical Desc
336 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Robert Pinsky is Professor of English at Boston University and an editor of the weekly online magazine Slate. He is the author of many books of poetry and literary criticism. He served two terms as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1997-2000.
This new paperback edition of Henry D. Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod contains the complete, definitive text of the original. Introduced by American poet...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
c1961, c1918
Physical Desc
xxiv, 517 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Many great artists have had at least intermittent doubts about their own abilities. But The Education of Henry Adams is surely one of the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority complex. The author, to be sure, had bigger shoes to fill than most of us. Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were U.S. presidents. His father, a relative underachiever, scraped by as a member of Congress and ambassador to the Court of St. James....
Author
Series
Publisher
Dodd Mead
Pub. Date
1893
Physical Desc
3 v.
Language
English
Description
The first novel of Trollope's six-part Palliser series, also known as the Parliamentary Novels, "Can You Forgive Her?" revolves primarily around the young Alice Vavasor, a woman who cannot decide which of two men to marry. While the respectable gentleman John Grey seems the wiser choice, his lack of ambition pales to her virulent and aspiring cousin George. She alternately accepts and rejects each man, only increasing the confusion she feels concerning...
9) The optimist
Publisher
Titusville High School
Pub. Date
1915-current
Physical Desc
v. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
10) The Maine woods
Author
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Pub. Date
c1893
Edition
Riverside ed.
Physical Desc
x, 442 p. : 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Posthumously published in 1864, The Maine Woods depicts Henry David Thoreau's experiences in the forests of Maine, and expands on the author's transcendental theories on the relation of humanity to Nature. On Mount Katahdin, he faces a primal, untamed Nature. Katahdin is a place "not even scarred by man, but it was a specimen of what God saw fit to make this world." In Maine he comes in contact with "rocks, trees, wind and solid earth" as though he...
11) Crock of gold
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1926
Language
English
Description
Allegorical fantasy about people, gods, and Irish fairies, in support of a divine doctrine. For other editions, see Author Catalog.
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
1914
Physical Desc
xiv, 383 p. : front., plates, 3 maps (1 fold.) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1914, with the well-wishes of the Brazilian government, Theodore Roosevelt, ex-president of the United States; his son, Kermit; and Colonel Rondon travel to South America on a quest to course the River of Doubt. While in Brazil, Theodore is also tasked with a "zoogeographic reconnaissance" of the local wilderness for the archives of the Natural History Museum of New York. In addition to the perils of the incredibly difficult and dangerous terrain,...
16) Ninety-three
Author
Publisher
Caldwell
Pub. Date
n.d
Language
English
Description
Ninety-Three (1874) is the final novel of Victor Hugo. As a work of historical fiction, the story is set during the period of conflict between the newly formed French Republic and the Royalists who sought to reverse the gains of the revolution. Praised for its morality and honest depiction of the horrors of war, Ninety-Three influenced such wide-ranging political thinkers as Joseph Stalin and Ayn Rand. "The soldiers forced cautiously. Everything was...
17) Day of poetry
Publisher
Titusville Council on the Arts
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
v.
Language
English
Description
Collection of poetry resulting from a contest sponsored by the Titusville Council on the Arts, the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville, Titusville Leisure Services Board, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Titusville High School English Department, Benson Memorial Library, the Rees Charitable Foundation, (and the City of Titusville since 1987).
18) The holy war
Author
Publisher
Henry T. Coates & Co
Pub. Date
n.d
Language
English
Description
Together with the most correct, condensed life of the immortal dreamer yet published.
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 7
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English