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4) 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...
Author
Publisher
Whipporwill
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
512 p.
Language
English
Description
A chronological summary and record of every engagement between the troops of the Union and of the Confederacy and showing the total losses and casualties together with war maps of localities compiled from the official records of the War Department. Illustrated with fac-simile photographic reproductions of the official war photographs taken at the time by Mathew B. Brady. Originally published: A history of the Civil War, 1861-65. Charles F. Johnson....
Author
Series
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
1901
Physical Desc
xviii, 244 p. : maps ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Published in 1876, this history was praised in the pages of the Boston Journal as leaving "nothing to be desired as regards compactness, accuracy, and excellence of literary execution." Creighton walks the reader through English history-from the Reformation to Elizabeth's death, after a forty-six-year reign.
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....