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Series
The Riverside library for young people volume no. 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1896
Description
History of the War of Independence. Book is part of the original Plaistow Library collection.
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Series
Formats
Description
In 1862 military necessity enabled Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton to pry from a hesitant President Lincoln the authority to enlist black troops in the Union army. The pioneer regiment of ex-slaves was to secure the beachhead tenuously held at Beaufort, off the South Carolina coast. Within a year, Lincoln was to hail the enlistment of black soldiers, which he had earlier resisted as "revolutionary," as the "heaviest blow yet dealt the rebellion."...
Author
Publisher
The Modern library
Pub. Date
1934
Description
Classic of economic and social theory offers a satiric examination of the hollowness and falsity suggested by the term "conspicuous consumption," exposing the emptiness of many cherished standards of taste, education, dress, and culture. Since first appearing in 1899, it has become a classic of social theory that has contributed to the modernization of economic policy.
6) Dead souls
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[1965]
Description
Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls"--deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them--we...
Author
Publisher
N. H. Pub. CO
Pub. Date
1970 [c1856.]
Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.
9) Arrian
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Series
The Loeb classical library volume 236, 269
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1976-1983
18) Greek mythology
Author
Publisher
Distributed in the USA by Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1983, c1982
Description
The Greek myths are among the best known of the world. Yet their origins were extremely diverse. Some enshrined rituals, others had a quasi-scientific meaning; some myths can be traced to ancient native religions, still others are explicable in psychological or anthropological terms.
Whatever their inspiration, the tales of Zeus, Hera, Athena and other residents of Mount Olympus, as well as the deeds of Hercules, Theseus, Oedipus and the heroes...
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