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The Personal Memoirs Of William T. Sherman
The Personal Memoirs Of William T. Sherman William Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the „scorched […]
The Alhambra
The Alhambra – Washington Irving „The Alhambra“ is one of the most famous collections of essays, stories and small sketches by Washington Irving. The book and most of the stories were written during his stay in Granada, Spain. Format: Paperback. The Alhambra. ISBN: 9783849676094. Available at amazon.com and other venues. Biography of Washington Irving […]
The Spiritual Writings
The Spiritual Writings – H. Emilie Cady Harriet Emilie Cady was an homeopathic physician and a leader of the New Thought movement. She wrote some of the foundation texts of the Unity Church and this book contains her most important writings, e.g. Finding The Christ In Ourselves, Neither Do I Condemn Thee, In His Name, […]
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin – Robert Louis Stevenson Fleeming Jenkin, noted for his work in engineering and applied electricity, was one of R. L. S.’s closest friends in his early days. When Jenkin, then thirty-five, became Professor of Engineering in Edinburgh University, Stevenson, much against all his inclinations, was professedly studying to qualify himself for […]
The Master of Ballantrae
The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson In his romance „The Master of Ballantrae“ Stevenson has touched high-water mark. One is tempted to go beyond this and say that no modern work of fiction in the English language rises higher in the scale of literary merit than this. It is a story of human […]
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson – Robert Louis Stevenson This edition contains Stevenson’s letters, beginning with his student days at Edinburgh to the four years he spent in Samoa. R.L.S. was a prolific mail writer and sent letters to all kind of people from towns like Paris, San Francisco, Marseilles, Bournemouth and many more. […]
Kidnapped
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson In writing this, his third, book for boys, Stevenson turned from scenes and characters of pure invention to real people and places of a minor incident of Scottish history. The Appin murder, which provides the turning point of the story, has thereby become known to thousands who had not before […]
Island Nights‘ Entertainments
Island Nights‘ Entertainments – Robert Louis Stevenson The title of the volume which includes The Beach of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, and The Isle of Voices. The ‚Beach‘ turns on the native dread of the spirit-devils in the woods, interwoven with which is the island life of natives and whites viewed through the eyes of […]
An Inland Voyage
An Inland Voyage – Robert Louis Stevenson The „Inland Voyage“ was as uneventful and prosaic a journey as could be made by a canoeist along the course of a sluggish canal and an insignificant river, yet the historian has invested every incident in his record with the deepest interest. It is a rare illustration of […]
A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa – Robert Louis Stevenson A great part of the last four years of Stevenson’s life was occupied, very unfortunately for his literary work, in an active share in Samoan politics. For some years before he began to travel in the Pacific, the islands in which […]