Mark Twain 191b3t

Mark Twain 191b3t

The Innocents Abroad written by Mark Twain is a travel book based on the real life travel by the author in chartered vessel Quaker City through Europe and the Holy Land. The author states, this travel had helped him deeper understanding of not only the places he visited, also his fellow travelers aboard the cruise. Twain openly writes about his ..

Anonymous 251y6j

Although Gene Stratton Porter resided in this city only a few weeks in 1913, her life was closely associated with the Fort Wayne area. Born in rural Wabash County and educated in Wabash, the noted Hoosier author established residence successively in Geneva, Decatur, and Rome City. She was intimately connected with Coldwater, Michigan, and Wincheste..

Bryce Walton 6q4f2z

Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of , Vol. 1 (of 2): MontaigneRabelaisCorneilleRochefoucauldMolièreLa Fontaine PascalMadame de SévignéBoileauRacineFénélon..

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 724758

Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of , Vol. 2 (of 2) contains the biography of Voltaire, Rousseau, Condorcet, Mirabeau, Madame Roland, Madame de Staël.It is impossible to commence the biography of this extraordinary man without feelings of apprehension as to our power of well executing the task. To write the life of V..

Nina H. Kennard 2j1q2n

In spite of Mrs. Siddons’s professed shrinking from the celebrity that biographers would confer upon her, and her preference for the “still small voice of tender relatives and estimable friends,” we know that she bequeathed her Memoranda, Letters, and Diary to the poet Campbell—an intimate friend during her latter years—with a request that he would..

Arnold Bennett 4k321h

Sometime in the last century I was for several years one of the most regular contributors to "The Academy," under the editorship of Mr. Lewis Hind and the ownership of Mr. Morgan Richards. The work was constant; but the pay was bad, as it too often is where a paper has ideals. I well the day when, by dint of amicable menaces, I got the rat..

Upton Sinclair 58r6m

All through my seventy-one years of writing life—I started at thirteen—I have had from my readers suggestions that I should tell my own story. When I was halfway through those writing years I accepted the suggestion and wrote a book called American Outpost. The major part of that book, revised and brought up to date, is incorporated in this volume...