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Domestic Manners Of By Fanny (v. 0.2)

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About the Book
Domestic Manners of the Americans [1832]

Frances Trollope has been a figure of fun and notoriety in America for over one hundred and sixty years. Ever since the publication of her Domestic Manners of the Americans in 1832, Americans have caricatured Frances Trollope as a snobbish English woman who visited briefly, misjudged a bustling frontier culture, and wrongly took the United States to task in order to make her fortune. In so doing, we have distorted Frances Trollope's image and ignored her many publications (totalling 114 volumes in all) in ways that we have not done math her even more critical but more respected male compatriots, Anthony Trollope (author of North America and her youngest son) and Charles Dickens (author of American Notes and her fellow writer).

As Mark Twain was to say in Life on the Mississippi, "poor candid Mrs. Trollope was so handsomely cursed and reviled by this nation. Yet she was merely telling the truth, and this indignant nation knew it" (391). Twain pointed out that what Mrs. Trollope attacked - "slavery, rowdyism,|chivalrous' assassinations, sham godliness, and several other devilishnesses" - richly deserved condemnation. He believed her protests to be the result of "a humane spirit [struggling] against inhumanities; of an honest nature against humbug; of a clean breeding against grossness; of a right heart against unright speech and deed" (392). For her efforts to tell the truth "fairly and squarely," Twain felt that Frances Trollope "deserved gratitude - but it is an error to suppose she got it" (391-92).

About the Author
Fanny Trollope, 1780–1863

Novelist and miscellaneous writer, born at Stapleton near Bristol, married in 1809 Thomas A.T., a barrister, who fell into financial misfortune. She then in 1827 went with her family to Cincinnati, where the efforts which she made to support herself were unsuccessful. On her return to England, however, she brought herself into notice by publishing Domestic Manners of the Americans [1832], in which she gave a very unfavourable and grossly exaggerated account of the subject; and a novel, The Refugee in America, pursued it on similar lines. Next came The Abbess and Belgium and Western Germany, and other works of the same kind on Paris and the Parisians, and Vienna and the Austrians followed. Thereafter she continued to pour forth novels and books on miscellaneous subjects, writing in all over 100 vols. Though possessed of considerable powers of observation and a sharp and caustic wit, such an output was fatal to permanent literary success, and none of her books are now read. She spent the last 20 years of her life at Florence, where she died in 1863. Her third son was Anthony Trollope, the well-known novelist.

Anthony Trollope Collection (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-07-03
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This book contain collection of 34 books

1. Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
2. The Warden [1855]
3. Barchester Towers [1857]
4. Doctor Thorne [1858]
5. Framley Parsonage [1861]
6. The Small House at Allington [1864]
7. The Last Chronicle of Barset [1867]
8. Can You Forgive Her? [1864]
9. Phineas Finn [1869]
10. The Eustace Diamonds [1873]
11. Phineas Redux [1874]
12. The Prime Minister [1876]
13. The Duke's Children [1879]
14. The Kellys and the O'Kellys [1848]
15. La Vendée [1850]
16. The Three Clerks [1858]
17. Castle Richmond [1860]
18. Rachel Ray [1863]
19. Hunting Sketches [1865]
20. The Belton Estate [1866]
21. Nina Balatka [1867]
22. The Claverings [1867]
23. He Knew He Was Right [1869]
24. The Golden Lion of Granpere [1872]
25. Harry Heathcote of Gangoil [1874]
26. Lady Anna [1874]
27. The Way We Live Now [1875]
28. The American Senator [1877]
29. John Caldigate [1879]
30. Ayala's Angel [1881]
31. Doctor Wortle's School [1881]
32. Tales of All Countries [1861-1863]
33. North America [1862]
34. Thackeray [1879]

About the Author
Anthony Trollope, 1815–1882

Novelist, son of Thomas Anthony T., a barrister who ruined himself by speculation, and of Frances T. (q.v.), a well-known writer, was born in London, and ed. at Harrow and Winchester. His childhood was an unhappy one, owing to his father’s misfortunes. After a short time in Belgium he obtained an appointment in the Post Office, in which he rose to a responsible position. His first three novels had little success; but in 1855 he found his line, and in The Warden produced the first of his Barsetshire series. It was followed by Barchester Towers [1857], Doctor Thorne [1858], Framley Parsonage [1861], The Small House at Allington [1864], and The Last Chronicle of Barset [1867], which deal with the society of a small cathedral city. Other novels are Orley Farm, Can you forgive Her?, Ralph the Heir, The Claverings, Phineas Finn, He knew he was Right, and The Golden Lion of Grandpré. In all he wrote about 50 novels, besides books about the West Indies, North America, Australia, and South Africa, a translation of Cæsar, and monographs on Cicero and Thackeray. His novels are light of touch, pleasant, amusing, and thoroughly healthy. They make no attempt to sound the depths of character or either to propound or solve problems. Outside of fiction his work was generally superficial and unsatisfactory. But he had the merit of providing a whole generation with wholesome amusement, and enjoyed a great deal of popularity. He is said to have received £70,000 for his writings.

Thucydides Collection Books (v. 0.2)

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This book contain collection of 2 books

1. translated by Richard Crawley
2. translated by Benjamin Jowett

About the Author
Thucydides (c. 460 BC - 395 BC)

Greek historian, and the author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens.

Thucydides is generally regarded as one of the first true historians. Like his predecessor Herodotus (often called "the father of history"), Thucydides placed a high-value on autopsy, or eye-witness testimony to events, and writes about many episodes in which he himself probably took part. He also assiduously consulted written documents and interviewed participants in the events that he records. Unlike Herodotus, he did not recognize divine interventions in human affairs. Certainly he held unconscious biases — for example, to modern eyes he seems to underestimate the importance of Persian intervention — but Thucydides was the first historian who attempted something like modern historical objectivity.

Henry David Thoreau Collection (v. 0.2)

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This book contain collection of 2 books

1. Civil Disobedience [1849]
2. Walden [1854]

About the Author
Henry David Thoreau, 1817–1862

Essayist, poet, and naturalist, was born at Concord, Massachusetts. His father, of French extraction, from Jersey, was a manufacturer of lead-pencils. He was educated at Harvard, where he became a good classical scholar. Subsequently he was a competent Orientalist, and was deeply versed in the history and manners of the Red Indians. No form of regular remunerative employment commending itself to him, he spent the 10 years after leaving college in the study of books and nature, for the latter of which he had exceptional qualifications in the acuteness of his senses and his powers of observation. Though not a misanthropist, he appears in general to have preferred solitary communion with nature to human society. “The man I meet,” he said, “is seldom so instructive as the silence which he breaks;” and he described himself as “a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher.” He made such money as his extremely simple mode of life called for, by building boats or fences, agricultural or garden work, and surveying, anything almost of an outdoor character which did not involve lengthened engagement.

William Makepeace Thackeray (v. 0.2)

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This book contain collection of 36 books

1. Catherine, a Story, by Ikey Solomons, Esq., junior. [Fraser’s Magazine May 1839–February 1840]
2. The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond
3. The Luck of Barry Lyndon, a Romance of the Last Century, by Fitz-Boodle.
4. Vanity Fair, Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society.
5. The History of Pendennis, his Fortunes and Misfortunes, his Friends and his greatest Enemy
6. The History of Henry Esmond
7. The Newcomes, Memoirs of a most respectable Family, ed. by Arthur Pendennis, Esq.
8. The Virginians, a Tale of the Last Century
9. An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank
10. John Leech’s Pictures of Life and Character
11. The Paris Sketch Book, by Mr. Titmarsh.
12. The Irish Sketch-Book, by Mr. M. A. Titmarsh. [1843]
13. Little Travels and Roadside Sketches
14. Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo…by Mr. M. A. Titmarsh. [1846]
15. The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
16. The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan
17. Stubbs’s Calendar; or, the Fatal Boots [1839]
18. The Bedford-Row Conspiracy
19. Barber Cox and the Cutting of his Comb
20. The Fitz-Boodle Papers [1842-43]
21. Men’s Wives
22. The History of the Next French Revolution, from a forthcoming history of Europe.
23. A Legend of the Rhine [1845]
24. The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters [1845-46]
25. Novels by eminent hands [1847]
26. Mrs. Perkins’s Ball, by Mr. M. A. Titmarsh [1847, illustrated]
27. A Little Dinner at Timmins’s
28. The Book of Snobs
29. Our Street [1848]
30. Dr. Birch and his young friends [1849]
31. Rebecca and Rowena; a romance upon romance [1850]
32. The Kickleburys on the Rhine [1851]
33. The Rose and the Ring; or The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo [1855]
34. Roundabout Papers [1860-63]
35. The Second Funeral of Napoleon [1841]
36. The Wolves and the Lamb

About the Author
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811–1863

Novelist, son of Richmond Thackeray, who held various important appointments in the service of the East India Company, and who belonged to an old and respectable Yorkshire family, was born at Calcutta, and soon after the death of his father, which took place in 1816, sent home to England. After being at a school at Chiswick, he was sent to the Charterhouse School, where he remained from 1822–26, and where he does not appear to have been very happy. Meanwhile in 1818 his mother had married Major H.W.C. Smythe, who is believed to be, in part at any rate, the original of Colonel Newcome. In 1829 he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he remained for a year only, and where he did not distinguish himself particularly as a student, but made many life-long friends, including Spedding, Tennyson, Fitzgerald, and Monckton Milnes, and contributed verses and caricatures to two University papers, “The Snob” and “The Gownsman.” The following year, 1831, was spent chiefly in travelling on the Continent, especially Germany, when, at Weimar, he visited Goethe. Returning he entered the Middle Temple, but having no liking for legal studies, he soon abandoned them, and turning his attention to journalism, became proprietor, wholly or in part, of two papers successively, both of which failed. These enterprises, together with some unfortunate investments and also, it would seem, play, stripped him of the comfortable fortune, which he had inherited; and he now found himself dependent on his own exertions for a living. He thought at first of art as a profession, and studied for a time at Paris and Rome.

Terence Collection Books (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-07-03
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This book contain collection of 6 books

1. The Brothers (Adelphoe) (160 BC)
2. The Girl from Andros (Andria) (166 BC)
3. The Eunuch (Eunuchus) (161 BC)
4. The Self-Tormentor (Heauton Timorumenos) (163 BC)
5. The Step-Mother (Hecyra) (165 BC)
6. Phormio (161 BC)

About the Author
Terence

Publius Terentius Afer better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC, and he died young, probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived.

Like Plautus, Terence adapted Greek plays from the late phases of Attic comedy. He was more than a translator, as modern discoveries of ancient Greek plays have confirmed. However, Terence's plays use a convincingly 'Greek' setting rather than Romanizing the characters and situations. Terence worked hard to write natural conversational Latin, and most students who persevere long enough to be able to read him in the vernacular find his style particularly pleasant and direct.

Alfred Tennyson Collection (v. 0.2)

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This book contain collection of 4 books

1. Alfred Tennyson, by Andrew Lang
2. The Lady of Shalott
3. Lady Clare
4. Idylls of the King

About the Author
Alfred Tennyson, 1809–1892

Poet, was the fourth son of George Tennyson, Rector of Somersby, Lincolnshire, where he was born His father was himself a poet of some skill, and his two elder brothers, Frederick Tennyson (q.v.) and Charles Tennyson Turner (q.v.), were poets of a high order. His early education was received from his father, after which he went to the Grammar School of Louth, whence in 1828 he proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge In the previous year had appeared a small vol., Poems by Two Brothers, chiefly the work of his brother Charles and himself, with a few contributions from Frederick, but it attracted little attention. At the University he was one of a group of highly gifted men, including Trench, Monckton Milnes, afterwards Lord Houghton, Alford, Lushington, his future brother-inlaw, and above all, Arthur Hallam, whose friendship and early death were to be the inspiration of his greatest poem. In 1829 he won the Chancellor’s medal by a poem on Timbuctoo, and in the following year he brought out his first independent work, Poems chiefly Lyrical. It was not in general very favourably received by the critics, though Wilson in Blackwood’s Magazine admitted much promise and even performance. In America it had greater popularity. Part of 1832 was spent in travel with Hallam, and the same year saw the publication of Poems, which had not much greater success than its predecessor. In the next year Hallam died, and Tennyson began In Memoriam and wrote The Two Voices. He also became engaged to Emily Sellwood, his future wife, but owing to various circumstances their marriage did not take place until 1850. The next few years were passed with his family at various places, and, so far as the public were concerned, he remained silent until 1842, when he published Poems in two volumes, and at last achieved full recognition as a great poet.

Watkin Tench Collection Books (v. 0.2)

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This book contain collection of 2 books

1. A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay [1788]
2. A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson [1793]

About the Author
Watkin Tench, 1759?-1833

Watkin Tench was a Marine officer in the First Fleet, establishing the first settlement in Australia in 1788. His two accounts, Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay and Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson provide a fascinating and entertaining account of the arrival and first four years of the colony.

Tench was also a prisoner of the French in Brittany in 1794-95, and his Letters from revolutionary France provide a first-hand account of the French Revolution.

Cornelius Tacitus Collection (v. 0.2)

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This book contain collection of 2 books

1. The Annals / translated by W. J. Brodribb and Alfred John Church
2. Histories / translated by W. J. Brodribb and Alfred John Church

About the Author
Cornelius Tacitus

A senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories—examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors. These two works span the history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus in AD 14 to (presumably) the death of emperor Domitian in AD 96. There are enormous lacunae in the surviving texts, including one four books long in the Annals.

Other works by Tacitus discuss oratory (in dialogue format, see Dialogus de oratoribus), Germania (in De origine et situ Germanorum), and biographical notes about his father-in-law Agricola, primarily during his campaign in Britannia (see De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae).

Charles Sturt Collection Books (v. 0.2)

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This book contain collection of 3 books

1. An account of the sea coast and interior of South Australia with observations on various subjects connected with its interests
2. Narrative of an expedition into Central Australia performed under the authority of Her Majesty's government, during the years 1844, 5, and 6
3. Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during the years 1828,1829,1830,1831 with observations on the soil, climate and general resources of the Colony of New South Wales

About the Author
Charles Sturt

English explorer of Australia, part of the European Exploration of Australia. He led several expeditions into the interior of the continent, starting from both Sydney and later from Adelaide. His expeditions traced several of the westward-flowing rivers, establishing that they all merge into the Murray River. He was searching to determine if there was an "inland sea".