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Benvenuto Cellini was a celebrated Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith, a passionate craftsman who was admired and resented by the most powerful political and artistic personalities in sixteenth-century Florence, Rome and Paris. He was also a murderer and a braggart, a shameless adventurer who at different times experienced both papal persecution and imprisonment, and the adulation of the royal …
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- vi; p.576; 24 cm
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- 820 CEL a
Essays
This book consists of two parts, the first is about history, self-reliance, compensation, spiritual laws, love, friendship, love, prudence, heroism, the over-soul, circles, intellect, and art. The second is about the poet, experience, character, manners, gifts, nature, politics, nominalist and realist, New England Reformers-Lecture at Amory Hall.
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- xxii; p.506; 24 cm
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- 820 EME e
THE REPUBLIC
Plato was born in Athens about 428 or 427 B.C. and died there in 348 or 347 B.C. One of the most brilliant figures in the history of Western philosophy, he was the son of Ariston and Perictione, both of whom belonged to old and important Athenian families. His father died when he was young. Perictione remarried, and Plato's stepfather, Pyrilampes, played an active part in the political and cult…
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- Cet.1 1958
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- 717200019
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- xvi; p.480; 24 cm
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- 820 PLA r
The Age of Fable
One of the eleven children of Charles Bulfinch, Thomas was born on July 15, 1796, at Newton, Massachusetts. After graduating Harvard in 1814, he taught in the Boston Latin School for a year. From 1818 to 1825, he lived his family in Washington D.C., where his father had been appointed architect of the Capitol. After his return to Boston in 1825, he engaged in several business enterprises, none …
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- vi; p.498; 24 cm
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- 820 BUL a
Boswell's Life of Dr.Johnson for the Modern Reader
James Boswell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on October 29, 1740, and died in London, England, on May 19, 1795. The eldest son of a Scottish judge, Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, he was educated by a private tutor and at Edinburg High School adn the University of Edinburgh. His lifelong friendship with the clergyman William Johnson Temple, a friend of a poet Thomas Gray, began at the uni…
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- xiv; p.426; 24 cm
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- 820 DUN b
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name, Mark Twain, was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri and died on April 21, 1910, in Redding, Connecticut. His parents, John Marshall Clemens and Jane Lampton Clemens, descendants of slave-holding Virginians, had been married in Kentucky and had made their way through Tennessee to Missouri. When Sam was four, his father, an impra…
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- xxvi; p.390; 24 cm
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- 820 TWA a
The Moonstone
This book consists of four parts, Prologue entiled The Storming of Seringapatam, The Story-First Period-Loss of the Diamond, Second Period-The Discovery of The Truth, and the Epilogue-The Finding of the Diamond.
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- xvi; p.696; 24 cm
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Selected Short Stories
Guy de Maupassant was born in Chateau de Miromesnil, Tourbille-sur-Arques, Seine-Inferiere, France, On August 5, 1850, and died in Paris on July 6, 1893. His maternal grandfather, Paul Le Poittevin, was Gustave Flaubert's godfather, and his mother, Laure, and his uncle, Alfred, had been childhood playmates of Flaubert and his sister. rnMaupassant grew up in his native Normandy, a rebellious stu…
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- xiv; p.314; 24 cm
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- 820 MAU s
A Tale of Two Cities
Those who disparage Dickens point to his improvised plots with their indebtedness to the farce, melodrama, and spectacle of the nineteenth-century stage; to the characters with their idiosyncrasies and ludicrous exaggeration; to the pathos with its descent to sentimentality, even mawkishness. His defenders, while admitting the structural weaknesses of his early novels, maintain that his later w…
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- xxiv; p.584; 24 cm
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- 820 DIC a
The History of Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams
The authentic history with which now present the public is an instance of the great good that book is likely to do, and of the prevalence of example which have just observed; since it will appear that it was by keeping the excellent pattern of his sister's virtues before his eyes, that Mr Joseph Andrews was chiefly enabled to preserve his purity in the midst of such great temptations. I shall o…
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- xxxvi; p.444; 24 cm
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