Bibliotheca Americana
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Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : America |
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Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : Frank Earl Herrick |
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Total Pages | : 47 |
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Author | : James Fenimore Cooper |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1983-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780873954228 |
In the summer of 1828 James Fenimore Cooper, his wife, and their five children set out from Paris for Switzerland, and Cooper wrote that he experienced a glorious anticipation, for a common-place converse with men was about to give place to a sublime communion with Nature. Sketches of Switzerland, the book which describes this experience and which is republished here for the first time in the United States since its original issue in 1836, was the first of five European travel books written, Cooper said, for my own Countrymen, in which the American novelist gave rapid sketches of what he saw with American eyes, studiously avoiding the drab, factual accounts of ordinary tourists. His indispensable resources in the composition of Switzerland were his gifts of total recall and his skill in writing prose pictures in the style then known as picturesque. Seeking an immediacy analogous to that of the artists brush, Cooper captures various elements of picturesque style, especially the incongruity between the sublime, terrifying scenery and the more familiar sights and associations of domestic life. Even in the creation of verbal pictures, Cooper could not resist expressing his concerns with society and politics; and though his criticism seems harmless enough todayperhaps even salutaryit was disturbing to American readers less secure than Cooper in their confidence in their institutions and society. Partly, at least, for this reason, Coopers most successful nonfictional experiment in the picturesque mode has never been adequately appreciated.
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Total Pages | : 852 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Bee Culture |
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Total Pages | : 1512 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Bee culture |
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Author | : Lafcadio Hearn |
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Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Essays |
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"The first volume of Occidental gleanings contains his contributions to the Cincinnati enquirer and the Cincinnati commercial; the second volume includes his articles in the New Orleans item, the New Orleans times-democrat, and three other publications for which he wrote in the eighties."--Introd.
Author | : Anatoly Liberman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2009-04-13 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 0199889015 |
Written in a funny, charming, and conversational style, Word Origins is the first book to offer a thorough investigation of the history and the science of etymology, making this little-known field accessible to everyone interested in the history of words. Anatoly Liberman, an internationally acclaimed etymologist, takes the reader by the hand and explains the many ways that English words can be made, and the many ways in which etymologists try to unearth the origins of words. Every chapter is packed with dozens of examples of proven word histories, used to illustrate the correct ways to trace the origins of words as well as some of the egregiously bad ways to trace them. He not only tells the known origins of hundreds of words, but also shows how their origins were determined. And along the way, the reader is treated to a wealth of fascinating word facts. Did they once have bells in a belfry? No, the original meaning of belfry was siege tower. Are the words isle and island, raven and ravenous, or pan and pantry related etymologically? No, though they look strikingly similar, these words came to English via different routes. Partly a history, partly a how-to, and completely entertaining, Word Origins invites readers behind the scenes to watch an etymologist at work.
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Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 1837-10 |
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Total Pages | : 738 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Bee culture |
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Includes summarized reports of many bee-keeper associations