The Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams and Ira B. Nadel (ed.)
As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An ...
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Eminent Victorians
Lytton Strachey and John Sutherland (ed.)
Lytton Strachey’s biographical essays on four ‘eminent Victorians’ dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918. It ushered in the modern biography and ...
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Journals: Captain Scott’s Last Expedition
Robert Falcon Scott and Max Jones (ed.)
Captain Scott’s harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party’s optimistic departure from New ...
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