A seamstress and friend of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln describes her days as a slave and her memories of the martyred President and his First Lady

Product Description: Unveraenderter Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1887.

Many may wonder why an old “guerrilla” should feel called upon at this late day to rehearse the story of his life. On the eve of sixty, I come out into the world to find a hundred or more of books, of greater or less pretensions, purporting to be a history of “The Lives of the Younger Brothers,” but which are all nothing more nor less than a lot of sensational recitals, with which the Younger brothers never had the least association. One publishing house alone is selling sixty varieties of these books, and I venture to say that in the whole lot there could not be found six pages of truth. The stage, too, has its lurid dramas in which we are painted in devilish blackness. It is therefore my purpose to give an authentic and absolutely correct history of the lives of the “Younger Brothers,” in order that I may, if possible, counteract in some measure at least, the harm that has been done my brothers and myself, by the blood and thunder accounts of misdeeds, with which relentless sensationalists have charged us, but which have not even the suggestion of truth about them, though doubtless they have had everything to do with coloring public opinion. In this account I propose to set out the little good that was in my life, at the same time not withholding in any way the bad, with the hope of setting right before the world a family name once honored, but which has suffered disgrace by being charged with more evil deeds than were ever its rightful share.

Product Description: The series of studies contained in this volume is in no way a history of the Tudor period. My object in preparing it has been first to form in my own mind and secondly to present to my readers a clear and consistent conception of the character of sundry persons, who in their own day either exercised an effective influence on the course of politics, or embodied political ideas which have influenced succeeding generations...read more

Product Description: The Forest Farm By Peter Rosegger

Product Description: This war has been described as "Months of boredom, punctuated by moments of intense fright." The writer of these sketches has experienced many "months of boredom," in a French military field hospital, situated ten kilometres behind the lines, in Belgium...read more

Product Description: A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force

Introduces students to a story about a group of pilgrims going to Canterbury

Written to introduce students to the new and exciting theater of distinguished avant-gardist, Eugene Ionesco. Provocative and contemporary, developing a theme of continuing validity and interest: conformity versus individuality. Contains a cross-reference "Vocabulaire".

Product Description: A comprehensive and insightful compilation of Benjamin Franklin’s The Autobiography and other essays which offers an in-depth look into the life of America’s most fascinating Founding Father.Benjamin Franklin was a true Renaissance man: writer, publisher, scientist, inventor, diplomat, and politician...read more

Humorous account of a biologist's study of the physiology and psychology of the common fly

Product Description: Aline Griffith, una joven norteamericana enviada a España en “servicio especial” durante la última gran guerra se convierte, por su matrimonio con un aristócrata español, en Condesa de Quintanilla. Figura descollante de la alta sociedad de Madrid (ha figurado en cinco ocasiones en la lista de las mujeres más elegantes del mundo), en su vida, además de su familia – su marido y sus tres hijos – y de la brillante existencia que le asegura su rango social, cuenta otro mundo totalmente distinto: la finca de Pascualete, en la apartada región de Extremadura, propiedad de la familia de su esposo desde hace setecientos años...read more