Author:
Publisher: Discovery
Keywords: kashmir, personalities, eminent
Number of Pages: 194
Published: 1997
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8171413455
ISBN-13: 9788171413454

Author: Lytton Strachey
Publisher: Echo Library
Keywords: victorians, eminent
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2006-12-01
List price: $11.90
ISBN-10: 1406831204
ISBN-13: 9781406831207

The four biographical essays that make up Eminent Victorians created something of a stir when they were first published in the spring of 1918, bringing their author instant fame. In his flamboyant collection, Lytton Strachey chose to stray far from the traditional mode of biography: "Those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom to commemorate the dead--who does not know them, with their ill-digested masses of material, their slipshod style, their tone of tedious panegyric, their lamentable lack of selection, of detachment, of design?" Instead he provided impressionistic but acute (and, s

Author: Lytton Strachey
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: victorians, eminent
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2004-06-25
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 1417929820
ISBN-13: 9781417929825

1918. The famous biographer of the Victorians, Strachey was one of the leading members of the Bloomsbury group. Eminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with skepticism and Strachey’s wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liberated the biographical enterprise. His portraits of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon changed perceptions of the Victorians for a generation. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Author: Dwight Goddard
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: engineers, eminent
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2008-12-09
List price: $27.75
ISBN-10: 0559685467
ISBN-13: 9780559685460

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Author: S.K. Sharma
Publisher: Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd
Keywords: fighters, freedom, indian, eminent
Number of Pages: 556
Published: 2005-06-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8126118903
ISBN-13: 9788126118908

Giving a categorical account of population geography in pros and cons, this work describes basic principles and empirical findings.

Author: Percy Granger
Publisher: S. French
Keywords: play, domain, eminent
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1983
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0573618798
ISBN-13: 9780573618796

Author: Robert Cowley
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Keywords: imagine, historians, eminent
Number of Pages: 427
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 042518613X
ISBN-13: 9780425186138

What if Lincoln didn’t abolish slavery? What if an assassin succeeded in killing FDR in 1933? This volume presents 25 intriguing "what if..." scenarios by some of today’s greatest historical minds-including James Bradley, Caleb Carr, James Chace, Theodore F. Cook, Jr., Carlos M.N. Eire, George Feifer, Thomas Fleming, Richard B. Frank, Victor Davis Hanson, Cecelia Holland, Alistair Horne, David Kahn, Robert Katz, John Lukacs, William H. McNeill, Lance Morrow, Williamson Murray, Josiah Ober, Robert L. O’Connell, Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K. Rabb, Andrew Roberts, Roger Spiller,