Wayside Gleanings in Europe
Author: Benjamin Bausman
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Published: 1875
Total Pages: 494
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Author: Benjamin Bausman
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Published: 1875
Total Pages: 494
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Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-01-20
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780483511057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Wayside Gleanings in Europe As the gleaner, at the close of the day, carefully as sorts every head of Wheat gathered, and binds the golden grain into sheaves, so was I in the habit of assorting and storing away the fruits of each day at its close. In secluded mountain retreats, in village inns, and in the more noisy quarters of the crowded city, I thrashed the harvest and garnered it in articles for the columns and pages of different periodicals. Thus it happened that the greater part of this volume was written at or near the places to which reference is made. The impressions of men and manners, of things seen, heard and felt, were noted down when yet fresh and vivid in the mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Bathsheba H. Morse Crane
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Published: 1880
Total Pages: 496
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Allison Lockwood
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780838622728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author has analyzed, sorted, and organized material from almost 500 accounts of travels in Great Britain into a veritable cavalcade of social history. This is a book filled with life and vitality, written with a light touch and always with an eye to social comedy. It presents a true and realistic picture of these people and their periods.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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Published: 1970
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Published: 1983
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ISBN-13: 9780873955997
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 444
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Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1983-06-30
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780873954228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 377
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 2048
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