Salvation Syrup: Or Light on Darkest England, a Reply to General Booth (Classic Reprint), Foote G. W.
Автор: Foote Shelby Название: The Civil War Box Set: With American Homer: Reflections on Shelby Foote and His Classic the Civil War: A Narrative ISBN: 0679643702 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679643708 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 91960.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Modern Library publishes Shelby Foote's three-volume masterpiece in a new boxed set including three hardcovers and a new trade paperback, "American Homer: Reflections on Shelby Foote and His Classic Civil War: A Narrative, " edited by and with an introduction from Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and including essays by Michael Beschloss, Ken Burns, Annette Gordon-Reed, and others. Random House publisher Bennett Cerf commissioned southern novelist Shelby Foote to write a short, one-volume history of the American Civil War. Thirty years and a million and a half words later--every word having been written out longhand with nib pens dipped into ink--Foote published the third and final volume of what has become the classic narrative of that epic war. As he approached the end of the final volume, Foote recounted this scene in a letter to his friend, the novelist Walker Percy: "I killed Lincoln last week--Saturday, at noon. While I was doing it (he had his chest arched up, holding his last breath to let it out) some halfassed doctor came to the door with vols I and II under his arm, wanting me to autograph them for his son for Xmas. I was in such a state of shock, I not only let him in; I even signed the goddam books, a thing I seldom do. Then I turned back and killed him and had Stanton say, 'Now he belongs to the ages.' A strange feeling, though. I have another 70-odd pages to go, and I have a fear they'll be like Hamlet with Hamlet left out. Christ, what a man. It's been a great thing getting to know him as he was, rather than as he has come to be--a sort of TV image of himself, with a ghost alongside." When Percy read the final book, he wrote to Foote: "It's a noble work. I'm still staggered by the size of the achievement. . . . It is "The Iliad."" A selection of these letters, along with essays by Jon Meacham, Michael Beschloss, Ken Burns, Annette Gordon-Reed, Michael Eric Dyson, Julia Reed, Robert Loomis, Donald Graham, John M. McCardell, Jr., and Jay Tolson, are included in" American Homer, " the bonus paperback book available only in the Modern Library boxed set of "The Civil War. " Shelby Foote's tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our history--a war that lasted four long, bitter years, an experience more profound and meaningful than any other the American people have ever lived through--begins with Jefferson Davis's resignation from the United States Senate and Abraham Lincoln's departure from Springfield for the national capital. It is these two leaders, whose lives continually touch on the great chain of events throughout the story, who are only the first of scores of exciting personalities that in effect make "The Civil War" a multiple biography set against the crisis of an age. Four years later, Lincoln's second inaugural sets the seal, invoking "charity for all" on the Eve of Five Forks and the Grant-Lee race for Appomattox. Here is the dust and stench of war, a sort of Twilight of the Gods. The epilogue is Lincoln in his grave, and Davis in his postwar existence--"Lucifer in Starlight." So ends a unique achievement--already recognized as one of the finest histories ever fashioned by an American--a narrative that re-creates on a vast and brilliant canvas the events and personalities of an American epic: the Civil War.
Автор: Foote Edward Bliss Название: Dr. Foote`s New Book on Health and Disease, with Recipes, Including Sexology: Treating of the Human System in Health and Disease, of Hygiene and Sanit ISBN: 0243589727 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780243589722 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 21670.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Excerpt from Dr. Foote's New Book on Health and Disease, With Recipes, Including Sexology: Treating of the Human System in Health and Disease, of Hygiene and Sanitation; Causes, Prevention and Home Treatment of Chronic Diseases, Including Private Words for Men and Women, and 250 Practical Preacriptions How far the heads of families may be willing to allow it to circulate among the younger members, it must be left for them to determine; but, if intelligent parents had had my experience they would place this book in the hands of all children who are capable of being interested in it. In other words. They would take no pains to conceal it from children of any age, because only those who un derstand it will become interested. And all possessing this degree of comprehension are liable to obtain erroneous and injurious information upon the same taplcs through inpure and corrupting channels. Though much care be exercised to pre vent it. This is a fact which a large correspondence with young people has impre-ed upon the mind of the author, and would commend the earnest attention of all parents and guardians. If they possessed the means of knowing what the writer does. I have received enough lamentations from the young of both sexes, resulting from their indiscretions. To fill these pages. And many of their letters do not hesitate to charge their parents with cruel neglect in keeping from them a knowledge of such vital importance. If this work is adjudged unsuitable. May be other works can be found that will answer the purpose, although I doubt if there is another book wherein the relations of all the organs of the system to each other. And those of the moral nature to the physical body. Are more faithfully traced. For the adult this work contains information which no man or woman can word to do without, when it may be obtained at a price so comparatively trifling. If the physiological deductions and social views of the author be not accepted the valuable facts upon which they are based remain. And the reader is at liberty to use them to sustain cplnions and suggestions which he may adjudge more accept able to the popular mind. Anything, everything - that the human family may grow wiser and happier. B. B. I. 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.
Автор: Foote, Shelby Название: Stars in Their Courses ISBN: 0679601120 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679601128 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 14710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book describes quantum chaos and quantum transport in microscopic billiards. Microscopic billiards are typical dynamical systems in which it is easy to see chaos classically and also to investigate effects of chaos on quantum phenomena. Owing to recent progress in microstructure fabrication technology, quantum chaos can now be studied experimentally rather than only as a sophisticated theory.
Автор: Foote, Shelby Название: Beleaguered City ISBN: 0679601708 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679601708 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 14100.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Foote Mary Hallock Название: A Touch of Sun, and Other Stories ISBN: 153020478X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781530204786 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 30920.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
