Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 755
ptember 15, 1789; d. September 14, 1851)typifies a large and apparently enduring class of fiction writers of which hewas a remarkable forerunner ; that school of novelists who deal with stirring,bold, and healthful adventure, in which the Anglo-Saxon mind particularlyseems to find unfailing… … CHARLES DICKENS. Nathaniel Hawthorne (b. July 4, 1804; d. May 18, 1864) exhibits in hisnumerous fictional works a mans breadth and strength of imagination anda womans quick perception and spiritual insight. Almost gloomy in color,overhung with impending fate, and often uncanny, his stories are yet…
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