It's a golden age for historical writing, as well-researched and sometimes quite specialist books by historians are written in an engaging style for a broad audience. Finding an enthusiastic audience among readers then encourages publishers to publish more of the same, in what will hopefully be ...
Phil Klay, Military Historians & Veteran Buy now The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney Read expert recommendations “The Vice President loves Irish poetry. Heaney is one of his favorites. He often quotes the last of these lines: ‘The longed-for tidal wave / Of justice can rise up / And...
Many books written by great writers influence people a lot. ___, Lu Xun’s novels make a lot of sense to us today.A.In the endB.As a resultC.At firstD.For example 免费查看参考答案及解析 题目: Mr. Brown bought a few Chinese books yesterday.A.a littleB.littleC.severalD.a bit ...
run by the Church Missionary Society, in Hangzhou and later became the first Chinese woman to earn a degree from the University of London. I have writtenpreviously(2019) about Zeng’s role as an educational
It never is, and that’s precisely why we have historians. It might be more accurately said that history’s first draft is written by the victors. But first drafts, as any writer will tell you, are famously unreliable. So it is with architectural history. Women have played significant ...
Each of the sixteen incisive chapters focuses on a single title and is written by a leading art historian, curator or one of the promising scholars of today's generation. In bringing these cross-generational contributions together, t... (展开全部) 作者简介 ··· 理查德·肖恩 Richard Shone ...
that distinguishes Conrad’s work from that of many novelists of the 19th and early 20th centuries. They, for the most part, were concerned to widen the scope of the novel, to act, in Balzac’s phrase, as the natural historians of society; Conrad instead aimed at the isolation and concen...
December 31, 2024byMichael Hanscom Every year, I set myself a goal of reading at least 52 books over the course of the year — an average of one a week. This year I made it to76 books. Here’s a quick (?) overview… Once again,the trend of the last few yearsholds true, with...
consisted of 40 books, the last being indexes. Books I–V areextant. For the rest there are various excerpts, including those contained in the collection of passages from Greek historians assembled in the 10th century and rediscovered and published by various editors from the 16th to the 19th ...
(near Springfield, Missouri), a Southern victory of sorts that flows into the Southern defeat at Pea Ridge (near Fayetteville, Arkansas). These battles have been written about by historians and novelists alike, but Thompson’s treatment, portraying the war from a slave’s perspective, is ...