James Froude: 31 books

The memory of no English sovereign has been so execrated as that of Mary Tudor. For generations after her death her name, with its horrid epithet clinging round it like the shirt of Nessus, was a bugbear in thousands of Protestant homes. It is true that nearly 300 persons were burnt at the stake in...

The mythic element cannot be eliminated out of history. Men who play leading parts on the world’s stage gather about them the admiration of friends and the animosity of disappointed rivals or political enemies. The atmosphere becomes charged with legends of what they have said or done—some inventions,...

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Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by James A. FroudeCaesar: A SketchEnglish Seamen in the Sixteenth CenturyFroude's Essays in Literature and HistoryHistory of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II.The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1The Reign of Mary TudorShort Studies on Great Subjects

James Anthony Froude was a prominent English historian in the 19th century.  Froude’s most famous book is his history of Mary Tudor who became known as Bloody Mary.  A table of contents is included.

Froude had this merit—a merit he shared with Huxley alone of His contemporaries—that he imposed his convictions. He fought against resistance. He excited (and still excites) a violent animosity. He exasperated the surface of his time and was yet too strong for that surface to reject him. This...

An English historian, novelist, biographer. 1849 novel The Nemesis of Faith, drove him to abandon his religious career. Froude turned to writing history, becoming one of the best known historians of his time for his History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada. Inspired...

Viewing history as a grand drama, Froude emphasized great personalities and disdained the scientific approach in his historical writing. This epic, twelve-volume narrative presents a vivid portrait of a tumultuous era. Volume three opens with a discussion of the Protextant reformation, and its effects...

Carlyle, speaking to me many years ago of parliamentary government as he had observed the working of it in this country, said that under this system not the fittest men were chosen to administer our affairs, but the ‘unfittest.’ The subject of the present memoir was scornfully mentioned as an...

THE REIGN Of MARY TUDOR JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE [ZHINGOORA BOOKS] INTRODUCTION. The memory of no English sovereign has been so execrated as that of Mary Tudor. For generations after her death her name, with its horrid epithet clinging round it like the shirt of Nessus, was...

Bunyan by James Anthony Froude 'I was of a low and inconsiderable generation, my father's house being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all families in the land.' 'I never went to school, to Aristotle or Plato, but was brought up in my father's house in a very mean condition,...

Nine studies of 16th Century seafarers by English historian James Anthony Froude.Includes:• The Sea Cradle of the Reformation• John Hawkins and the African Slave Trade• Sir John Hawkins and Philip the Second• Drake’s Voyage Round the World• Parties in the State• The Great Expedition to the West Indies• Attack on Cadiz• Sailing of the Armada• Defeat of the Armada

This 1872 collection contains the essays "Calvinism," "England and her Colonies," "England's War," "The Eastern Question," and many more—all previously published in periodicals. The essays were said to be “marked by that great originality and independence of thought, joined with stirring eloquence of expression which have secured [Froude] such wide and enduring reputation as an historian.”

Viewing history as a grand drama, Froude emphasized great personalities and disdained the scientific approach in his historical writing. This epic, twelve-volume narrative presents a vivid portrait of a tumultuous era. The first volume begins with an overview of the social conditions of England in the...