Symonds: 104 books

From thunderous broadsides traded between wooden sailing ships on Lake Erie, to the carrier battles of World War II, to the devastating high-tech action in the Persian Gulf, here is a gripping history of five key battles that defined the evolution of naval warfare--and the course of the American nation....

Renaissance in Italy Volume I John Addington Symonds, english poet and literary critic (1840-1893) This ebook presents «Renaissance in Italy Volume I», from John Addington Symonds. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents...

A Problem in Modern Ethics John Addington Symonds, english poet and literary critic (1840-1893) This ebook presents «A Problem in Modern Ethics», from John Addington Symonds. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents...

Broadway Rhythm is a guide to Manhattan like nothing you've ever read. Author Dominic Symonds calls it a performance cartography, and argues that the city of New York maps its iconicity in the music of the Broadway songbook. A series of walking tours takes the reader through the landscape of Manhattan,...

Renaissance in Italy Volume II John Addington Symonds, english poet and literary critic (1840-1893) This ebook presents «Renaissance in Italy Volume II», from John Addington Symonds. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of...

John Addington Symonds was an English poet and literary critic.  Symonds best known books are his biographies including one on the great poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.  A table of contents is included.

Percy Bysshe Shelley John Addington Symonds, english poet and literary critic (1840-1893) This ebook presents «Percy Bysshe Shelley», from John Addington Symonds. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About...

In July 1883, just a few days after the twentieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a group of editors at The Century Magazine engaged in a lively argument: Which Civil War battle was the bloodiest battle of them all? One claimed it was Chickamauga, another Cold Harbor. The argument inspired...

Famous for his dreadlocks, his zinc plastered lips and powerful hitting, Andrew Symonds is one of Australia's most popular and entertaining cricketers.

This volume of New Italian Sketches has been made up from two books published in England and America under the titles of Sketches and Studies in Italy and Italian Byways. It forms in some respects a companion volume to my Sketches in Italy already published in the Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors....

When we try to picture to ourselves the intellectual and moral state of Europe in the Middle Ages, some fixed and almost stereotyped ideas immediately suggest themselves. We think of the nations immersed in a gross mental lethargy; passively witnessing the gradual extinction of arts and sciences which...

"Riveting. . . . A thoughtful biography." —New York Times Book Review General Joseph E. Johnston was in command of Confederate forces at the South's first victory—Manassas in July 1861—and at its last—Bentonville in April 1965. Many of his contemporaries considered him the...

A collection of ten new essays from some of our finest Civil War historians working today, Gateway to the Confederacy offers a reexamination of the campaigns fought to gain possession of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Each essay addresses how Americans have misconstrued the legacy of these struggles and...

This fast-paced narrative traces the emergence of the United States Navy as a global power from its birth during the American Revolution through to its current superpower status. The story highlights iconic moments of great drama pivotal to the nation's fortunes: John Paul Jones' attacks on the British...