Symonds: 104 books

Book cover of Renaissance in Italy : Italian Literature, Volume V (Illustrated)
by John Addington Symonds
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014

“Thus what the word Renaissance really means is new birth to liberty—the spirit of mankind recovering consciousness and the power of self-determination, recognizing the beauty of the outer world, and of the body through art, liberating the reason in science and the conscience in religion, restoring...
Book cover of Renaissance in Italy : The Catholic Reaction, Volumes VI (Illustrated)
by John Addington Symonds
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014

“Thus what the word Renaissance really means is new birth to liberty—the spirit of mankind recovering consciousness and the power of self-determination, recognizing the beauty of the outer world, and of the body through art, liberating the reason in science and the conscience in religion, restoring...
Book cover of Renaissance in Italy : The Catholic Reaction, Volumes VII (Illustrated)
by John Addington Symonds
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014

“Thus what the word Renaissance really means is new birth to liberty—the spirit of mankind recovering consciousness and the power of self-determination, recognizing the beauty of the outer world, and of the body through art, liberating the reason in science and the conscience in religion, restoring...
Book cover of Studies of the Greek Poets Volume 1 (of 2)
by John Addington Symonds
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014

The studies of Greek Poets, now reprinted, appeared in England in two series, published at an interval of three or four years. In preparing this edition, I have rearranged the chapters of both series in their proper order, and have made certain additions, with the view of rendering the book more complete...
Book cover of Ben Jonson (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Ben Jonson (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

English Men of Letters Series

by John Addington Symonds
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011

English playwright and poet Ben Jonson (1572–1637) is considered the second greatest playwright of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. This study of Jonson’s life—“First (And Second) Period of Manhood” and “Old Age”—and work—“Dramatic Style” and “Masterpieces”—offers an...
Book cover of Sidney (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Sidney (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

English Men of Letters Series

by John Addington Symonds
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011

This volume of the English Men of Letters is an evocative biography of Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586), the poet, courtier, soldier, and one of the Elizabethan Age’s most prominent figures. Learned and politic, but also generous, brave, and impulsive, Sidney was memorialized as the flower of English manhood in Edmund Spenser’s Astrophel.
Book cover of Studies of the Greek Poets Volume 2 (of 2)
by John Addington Symonds
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014

Example in this ebook   CHAPTER XIV. GREEK TRAGEDY AND EURIPIDES. The chapters on Æschylus and Sophocles have already introduced the reader to some of the principal questions regarding Attic tragedy in general. Yet the opening of a new volume justifies the resumption...
Book cover of Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature
by John Addington Symonds
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

This work on the Renaissance in Italy, of which I now give the last two volumes to the public, was designed and executed on the plan of an essay or analytical inquiry, rather than on that which is appropriate to a continuous history. Each of its four parts—the Age of the Despots, theRevival of Learning,...
Book cover of The Lincoln Assassination

The Lincoln Assassination

Crime and Punishment Myth and MemoryA Lincoln Forum Book

by Craig L. Symonds, Frank J. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most prominent events in U.S. history. It continues to attract enormous and intense interest from scholars, writers, and armchair historians alike, ranging from painstaking new research to wild-eyed speculation. At the end of the Lincoln...
Book cover of Sherlock Holmes and The Sword of Osman
by Tim Symonds
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015

It’s 1906. Far from England, the Ottoman Empire ruled by the despotic Sultan Abd-ul-Hamid 11 is on the verge of imploding. Rival Great Powers, especially Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany, sit watching like crows on a fence, ready to rush in to carve up the vast territories, menacing England’s vital overland...
Book cover of Attlee

Attlee

A Life in Politics

by Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

Clement Attlee - the man who created the welfare state and decolonised vast swathes of the British Empire, including India - has been acclaimed by many as Britain's greatest twentieth-century prime minister. Yet somehow Attlee the man remains elusive and little known. How did such a moderate, modest...
Book cover of Sherlock Holmes and The Nine-Dragon Sigil
by Tim Symonds
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016

It's the year 1906. Rumours abound that a deadly plot is hatching - not in the fog-ridden back-alleys of London's Limehouse district or the sinister Devon moors of the Hound of the Baskervilles but in faraway Peking. Holmes's task - discover whether such a plot exists and if so, foil it. But are the...
Book cover of Curucacoo

Curucacoo

A delightful poem about a ballerina’s broken shoe, a love-struck robin – with an elderly cobbler to the rescue.

by Clair Symonds
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2013

Book cover of Sherlock Holmes and the Dead Boer at Scotney Castle
by Tim Symonds
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016

In Sherlock Holmes and The Dead Boer at Scotney Castle the great consulting detective comes up against the rich and powerful Kipling League. Dr Watson recounts the extraordinary events which took place on a spacious early summer day in the Sussex and Kent countryside in 1904. None of the earlier stories...
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