Adolphus Ward: 18 books

At the close of a letter addressed by Dickens to his friend John Forster, but not to be found in the English editions of the Life, the writer adds to his praises of the biography of Goldsmith these memorable words: I desire no better for my fame, when my personal dustiness shall be past the control...

THE present volume, as its title imports, relates a complicated series of conflicts of which the origin or the pretext has for the most part to be sought in the great religious schism of Christianity. But the cause of the restoration of Catholic unity in the West was, in the minds of both the supporters...

Charles Dickens, the eldest son, and the second of the eight children, of John and Elizabeth Dickens, was born at Landport, a suburb of Portsea, on Friday, February 7, 1812. His baptismal names were Charles John Huffham. His father, at that time a clerk in the Navy Pay Office, and employed in the...

4 works of Adolphus William Ward English historian and man of letters (1837-1924) This ebook presents a collection of 4 works of Adolphus William Ward. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - Chaucer - Dickens - Founder's Day in War Time - Leibniz as a Politician

Founder's Day in War Time   Adolphus William Ward, english historian and man of letters (1837-1924) This ebook presents «Founder's Day in War Time  », from Adolphus William Ward. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- FOUNDER'S DAY IN WAR TIME

Dickens Adolphus William Ward, english historian and man of letters (1837-1924) This ebook presents «Dickens», from Adolphus William Ward. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- PREFACE -03-...

Chaucer Adolphus William Ward, english historian and man of letters (1837-1924) This ebook presents «Chaucer», from Adolphus William Ward. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- NOTE -03-...

Leibniz as a Politician   Adolphus William Ward, english historian and man of letters (1837-1924) This ebook presents «Leibniz as a Politician  », from Adolphus William Ward. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- LEIBNIZ AS A POLITICIAN -03- FOOTNOTES

The Cambridge Modern History is a comprehensive modern history of the world, beginning with the 15th century Age of Discovery.  The first series was planned by Lord Acton and edited by him with Stanley Leathes, Adolphus Ward and George Prothero.  The Cambridge Modern History Collection...

It was a time when national labor policies governing race first began to take shape in the industrial sectors of America. It was a time of radical change. The change that was inevitable would not come easily; it would not come without struggle; it would not come without blood; it would not come without...

English author and diplomat Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639) was secretary to the Earl of Essex and later became a favorite of King James I, who knighted him and appointed him ambassador to Venice. Adolphus W. Ward’s engaging biography of Wotton is both a compelling life story and a thoughtful study of Wotton’s accomplishments.

The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) represent one of the foundations of English literature. For this 1879 entry in the influential “English Men of Letters” series of literary biographies, the distinguished critic Adolphus Ward placed Chaucer’s life and work in the context of his tempestuous times, which included the Black Death.

As a young boy Jacob Tallman witnessed a black man being burned alive. That experience planted seeds of fear deep inside him. Those seeds sprouted into weeds that grew into stalks of feigned kindness and hidden shame. It took a white man, entering Jacob's house, knocking his wife to the floor and...

By the mid-1980s Affirmative Action was taking its most harmful blows from the office of the President of the United States. The apparent irony is that the beginning place of Affirmative Action would ultimately lead to its end. Workers in every area of the American workforce quickly picked up the...