Edward Morris: 20 books

Book cover of Rogues and Heroes of Newport's Gilded Age
by Edward Morris
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012

Newport, Rhode Island, was the summer playground of the Gilded Age for the Astors, Belmonts and Vanderbilts. They built lavish villas designed by the best Beaux Arts-style architects of the time, including Richard Morris Hunt, Charles McKim and Robert Swain Peabody. America's elite delighted in referring...
Book cover of Wall Streeters

Wall Streeters

The Creators and Corruptors of American Finance

by Edward Morris
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015

The 2008 financial collapse, the expansion of corporate and private wealth, the influence of money in politics—many of Wall Street's contemporary trends can be traced back to the work of fourteen critical figures who wrote, and occasionally broke, the rules of American finance. Edward Morris...
Book cover of Beyond the Mountains of Madness
by Robert M. Price, Glynn Owen Barrass, Joseph S. Pulver
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015

Antarctica... a frozen wasteland of penguins, blinding ice and snow, and blizzards to kill the unprepared in minutes. But it is an ancient land, with ancient secrets, mysteries that humanity is only beginning to glimpse. HP Lovecraft introduced the world to the terrifying reality of this lonely continent...
Book cover of Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians
by Edward Morris Opler
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012

Classic study of myths relating to creation, agriculture and rain, hunting rituals, coyote cycle, monstrous enemy stories, many more.
Book cover of Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds, Dystopian Novels & Post-Apocalyptic Tales

Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds, Dystopian Novels & Post-Apocalyptic Tales

The War of the Worlds, Anthem, Space Viking, The Conquest of America, A Traveler in Time, The Guardians…

by H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique SF collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. E. M. Forster: The Machine Stops Richard Jefferies: After London Richard Stockham: Perchance to Dream Irving E. Cox: The Guardians Philip F....
Book cover of With the World's Great Travellers I
by Charles Morris, Oliver H. G. Leigh, Harriet Martineau
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016

This book contains multiple stories about travelling from the world's greatest travellers: New Dependencies of the United States (OLIVER H. G. LEIGH) Winter and Summer in New England (HARRIET MARTINEAU) Niagara Falls and the Thousand Islands (CHARLES MORRIS) From New York to Washington in 1866 (HENRY...
Book cover of Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)

Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)

The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…

by O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018

This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
Book cover of Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians
by Morris Edward Opler, David H. French
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

“We are dealing here with a living literature,” wrote Morris Edward Opler in his preface to Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians. First published in 1942, this is another classic study by the author of Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians. Opler conducted field work...
Book cover of CAN WE LIVE BETTER? 7 СLASSIC UTOPIAS
by Plato, Thomas More, Samuel Butler
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019

Can we live better? 7 classic utopias is a collection of the most famous classical works on the topic of an ideal society.For thousands of years human beings have dreamt of perfect worlds, worlds free of conflict, hunger and unhappiness. But can these worlds ever exist in reality?Many thinkers and...
Book cover of The Early Hanoverians (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by Edward Ellis Morris
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011

Continuing on from his study of the age of Queen Anne, Morris picks up the narrative in 1713 with the Peace of Utrecht, provides an overview of the state of Europe, and details the succession of George I. Moving seamlessly through the chronology of the era, Morris offers memorable portraits of figures such as Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Robert Walpole, Queen Caroline, and Maria Theresa.  
Book cover of Framing Public Memory
by Stephen Howard Browne, Barbara Biesecker, Barbie Zelizer
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009

A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memories. The study of public memory has grown rapidly across numerous disciplines in recent years, among them American studies, history, philosophy, sociology, architecture, and communications....
Book cover of Harvard Classics Volume 42

Harvard Classics Volume 42

English Poetry 3: Tennyson To Whitman

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Golden Deer Classics
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2017

Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)
Book cover of Women's Wiles

Women's Wiles

Mystery Writers of America Presents: Classics, #2

by Joyce Harrington, Edward D. Hoch, Frank Sisk
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2017

NOTHING'S WHAT IT SEEMS IN THIS SLYLY SINISTER COLLECTION OF DAMES DONE WRONG...AND DOING THE SAME! Shocking surprises, chilling comeuppances, and mercies that are anything but tender are just part of what to expect from these memorable stories of women's wills...and wiles. Choosing them with...
Book cover of Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature

Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature

Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value

by Edward Mack, Rey Chow, Michael Dutton
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010

Emphasizing how modes of book production, promotion, and consumption shape ideas of literary value, Edward Mack examines the role of Japan’s publishing industry in defining modern Japanese literature. In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as cultural and economic power consolidated...
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