Author : E. T. Raymond
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ISBN 13 : 9781330557716
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (577 download)
Book Synopsis Portraits of the Nineties (Classic Reprint) by : E. T. Raymond
Download or read book Portraits of the Nineties (Classic Reprint) written by E. T. Raymond and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Portraits of the Nineties The late Mr. Justin McCarthy's vivid Portraits of the Sixties, the late Mr. George Russell's admirable volume dealing with the men and women of the Seventies, and Mr. Horace Hutchinson's more recent Portraits of the Eighties form together an invaluable biographical guide to a period second in interest to none in modern history. It is the business of a less distinguished pen to attempt to give some account of leading figures during the last years of the century and of the reign of Queen Victoria. The task is one to be approached with equal interest and trepidation. With interest, because what men thought and did in the Nineties - still more what they neglected to do and forgot to think - is still powerful to-day; what we are and suffer was in the main decided for us a quarter of a century ago. With trepidation, because the time is distant enough for the reader to demand something more than a mere essay in instantaneous photography, with its mad fore-shortenings and irrelevant emphasis; while it is also near enough for errors to be exposed by competent witnesses - people who were behind the scenes at the performance, while the writer was only one of the gallery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.