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Studies in Several Literatures (Classic Reprint)

Author : Harry Thurston Peck
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331392439
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Several Literatures (Classic Reprint) written by Harry Thurston Peck and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies in Several Literatures Several years ago, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, who is always doing something interesting and unexpected, gave to the public his opinion as to the literary and ethical value of Homer. Not a few persons were in clined to mock at this deliverance and to recall the old maxim that the cobbler should stick to his last. Mr. Carnegie, they said, might know more about iron and steel than any other living man; but why should he put himself forward as an authority on Classical literature? He himself would certainly not have listened with much respect to the views of Professor Gildersleeve or the late Sir Richard Jebb on the subject of iron tubing and steel rails. 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.

Studies in Classic American Literature

Author : D. H Lawrence
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788171565634
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Classic American Literature written by D. H Lawrence and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 1995 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies In Classic American Literature Is Valuable Not Only For The Light It Sheds On Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century American Consciousness, Telling 'The Truth Of The Day', But Also As A Prime Example Of Lawrence'S Learning, Passion And Integrity Of Judgement.To Cite Herbert J. Seligmann, 'Studies In Classic American Literature Alone Is A Foundation For A New American Critical Literature. Lawrence Fertilizes With Fire. No Living American Writing In A Critical Sense From Now On Will Be Able To Ignore Him.'Lawrence Asserted That 'The Proper Function Of A Critic Is To Save The Tale From The Artist Who Created It' In These Highly Individual, Penetrating Essays He Has Exposed 'The American Whole Soul' Within Some Of That Continent'S Major Works Of Literature. In Seeking To Establish The Status Of Writings By Such Authors As Poe, Melville, Fenimore Cooper And Whitman, Lawrence Himself Has Created A Classic Work.

Studies in Literature (Classic Reprint)

Author : Frederick M. Tisdel
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528568715
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (687 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Literature (Classic Reprint) written by Frederick M. Tisdel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies in Literature Part II consists of a brief survey of English literature with assigned readings from the literature itself. Much study about authors whose books the student has never read is of doubt ful utility. A wiser plan is to use a very brief account of the literature in connection with a considerable amount of reading in the literature itself arranged chronologically. In studying Part II, therefore, emphasis should be placed upon the sug gested readings. 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.

Studies in Foreign Literature

Author : Virginia M. Crawford
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3867414270
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Foreign Literature written by Virginia M. Crawford and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2010 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crawford explores the developments and trends in European literature of the late Nineteenth Century. Her study includes the works of Rostand, Daudet, Huysmans, d'Annunzio and Tolstoi. Reprint of the original edition from 1899.

Studies in Two Literatures (Classic Reprint)

Author : Arthur Symons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332163427
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Two Literatures (Classic Reprint) written by Arthur Symons and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies in Two Literatures My dear Moore, Do you remember, at the time when we were both living in the Temple, and our talks used to begin with midnight, and go on until the first glimmerings of dawn shivered among the trees, your trees and mine; do you remember how often we have discussed, well, I suppose everything which I speak of in these studies in the two literatures which we both chiefly care about? Our discussions, indeed, never came to an end; for they were the interchange of ideas, the noting, for one another's benefit (or, say, amusement) of sensations; and just because we both wanted to get at the truth of things, and both realized how many aspects truth has, neither of us had the least interest in getting the better of one another in an argument, or in thinking of any argument as finally settled. On first principles we were always, I think, agreed; and how often in regard to individual applications of them! Has either of us ever doubted that a work of art has but one reason for existence, that it should be a work of art, a moment of the eternity of beauty? One forgets, sometimes, that it has entered into the brains of men to doubt anything so obvious. 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.

Studies in English Literature (Classic Reprint)

Author : John Dennis
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331528128
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Studies in English Literature (Classic Reprint) written by John Dennis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies in English Literature The chapters in this volume are to some extent reprints; but several of them are considerably eu larged, and some are so changed in substance and form as to present an original aspect. The ground work of the essay on Pope, republished by the courtesy of Messrs. Longmans, is to be found in Fraser's Magazine; but the author has also made use, with the permission of the proprietors, of several papers on the same subject printed in the Pall Mall Gazette and in the Athenwum. Thanks are due to the editors of the Spectator, for authority to insert the Wesley article; and to Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Cc., for the use of the remaining essays. 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.

Short Studies in Literature (Classic Reprint)

Author : Hamilton Wright Mabie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330902493
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Short Studies in Literature (Classic Reprint) written by Hamilton Wright Mabie and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Short Studies in Literature That these brief chapters may prove helpful to readers of books who desire to become students of literature, is the hope which the writer ventures to cherish in the face of defects more obvious to him than to the most unsympathetic critic. These studies are not critical but interpretative; they are neither exhaustive nor inclusive; they are mainly hints and suggestions. Each chapter might be elaborated into a volume. If they serve to indicate the leading lines of literary development, the fundamental divisions and distinctions, the deep and vital tendencies, they will accomplish the end for which they were written. That they represent deep convictions concerning the significance of literature rather than a purely critical attitude, will be apparent to the most indifferent reader. 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.

Foundation Studies in Literature (Classic Reprint)

Author : Margaret S. Mooney
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365074793
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Foundation Studies in Literature (Classic Reprint) written by Margaret S. Mooney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Foundation Studies in Literature A new text-book in literature should have some reason to be in these days of making many books. The best possible reason that can be given for the preparation of a work of this kind, is that it furnishes to both teachers and students a method of study that necessarily leads to certain definite and much valued results, among which are the following: A better appreciation of artistic merit in poetry; a knowledge of. The relation of the mythology of Greece and Rome to the poetry of every European nation and language of modern times; the power to use this golden key. 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.

Studies in English and American Literature (Classic Reprint)

Author : Goodloe H. Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331299394
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Studies in English and American Literature (Classic Reprint) written by Goodloe H. Bell and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies in English and American Literature 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.

A Matter of Obscenity

Author : Christopher Hilliard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691226105
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book A Matter of Obscenity written by Christopher Hilliard and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of censorship in modern Britain For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate and enfranchised working classes. The law stayed this way even as society evolved. In 1960, in the obscenity trial over D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the prosecutor asked the jury, "Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" Christopher Hilliard traces the history of British censorship from the Victorians to Margaret Thatcher, exposing the tensions between obscenity law and a changing British society. Hilliard goes behind the scenes of major obscenity trials and uncovers the routines of everyday censorship, shedding new light on the British reception of literary modernism and popular entertainments such as the cinema and American-style pulp fiction and comic books. He reveals the thinking of lawyers and the police, authors and publishers, and politicians and ordinary citizens as they wrestled with questions of freedom and morality. He describes how supporters and opponents of censorship alike tried to remake the law as they reckoned with changes in sexuality and culture that began in the 1960s. Based on extensive archival research, this incisive and multifaceted book reveals how the issue of censorship challenged British society to confront issues ranging from mass literacy and democratization to feminism, gay rights, and multiculturalism.

From Shakespeare to O. Henry

Author : Stuart Petre Brodie Mais
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428831028
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book From Shakespeare to O. Henry written by Stuart Petre Brodie Mais and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from From Shakespeare to O. Henry: Studies in Literature 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.

Wonderworks

Author : Angus Fletcher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982135980
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Wonderworks written by Angus Fletcher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant examination of literary invention through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, showing how writers created technical breakthroughs as sophisticated and significant as any in science, and in the process, engineered enhancements to the human heart and mind"--

Studies in Spanish-American Literature (Classic Reprint)

Author : Isaac Goldberg
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267245048
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Spanish-American Literature (Classic Reprint) written by Isaac Goldberg and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies in Spanish-American Literature The purpose of the present volume is to introduce to Eng lish readers a continental culture that they have too long neglected. Not that we have been alone in our neglect; Spain itself, the mother nation of Spanish America's grow ing republics, has until very recently ignored the letters of its numerous offspring. Owing to the meager acquaintance that our reading pub lic has with spanish-american literature, a book of purely critical essays is at this time inadvisable; I have, there fore, in the following chapters, greely mingled excerpts, exposition and a modicum of criticism, in the hope of thus providing an incentive for further delving into the authors and the books commented upon. Whatever criticism I have written has been determined by a ﬂexible attitude, I have sought to suggest rather than to define. 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.

Studies in Contemporary Literature (Classic Reprint)

Author : Herbert Gladstone Wright
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331629078
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Contemporary Literature (Classic Reprint) written by Herbert Gladstone Wright and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies in Contemporary Literature It is hoped that these lectures, imperfect as I know them to be, have done a little to bridge the gulf which only too often exists between university teaching and the best contemporary literature. 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.

Studies in Mediæval Life and Literature (Classic Reprint)

Author : Edward Tompkins Mclaughlin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483499492
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Mediæval Life and Literature (Classic Reprint) written by Edward Tompkins Mclaughlin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies in Mediaeval Life and Literature After receiving his bachelor's degree he remained another year in New Haven as a graduate student. During that time he devoted himself with increased ardor to the special branches of study in which from the outset he had been interested. In the following year he was made tutor in English. This position he held until 1890, when he was appointed assistant pro fessor of the same subject. At the meeting. Of the Corporation of the University in May, 1893, he was elected by it to the chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Happily married to a wife of congenial tastes, who speedily learned to sympathize with him in the studies which he had made peculiarly his own, he had every reason to expect a long career of usefulness, which would be attended with distinction to himself and would confer distinction upon the institution with which he was connected. But his health had never been vigorous, and in the very summer vacation fol lowing his appointment a fever, which came upon him almost without warning, and which seemed at first of slight importance, carried him off after an illness that lasted little more than a week. He died on the 25th of July, 1893, at the age of thirty-three. He lies buried at Litchfield. 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.

Studies in Literature

Author : Maurice Francis Egan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331087083
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Literature written by Maurice Francis Egan and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies in Literature: Some Words About Chaucer, and Other Essays Everything concerning the most cheerful, most natural, and most sympathetic of all English poets, Chaucer, has come to be of interest. Whether his name had originally anything to do with footwear or not, or whether it was derived from some small office about the court will perhaps soon be decided by Mr. Skeat; but there is no question that, even in this apparently unimportant matter of philology, the public testifies more than usual concern. The interest in Chaucer is no doubt due to his incomparable charm as a storyteller, the human quality in his poems, and the increase of respect for the English language among English-speaking people. Chaucer has been examined by the analysts of speech from every point of view, and what the English have left undone the Germans have minutely completed; but there is one thing which most interpreters of Chaucer have failed to grasp, and that is the impossibility of judging the standards of the fourteenth century by those of the nineteenth. As an axiom they are willing to admit that it is illogical to judge the ethical point of view of one age considered from the changed attitude of another. Every expositor of literary history, from Dryden to Lounsbury, from Voltaire to Taine, admits this; but only in the abstract. 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.

A History of English Literature for Secondary Schools (Classic Reprint)

Author : J. Logie Robertson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333535421
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book A History of English Literature for Secondary Schools (Classic Reprint) written by J. Logie Robertson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of English Literature for Secondary Schools By an arrangement of type the book is adapted for various courses of study. It will probably be enough for beginners to keep to the larger type, and it may even be advisable for the teacher to restrict their studies to a selection of the more important authors. In a book of this kind, involving the record of thou sands of facts, it is impossible that perfect accuracy can at once, if at last, be attained. It is as accurate, s0'far as it goes, as I have been able by a considerable amount of reading and study to make it. I shall be thankful to receive notes of correction, and any suggestions that I may be favored with will be carefully considered. In its preparation I have necessarily been indebted to many writers. Where my obligations are so manifold and various, it would be invidious to particularize them; but I cannot avoid expressing my indebtedness, direct or indirect, to the professorial teaching and published work of Professor Masson, of Edinburgh. Whatever of merit the book contains is largely due to him; the faults are my own. 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.