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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Excerpt from Samuel Butler Author of Erewhon: The Man and His WorkI have first of all to thank Mr H. Festing Jones for help and suggestions on many points in the pages that follow. My thanks are due also to Mr R. A. Streat feild, Samuel Butler's literary executor, and Mr A. C. Fifield, the publisher, for permission to make quotations from Butler's works, and to Mr Bernard Shaw for kindly lending me the manuscript of an unpublished paper on Cha...

This collection of 139 letters from six of the seven Gould brothers who left their homes in central New York to fight for the Union Army forms a moving depiction, not only of life on the front lines of the Civil War, but of life on the home front as well. These letters, written to their beloved sister Hannah, span the entire four years of the conflict and run the gamut from initial enlistment to eventual death or discharge. Through the eyes of...

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This second edition includes revised and updated versions of three earlier publications: "Understanding Maya Inscriptions: A Hieroglyph Handbook", "New and Recent Maya Hieroglyph Readings", and "A Resource Bibliography for the Decipherment of Maya Hieroglyphs and New Maya Hieroglyph Readings."This volume is designed to function as a self-teaching tool to help the neophyte, and yet be of value to scholars. It introduces the latest methods of an...

Excerpt from Samuel Butler Author of Erewhon: The Man and His Work I have first of all to Mr H. Testing Jones for help and suggestions on many points in the pages that follow. My thanks are due also to Mr R. A. Streatfeild, Samuel Butlers literary executor, and Mr A. C. Fifield, the publisher, for permission to make quotations from Butlers works, and to Mr Bernard Shaw for kindly lending me the manuscript of an unpublished paper on Charles Da...

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Long banned in the United States and England, My Life and Loves is one of the most notorious autobiographies ever written. Famous for its erotic passages, it is also one of the richest and most entertaining views ever of fin-de-siecle literary and social life.