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Excerpt from InkermanExaminer. It is for its size, scope, and aim, one of the best works on Dante in English Is an admirably-written short account of the great Florentine poet, such as will give those who have no time to study, or are about to begin, his works, a clear and comprehensive understanding of the man and of his labours. At the same time it will remain a charmingly readable essay for those to whom the works of Dante are familiar.Abou...

Excerpt from The Invasion of the Crimea, Vol. 8: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress, Down to the Death of Lord RaglanThe French at first adverse to his counsels, But afterwards more willingly listening to them, Acceptance of Burgoyne's opinion in a Conference of Three.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an importa...

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Il libro di Kinglake fu lodato e amato da Henry James, Graham Greene, Peter Fleming, Evelyn Waugh, Peter Byron, Paul Theroux, Bruce Chatwin: come dire, il Gotha degli scrittori-viaggiatori dell'Otto-Novecento. Il motivo è forse nel fatto che anziché raccontare semplicemente ciò che vede, Kinglake racconta ciò che prova, ciò che sente. E, grazie al cielo, la sua penna è particolarmente fortunata, il suo stile profondamente piacevole e il suo hu...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Excerpt from The Invasion of the Crimea, Vol. 3: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan The accompanying Plans of the ground on which the battle of the Alma was fought have been taken from the Official French 'Atlas Historique, but with slight changes made here and there for the purpose of giving greater dis tinctness to some of the natural features. I may take this opportunity of saying that the object o...

Excerpt from The Invasion of the Crimea, Vol. 7: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan I scarce like to speak in one breath of our war against the Czar Nicholas, and our war, as some of us call it, against the Egyptian Arabi, but lessons taught in the strife maintained between powerful nations may of course be applied to the conduct of those lesser, more humble tasks which, however light by comparison, ar...

Excerpt from The Invasion of the Crimea, Vol. 5: Its Origin, and an Account of Progress, Down to the Death of Lord Raglan 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 repair...

Excerpt from The Invasion of the Crimea, Vol. 8: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress, Down to the Death of Lord Raglan The French at first adverse to his counsels, But afterwards more willingly listening to them, Acceptance of Burgoyne's opinion in a Conference of Three. 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...

Excerpt from Inkerman See in the last April number of the Quarterly, ' the article entitled Political Biography from p. 372 to the end of the article. The passages above referred to appear in the Invasion of the Crimea, ' vol. Chap. Of the Cabinet Edition. They do not appear in any former edition of this work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com ...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Kinglake was an English-born writer, who was also a travel writer. The town of Kinglake, Victoria, in Australia is named after him.

Alexander William Kinglake's first literary venture, a very popular work of Eastern travel, first published in 1844.

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