Bernard Tauchnitz

Kötése a táblák mentén sérült. Gerince és táblái kopottasak, élek és sarkak megnyomódtak. Oldalai néhol foltosak, foxing foltosak. Pár oldala ceruzás bejegyzést, aláhúzást tartalmaz. Tulajdonosi névbejegyzéssel, bélyegzőnyomattal.

A könyvtest kissé félrenyomódott. A táblák enyhén foltosak, kopottak. XIX. századi antik példány!

PREFACE TO SAINT JOAN Joan the Originál and Presumptuous Joan of Arc, a village girl from the Vosges, was born about 1412; burnt for heresy, witchcraft, and sorcery in 1431; rehabilitated after afashion in 1456; designated Venerable in 1904; declared Blessed in 1908; and finally canonized in 1920....

THE SNOBS OF ENGLAND, by one of themselves. PREFATORY REMARKS. IThe necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations: — lam the individual destined to write that work — My vocation is announced in terms of great eloquence — I show that the...

PrefaceThe conditions of life in New York are so different from those of London that a story of this kind calls for a little explanation. There are several million inhabitants of New York. Not all of them eke out a precarious livelihood by murdering one another, but there is a definite section of...

THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. CHAPTER I. "Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared; The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold: — Say, is my kingdom lost?"—Shakespeare. It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be...

TOARTHUR BINGHAM WALKLEYMy dear WalkleyYou once asked me why I did not write a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui...