A happy half-century, and other essays

by Agnes Repplier

EN·~4 hours

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Deals mainly with English intellectual life during "the last twenty-five years of the eighteenth century and the first twenty-five years of the nineteenth."

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Duration

~4 hours (267K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908.

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Charlene Taylor, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2022-05-29

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68195

Subjects

Authors, English -- Biography Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century PS

About the author

Agnes Repplier

1855–1950

Known for crisp wit and wide learning, this Philadelphia essayist turned the short essay into a lively art. Her work ranged from literary criticism to biography, with a voice that could be sharp, funny, and deeply well read.

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