A happy half-century, and other essays

Name: A happy half-century, and other essays
Author: Agnes Repplier

by Agnes Repplier

EN·~4 hours

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Description

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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Language

Duration

~4 hours (267K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908.

Credits

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.

Subjects

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

About the author

Agnes Repplier

1855–1950

Known for essays that mixed sharp wit with wide learning, this Philadelphia writer became one of the most admired American essayists of her time. Her work brought literary criticism, history, and everyday observation together in a voice that still feels lively and intelligent.

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