The History of England, From the Accession of James II (Volume 2 of 5)
Thomas Babington Macaulay was a child prodigy who, by the age of 8, had written a history of the world and a poem in three cantos modeled after the poetry of Sir Walter Scott. He studied law at Trinity College, Cambridge, but drew great attention for several literary essays he contributed to the Edinburgh Review. In 1849, he published the first two volumes of The History of England, From the Accession of James II, which were immediately well-received. As a Whig, with little tolerance for Tories or understanding of James II, Macaulay disregarded many authoritative texts in his research; as a result, his work is often prejudiced and mistaken in…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4209-0640-0
- EAN: 9781420906400
- Produktnummer: 35858408
- Verlag: Neeland Media LLC
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 344 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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