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The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870: Omphalos

The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870: Omphalos

Philip Gosse

Gosse argued that fossils are not really the remains of creatures which existed. Gosse's work was popular with neither Christians nor evolutionists.
Omphalos, 1857

Omphalos, 1857

Philip Gosse

Gosse argued that fossils are not really the remains of creatures which existed.
The Pirates' Who's Who: Giving Particulars of the Lives and ...

The Pirates' Who's Who: Giving Particulars of the Lives and ...

Philip Gosse

Giving Particulars of the Lives and Deaths of the Pirates and Buccaneers Philip Gosse. What a delightful picture this calls to the mind—the little Brazilian town, the tropical foliage, the Holy Procession, "wax figure" and priests, followed by the  ...
Father and Son

Father and Son

Edmund Gosse

Since the book's first publication, it has been a common reaction for readers to prefer the father to the son. In his biography of Gosse, Evan Charteris notes this fact, and declares it to have been one of Gosse's intended aims. He quotes a letter, ...
Pirates' Who's Who: Giving Particulars of the Lives and ...

Pirates' Who's Who: Giving Particulars of the Lives and ...

Philip Gosse

" Pirates' Who's Who is a true classic from the CryptoQuest Reprint Series.
Memoirs of a Camp Follower

Memoirs of a Camp Follower

Philip Gosse

Highly regarded memoirs of a medical officer on the Western Front with the 23rd Div., & afterwards in India.
Collected Essays

Collected Essays

Edmund Gosse

Edmund Gosse. WOLCOTT BALESTIER IT was early in 1889 that, on an evening which must always remain memorable to some of us, two or three English writers met, at the house of Mrs. Humphry Ward, a young American man of business ...
The History of Piracy

The History of Piracy

Philip Gosse

Much imitated but never surpassed, this chronicle ranges from ancient to modern times to explore the rise of piracy. A dramatic narrative and colorful characters complement its impeccable scholarship. 21 black-and-white illustrations.
Father and Son

Father and Son

Edmund Gosse

Edmund Gosse wrote of his account of his life, "This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs." Father and Son remains one of English literature's seminal autobiographies.
The Library of Edmund Gosse: Being a Descriptive and ...

The Library of Edmund Gosse: Being a Descriptive and ...

Edmund Gosse

DIXON, RICHARD WATSON. Christ's Company and Other Poems. By Richard Watson Dixon, M.A., London: M.DCCC.LXI. 8vo. Original cloth. Historical Odes and Other Poems. Bv Richard Watson Dixon, M.A. London. M.DCCC.LXIV. 8vo.
Philip A. Fisher Collected Works, Foreword by Ken Fisher: ...

Philip A. Fisher Collected Works, Foreword by Ken Fisher: ...

Philip A. Fisher

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, Paths to Wealth through Common Stocks, Conservative Investors Sleep Well, and Developing an Investment Philosophy Philip A. Fisher. Copyright © 1996, 2003 by Philip A. Fisher. All rights reserved.
A Political Companion to Philip Roth

A Political Companion to Philip Roth

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Aimee Pozorski, “On Philip Roth: Ethics and Elegy after the Holocaust,” Philip Roth, ed. Pozorski (Ipswich, MA: Salem, 2013), 6. 2. “Politics,” in Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). 3. Ibid. 4. Philip Roth, I Married a ...

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