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— James Guthrie, Scottish Presbyterian minister (1 June 1661), prior to execution by hanging for high treason "Jesus, oh Jesus, you are my God, my justice, my strength, my all." [8] [note 93] — Marie Angélique Arnauld, Abbess of the Abbey of Port-Royal (6 August 1661) "It is a bad cause which cannot bear the words of a dying man." [17 ...
The series expanded in 1953 to include world history as a sub-series called World Landmark Books, and a second sub-series of larger-format books illustrated with color artwork or black and white photographs was introduced in the 1960s as Landmark Giant, which would continue releasing new titles beyond the end of the main series until 1974 ...
So many atrocities throughout history; Mao’s Great Chinese Famine probably took the most lives in recorded history: between 20 and 55 million [people died], with the most common estimate being ...
The Unfortunates is an experimental "book in a box" published in 1969 by English author B. S. Johnson and reissued in 2008 by New Directions. [1] The 27 sections are unbound, with a first and last chapter specified: the 25 sections between them, ranging from a single paragraph to 12 pages in length, are designed to be read in any order, [1] giving a total of 15.5 septillion possible ...
Though Burr (1973) is the second book published in the series, it is first chronologically, taking placed in 1775–1808, 1833–1836, and 1840. [2] [3] In the novel, set during the politically contentious era of the Jackson administration, an elderly and active Aaron Burr recounts his experiences of the Revolutionary War and America's Founding Fathers to a young law clerk secretly working for ...
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The novel won the Salon Book Award (Fiction, 2010) and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize (2011). It was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year (Fiction & Poetry, 2010), New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 2010), and Amazon's Best Books of the Month in August 2010.