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The Book of Snobs is a collection of satirical works by William Makepeace Thackeray published in book form in 1848, the same year as his more famous Vanity Fair. The pieces first appeared in fifty-three weekly pieces from February 28, 1846 to February 27, 1847, as "The Snobs of England, by one of themselves", in the satirical magazine Punch .
Johnson was born in 1946 in Hickory, Mississippi, the ninth out of ten children to Edna and Archie Johnson. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] His mother was a schoolteacher and his father was a farmer. [ 3 ] His parents moved the family to Freeport, Illinois , when he was a child. [ 3 ]
The Power of Light: Daguerreotypes from the Robert Harshorn Shimshak Collection. Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, 1986. ISBN 9780884010500; Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870-2000. Thames & Hudson, 2002. Anonymous: Enigmatic Images from Unknown Photographers. Thames & Hudson, 2004. [2] ISBN 9780500542927
Illustration to Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Bottle Imp" by William Hatherell (1855–1928) Island Nights' Entertainments (also known as South Sea Tales) is a collection of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1893. It would prove to contain some of his final completed work before his death in 1894.
Tales and Fantasies is a short story collection by Robert Louis Stevenson. [1] The book was published posthumously in 1905. [2] [3] It contains three stories, [4] which were not published as a part of a collection during Stevenson′s lifetime: "The Misadventures of John Nicholson: A Christmas Story" (1885–87).
Johnson was the only child of his parents, Robert Johnson and Jane Gibbon. [1] He was born on July 23, 1771, at the home of his great-uncle, John Pledger – a large plantation in Mannington Township, New Jersey called the New Netherland Farm. [1]
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Memories and Portraits is a collection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1887. Contents. I. The Foreigner at Home; II. Some College Memories;