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Aaron Burr, the Third U.S. Vice President, 1801–05 (John Vanderlyn, 1802) Burr portrays the eponymous anti-hero as a fascinating and honorable gentleman, and portrays his contemporary opponents as mortal men; thus, George Washington is an incompetent military officer, a general who lost most of his battles; Thomas Jefferson is a fey, especially dark and pedantic hypocrite who schemed and ...
Charles Richard Morris (October 23, 1939 – December 13, 2021) was an American lawyer, banker, and author. He wrote fifteen books, and was a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times , The Wall Street Journal , and The Atlantic Monthly .
When the novel was reissued in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series, James Blish noted that Morris's style was a successful recapturing of the style of Sir Thomas Malory, "all the way down to the marginal glosses and the nonstop compound sentences hitched together with scores of semicolons. He also recaptured much of the poetry; and if the ...
He was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, the son of Samuel Pearson Morris and Margaret Burns.After studying locally he worked as a teacher in Chester, but in 1856 moved to Philadelphia where he became professor of languages at the Academy of Ancient and Modern Languages.
Among these are the great books project including the book series Great Books of the Western World, now containing 60 volumes. In 1998 Modern Library, an American publishing company, polled its editorial board to find the best 100 novels of the 20th century: Modern Library 100 Best Novels. These attempts have been criticized for their ...
Chap. 1, "Signs and the Act," is reprinted in Charles Morris, Writings on the General Theory of Signs (The Hague: Mouton, 1971), pp. 401–414. Charles W. Morris (1970). The Pragmatic Movement in American Philosophy. New York: George Braziller. Charles W. Morris (1971). Writings on the General Theory of Signs. Den Haag: Mouton. Charles W ...
The Wake County school board will decide whether a book is too “demonic” to remain in an elementary school library or is just a piece of satire that’s acceptable for students to read.
For the Shelley Society he wrote An Alphabetical Table of Contents to Shelley's Poetical Works (1888); and he devoted six years to compiling A Lexical Concordance to the Poetical Works of P. B. Shelley (1892). He was a supporter of William Morris's Kelmscott Press, and read the proofs of the folio edition of Chaucer's Works (1896).