The Diary of Samuel Pepys .. (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) (Modern Library)
by Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Samuel Pepys, and Mynors Bright
Samuel Pepys is as much a paragon of literature as Chaucer and Shakespeare. His Diary is one of the principal sources for many aspects of the history of its period. In spite of its significance, all previous editions were inadequately edited and suffered from a number of omissions--until Robert Latham and William Matthews went back to the 300-year-old original manuscript and deciphered each passage and phrase, no matter how obscure or indiscreet. The Diary deals with some of the most dramatic ev...
Three Sides of the Coin - A Daughter's Memoir of Parental Alienation
by Fannie-Rose Oxman
The Life of Mrs. Godolphin (Cambridge Library Collection - British & Irish History, 17th & 18th Centuries)
by John Evelyn
John Evelyn (1620-1706), a founder member of the Royal Society, was a horticulturalist and author, best remembered for his diaries. Throughout his prolific writings he exhibits a strong distaste for the corruption of life at court. The beautiful and pious Margaret Godolphin (1652-78), a courtier more than thirty years Evelyn's junior, with whom he struck up an intense friendship in 1672, was maid of honour in the household of Queen Catherine, wife of King Charles II. To Evelyn she represented th...
Ehemaliger Senior in Frankfurt am Main
by Christian Julius Wilhelm Mosche
The Education of Henry Adams (Modern Library) (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)
by Henry Adams
Adams was a historian, an intellectual born into the fourth generation of a family of distinguished politicians, diplomats and statesmen that included two presidents of the United States. His "Education" is thus steeped in history, that of his family and of the American politics, culture and identity they helped to shape. At the same time he elaborates his own 'dynamic theory of history' as the product of what he calls the conflict between the Virgin and the Dynamo: 'All the steam in the world c...
Albericus Gentilis und seine Bedeutung für das Völkerrecht
by Melchior Thamm
Das Leben des Generalfeldmarschalls Hermann von Boyen
by Friedrich Meinecke