Scenes from modern history
By: by great imaginative writers, selected and annotated by Harold Temperley.
Series: Bell's English language and literature series
Publisher: G. Bell & sons, ltd.
Published: 1931
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Historical fiction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS (Cont'd) The victor of Gravelotte; or Conscription in 1870 (from Sleianka) by Henryk Sienckiewicz.--Two men of the Marne (Sept. 9, 1914) (from Miniatures of French history) by Hilaire Belloc.
Table of contents: title: Aut Caesar aut nihil 1500-3; or The decadence of the old world (from The forerunner) by D. Merejkowski.; title: The eagle and the serpent; or The conquest of the new world, 1520 (from Christopher Columbus) by Johannes Jensen.; title: Richelieu and Mazarin (from Dialogues des morts) by Archbishop Fénelon.; title: The battle of St. Gothard, 1664; or The first military defeat of the Turks in the west (from The slaves of the Padishah) by Maurus Jokai.; title: The seven good years; or Voltaire and Frederic the Great (from Historical miniatures) by August Strindberg.; title: Three terrorists in council, 1793; or The crisis of the French revolution (from Ninety-three) by Victor Hugo.; title: Napoleon on the eve of the Moscow campaign; or The crisis of the French empire (from War and peace) by Leo Tolstoy.; title: Two episodes in the Hungarian revolution, 1848-9; I. The unlucky weathercock; II. The Szekier mother (from Hungarian sketches in peace and war) by Maurus Jokai.