Best of
19th-Century

1946

The Collected Poems


A.E. Housman - 1946
    Housman's verse as it was established in 1939, three years after his death. In contains A Shropshire Lad, Last Poems, More Poems, the Additional Poems, and the three translations from A.W. Pollard's anthology, Odes from the Greek Dramatists.

The Collected Writings Of Ambrose Bierce


Ambrose Bierce - 1946
    The Devil's Dictionary, Can Such Things Be? Negligible Tales, and more.

Britannia Mews


Margery Sharp - 1946
    The heroine of this book is Adelaide Culver, forthright, independent; irresistible to Henry, with whom she went to live in the Mews when it was a slum; indispensable to Gilbert, for whom she brought fame and fortune to the Mews, and to themselves.

The Foxes of Harrow (Delta Diamond Library)


Frank Yerby - 1946
    He gambled, won and built "Harrow," the greatest mansion house and plantation in Louisiana. He took the love of three women: Odalie Orceneaux, his wife; her sister, Aurore; and Desiree, his Black mistress. Fox had a child by each of them. This story is charged with blood and passion and strife between the races.

The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer


John Beatty - 1946
    You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

The Autobiography of William Allen White


William Allen White - 1946
    One of the most unforgettable personality of his age, a gifted writer, highly admired journalist, politician, friend of presidents, White's life history spans from the time of buffalo and wild Indians in his native Kansas to the age of FDR.

The Congress of Vienna


Harold Nicolson - 1946
    His father, Sir Arthur Nicolson, was a diplomat as he himself was in early adulthood being a member of the British delegation to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 as well as serving in other capacities. A later historian of the Congress, Adam Zamoyski, has described it in the following way: 'The reconstruction of Europe at the Congress of Vienna is probably the most seminal episode in modern history'. Harold Nicolson's classic account written piquantly just after the Second World War is memorable not just for its adroit grasp of the many complex issues but also for its numerous vivid character sketches of the principal peacemakers: Alexander I of Russia, Metternich, Talleyrand, Castlereagh and others are brought brilliantly to life. 'Mr Nicolson has written a vivid, entertaining and penetrating book about an episode in nineteenth-century history with which has gifts and his own education most particularly qualified him to deal. Moreover he often makes valuable generalisations...In a short review it is impossible to convey by quotation those qualities which will make it eagerly sought after: its vivid portraits and scenes from the past: its clear analysis of political situations as they arise; its shrewd comments on the characters of the men who dealt with them' - Desmond MacCarthy, "Sunday Times". Faber Finds is reissuing all of Harold Nicolson's works of diplomatic history: "The Congress of Vienna: A Study in Allied Unity, 1812-1822"; "Lord Carnock: A Study in Old Diplomacy: Peacemaking, 1919" and "Curzon: The Last Phase, 1919-1925".