Product Description: This is a study of the 18th century. Nicolson called his book a gallery of portraits, e.g. Saint Simon, elegant, a social climber; the dashing Prince Potemkin; Count Cagliostro, practitioner of black arts; Thomas Paine, inflamer of the masses; Jacques Casanova, lover, pornographer, and con man...read more

Product Description: Do we want to be persons of culture, civility, and manners? Even in the contemporary world, where this question is not much asked, most people would respond with a resounding YES. Well, if you want to be cultured, civil, and mannered, not just another everyday barbarian, it will take some work, some training, and a good place to start is with Harold Nicolson's very readable and entertaining book...read more

Product Description: Historiografía perfecta del viejo arte de la diplomacia. Va de sus comienzos en las legendarias ciudades-Estado de las culturas helénicas, a la práctica moderna de nuestros días tan exenta de exquisiteces y cortesías.

A study of the Allied forces during the Napoleon wars focuses on the various factors which contributed to the abdication of Napoleon and describes subsequent diplomatic endeavors to settle European affairs. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Lord Byron's first epic poem, "Childe Harold", was published in 1812. Only 12 years later after a life including exile, marriage and fatherhood, he died aged 36 at Missolonghi in Greece. First written in 1924, this is a narrative of the last two years of Lord Byron's life when he left Italy to help organize the fight for Greece's freedom from the Turks...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process...read more

Fictionalized portraits of ten people in Edwardian England provide a commentary on the manners, prejudices, interests, and beliefs of the period