A Modern Plutarch: Being an Account of Some Great Lives in the Nineteenth Century, Together with Some Comparisons Between the Latin and the Anglo- Saxon Genius

Name: A Modern Plutarch: Being an Account of Some Great Lives in the Nineteenth Century, Together with Some Comparisons Between the Latin and the Anglo- Saxon Genius
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Author: John Cournos

by John Cournos

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First edition

London: Thornton Butterworth, 1928. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine, uniformly age-toned dustwrapper. Biographical essays on important people, paired together, in the manner of Plutarch. Essays pair Melville with Rimbaud and Doughty, George Sand with George Eliot, Gauguin with Thoreau, Twain with Anatole France, John Brown with Garibaldi, Robert..... More

Binding: Hardcover

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