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Les miserables (Classics Illustrated - 1944)
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Les miserables (Classics Illustrated - 1944)Les miserables (Classics Illustrated - 1944)

Les Misérables, translated variously from the French as The Miserable Ones, The Wretched, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, or The Victims), is an 1862 French novel by author Victor Hugo and is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century. It follows the lives and interactions of several French characters over a seventeen-year period in the early nineteenth century, starting in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion


 
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Tags: French, Wretched, century, nineteenth, period, miserables, Classics
The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Germany, 1780-1918
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The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Germany, 1780-1918The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Germany, 1780-1918

In the late eighteenth century, German-speaking Europe was a patchwork of principalities and lordships. Most people lived in the countryside, and just half survived until their late twenties. By the beginning of our own century, unified Germany was the most powerful state in Europe. No longer a provincial "land of poets and thinkers," the country had been transformed into an industrial and military giant with an advanced welfare system.
 The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Germany, 1780-1918, is a masterful account of this transformation.  
 
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Tags: Germany, History, Century, 1780-1918, Nineteenth
Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century BritainEpic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain

In the nineteenth century, epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to recreate it for the modern world. Simon Dentith explores the relationship between epic and the evolution of Britain's national identity in the nineteenth century up to the apparent demise of all notions of heroic warfare in the catastrophe of the First World War. Paradoxically, writers found equivalents of the societies which produced Homeric or Northern epics not in Europe, but on the margins of empire and among its subject peoples.
 
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Tags: Britain, Homeric, nineteenth, century, writers, Nineteenth-Century
The Darkest Jungle
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The Darkest JungleThe Darkest Jungle

The Darkest Jungle by Todd Balf

The Darkest Jungle tells the harrowing story of America's first ship canal exploration across a narrow piece of land in Central America called the Darien, a place that loomed large in the minds of the world's most courageous adventurers in the nineteenth century. With rival warships and explorers from England and France days behind, the 27-member

 
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Buddhism and Science
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Buddhism and ScienceBuddhism and Science

Beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing to the present day, both practitioners and admirers of Buddhism have proclaimed its compatibility with science. In Buddhism and Science, Donald S. Lopez Jr. explores how and why these two seemingly disparate modes of understanding the inner and outer universe have been so persistently linked. He argues that by presenting an ancient Asian tradition as compatible with—and even anticipating—scientific discoveries, European enthusiasts and Asian elites have sidestepped debates on the relevance of religion in the modern world that began in the nineteenth century and that still flare today. 


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