The twentieth century

Seventeenth Century Through Twentieth Century

✍ Ying-shih Yü 📂 Fiction 📅 2016 🌐 English ⚖ 831 KB 👁 2 views

✍ Verne, Jules;Howard, Richard 📂 Fiction 📅 1863 🏛 Del Rey 🌐 English ⚖ 206 KB 👁 2 views

THE LITERARY DISCOVERY OF THE CENTURY In 1863 Jules Verne, famed author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, wrote a novel that his literary agent deemed too farfetched to be published. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson found the handwritten, neve

Science in the twentieth century

✍ Stephanie H. Kenen 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 206 KB

Myrtle McGraw was a creative developmental scientist of the 1930s and 1940s whose work we now are beginning to fully appreciate. She had been a teenager in Alabama when she began writing to John Dewey, already a world-class philosopher, in 1914. McGraw and Dewey struck up a father -daughter friendsh

Paris in the Twentieth Century

✍ Jules Verne 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🌐 English ⚖ 205 KB 👁 2 views

Written in 1863 but first published only in 1994, about a young man who lives in a technologically advanced, but culturally backwards future. Often referred to as Verne's lost novel, the work, set in August 1960, paints a grim, dystopian view of the future. Many of Verne's predictions are remarkably

Paris in the Twentieth Century

✍ Jules Verne; Richard Howard 📂 Fiction 📅 1994;1997 🏛 Del Rey/Ballantine Books 🌐 English ⚖ 204 KB 👁 2 views

THE LITERARY DISCOVERY OF THE CENTURY In 1863 Jules Verne, famed author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, wrote a novel that his literary agent deemed too farfetched to be published. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson found the handwritten, neve

The twentieth-century Spanish American novel

✍ Williams, Raymond Leslie 📂 Fiction 📅 2014;2003 🏛 University of Texas Press 🌐 English ⚖ 186 KB 👁 2 views

"Williams is among the very few scholars who are capable of producing such a sweeping perspective. . . . This study will be useful to specialized and non-specialized readers alike. For the latter, it provides a full grasp of the literary production coming out of Latin America during the entire twent