Conquest of Mexico - Couverture rigide

Prescott, William H.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0460003976 ISBN 13 : 9780460003971

Editeur : Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1957

Synopsis

Physical description; xix, 436 p. : 1 map ; 19 cm. Subject; Cortés, Hernán 1485-1547.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

After the completion of his first magnum opus, the History of Ferdinand and I sabella, W. H. Prescott allowed himself a sabbatical year of repose. He did very little writing with the exception of a three-decker review of Lockhart s Life of Scott for the North A merican. But he cast about anxiously for a new subject upon which to expend another five or six years of concentrated study. Conscious though he was of a slight tendency to prosiness, he seems to have thought that literary history was more in his Une than history proper, and he began collecting books with a view to an extended kind of critical and roundabout volume on Molire and his comedy, which would make an agreeable book for the parlour table. A useful article was eventually manufactured out of the material, but the project melted into thin air as Prescott came to realise the vast amount of literary wealth, transcending even that of the fabled silver mines, that awaited the explorer of ancient Mexico. Serious difficulties, bibliographical and personal, confronted the hardy adventurer. Owing to the grave defect of his eyesight, which prevented him from reading more than one hour in the twenty-four, he was practically debarred from libraries and axchives, and had to depend upon books or manuscripts in his own possession being read to him aloud. The requisite material would be hard to collect. Fortunately Prescott smeans were ample, and he never had to write against time for money. In the second place, a rumour, which proved to be well founded, had reached him that Washington Irving was meditating a book upon the selfsame subject. In dealing with both these obstacles Prescott showed characteristic determination.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1957
• ISBN 10: 0460003976
• ISBN 13: 9780460003971
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 424