Cyrus the Great - Couverture souple

Abbott, Jacob

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1931541507 ISBN 13 : 9781931541503

Editeur : Simon Publications, 2001

Synopsis

This is the story of the founder of the ancient Persian Empire, a monarchy, perhaps the most wealthy and magnificent the world have ever seen.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Jacob Abbott was a well-known 19th century historian who wrote biographies on various ancient leaders, including this one about the Persian leader Cyrus the Great. From the beginning: “CYRUS was the founder of the ancient Persian empire—a monarchy, perhaps, the most wealthy and magnificent which the world has ever seen. Of that strange and incomprehensible principle of human nature, under the influence of which vast masses of men, notwithstanding the universal instinct of aversion to control, combine, under certain circumstances, by millions and millions, to maintain, for many successive centuries, the representatives of some one great family in a condition of exalted, and absolute, and utterly irresponsible ascendency over themselves, while they toil for them, watch over them, submit to endless and most humiliating privations in their behalf, and commit, if commanded to do so, the most inexcusable and atrocious crimes to sustain the demigods they have thus made in their lofty estate, we have, in the case of this Persian monarchy, one of the most extraordinary exhibitions.”

Biographie de l'auteur

Jacob Abbott (November 14, 1803 – October 31, 1879) was an American writer of children's books. He was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. He wrote 180 books and was a coauthor or editor of 31 more. He died in Farmington, Maine, where he had spent part of his time after 1839, and where his brother, Samuel Phillips Abbott, founded the Abbott School.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon Publications
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1931541507
• ISBN 13: 9781931541503
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 289
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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