This volume offers a broad exploration of the cultural history of democracy in the Renaissance. The Renaissance has rarely been considered an important moment in the history of democracy. Nonetheless…

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Bernardin de St. Pierre, was a major figure of the late French Enlightenment and literary apostle for the return to nature. The romance Paul and Virginia promotes the theme that…

The novel’s title characters are friends since birth who fall in love. Written on the eve of the French Revolution, the novel is recognized as Bernardin’s finest work. It records…

To this scene I loved to resort, as I could here enjoy at once the richness of an unbounded landscape, and the charm of uninterrupted solitude. One day, when I…

Bernardin de St. Pierre, was a major figure of the late French Enlightenment and literary apostle for the return to nature. The romance Paul and Virginia promotes the theme that…

The story of Paul Bunyan is about a giant lumberjack whose story originated in the oral tradition of North American loggers. This book is an introduction to the life and…

Paul Bunyan has become a genuine American hero. It was the American loggers who made Paul Bunyan a true hero of camp night entertainment. The discovery of Yank, undoubtedly the…