<p>Chateaubriand's Travels in America, presented here in its first modern translation, was a reflection of the attitudes of his epoch toward the New World. And at the same time, because of his enormous literary reputation, it has continued to be a major source of European impressions about America. The America portrayed by Chateaubriand was much more a product of his reading and his imagination than of his actual visit. (His supposed itinerary included a trip up the Hudson to Albany, a visit to Niagara Falls via the Mohawk Trail, a trip down the Mississippi to the Natchez country, and even a visit to the Carolinas and the southern tip of Florida). Though the Frenchman of the nineteenth century could have obtained a much truer picture of America in any number of realistic works, he still chose the poetic evocation of Chateaubriand because he shared the same temperament, the same prejudices, and the same particular view of the world.</p>

Chateaubriand's Travels in America

History

De. Chateaubriand, François-René

Americas

University Press of Kentucky

<p>As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)</p>

Oeuvres Completes de M. Le Vicomte de Chateaubriand

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

BiblioLife

De La Monarchie Selon La Charte (1816) (French Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Kessinger Publishing

OS Martyres, Volume 2 (English and Portuguese Edition)

Europe

Nabu Press

Oeuvres Completes de M. Le Vicomte de Chateaubriand, Volume 9 (French Edition)

Chateaubriand, François-Réne

Oeuvres Complètes, Volumes 26-28 (French Edition)

Etudes Ou Discours Historiques, Volume 2 (French Edition)

Etudes Ou Discours Historiques, Volume 4 (French Edition)

Oeuvres Completes de M. Le Vicomte de Chateaubriand, Volume 15 (French Edition)

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