English Men of Letters: William Hickling Prescott
by Harry Thurston Peck
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About this eBook
- Author
- Peck, Harry Thurston, 1856-1914
- Title
- William Hickling Prescott
- Credits
- Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Internet Archive.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 39084
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39084
- Release Date
- March 9, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT
- 2.PREFATORY NOTE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.PRESCOTT
- 5.CHAPTER I THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIANS
- 6.CHAPTER II EARLY YEARS
- 7.CHAPTER III THE CHOICE OF A CAREER
- 8.CHAPTER IV SUCCESS
- 9.CHAPTER V IN MID CAREER
- 10.CHAPTER VI THE LAST TEN YEARS
- 11.CHAPTER VII "FERDINAND AND ISABELLA"—PRESCOTT'S STYLE
- 12.CHAPTER VIII THE "CONQUEST OF MEXICO" AS LITERATURE AND AS HISTORY
- 13.CHAPTER IX "THE CONQUEST OF PERU"—"PHILIP II."
- 14.CHAPTER X PRESCOTT'S RANK AS AN HISTORIAN
- 15.INDEX
- 16.FOOTNOTES:
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