Book Description
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

Book Description
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

This is not the original 1864 book by Ticknor
I own a copy of the original edition of Ticknor's "Life of William Hickling Prescott". The original edition contained pen and ink illustrations at the head of each chapter. Furthermore, the original edition that I own was typeset using the "long s" and the "short s" so that it takes some conditioning of the mind to read what appears to be "From thefe, and fimilar maffes of manufcript, were felected .." as "From these, and similar masses of manuscript, were selected ..". This reprint edition is definitely a fascimile of a later version for which the type for the entire book had been reset. Apparently this latter version omitted the illustrations that definitely add character to the original 1864 printing. ... Read more

Book Description
William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859) was the first American to win international acclaim as an historian.Prescott has stood the test of time and is as fascinating to read today as he must have been 100 years ago.This biography was originally published in 1905 and contains the following chapters:

The New England Historians

Early Years

The Choice of a Career

Success

In Mid Career

The Last Ten Years

"Ferdinand and Isabella" - Prescott's Style

"The Conquest of Mexico" as Literature and as History

"The Conquest of Peru" - "Philip II"

Prescott's Rank as an Historian

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Customer Reviews (1)

This is not a fascimilie printing of the book of same title by Peck
I purchased this book from Amazon.com. But, the publisher apparently got confused and this is not a reprint of the 1905 book of the same title by Harry Thurston Peck, in spite of what it says on the cover. This is a reprint of the book of the same title by Rollo Ogden which was published in 1904. However, this book complements both the original 1864 biography by George Ticknor and the 1905 book by Harry Thurston Peck. I have been an admirer of Prescott for some time and I found a number of facts about Prescott in the Ogden book that were not included in the other books. The Table of Contents given at the Amazon.com site is that of Peck's book. The TOC of Ogden's book is:

I. THE CROSSED SWORDS
II. SCHOOL AND COLLEGE
III. `LE TRAVAIL D'AVEIGLE"
IV. THE INWARD EYE
V. PREPARATION
VI. BEGINNING
VII. THE QUEST OF A THEME
VIII. FERDINAND AND ISABELLA
IX. AWAKING FAMOUS
X. THE MAN OF LETTERS
XI. THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO
XII. THE CONQUEST OF PERU
XIII. THE ENGLIASH VISIT
XIV. PERSONAL TRAITS
XV. POLITICAL SYMPHATHIES
XVI. PHILIP II
XVII. THE UNFINISHED WINDOW
INDEX
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