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Victor Hugo and the Romantic Drama
In this book, Albert W. Halsall presents the first complete treatment in English of Hugo's plays - a history, plot summary, and detailed analysis of all the dramas, from Cromwel and Torquemada to the juvenilia and the epic melodrama Les Burgraves.
The Essential Victor Hugo
'To the English, I am "shocking"...What's more, French, which is disgusting; republican, which is abominable; exiled, which is repulsive; defeated, which is infamous. To top it all off, a poet...' Victor Hugo dominated literary life in France for over half a century, pouring forth novels, poems, plays, and other writings with unflagging zest and vitality. Here, for the first time in English, all aspects of his work are represented within a single volume. Famous scenes from the novels Notre-Dame, Les Misérables, and The Toilers of the Sea are included, as well as excerpts from his intimate diaries, poems of love and loss, and scathing denunciations of the political establishment. All the chosen passages are self-contained and can be enjoyed without any previous knowledge of Hugo's work. Much of the material is appearing in English for the first time, and most of it has never before been annotated thoroughly in any language.
Regents' Proceedings
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Touché
The monarchs of seventeenth-century Europe put a surprisingly high priority on the abolition of dueling, seeing its eradication as an important step from barbarism toward a rational state monopoly on justice. But it was one thing to ban dueling and another to stop it. Duelists continued to kill each other with swords or pistols in significant numbers deep into the nineteenth century. In 1883 Maupassant called dueling “the last of our unreasonable customs.” As a dramatic and forbidden ritual from another age, the duel retained a powerful hold on the public mind and, in particular, the literary imagination. Many of the greatest names in Western literature wrote about or even fought in duel...
The Humston Family
Of Edward Humston the authors write "Unknown is his origin, his parentage, his home, his birth or the port of his embarkation for the new world."--Page 24. It is known that he arrived in Virginia sometime before or during 1667. "Whom Edward married and the date and place of the ceremony are unknown, as is also the date of his wife's death."--Page 30. Records indicate their first son, Edward, was born about 1670 in Stafford County, Virginia. "It is probable that he died about 1700. ... Edward and his wife presumably were buried on their home plantation, that being the general custom of the time."--P.--31. Descendants lived in Virginia, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Illinois, Nebraska, Utah, Kentucky, California, Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, Arizona, New Jersey, New York and elsewhere
The London Gazette
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