W. H. Mallock (1849–1923)
Autore di A changed man : The waiting supper and other tales : concluding with The romantic adventures of a milk maid
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Opere di W. H. Mallock
A changed man : The waiting supper and other tales : concluding with The romantic adventures of a milk maid (1913) — A cura di — 29 copie
Aristocracy & Evolution, A study of the rights, the origin, and the social functions of the wealthier classes (2017) 6 copie
Lucretius on life and death, in the metre of Omar Khayy©Łm. To which are appended parallel passages from the original — Traduttore — 4 copie
Labour and the popular welfare 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Mallock, William Hurrell
- Data di nascita
- 1849-02-07
- Data di morte
- 1923-04-02
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- England
- Luogo di nascita
- Cheriton Bishop, Devon, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Wincanton, Somerset, England, UK
- Istruzione
- Balliol College, Oxford, England (BA)
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
sociologist
economist
poet
essayist
theologian (mostra tutto 9)
philosopher
translator
editor - Relazioni
- Froude, Richard Hurrell (uncle)
Froude, James Anthony (uncle)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 30
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 153
- Popolarità
- #136,480
- Voto
- 4.3
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 37
- Lingue
- 1
Thus it's a book not likely to interest the average reader of the 2010s, but if you know your Victorian intellectuals (and I do), there's some fun stuff: Stockton (the Tyndall stand-in) telling people you need to know atomic theory to really appreciate the Alps, Storks (the Huxley stand-in) eyeing everyone like they're a butterfly he's going to pin, Herbert (the Ruskin stand-in) declaring that all scientists should bury themselves. It's a fun enough glimpse at a moment in time, and how science-- especially science's claim to moral authority-- was understood by at least one writer.… (altro)