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A. W. Kinglake: A Biographical and Literary Study is a book about A. W. Kinglake. The preface says it is just eleven years since Kinglake passed away, and his life has not yet been separately memorialized. The man who came to be called “Eothen” was born at Taunton on the 5th August, 1809, at a house called “The Lawn.”
The text says that to his mother Kinglake was passionately attached, and that he owed to her, as he tells us in “Eothen,” his home in the saddle and his love for Homer. Cultivated Frenchmen, the text says, avow that, with all its frequent exposure of their military shortcomings and depreciation of their national character, no English chronicle of the century stands higher in their esteem than the history of the war in the Crimea. The text says the close of the book is grim and tragic in the main, the stir of gallant fights exchanged for the dreary course of siege, intrenchment, mine and countermine.
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- William Tuckwell
- Pages
- 91
- Language
- English
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