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...children's classic can be described as a book so inviting that a young reader wants to escape into the world it creates. By that definition, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, an account of four sisters living in Concord, Massachusetts, during the 1860s, is immortal. The author drew on her own impoverished childhood as a daughter of Bronson Alcott, a feckless member of the Concord enlightenment. Generations of girls have yearned to join the March household, and they remember the story's high points better than crises of their own lives...
There may be a good reason for this, for Marx believed in phrenology Wilhelm Liebknecht, one of the founders of the German Socialist Party, writes in his Memoirs that when he came to London in the 1860s to join Marx's faction, before he was admitted, Pfander--the official party phrenologist--danced, his fingers around his skull. This was printed in the Kerr edition of Liebknecht's memoirs, but when these were reprinted by Moscow and the International Publishing (the official Communist publishing house in the United States), those passages were omitted without any dots or ellipses to indicate that...
...major works -- nearly 30 Manets; more than that number of Monets; and work by a whole gamut of artists from Renoir to Cezanne and Whistler, from Frederic Bazille to academicians like Jean-Leon Gerome and even William Bouguereau. It focuses on the early years of the movement, the 1860s, before "New Painting" became controversial with the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874. It asks, What formed Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir and the rest; what ambitions coalesced between them; what other artists did they respond...
...compacts" of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in which members passed letters from hand to hand, adding a little more at each turn. David Sewell, an associate editor at the University of Arizona, likens netwriting to the literary scene Mark Twain discovered in San Francisco in the 1860s, "when people were reinventing journalism by grafting it onto the tall-tale folk tradition." Others hark back to Tom Paine and the Revolutionary War pamphleteers, or even to the Elizabethan era, when, thanks to Gutenberg, a generation of English writers became intoxicated with language...
...French deals with an incident in 1798, and Tenants begins with uprisings in the 1860s; the foreknowledge of history merely colors these works with an agreeable wash of irony. The End of the Hunt seems more tragic because the political failures it describes lead directly to the recent bloody decades, when the balladmakers have given up but the bombers are still at work...