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Excerpt from Dutch Painting in the Nineteenth CenturyIf, nevertheless, we insist upon considering these three painters as offshoots of our great century, then we must needs add that they were the last effort of an exhausted soil. The art of painting declined into the art of decoration or scene-painting, the pain ter's workshop was transformed into the tapestry factory. The minute, concentrated charm of our socalled little masters expanded itse...

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A Short Guide to Writing about History is an ideal complement for any history course intended to teach students to think and write like historians. This engaging and practical text will teach students how to go beyond reporting the basic dates and facts of their history books and show them how to infuse their writing with their own ideas and unique perspective. Covering brief essays and the documented resource paper, the text explores the writ...

For Myself Alone: A Drama, in Three Acts is a document containing the complete text of a play written by an unnamed author (credited as "Marius"). In addition to the text of the play, this book also contains a description of the costumes, directives for scenery and costumes, materials required, and brief stage directions. The play itself tells the story of struggling writers Harry Duvall, Jack Byron, and Charlie Fletcher. Harry and Jack decid...

A highly regarded historian and biographer paints a dazzling portrait of the German reformer, including his inner compulsions, his struggle with himself and his God, the gestation of his theology, his relationship with contemporaries, and his responses to opponents. A focus of the book is Martin Luther's writings from 1516 to 1525. 16 halftones. 592 p.

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Including the classics of the genre as well as rare period pieces by African Americans and women, and northern and southern patriotic verse and songs, The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry paints the background of the conflict and its literature in Richard Marius's renowned prose, with each poem introduced by a compelling vignette. What emerges is an unparalleled pageant of the war in all its power and sentimentality, the anger of its particip...

Reading Faulkner: Introductions to the First Thirteen Novels is a collection of lectures by Harvard University professor and nationally known novelist and biographer Richard Marius. Marius had been charged with the task of teaching an introductory course on Faulkner to undergraduates in 1996 and 1997. Combining his love of Faulkner's writing with his own experiences as an author and teacher, Marius produced a series of delightful lectures-whic...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Gerharda/Grada Hermina Marius (1854-1919) was a Dutch art historian, critic, and painter. She studied at the Amsterdam Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1883 lived in The Hague. Between 1895 and 1907, she was art critic for the newspaper Het Vaderland, and from 1907-1916, for Het Nieuws van den Dag. She authored and translated many works on art and artists.