W. H. Mallock (1849–1923)
Autor de A changed man : The waiting supper and other tales : concluding with The romantic adventures of a milk maid
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Obras de W. H. Mallock
A changed man : The waiting supper and other tales : concluding with The romantic adventures of a milk maid (1913) — Editor — 29 copias
Aristocracy & Evolution, A study of the rights, the origin, and the social functions of the wealthier classes (2017) 6 copias
Lucretius on life and death, in the metre of Omar Khayy©Łm. To which are appended parallel passages from the original — Traductor — 4 copias
Labour and the popular welfare 2 copias
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- Mallock, William Hurrell
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1849-02-07
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1923-04-02
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- England
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Cheriton Bishop, Devon, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Wincanton, Somerset, England, UK
- Educación
- Balliol College, Oxford, England (BA)
- Ocupaciones
- novelist
sociologist
economist
poet
essayist
theologian (mostrar todos 9)
philosopher
translator
editor - Relaciones
- Froude, Richard Hurrell (uncle)
Froude, James Anthony (uncle)
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- Obras
- 30
- También por
- 2
- Miembros
- 153
- Popularidad
- #136,480
- Valoración
- 4.3
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 37
- Idiomas
- 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.… (más)