John C Abbott: 77 books

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: This is the old story, which has been repeated to half the maidens in Christendom. It is not very surprising that in this one case it should have happened to prove true. But, unfortunately, our prophetess...

It would be difficult to find, in all the range of the past, a man whose career has been so full of wonderful and exciting vicissitude as that of Louis Philippe. His life covers the most eventful period in French history. The storms of 1789 consigned his father to the guillotine, his mOther and brothers...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: A fascinating account of the life, trials, tribulations-and ultimately failure-of one of Europe's first notable "constitutional monarchs," Louis Philippe (1773-1850). The first king to...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: With Engravings. An historical account of Hortense, one of the world's noblest women. Hortense's father fell beneath the slide of the guillotine; her mother was imprisoned and doomed to die; and she...

Childhood. 1754-1767 Characters developed by the French Revolution. Madame Roland. Many characters of unusual grandeur were developed by the French Revolution. Among them all, there are few more illustrious, or more worthy of notice, than that of Madame Roland. The eventful story of her life contains...

"This book is intended for the children of those families to which The Mother at Home has gone. It is prepared with the hope that it may exert an influence upon the minds of the children, in exciting gratitude for their parents’love, and in forming characters which shall ensure future usefulness...

The French Revolution was perhaps as important an event as has occurred in the history of nations. It was a drama in three acts. The first was the Revolution itself, properly so called, with its awful scenes of terror and of blood—the exasperated millions struggling against the accumulated oppression...

There are but few persons, in the United States, who have not heard the name of the renowned pirate, Captain Kidd. There are also but few to be found who have any intelligent conception of his wild and guilty career. The banks of the Hudson, the islands scattered through the Sound which skirts the...

PREFACE. CHAPTER I. RESPONSIBILITY. The Police Court. The widow and her daughter. Effect of a child’s conduct upon the happiness of its parents. The young sailor. The condemned pirate visited by his parents. Consequences of disobedience. A mother’s grave. The sick child. CHAPTER II. DECEPTION. George...

Louis Philippe by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott.