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“There is, for instance, only one page at the beginning of Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades describing how the participants decided to begin four hundred years of wars, and then several thousand pages devoted to the routes, battles and other events which make up the "history" of the Crusades.”

Years War Three Four Events Battle Thousand Pages Hundred Decided Instance Devoted Volume Routes Describing Participants Crusades

Book:The New Psychohistory

Source: The New Psychohistory

“Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.”

World Four Written Crisis Volume

Author:Arthur Balfour

“When I approached Volume 1 of "Lucid," I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show.”

Shows Bits Issues Four Tvs Approach Seasons I Realized Volume Tv Shows Dice

Author:Michael McMillian

“Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant.”

Consciousness Four Reader Understood Brilliant Divided Volume Imagery Dense

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States--first,murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.”

Ifs Firsts Kind Book States Stories Loses United United States Novel Four Hero Overcoming Murder Volume Publishers Heroines Spiritualism

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so oddly by history that I wanted to hear his side of things.”

Wanted Sides Four Speech Letters Treated Volume Prominent Cromwell

Author:Marilynne Robinson