The Altar Steps - Mackenzie, Compton
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The Altar Steps This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other…mehr

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The Altar Steps This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!
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Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, OBE, was a Scottish novelist, biographer, historian, and memoirist who also served as a cultural commentator, raconteur, and ardent Scottish nationalist. He co-founded the National Party of Scotland in 1928, alongside Hugh MacDiarmid, R. B. Cunninghame Graham, and John MacCormick. He was knighted in 1952. Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie was born in West Hartlepool, County Durham, England, into a theatrical family of Mackenzies, many of whom took the stage surname Compton, beginning with his English grandfather Henry Compton, a well-known Shakespearean actor of the Victorian era. Mackenzie is best known for his two comedic novels set in Scotland: Whisky Galore (1947), set in the Hebrides, and The Monarch of the Glen (1941), set in the Scottish Highlands. They spawned a popular film and television series, respectively. He wrote about a hundred works on various topics, including ten volumes of autobiography titled My Life and Times (1883-71). He published history (about the Battles of Marathon and Salamis), biography (Mr Roosevelt, a 1943 biography of FDR), literary criticism, satires, apologia (Sublime Tobacco 1957), children's stories, poetry, and other works. The Four Winds of Love is frequently regarded as his masterpiece in terms of fiction.