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This revised edition, published in 1901, was intended for classroom use by high-school freshmen and sophomores. The book's chapters cover: composition in general; punctuation and sentence structure; correctness in sentence, description, narration; and exposition and argument.
In this spine-tingling sequel to Lerouxs The Mystery of the Yellow Room, the reader again finds journalist-turned-detective Joseph Rouletabille pitted against his rival and enemy Frederic Larson. Rouletabille attempts to untangle the complexities of a vicious crime committed in the …
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An African Romance
A shipwreck. A treasure of hidden gold. A desperate search. Haggardwho viewed his contemporary, Robert Louis Stevenson, as inspiration and competitionpulls out the stops in this 1906 action-adventure tale of ghosts, spirit possession, a lost race, and a young woman …
Volume two of historian Alice Stopford Greens pioneering historical work, Town Life in the Fifteenth Century continues her examination of towns and their culture and governance in the fifteenth century in Europe, and especially England. The book brilliantly studies common …
Stepping far afield from his medical studies, Victor Frankenstein brings to life a human form he has fashioned from scavenged organs and body parts. Horrified by his achievement, he turns his back on his creation, only to learn the danger …
Hegels philosophical history of the world is a work that grows out of a genre in philosophy that looks at history as the development of human abilities and charts the progress of humankind through a series of epochs. For Hegel, …
This 1909 collection by the author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater includes his famous essay On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth, plus writings on rhetoric, style and language, literary theory, Pope, Milton, Wordsworth, Lamb, and others.
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. General William Tecumseh Sherman stands out as a master of maneuver warfare. In a bloody Civil War chiefly remembered for battles in which each side tried too …
Should a son whos delusional about his dead father be told the truththat in fact, his father was a scoundrel who tyrannized his wife? Thats the ethical dilemma in this tale by author William Dean Howells, dealing with questions of …
George III (1738-1820) was on the throne when England lost its American colonies and when it defeated Napoleon. Jesse, an influential British historian, sketches here the monarchs life and times, from childhood and marriage through political struggles and mental illnessa …
The author, a popular Nonconformist preacher, reimagines traditional Christian beliefs in this 1906 study of the historical Jesus. Attempting to harmonize religion with modern scholarship, he considers the humanity and divinity of Jesus, the nature of evil, the authority of …
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An Essay in Political and Social Criticism
Published in 1869, two years after passage of the Reform Bill, this collection of essays is perhaps its authors most topical critical work. Arnold defines Culture as the best which has been thought and said and argues that, during a …
Here is another of Surteess comic novelsthis one sure to delight with its captivating portrait of Victorian absurdity. Renowned for his entertaining insight into the foibles of English hunting society, Surteess novels continue to delight readers today.
This treasury of beloved poems collects all your favorite poets in one book. Whether youre looking for a love poem or something to mend a broken heart, perhaps youre feeling patriotic or struggling to understand the nature of man, the …
Florence, only 13, knows that of her Aunt Julias many suitors, the best is the ungainly Noble Dill. Although he is an outcast, the innocent Florence sees that he is the only one without unfortunate oddities. This book is a …
In this 1918 study, Beach explores the writing method of Henry James and carefully examines how James applied this method to his novelsfrom his early prime (The Portrait of a Lady, etc) through his mature period (The Golden Bowl, etc). …
The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most important philosophical texts ever written. Like Copernicus, Kant dared to question the ordinary perspective from which we habitually view the world.Kants moderate form of skepticism is known as "transcendental idealism," …
Sir George Arthur, Kitcheners private secretary and friend, published this three-volume biography in 1920. Volume III begins with Lord Kitchener's appointment as Secretary of State for War on the eve of World War I and follows his military and diplomatic …
Queen Anne ascended the throne in 1702 and ruled for twelve years until her death in 1714ending the line of the Stuarts. In this fascinating biography, Herbert W. Paul takes on the task of explaining Queen Annes complex personal and …
This wide-ranging 1906 sampler of the wit of the polymath and pundit includes On Gargoyles, A Man and His Newspaper, Cheese, The Futurists, The Anarchist, How I Found the Superman, and more. His thoughts on topics such as heaven (a …
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Kant, the most revolutionary and important figure in Western philosophy since Aristotle, wrote the Critique of Judgment as the capstone of his trilogy of Critiques. Through its …
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The Struggle with the Stuarts, 1603-1647
This unfinished history was being written into the authors dying days. Starting with the England of Ecgberht in the early 9th century and ending with the Norman conquest in 1066, this engrossing volume paints a vivid picture of this seminal …
My empire is of the imagination, proclaims white queen Ayesha, She-who-must-be-obeyed. She is a spiritual romance in which Haggard explores not only the imagined city of Kor, last remnant of an ancient, collapsed civilization, but his own concerns about science, …
In his third novel, Smollett, the master of picaresque comedy, presents a character who Walter Scott called a complete picture of human depravity. The refined and unrepentantly evil Count Fathom lies, cheats, and philanders his way across England and Europe. …
This 1897 volume is a survey of British literature from 1830 to 1870. Of this period, Walker writes: Next to the eighteenth century, the age of Tennyson has been the most critical in our literature. Includes studies of the works …
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