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Edith Whartons contributions to literature went beyond her fiction: She was an influential writer and thinker on design as well. Reacting against heavy, ornate Victorian design, as well as the conspicuous consumption of her day, Wharton makes the case for …
Plutarch defined for all ages the character of Greek and Roman moral identity. He studied what constitutes the best in a human being, and which, in turn, determines a persons role in the world. Blending history and biography, Plutarch evokes …
A portrait of England in the nineteenth century, this volume sketches the people and events that made the century significant. Here are the royals of the era and their policies, political happenings, the marriage of Queen Victoria, the Great Exhibition, …
This 1890 essay explains how romances affect their readers. Written in clear, judicious prose, chapters include The Office of Fiction in Literature, The Scientific Value of Fiction, The Moral Value of Fiction, and The Criticism of a Work of Fiction.
This is the second of three volumes of Louisa May Alcotts stories for her niece, Lulu. The book was also titled, Flower Fables and The Frost King. In these tales, which range from realistic fables to fantasy stories and fairy …
Subtitled Being Simple Studies on Christian Art for English Travellers, Ruskin uses this 1877 work to advise pilgrims to Italy on what works of art to see during a limited time. His casual stroll conducts readers through the gates and …
Subtitled Personal and Biographical Sketches of Well-Known American Writers, this collection includes chapters on George Bancroft, George Washington Cable, William Dean Howells, Francis Parkman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, and many others. The Gilders were well connected in the literary …
What is reality? How do we know what we know? This posthumous collection of writings on consciousness and epistemology, published in 1912, comes to form a treatise in its own right through such essays as Does Consciousness Exist?, A World …
John Laird Mair Lawrence (1811-1879) was an Irish-born prominent British pro-consul and served as Viceroy of India from 1864 to 1869. Sir Richard Temple, his secretary, published this biography in 1889, covering Lawrences role during the First Sikh War, the …
The Romance of the Forest evokes a world drenched in both horror and natural splendor, beset with abductions and imprisonments, and centered upon the frequently terrified but still resourceful and determined heroine Adeline. The Gothic Romance stands perfectly poised between …
In this 1880 book, written with his son Francis, Darwin makes the pioneering attempt to connect plant movements with the larger scheme of biological behavior. Not well received at the time, it has proven to be an enduring influence on …
Two bright young characters of the Jazz Age start out looking for adventure and wind up saving England in Agatha ChristiesThe Secret Adversary. Childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Prudence Tuppence Crowley have hit hard times. Its 1920, and the Great …
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Three Essays in the Early History of England
The Domesday Book was a survey of England completed in 1086 for William the Conqueror. Maitlands 1897 overview of feudal life, The Doomsday Book and Beyond, was called the greatest single book on English medieval history by Professor J. C. …
Volume 2 of Lockes monumental work containing every word of all four books comprising the Essay. The editor, Professor A. C. Fraser, has provided marginal analyses of almost every paragraph, plus hundreds of explanatory footnotes which comment, elaborate, explain difficult …
The doomed romance between a Cornish knight and an Irish princess is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, echoing through the Arthurian tale of Lancelot and Guinevere and inspiring the Wagner opera. Hilaire Belloc fluidly translated Bediers 1913 vivid …
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Sea and Sardinia (1921) is one of the most entertaining and witty travel narratives one can read. It includes rugged movement by boat, bus, and train and …
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Since its initial publication in 1921, Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow has delighted readers with its ironic wit aimed at a diverse carnival of pretentious British upper-class characters. …
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Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Supposing that truth is a womenwhat then? This is the very first sentence in Nietzsches Beyond Good and Evil.Not very often are philosophers so disarmingly explicit in their intention to discomfort the reader. In fact, one might say that the …
Author of such masterfully constructed novels as A Crystal Age and Green Mansions, Hudson stepped away from nature writing in 1910 to pen this unique volume. Included are the essays, "Some Ways of Studying Literature," "The Study of Poetry," "The …
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Lectures on Greek and English Birds
Meinie is an old English word for manyin the sense of a many persons attending one, as bridesmaids, the author explains in a preface. This 1873 work looks at avian life through the eyes of both a poet and scientist, …
With a thoughtful story and lush watercolor illustrations, Desmond Gets Free introduces young readers to timely and nuanced concepts of justice and liberation in a kid-friendly way.
An encyclopedic resource for anyone passionate about the history of books and how they are made, The Printed Book tells the story of the book from the advent of printing to the modern form (1916). What emerges is an engaging …
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The Restoration of the Martial Power of Great Britain
Hailed by the New York Times as entertaining as well as valuable, this two-volume biography examines the life of the hero of Waterloo. This engaging portrait perfectly captures the life story of this legendary officer. In volume one, Maxwell begins …
The title story weaves an overarching narrative through several tales by which a young woman, Jessie Wales, is convinced to extend her visit with her former guardian and his two brothers. The three brothers promise to tell Jessie a new …
Part historical document and part novel, the great architect draws on his own experience in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 to imagine the castle Le Roche-Pont, an ideal defense for France. Emphasizing the importance of artillery and a strong shield …
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