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"What is America?" Chesterton asks in the opening chapter of this perceptive and high-spirited book, originally published in 1922. In due course, he meditates on the nature of the American hotel, the Broadway theater, and the American businessman. He also …
In a saga that sprawls from Africa to Iceland, from the birth of their founder on the island of Lesbos to the French conquest of Algiers, this 1890 history chronicles the conflicts of the Barbary pirates with a host of …
Historian and philosopher John Fiske tried to reconcile orthodox religious beliefs with Darwins science, both on the lecture platform and in his collections of essays. Excursions of an Evolutionist is one such collection, eloquently written and containing such chapters as, …
This 1909 novel is narrated by Robert Etheridge Townsend, a young Southern writer recounting a life of wealth and leisure in the waning years of the nineteenth century. It is a gentle but not un-barbed satire of manners that skewers …
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest is perhaps the most compelling and complicated individual that the Civil War brought to prominence. In looking at his life and military …
Hartewho once rode shotgun on a stagecoachknew the prospectors, gamblers, and gold-hearted frontier gals who won the West. The collection of treasures, published in 1896 includes A Blue Grass Penelope, Left Out on Lone Star Mountain, A Ship of 49, …
This 1917 biography of the great Russian novelist, author of such classic works as Fathers and Sons and On the Eve, features a foreword by Joseph Conrad and presents a concise yet insightful overview of Turgenev's life and work.
This 1918 history of World War I at sea includes an analysis of the performance of the British Navy at the Battle of Jutlandextremely critical of both the British Grand Fleet and Admiral Jellicoe, and hence highly controversial. Jellicoe himself …
A shipwrecked Viking prince; a band of gold, passed from generation to generation; the hidden history that links Joan of Arc, Daniel Boone, and Abraham Lincoln this 1921 tapestry of fourteen interconnected stories sweeps the reader on a breathless quest …
This 1920 novel, a marvel of taut plotting, is regarded as among the finest spy stories of all time. Just before World War I, a dissolute English nobleman and a German secret agent, who happen to resemble each other exactly, …
This 1917 novel tells the tale of a handsome, struggling artist who carelessly manipulates women for his own advantageincluding Lady Helen Seely, the rich and beautiful aristocrat whom he seduces and marries. The novel is a rewriting of Moores first …
Published in 1809, this satirical history of New Yorkpublished under the pseudonym of Dietrich Knickerbockerlaunched the young Irving to literary prominence and success. "It took with the public," Irving later reported, "and gave me celebrity, as an original work was …
From the author of The Octopus comes this compelling novel about an intrepid explorer who returns from an Arctic expedition to earn the love of an independent woman. A naturalist, Frank Norris was intrigued by the new science of psychology, …
A long-held grudge, a woman left at the altar, two wily sisters running away from a nursing home. These are just a few of the incidents in this captivating collection of fourteen stories, mostly about female characters. An award-winning writer, …
In this 1910 philosophical work, the author argues that religious faith is part of human nature, that faith takes over the entire human mind and body, and that all defects in religion result from the premature arresting of the development …
A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) is a work of crucial importance in intellectual history. Considered by most as Western feminisms central heroine, Wollstonecraft argues that women must be educated to develop their reason in order to throw …
Since its publication in 1916, John Deweys Democracy and Education has been a classic in the philosophy of education. Democracy and Educations enduring strength lies in Deweys extraordinary ability to instill the dynamics of a changing nation and world into …
Sparkling with wit and humor, The Guardian Angelfirst serialized in The Atlantic Monthlypaints a charming portrait of society in a New England country town in the mid-nineteenth century. Homes inspiration came from his belief that man was a product solely …
This 1891 volume of essays, in the words of its editor, Fred Scott, "is just the work to go into the hands of those that hope and despair of the teacher of rhetoricthe callow young man with a sneaking ambition …
The author examines Americas reluctant rise to power and the United Kingdoms subsequent decline. Exhibiting a Darwinian perspective on the hierarchy of nations, Adams analyzes how power, wealth, and war are related. He argues that trade is an even more …
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A Tragedy of the Sierra
History of the Donner Party takes you straight into the most terrifying tragedy of American western emigration. "More thrilling than romance, more terrible than fiction, the sufferings of the Donner Party form a bold contrast to the joys of pleasure-seekers …
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. The contemporary short-story is unimaginable without Anton Chekhov. He stripped the story of many of the features that had seemed essential to nineteenth-century readers: plot, narrative tension, …
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. In The Professor, Charlotte Bronte defiantly created an externally unprepossessing protagonist in William Crimsworth, whose unglamorous appearance and station belie an internal power. He is conscious of …
This 1901 volume provides an exciting and comprehensive overview of British sea power from the days of the Spanish galleons to the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. Along the way, Laughton focuses on privateers and buccaneers, as well …
Though best known as a writer of thrilling pulp fiction, the creator of Fu Manchu also hobnobbed with the mystics and seekers of his time. In this 1914 history of the occult, his only nonfiction book, Rohmer introduces the reader …
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