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View book details for My Life on the Plains (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Personal Experiences with Indians
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. "Your articles on the Plains are by far the best I have ever read," - William T. Sherman to George Armstrong CusterTwo years before he became a …
The Commentaries of Caesar are the beginning of modern history, writes Trollope, It is the object of this volume to describe Caesars commentaries for the aid of those who do not read Latin. Trollope breathes new life into the great …
View book details for News Writing (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
The Gathering, Handling and Writing of News Stories
In his preface to this 1917 guide to gathering, handling, and writing news stories, the author notes that the purpose of his work is to give aspiring reporters practical guidance for their duties and performance as journalists. Spencers book is …
Scathingly reviewed by some at the time of its publication in 1903 because of its subject matter, Bennett's third novel, Leonora, is the love story of a middle-aged woman. In response to his critics, Bennett later recorded in his preface …
Its lovely to be young, beautiful, rich, and wise. Emma Woodhouse knows she has been blessed in many ways, not the least of which is in her natural gift for arranging the affairs of others. Having arranged a perfect marriage …
In the summer of 1899, Booker T. Washington visited Europe to rest from his demanding schedule. Yet everywhere he turned, he encountered French and American scholars, politicians, businessmen, abolitionists, and average citizens eager to hear him tell the story of …
From the moment of his adoption by the Earnshaws, the foundling boy Heathcliff devotes himself to their young daughter Catherine. Growing up together, the two share a love that blossoms into romance, until Catherines hurtful betrayal. But Heathcliffs emotions know …
Shewing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him By is the subtitle of the last (1861-62) complete novel by the master English satirist. This semiautobiographical look back at the rollicking misadventures of a young heir is narrated …
William Dean Howells, author of The Rise of Silas Lapham, lived in a log cabin for a year when he was a young boy before he and his family moved to Columbus, Ohio. My Year In a Log Cabin, written …
Tarkingtons second novel (1900), set in 18th-century England, spawned two movies, a play, and an operetta. Beaucaire, barber to the French Ambassador, blackmails his way into high society and the interest of Lady Mary Carlisle, and is soon over his …
View book details for Pamela (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Or Virtue Rewarded
Published in 1740, this hugely successful epistolary novel launched Richardson's literary career. Some readers and critics saw the story of the efforts of a virtuous young servant girl to resist the seductions of her master as tendentious if not hypocritical …
In his introduction, Hudson explains his book as a series of impressions and essays of bird life. The offerings range from impressions of birds in rural settings to the cruelty of wearing feathers as fashion in Britain. The descriptive section …
When millions suffer under iron-fisted oppression, when anger and resentment boil into bloody insurrection, when triumph leads to savage vengeance--when does one individual life matter. In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens interweaves the intensely personal dramas of Lucie …
This 1872 meditation on religious issues grapples with questions of faith, science, and belief. Asserting I do not say I know there is a God; I only say that I observe and infer much that forces that conviction upon me, …
View book details for Taming the Bicycle (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
And Other Essays, Stories, and Sketches
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. American life comes under the scrutiny of Mark Twain's wit in this delightful collection of short stories. Here, he comments on politics, education, the media, religion, and …
View book details for The Life of Wellington, Volume 2 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
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. This second volume continues the …
In the post World War I era, Willa Cathers story of a Nebraska farmers idealized departure to defend France met a mixed reception. By then, the romance had been taken out of the war, and Claude Wheelers willingness to fight …
View book details for Shakespearean Tragedy (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth
Shakespearean Tragedy is a landmark work of literary criticism. It is at once the pinnacle of the nineteenth centurys love affair with Shakespeare and the starting point for a new century of Shakespeare scholarship.Critics have charged that A.C. Bradley attends …
The horror! The horror! These are the final words spoken by Mr. Kurtz in Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness, the story of a man who travels into the jungle to seek his fortune and who instead finds an all-consuming moral …
John Ermine of the Yellowstone (1902) is Frederic Remingtons greatest literary achievement. A tragic and realistic story about race, identity, love, and the frontier is still a favorite of American readers today. John Ermine, known to his Crow tribe as …
View book details for The Ship of Stars (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
(Knickerbocker Nuggets Series)
This 1899 novel is a Cornish love story that traces its two protagonists, Taffy and Honoria, from their childhood onward. According to a contemporary review in the New York Times, "The Ship of Stars is full of dramatic power, and …
When the owner of a popular health spa dies, a mysterious stranger is enlisted to impersonate the heir and fulfill the odd contents of the will. Then the real heir turns up... This 1912 mystery-romance-farce has all the ingredients that …
A collection of spine-chilling tales from a master of horror, Can Such Things Be? is brimming with supernatural occurrences, shifting perspectives, and the psychological twists and turns for which Bierce is famous. Including such offerings as The Death of Halpin …
Limiting itself to only the most essential and famous authors writing in English, this 1904 introduction to literature devotes itself mainly to Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Bacon, Milton, Pope, Defoe, Swift, Burns, Scott, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, plus Samuel Johnsons …
This 1894 book explores the basics of Christianity, including the origins of the Church, the earliest views of the Bible and the decline of its authority, the role of ethics, and any other topic that fleshes out the essential character …
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