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21) Fireside Travels
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A book brimming with discriminating observations, humor, and delicate prose-this 1867 account of Lowell's first trip to Europe in 1850 includes "Cambridge Thirty Years Ago," "Moosehead Journal," and "Leaves from My Journal in Italy."
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This 1896 book was assembled for a private printing when it was discovered that the author, a distinguished critic and novelist, had written nine anonymous pieces for the English newspaper. Here are "English Literature," "Browning," "Wordsworth," "Amiel's 'Journal Intime," "Robert Elsmere," "Their Majesties' Servants," "Ferdinand Fabre," and two more.
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In this book's preface, Joseph Shipley explains, "To know the origin of words is to know how men think." This lively, fascinating, and entertaining book is the result of his efforts-Shipley traces the derivations of hundreds of common English words, from the adventurous tales of their beginnings to their then-current meanings.
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This fantastic work of fiction is a conversation between an author named John Chateris, and a youthful editor. The two discuss books and editions, which are not yet written, in the setting of a library — a figurative story which comments on the publishing industry, done in a masterful way.
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Collected here are seven engaging essays by Austin Dobson, the highly esteemed English writer and poet. Austin was notable for his wide-ranging interests, and this collection of portraits of eighteenth-century figures reflects his expansive studies, making the volume ideal reading for anyone passionate about English history and literature: essays include "Edwards's Canons of Criticism," "An Eighteenth-Century Hippocrates," "'Hermes' Harris," "The...
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Novelist W. L. George admires the novel because, among other things, "it expresses the mind of man, his pains that pass, his hopes that fade and are born again..." which all other book forms-history and economics, for example-fail to do. This collection of essays was controversial when published, as they deemed the English novel too prudish.
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An eloquent essayist, here Huxley examines a number of subjects. The oldest essay in the collection, "On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences," is about the differences between living and dead bodies, also included is a review of "The Origin of Species," as well as his essays on Descartes, slavery, geology, education, and more.
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This 1919 collection of essays is a republication of the 1913 volume, Clio, A Muse, with the addition of four new essays: "The Two Carlyles," "Englishmen and Italians," "The News of Ramillies," and "The Hegira of Rousseau." Contents also includes "If Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo" and "The Muse of History."
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This 1833 follow-up to Lamb's popular Essays of Elia (1823) collects more of the essays that established his reputation as one of the supreme English masters of the form. Included is what many critics consider to be his best short work, "Old China," as well as the essays "Christ's Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago," "A Chapter on Ears," and "A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People."
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Augustine Birrell was a prolific and elegant writer who produced an extensive collection of essays, primarily on English literature. Here, he has collected twenty-four of his essays about distinguished literary figures such as Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Charles Lamb, Thomas Paine, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and James Anthony Froude, among others.
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This 1916 book summarizes the author's sociological research-attempting to trace the origin of literary genius. Inspired by Sir Francis Galton's previous study of scientists, the author considered a thousand American writers born before 1851 in terms of background and social status. He then argues for a middle course between nature and nurture.
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"Hugh Seymour" is the protagonist among a slew of characters appearing in this partly autobiographical 1915 collection of sketches. Meet Enery, Bim Rochester, Young John Scarlet, and other children living around a quiet old square in London. Hugh lives as a paying guest in various houses, noticing his lack of significance-and even more-that children seem to have no significance at all in the world of adulthood.
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This satirical short novel displays a side of Cooper unfamiliar to many modern readers. It is told from the point of view of an actual handkerchief: its origins in a French flax field, how it was passed around New York City society in the 1830s, and its eventual return to its maker. In this story, Cooper makes a point of ridiculing Victorian materialism-which places value on consumption, not production.
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This 1919 collection includes recollections of George Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris, G. K. Chesterton, A. A. Milne, Max Beerbohm, Aleister Crowley, and Edward Grieg. Also included are "Some Writers," "Intellectual Freaks," "More Writers," "Some Musicians," "Fleet Street," "Musical Critics," "People of the Theater," "Berlin and Some of its People," "People I Would Like to Meet," and more.
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Published in 1900, this volume contains Howells' personal reminiscences of a number of the most celebrated American writers, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, James Russell Lowell, and others.
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First and Last Things is a 1908 work of philosophy by H. G. Wells setting forth his beliefs in four "books" entitled "Metaphysics," "Of Belief," "Of General Conduct," and "Some Personal Things." Parts of the book were published in the Independent Magazine in July and August 1908. Wells revised the book extensively in 1917, in response to his religious conversion, but later published a further revision in 1929 that restored much of the book to its...
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In 1915, the popular commentator was enlisted by the British War Propaganda Bureau. Here Chesterton explores the morality of war, and when it is justified. This collection includes "The War on the Word," "The Refusal of Reciprocity," "The Appetite of Tyranny," "The Escape of Folly," and "Letters to an Old Garibaldian."
38) Critical Reviews
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Here is a collection of English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray's articles, reviews, essays, and sketches for magazines. This volume contains a range of critical reviews on literature and art, invaluable reading for anyone passionate about the arts.
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This 1860 sequel to the author's popular 1858 collection of essays, The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, continues the genial, conversational quality of its predecessor. In order to continue interest in a second volume, this book is much more aggressive in tone and thought. It questions aspects of religion, for which an apologia appears in the preface. The essays demonstrate Yankee Ingenuity – or, the self reliance displayed by early colonial settlers....
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The groundbreaking operas of Richard Wagner (1813—1883) changed the nature of the form. In Legends of the Wagner Drama, Weston examines the relationship of Wagner's grand operas-including Der Ring des Nibelungen, or the Ring cycle, and Parsifal-to the literary and legendary sources upon which they were founded.
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