Charles Dudley Warner: 140 books

This is the first public meeting of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. The original members were selected by an invitation from the American Social Science Association, which acted under the power of its charter from the Congress of the United States. The members thus selected, who joined the...

The simple story of the life of Pocahontas is sufficiently romantic without the embellishments which have been wrought on it either by the vanity of Captain Smith or the natural pride of the descendants of this dusky princess who have been ennobled by the smallest rivulet of her red blood.

The title naturally suggested for this story was “A Dead Soul, ” but it was discarded because of the similarity to that of the famous novel by Nikolai Gogol— “Dead Souls”— though the motive has nothing in common with that used by the Russian novelist. Gogol exposed an extensive fraud practiced...

At the close of the war for the Union about five millions of negroes were added to the citizenship of the United States. By the census of 1890 this number had become over seven and a half millions. I use the word negro because the descriptive term black or colored is not determinative. There are many...

From near the beginning: "It was for an age of faith, for a people whose credulity was fed on such prodigies and whose imagination glowed at such wonderful portents, that Shakespeare wrote, weaving into the realities of sense those awful mysteries of the supernatural which hovered not far away from every Englishman of his time."

This 1897 literary history brings to life the world of the Elizabethan people: their habits, clothes, food, work, and play. Includes vivid descriptions of dining, hawking, and family life—and, of course, what people knew and thought about Shakespeare, his works, and the actors in his plays. This volume gives readers an entirely different perspective of Shakespeare.

This December evening, the imagination, by a law of contrast, recalls another December night two hundred and seventy years ago. The circle of darkness is drawn about a little group of Pilgrims who have come ashore on a sandy and inhospitable coast. On one side is a vexed and wintry sea, three thousand...

This edition features • two complete books • linked Tables of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS (abridged list) VOL. I ABÉLARD AND HÉLOISE (by Thomas Davidson) — 1079-1142 ACCADIAN-BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN LITERATURE (by Crawford H. Toy) ABIGAIL ADAMS ... VOL. II. HENRI FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL ANACREON — B.C. 562?-477 HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN ...

It was in the time of the Second Empire. To be exact, it was the night of the 18th of June, 1868; I remember the date, because, contrary to the astronomical theory of short nights at this season, this was the longest night I ever saw. It was the loveliest time of the year in Paris, when one was tempted...

The Drawer will still bet on the rose. This is not a wager, but only a strong expression of opinion. The rose will win. It does not look so now. To all appearances, this is the age of the chrysanthemum. What this gaudy flower will be, daily expanding and varying to suit the whim of fashion, no one can...