Barnes Noble imprint: 2826 books

This 1922 collection of acute literary essays includes pieces on Nietzsche, Ibsen, Conrad, Crane, Frost, and others.  The sensibility informing this volume may be inferred from the following, taken from Garnett's preface: "The publisher's reader knows what literary success signifies:  he has no need to cultivate his sense of irony."

Literary dreamers, wanderers, bohemians, rebels, and romantics are the subject of this 1906 critical study. Some of their journeys took a physical direction, some an intellectual, and some, both. Studies of those who embody Rickett’s definition of “vagabond” include William Hazlitt, Thomas De Quincy,...

This significant biography of the poet John Keats (1795–1821), is part of the highly respected English Men of Letters series. Keats is best known for his six great odes, and although his poems were not well received during his lifetime, they are now considered among the finest in the English language.

In this 1897 novel, Bertram is a man of wealth and rank. After falling in love with a poor laundress, Annie Brown, he discovers the impossibility of living by his socialistic ideals.

This somewhat scandalous 1897 novel brought Ouida her last fleeting success; afterward, she sank into a poverty and illness from which she never emerged.  It focuses on the upper classes, and is as much a work of social satire as it is a lurid celebration of eccentricity and excess.

The novelist G. K. Chesterton remarked of this 1900 novel, "Though it is impossible not to smile at Ouida, it is equally impossible not to read her."  The river Edera runs through bucolic farmland outside of Rome.  When a plan arises to dam the river for a hydroelectric plant, the local farmers and peasants violently resist.

This 1908 novel was only partially completed at the time of the author's death; the final chapters were published unrevised. Set contemporaneously in a fictionalized Italy called Helianthus, it tells of the efforts of a young prince of that country to introduce democracy—and the backlash from his family.

This best-selling 1867 novel features Bertie Cecil, heir to a vast fortune, who fakes his death, flees to Algeria, and enlists in the Foreign Legion to protect the honor of his mistress.  There his emotions are rekindled by two women, one a princess, the other a cross-dressing soldier. 

In this novel about English society, published in 1887, Lord Usk’s wife has decided to throw a party, inviting guests who she believes will enjoy each other’s company—ignoring society’s rules about inviting company. Ouida uses the story to display her thoughts on society as it is, and on how it should be.

This 1867 collection contains:  "Little Grand and the Marchioness," "Lady Marabout's Troubles," "A Study a la Louis Quinze," "'Deadly Dash,'" "The General's Match-making," "The Story of a Crayon-head," "The Beauty of Vicq d'Azyr," "A Study a la Louis Quatorze," "A Line in the 'Daily,'" "Vitz's Election," "'Redeemed,'" "The Marquis's Tactics," and "Sir Galahad's Raid."

Passion, imagination, and poetry mingle in this study of love and temperaments, featuring aristocratic characters. Lord Guilderoy falls madly in love and marries, but soon he tires of his wife and returns to an old flame. A fascinating character, he ultimately must be forgiven by one woman and forgotten by another. Oscar Wilde said, “It is a resplendent picture of our aristocracy.”

This is a 1917 study of "New Poetry"—a movement created by the “welding together of the whole country which the war has brought about.” Included are chapters on Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Edgar Lee Masters and Carl Sandburg, as well as the Imagist poets H. D. and John Gould Fletcher, accompanied by selections of their poems and close critical analyses by Lowell.

A volume in the Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans series, the New York Times described this 1901 biography of "our first American novelist of any real note" as "very interesting," and praised especially the author's account of Cooper's "controversies and final victories." Clymer’s respect for Cooper is as clear as his descriptions of Cooper’s life and work.

Almost one hundred years after the death of Jane Austen, William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh published Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters.  A Family Record (1913).  The book lovingly details Jane’s birth, childhood, adolescence, and maturity; the everyday minutiae of her life, the...