Barnes Noble: 2826 books

Published in 1897, this autobiography of a bibliophile was praised by The New York Times as "entertaining" and "amusing." Hazlitt’s self expression through book collecting shows him to be a man embracing of the flow and change of literature through the fifty years he collected.

In these seven volumes, published in 1908, Justin McCarthy takes on the contemporary history of England with an unbiased yet unflinching eye. This politically moderate, even-tempered work is an ambitious yet brilliant piece of history. In the final volume McCarthy discusses the changes Britain underwent...

In these seven volumes, published in 1908, Justin McCarthy takes on the contemporary history of England with an unbiased yet unflinching eye. This politically moderate, even-tempered work is an ambitious yet brilliant piece of history. The fifth volume begins in 1880 with the New Liberal Administration,...

In this first of a three-volume work that focuses on England’s history during the author’s lifetime, Molesworth provides an interesting account of the Great Reform Struggle of 1831 and 1832, which introduced far-reaching changes to the electoral system. He begins his history here because the event...

Published in 1898, this volume traces the social, economic, and political concerns that led to the rise of Democracy in Great Britain. The author relates the origin and course of the Chartist movement, the Reform Acts of the latter 1800s, as well as the issues of labor legislation and foreign policy...

This five-volume history of modern England was published between 1904 and 1906. Regarded as a masterwork, The New York Times said of the series, “[Paul’s] work is brilliant, epigrammatic, interesting.” The final volume of Herbert W. Paul’s engrossing history picks up on June 8, 1885 and the defeat...

This five-volume history of modern England was published between 1904 and 1906. Regarded as a masterwork, The New York Times said of the series, “[Paul’s] work is brilliant, epigrammatic, interesting.” In this fourth volume, Paul continues the narrative in the year 1875 with “The Storm in the...

In these seven volumes, published in 1908, Justin McCarthy takes on the contemporary history of England with an unbiased yet unflinching eye. This politically moderate, even-tempered work is an ambitious yet brilliant piece of history. This sixth volume begins with the Colonial Federation in 1897 and ends with an important Parliamentary Session in 1899.

This useful 1890 work recounts the history of England from the end of the Napoleonic War in 1815 to the peace of Paris in 1856, following the Crimean War. A balanced yet honest six-volume history, it is Walpole’s masterpiece. Volume One starts in the dawn after Waterloo and explores the effects of the war; it ends with George III’s death in 1820 and the Battle of Bonnymuir.

Published in 1874, the third volume of Molesworth’s History of England begins with the retreat of the Russians from the Danubian provinces during the Crimean War. In lively prose, he covers all of the major historical events occurring in England and the British Empire in this time period such as the...

In these seven volumes, published in 1908, Justin McCarthy takes on the contemporary history of England with an unbiased yet unflinching eye. This politically moderate, even-tempered work is an ambitious yet brilliant piece of history. Volume three picks up in 1856 with The Lorcha “Arrow” incident, and ends with the death of Lord Palmerston in 1865.

This 1903 volume focuses on Irish novelists of the first half of the nineteenth century, more specifically, the extent to which their novels represent Irish national life and character. The book is divided into five chapters:  "Irish Society," "The Novelists of the Gentry," "The Novelists of the Peasantry," "Types and Typical Incidents," and "Literary Estimate."

This final volume brings us England, 1892-1914, according to the classic satirical magazine Punch. The author illustrates what the late Victorians and the Edwardians really thought about the passing of the old order, politics, capital and labor, education, the churches, the advance of women, inventions, fashion, and the arts, among other topics.

In Elizabethan times, the Master of Revels was originally charged with keeping politics and religion out of court entertainment. This 1913 history traces the institution of censorship through the reign of Charles II (1660-1685), when plays were banned for sexual content, through Georgian issues such as the battle over George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession.