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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Written in the spirit of his father Theodore Roosevelt's wilderness books, The Happy Hunting Grounds is a collection of hunting stories, some of which recount the expeditions Kermit took with his father. Theodore once...

Alfred North Whitehead’s Introduction to Mathematics is one of the most charming books ever written about the queen of the sciences. It gives a delightful and intellectually stimulating exposition of mathematical concepts, the history of their development, and the application thereof. Written with...

This influential 1916 collection of essays, many gathered for the first time in English, includes Jung’s writings and letters on character, the unconscious, childhood, creativity, the occult, mysticism, somnambulism, hysteria, association, dreams (including number dreams), rumors, the father, psychoses,...

During World War I, acclaimed author Rudyard Kipling visited the Western Front as a reporter and wrote about his experiences in France at War. These thoughtful pieces are ideal for history buffs and all the more compelling because Kipling’s only son, John, was killed in the war at the Battle of Loos.

Published in 1920, this impressionistic first novel by the celebrated author of the U. S. A. Trilogy is a harrowing portrait of ambulance drivers in France during World War I.  Based on the author's own wartime experiences, it is deeply felt but never maudlin, capturing the raw ambiguities of war with unflinching honesty. 

Published in 1917, this was the first volume in Richardson's trilogy, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony.  Dr. Richard Townshend-Mahony—a character based on Richardson's father—has come to Australia in search of gold, but finds instead love, marriage, and disillusionment. 

This 1902 collection of papers is described by its author as having unique subjects, away from “the glitter and bustle of the more-frequented promenades of letters.” Included are "Dr. Johnson's Haunts and Habitations," "Titled Authors of the Eighteenth Century," "A Walk from Fulham to Chiswick," and "'Vader Cats,'" among others.

Between projects, the distinguished English poet dipped into his notebooks in 1917 to offer this “commonplace book of a journeyman of letters.” Includes “Literature and Life,” “True Learning,” “Catholicity in Taste,” “His Greek Models,” “An Aphorism for Critics,” “Petty Criticism,”...

In his 1910 preface Alfred Russel Wallace writes that his book, subtitled “A Manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and Ultimate Purpose,” is a half-century of thought on evolution, covering plant life, geological formations, natural selection and, finally (going a step further than Darwin),...

A compelling life story and shrewd analysis of King George III, who ascended the throne with his mother’s advice, “Be King, George” ringing in his ears. His scheming belied his nickname, “Farmer George;” this was a name George was given by satirists—a tribute to his seeming simple mindedness, but later George used the name to identify himself with the people.

George III (1738-1820) was on the throne when England lost its American colonies and when it defeated Napoleon. Jesse, an influential British historian, sketches here the monarch’s life and times, from childhood and marriage through political struggles and mental illness—a story enlivened by the...

In this 1919 volume, the final installment in a pioneering trilogy that began with The Village Labourer (1911) and continued in The Town Labourer (1917), the authors focus on the obsolescence of skilled labor in the face of technological change during the Industrial Revolution.  As in the previous two works, the Hammonds view their subject through a lens of class exploitation.

A leading French scholar tells of his extraordinary life in this 1883 memoir. Born to a family of fishermen, Renan was educated at the ecclesiastical seminary in his home town; developed a questioning mind and a passion for philosophy, Catholicism, and mathematics; helped define the modern notion of nationhood; and published his controversial Life of Jesus.

A fascinating figure for historians, Thomas Wolsey (1471?-1530), the English cardinal and statesman, had a mind that, in the author’s estimation, “was the mastermind of the age” and who “for a time held the destinies of Europe in his hand.” This engrossing biography illuminates Wolsey’s life, philosophy, accomplishments, and devotion to King Henry VIII.