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This 1848 collection of conversational essays includes "A Moosehead Journal," "Cambridge Thirty Years Ago," "Leaves from My Journal in Italy and Elsewhere," "Emerson the Lecturer," and more. 

Narrated by Huck Finn himself, this 1896 sequel to Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Tom Sawyer Abroad finds the friends solving a murder case, in a send-up of the detective story that includes a rousing courthouse speech by Tom. One of his most popular stories during his lifetime, Twain claimed he based...

Mark Twain loved to place American characters—forthright, ingenious, but sometimes naive—in exotic locales, just to see what madcap results might ensue. In this sequel to Tom Sawyer, Tom and his pals Huck Finn and Jim travel via balloon to Africa, where they run up against robbers, lions, and some particularly fearsome fleas.

This 1914 volume, "a simple record of happy and memorable hours spent in the company of favourite books, and a tribute of gratitude to their authors," contains the chapters "The Birth of a Book-Lover," "In Green Pastures," "Beside Still Waters," "In a Brown Study," and "The Peter Pan of Bookland," among others. 

This biography of the American poet and essayist Louise Imogen Guiney, written by her close friend, was published a year after the death of its subject.  A contemporary review in the New York Times called the book "the most noteworthy appreciation of one poet by another since Francis Thompson's memorable essay on Shelley." 

Originally published in 1878, this semi-autobiographical sketch by the eminent Victorian critic pioneered a new genre of writing: eschewing dialogue and traditional plotline, it is an impressionistic psychological portrait of a young man named Florian Deleal. It evokes the sights and sounds of the author’s philistine childhood home.

Hawthorne’s son Julian edited and published his father’s last, unfinished novel—“undress rehearsals”—in 1882. A story involving the narrator, an archetypal mad scientist, a lovely young woman, and a sexy maid creates a real science-fiction type romance. A New England setting and a Gothic theme give the novel a feeling of completeness, despite its lack of a true end.

Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy has been a seminal work for more than nine decades. It gives the general background necessary for any serious discussion on the foundational crisis of mathematics in the beginning of the twentieth century. Requiring neither prior knowledge of mathematics...

This 1917 volume outlines the evolution of Russell's political thought, arguing that human dignity and creativity must be championed against the repressive forces of concentrated power, whether political, economic, or social. His four main goals are maximum production and progress, justice, keeping destitution at bay, and liberating creativity.

Published in 1916, in the midst of World War I, this courageous book dared to question contemporary patriotic shibboleths.  But more than just an angry response to the barbarity of a particular war, Russell's book probes deeply into the causes of war, when it is justified, and the prospects for avoiding it.

Sir Isaac is dogmatically opposed to women getting the vote. His young wife, Ellen, sees things differently. She declares herself a suffragette, breaking a shop window during a protest because she finds time in jail preferable to life with her husband. Wells’s 1914 novel is one of his most successful social comedies.

Mr. Hoopdriver, an unhappy draper’s assistant, takes a ten-day holiday: a bicycle tour of the English countryside. His repeated encounters with a pretty young woman cyclist in bloomers leads to flights of fancy that make this not only one of Well’s funniest novels but also gives an early glimpse...

Published in 1919, this volume is a change of pace from an author best known for his classic ghost stories.  It is a history of the transmission of manuscripts from one area, culture, or age, to another.  The author's moral:  "Be inquisitive.  See books for yourself; do not trust that the cataloguer has told you everything."  

This beautiful collectible edition presents three novels from one of the most beloved American authors: Louisa May Alcott. It includes her most famous and cherished classic, Little Women, about the lives of four sisters in Civil War–era America, as well as its sequels, Little Men and Jo’s Boys.