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Edited by his son Leonard, this is an engrossing look at the life of Thomas H. Huxley through his own eloquently written letters. The volume is an invaluable resource for any student of Huxley or the history of zoology. Huxley, an advocate of Darwin’s theory of evolution, made countless lasting contributions to science through his own careful methodology and high standards for research.

Barrie’s best-known character is a boy who never grows old. But Sentimental Tommy, published in 1896, traces with a whimsical touch the life of a man who grows old, but clings to his childhood ways as the story follows him from the age of five until his young manhood.

J. M. Barrie wrote plays to promote support for the “war to end all wars.” Yet they are not plays about war, but rather about parents and the children they send off to war. Though intended to foster support for WWI, from today’s vantage point they can just as easily be interpreted as anti-war. In this play, two old ladies and a criminal sit down to tea to discuss war.

In what is considered Sand’s masterpiece, a gifted gypsy singer, Consuelo, climbs above her humble beginnings and becomes the Prima Donna in Venice. Consuelo’s talent and artistry is admired by all, and leads to passionate love affairs and adventures across Europe. An emotional rollercoaster, Consuelo has many choices to make throughout her love life and career.

A book brimming with discriminating observations, humor, and delicate prose—this 1867 account of Lowell’s first trip to Europe in 1850 includes “Cambridge Thirty Years Ago,” “Moosehead Journal,” and “Leaves from My Journal in Italy.”

Published in 1842, this swashbuckling sea adventure and romance stands as one of Cooper’s overlooked masterpieces.  Set in 1799, the novel pits a dashing French pirate, Raoul Yvard, and his American sailing master, Ithuel Bolt, against the British navy, with the intention not only to defeat them, but also to find love.

Pivoting on the attempts by Dutch merchants and American sailors to evade the taxes of the corrupt British government, The Water-Witch is almost prophetic as Cooper depicts the politics that led to the Revolution. The vivacious Alida de Barberie and her colorful crew make this one of Cooper’s most beguiling tales.  

Gustave Flaubert considered The Temptation of St. Anthony his masterpiece. He worked on it for thirty years and published the final version in 1874. In the book, Flaubert portrays a single, terrifying night in the life of St. Anthony the Great, an early Christian saint and ascetic, during which he faced...

The author of Madame Bovary counted among his correspondents Theophile Gautier, Emile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, ­­­­­and his close friend George Sand (Amantine Dupin). These letters, mostly from the latter half of the great writer’s life, offer unique glimpses into Flaubert’s emotions, relationships,...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Scarcely more than a century after Jules Verne published one of the most enduring and captivating novels of the nineteenth century in 1865-From the Earth to the Moon-Apollo 8 circled the moon on Christmas Eve in 1968...

Fathers and Children is Turgenev’s best known work and possibly the first truly modern Russian novel. Yevgeny Bazarov, a young medical student and nihilist, challenges the old order of his father’s generation, rejecting any authority or faith not based on science and experience. When Yevegeny falls...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. First Love captures both the exhilarating enchantment of adolescent infatuation and the exquisite torment of adult passion. Written by Ivan Turgenev, one of the masters of Russian literature, First Love tells the story...

Written in 1850, The Diary of a Superfluous Man is Turgenev’s novella in the form of the diary of a dying man. With two weeks to live, Tchulkaturin takes stock of his life only to discover how purposeless, loveless, and futile it has been. The other stories in this collection are “Three Portraits,”...

“It may be said at once that this is the best novel Mr. Sinclair has yet written—so much the best that it stands in a class by itself”—The New York Times, lauding this 1913 work about “a much-discussed theme.” Sylvia, a flirtatious socialite, is forced into marriage, only to discover the perils of sexually transmitted disease.