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This 1886 collection of public addresses by Lowell features nine speeches, including “Democracy,” a lecture given at Lowell’s assumption of the Presidency of the Birmingham and Midland Institute; “Books and Libraries,” given at the opening of the Free Public Library in Chelsea, Massachusetts;...

In this 1906 volume, Oman details the Peasant’s Revolt—a series of revolts in late medieval Europe and the most widespread rebellion in English history. Oman provides a detailed discussion of the state of England immediately preceding the rebellion, the outbreak and spread of the revolt, the suppression of the uprising by boy-king Richard II, and the aftermath.

This 1910 volume, written by Oman himself, was published in as part of larger series he edited--each volume written by a historical specialist with a very definite focus. Here the author covers the Celtic, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods of occupation. His narrative, primarily concerned with political and military history, is founded on deep research, but often reads as smoothly as fiction. 

Winston S. Churchill's A History of the English Speaking Peoples is the literary masterwork of the twentieth century's greatest historical figure. This volume begins with Marlborough's victory at Blenheim in 1704 and ends with Wellington's defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, as Churchill recounts...

In The Great Democracies, Winston Churchill makes his case for the unique and fundamental role the English-speaking people played in bringing economic progress and political freedom to the world at large. As a work of history, this volume covers the period from the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815...

Bertrand Russell’s Our Knowledge of the External World investigates the problem of perception from an analytic-philosophical perspective. Here the great British mathematician and philosopher gives a thoughtful exposition of his logically motivated epistemology and argues for a controversial solution...

The editor of this 1898 anthology asserts that prose is the natural form of American expression. He proves his thesis with a collection of classic writings by Cotton Mather, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and more—with commentary by George Santayana, William Dean Howells, among others.

Here is the story of Black Mose, who exemplifies the courageous, self-reliant cowboy who heads to the mountains to escape a confining and guilt-ridden past for freedom in the untamed west. Garland based this engrossing Western on the lives of his playmates in Iowa, many of whom hoped to run away to become scouts or cowboys.

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. H. L. Mencken presents master styling in A Book of Prefaces (1917), Damn! (1918), and The American Credo (1920). Prefaces is a book of literary criticism containing the essays "Joseph Conrad," "Theodore Dreiser," "James...

This 1914 collection of essays on authors as diverse as Mark Twain, Henry James , and Edith Wharton was written in protest against what the author termed the "machine-made" and "soulless" American literature of his day, in order to, as he says in his introduction, "stimulate our racial sense of ultimate destiny in the world of thought and literature."

Wharton’s 1901-04 travels yielded nine ruminations about Italy, its culture, and the art of being a perceptive visitor. Includes “An Alpine Posting-Inn,” “A Midsummer Week's Dream,” “The Sanctuaries of the Pennine Alps,” “What the Hermits Saw,” “A Tuscan Shrine,” “Sub Umbra Liliorum,” “March in Italy,” and “Picturesque Milan.”

Charles Dickens wrote short stories and essays that are comical, satirical, and morally earnest. This collection of over thirty of Dickens’s stories and essays is an invaluable addition to the library of all fans and students of the preeminent Victorian-era writer. The volume includes “The Lamplighter,”...

A collection of fourteen essays by the distinguished critic Edward Dowden, Essays Modern and Elizabethan reflects Dowden’s passion for literature and his expertise with Shakespeare. In these essays, exemplars of literary criticism, Dowden examines the work of Henrik Ibsen, Heinrich Heine, Goethe, and Shakespeare, among others, as well as elements of Elizabethan literature.

This 1893 study of eighteenth-century English literature was the first major study of the early origins of the Romantic movement from 1700 to 1765. The author defines Romanticism, considers the literature and spirit of the age, and examines the revival of things past: the Gothic, chivalry, ballads, Northern mythology, Welsh poetry, as well as the works of Spenser and Milton.