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Written while was Hearn was a professor of English literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo, A Japanese Miscellany (1901) contains three sections: “Strange Stories,””Folklore Gleanings,”(with its beautiful dragonfly illustrations), and “Studies Here and There,” which looks at unusual...

Hearn collects seventeen Japanese ghost stories (and a few nonfiction pieces about insects) in this 1903 volume. While most of these stories are translations from older texts, one was the first printed recording of a Japanese farmer’s tale and a few others are Hearn originals. Included are accounts...

Published posthumously in 1904, this masterful volume focuses on religion, from its early expression as ancestor worship, through more sophisticated native evolutions and foreign admixtures, as the prime shaper of Japanese culture.  The most influential single account of Japan written by a Westerner...

This is an omnibus edition of two early Hearn collections—*Stray Leaves from Strange Literature* (1884) and Fantastics and Other Fancies (published posthumously in 1914). The collections contain some of Hearn's first published works, pieces of journalism, sketches, and ghost stories that appeared in the New Orleans newspaper the Daily Item. 

Published posthumously in 1905, this book contains some of Hearn’s uncollected workand is a charming interpretation of Japanese culture. In “The Romance of the Milky Way,” Hearn examines the stories behind the age-old Tanabata festival. “Goblins” discusses poetry and some supernatural subjects...

An authoritative biography of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest medieval English poet, this volume is a remarkable portrait of the poet and the events that shaped him. Legouis examines Chaucer’s life, the relationship of his work to his times—it also studies the sources and composition of Chaucer’s masterpiece The Canterbury Tales.

Brill, who largely introduced psychoanalysis to America, published in volume in 1921. Drawn from his lectures, but designed for the general reader and student, the book employs straightforward prose to cover subjects such as the cathartic method, the psychology of forgetting, wit, dreams and their types, insanity, the only child, fairy tales, art, and the psychopathology of everyday life.

Published in 1901, this guidebook was intended to place "before teachers and others who have to do with children some facts concerning the bodily and mental lives of children."  In the form of notes, Thorndike discusses topics such as “The Physical Growth of Children,” “Learned Reactions,” “The Emotional Life of Children,” and “Adolescence.”

Lowell begins this volume of essays with a charming “Apology for a Preface.” The bulk of the book discusses English poets:  Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Milton, William Wordsworth, and John Keats. The author then turns his eye to the German writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing as well as French-born Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Sentimentalists.

Seven years before Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scout movement, Edward Harold Begbie published this biography (1900). Begbie focuses on phases of Baden-Powell’s life as a citizen as well as a soldier and hero of the Boer War—declaring him a suitable role model for young male readers.  

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is generally acknowledged as the finest satirical writer in the English language, and it is no exaggeration to say, as Harold Bloom does, that he is likely the most “savage and merciless...

This 1877 volume contains one of Arnold's most scathing attacks on the established church, "The Church of England." He berates the clergy for championing the interests of the wealthy and powerful and neglecting the poor and downtrodden.  The essay was originally delivered as an address to the London clergy.

In 1870, a great American educator set down in print the advice he had often given to students. He teaches how to read critically but with appreciation, the topics of history, Christian literature, fiction, biography, poetry, criticism, science, religion, and news. Includes advice on starting and maintaining a library, as well as a list of recommended reading.

Literature and religion are “old and dear companions . . . not always agreeing, to be sure,” asserts the author. Drawing examples from a time of religious upheaval and transition, he examines such English-language masters as Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Austen, Poe, Scott, Mill, Darwin, Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontës, Hawthorne, Eliot, Stevenson, and many others.