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Louis-Joseph de Montcalm (1712-1759) was the French commander in Canada during the Seven Years’ War with England (also called the French and Indian War). James Wolfe (1727-1759) was the opposing British general who won the conflict. This vivid history of their clash is the final volume of Francis Parkman’s seven-volume France and England in North America.

Louis-Joseph de Montcalm (1712-1759) was the French commander in Canada during the Seven Years’ War with England (also called the French and Indian War). James Wolfe (1727-1759) was the opposing British general who won the conflict. This vivid history of their clash is the final volume of Francis Parkman’s seven-volume France and England in North America.

A black comedy brimming with absurd plot twists, The Wrong Box is a farcical romp through the misadventures of Morris and John Finsbury. The brothers attempt to collect money in a financial scheme that has gone awry. The survivor of the tontine will receive a large fortune—but only if he can keep dead...

Subtitled “A Study of Principles and Personality,” this 1909 critical study of fiction views its subjects in light of romantic and realistic movements. The author offers critical essays on Richardson, Fielding, Scott, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Stevenson, and others—as well as chapters on the literary contributions of France and America.

The New York Times described this 1899 volume as containing “a large amount of fascinating material about book auctions, book catalogues, lucky finds, hunting grounds, vagaries of collectors, comparisons of pricing, rules of the chase, glamour of bindings, and the auction block.” An authoritative yet gossipy discussion on the topic of book collecting.

This 1899 collection includes the eponymous "A Paladin of Philanthropy," about the eccentric figure of Sir James Oglethorpe (1696-1785), British general and MP, philanthropist, social reformer, and founder of the colony of Georgia. Also included are pieces on Oliver Goldsmith's poems and plays, John Gay, and Boswell's literary predecessors.

The exquisite artwork embellishing bookplates has delighted and intrigued collectors all over the world. Strikingly beautiful, they have a fascinating history involving engravers, illustrators, printers, and collectors. In this handy volume, author William John Hardy presents an engaging history of the bookplate, examining bookplate designs, styles, and artists from all over the world.

This 1910 collection of essays on literature, history, and culture by the distinguished English poet includes the title essay as well as “Percy and Goldsmith,” “Mr. Craddock of Gumley,” “Sir John Hawkins, Knight,” “Laureate Whitehead,” “Lyttleton as a Man of Letters,” “Chambers the Architect,” “The Oxford Thackeray,” and others.

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.  Abduction at sea, a domineering captain, a mutinous crew, and a daring escape make Jack London’s The Sea Wolf thrilling seafaring literature.  In the novel, Humphrey Van Weyden, the cultured but frail literary critic,...

Second mate William Lee narrates this spellbinding tale of a captain’s madness, a woman’s devotion, a shipwreck, and a dangerous escape from an island. Of this 1880 novel—about the doomed voyage of the sailing ship Waldershare—the author maintained “There is not an incident that is not true.” Some events he depicts he experienced himself.

Multi-eyed protoplasmic entities, flesh-eating ghouls, animate corpses, time-traveling body snatchers, and, yes, huge albino penguins. These are some of the bizarre creatures that populate the universe created by American horror author H. P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft has influenced many of today’s most...

The first scholarly account of the full range of English musical achievements, The History of English Music focuses on the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, which Davey considered the golden age of English music. In this book, he claims that the earliest known free instrumental compositions,...

This 1895 volume visits the literary haunts and homes of such American writers as Thoreau, Emerson, Alcott, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whitman, and many, many more. The author spent months visiting the places he writes about in this volume, the influence of these places upon their occupants is made clear...

Writer, critic, and transcendentalist Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was a pioneering feminist. This 1883 biography by a social activist famous in her own right gives us Fuller’s childhood, the writing of her groundbreaking Woman in the Nineteenth Century, her work as an early female newspaper correspondent, and her role in Italy’s revolution.