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Howells wrote several captivating travel books, including Italian Journeys, Venetian Life, and Certain Delightful English Towns. Here, he turns his observant and sometimes critical eye to London, presenting a series of sketches of the city as if they were mental movies.

Basil and Isabel March first appeared in Howells’s Their Wedding Journey, which followed the newly married couple as they traveled to Niagara Falls on their honeymoon. Here, Howells returns to the March marriage as they revisit Hamburg, Carlsbad, Weimar, Leipzig, and Berlin—the cities of their youthful courtship.

Novelist W. L. George admires the novel because, among other things, “it expresses the mind of man, his pains that pass, his hopes that fade and are born again . . .” which all other book forms—history and economics, for example—fail to do. This collection of essays was controversial when published, as they deemed the English novel too prudish.

Issued after Brimley’s death, this fine collection of essays was offered as a memorial to the scholar, who had published all of the pieces save one anonymously in periodicals such as The Spectator and Frasier’s Magazine. Included are meditations on the works of literary giants such as Dickens, Carlyle, Tennyson, Thackeray, and Wordsworth.

This 1880 English Men of Letters volume focuses on the rock star of Romanticism.  "Byron's life was passed under the fierce light that beats upon an intellectual throne," writes Nichol.  "He succeeded in making himself—what he wished to be—the most notorious personality in the world of letters of our century."

Through A Century of Dishonor, Helen Hunt Jackson sought to galvanize the American nation against the United States federal government’s Native American treaty abuses. She combed the archives of the Astor Library in New York and studied the official reports of the War Department and the Department...

A classic children’s story, At the Back of the North Wind is an allegorical tale of life and death. One night young Diamond befriends the mysterious North Wind, who allows him to ride on her back all over the countryside, teaching him about herself—a powerful but mysterious entity—as well as death, love, and forgiveness.

This 1872 novel is justly one of MacDonald's most famous and beloved.  When goblins decide to kidnap the human princess Irene and bring her to their subterranean realm, one ordinary boy, a mineworker named Curdie, steps in to save the day – Irene eventually helps Curdie to “believe without seeing.”

In this 1873 short novel for children—by an author who influenced Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and many other fantasy writers—young Willie’s wise father, a doctor, lets his son learn by himself how to first work with his hands, then his mind. His resulting benefit Willie, his family, and the world at large.

In this 1883 sequel to the children’s classic The Princess and the Goblin (adapted by Jay Ward for Fractured Fairy Tales), Princess Irene and Curdie—with the help of Irene’s grandmother, a strange gift, and a monster named Lina—save Irene’s mysteriously ill father from a cabal of corrupt ministers.

This 1912 volume is divided between the three named poets in the title and a more general overview of English literature. Suddard includes here such essays as “The Evolution of Keats’s Mind,” “Shelley’s Transcendentalism,” and “The Blending of Prose, Blank Verse, and Rhymed Verse in Romeo and Juliet.”

Published in 1916, this volume—originally titled Why Men Fight—argues forcefully that societal stress on individual competition was instrumental in leading to World War I, and that the future progress of liberal democracy depends upon nurturing positive qualities of cooperation and creativity instead.

This influential 1921 scholarly work sounded a call for intellectual freedom, which the author believed to be under attack by authoritarian tendencies in the United States. The centuries-long gains in scientific knowledge needed to be brought to bear in overcoming growing social ills and the forces of...

Originally published in seven volumes from 1879 to 1928, this landmark work was lawfully available only to the medical and legal profession until 1935. In his studies, Ellis sought to demystify human sexuality by exploring it from both biological and multicultural perspectives. In this volume Ellis explores the subjects sexual modesty, sexual periodicity, and autoeroticism.