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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.  [T]he first true and correctly proportioned presentation of Platonism that has been given to the general reader."-Paul ShoreyThrough his idiosyncratic presentation of Plato, Pater offers us an account of a peculiarly...

James’ plays The Album and The Reprobate were never produced, so he published them in book form in 1895 as the second volume of his Theatricals (1894-5). The Album, which turns on the inheritance of a country house outside London, includes an heir, a long-missing potential rival, and three women...

This 1895 novel represents Zangwill's rejection of the "art for art's sake" philosophy.  In this story, the protagonist, a talented young artist, sacrifices everything for art, only to be become increasingly unhappy and isolated. 

A deft political fraud, riding the currents of public opinion and exploiting patriotic feelings, leads his country into war in this 1901 satire. Zangwill, a friend of H. G. Wells, takes on questions of democracy and imperialism in a story praised by critics for capturing the political atmosphere of his times.

Though the term “bluestocking” today connotes a female intellectual, the literary Blue-Stocking Society established by Elizabeth Montagu in the 1750s included highly educated members of both sexes, including Queen Charlotte, Fanny Burney, and Elizabeth Carter as well as Edmund Burke and Samuel Johnson. Many leading minds and ideas of the age are profiled in this 1910 survey.

“To Paris and Prison” is the second volume of the seductive Casanova’s memoirs. Here is his deep and devoted relationship with Henriette; after she leaves, however, “Bravois lures me back to my Former way of living.” Casanova travels to Paris, Vienna, and Venice, leaving a trail of scandal...

This 1876 novel is set in the fictional Italian city of Floralia—a transparent stand-in for Florence.  Ouida was a sometime resident of the city, and her knowledge of that peculiar Italy (home to English expatriates) gives her potboiler plot a distinct authenticity—and a storyline which features the beautiful but emotionally austere heroine Lady Hilda.

In his preface to this 1917 guide to gathering, handling, and writing news stories, the author notes that the purpose of his work is to give aspiring reporters practical guidance for their duties and performance as journalists. Spencer’s book is interesting from an historical point of view, but it...

This collection of tales set in the Hawaiian islands, published in 1912, contains some of London's most popular stories, including "The House of Pride," "Koloau the Leper" and "The Sheriff of Kona."  London's love for Hawaii and its people, as well as his first-hand knowledge of the islands and their history, informs these tales.

“To read him is to be constantly delighted.” So reads the New York Times review of Afoot in England, W. H. Hudson’s account of his rambles through rural England. In these vignettes, the renowned naturalist shows that he is a keen student of the human being, as well as of the animals and birds he loves so much.

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Baruch Spinoza places freedom as the ultimate aim and central value of the life well lived. His philosophy is marked by the most thorough going naturalism of any of its period, so much so that a number of its central...

Just before his death, the popular American biographer completed the tumultuous life story of America’s seventh President, in all its color and scope. Here are Old Hickory’s childhood, education, law career, duels, military battles, and political campaigns. Parton covers Jackson’s nation-shaping...

Attempting to tell the whole truth of the matter in a fair way, Davis studies the politics, history, and economics of the Union Pacific Railway in this 1894 volume. He discusses the early unachieved projects, issues which kept the railway from being built, the national push for construction, and the...

Published in 1922, this study of President Andrew Jackson and his times was Bowers's first popular success. He strongly defended Jackson's accomplishments as seventh president of the United States and believed Jackson started the Democratic Party.