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This 1904 volume is not only a meticulously researched history of book collecting but a guide for aspiring and more experienced collectors. Hazlitt discusses collectors of every walk of life, including Reverend Thomas Corser, The Chevalier D’Eon, Richard Heber, the Duke of Roxburghe, Thomas Grenville, George Daniel, Lord Spencer, and Henry Huth.

In a remarkable series of events, a nameless man strikes up a friendship with a young woman and—while with her—loses his memory from an electric shock. She takes him to her mother’s house where her mother realizes the man is the husband who left her twenty years earlier. As the title implies, there is a happy ending to this charming story.

“The City of Dreadful Night” paints a gritty, dark picture of a hot summer night within a walled city in the Orient. The narrator steps over sleeping people which mimic corpses—and vividly depicts what he sees, feels, and hears in this death-like city. Also included in this collection are “The...

Renowned poet A. E. Housman published only two volumes of poetry during his lifetime: A Shropshire Lad, for which he is best remembered, and the equally eloquent Last Poems (1922). Both collections explore many of the same themes. Housman introduced this book, “I publish these poems, few though they...

Based on the future President's diary from the Spanish-American War, this bestselling 1899 memoir abounds in scenes of patriotic valor and pointed observations on McKinley's War Department. Colonel Roosevelt presents a spirited chronicle of the First United States Volunteer Cavalry's bloody battles in Cuba against deeply entrenched Spanish forces.

“The art of war is of vital importance to the State,” writes General Sun Tzu at the outset of one of the most important military treatises ever written. Furthermore, he writes, war can lead to safety or ruin and must not be engaged in lightly—it is a matter of life and death. What follows is a...

Published in 1885, Maupassant’s second novel is the cynical yet witty story of sex, money and power during France’s corrupt Third Republic. George Duroy rises steadily from his Norman peasant origins, becoming a soldier in Algeria, and finally, a successful Parisian journalist. Christened “Bel-Ami”...

“Anglo-Saxon freedom is most simply and comprehensively stated in the phrase of Abraham Lincoln, ‘government of the people, by the people, and for the people.’” So writes James K. Hosmer in his introduction to this volume, an indispensable and comprehensive survey of the constitutional history of the English-speaking race through the year 1890.

This is Butler’s fourth book on his one-sided feud with Darwin wherein he again rejects Darwinism in favor of a neo-Lamarckian evolutionary view. While Butler was growing increasingly self-righteous and resentful over his belief that Darwin was deliberately hiding the truth about evolution, it was to be Butler’s last book on the subject.

When Harry Ormond—an orphan—is involved in a near-fatal shooting, he is sent away to live with his wealthy yet neglectful guardian’s kind cousin. Owning neither property nor a fortune, he’s determined to succeed. One of Edgeworth’s most famous novels, Ormond examines issues of moral development as it also looks at Ireland’s political future.

This engaging collection of stories, published in 1804, was intended not for polite society, but rather to inform and entertain everyday people. With her customary feel for character, lively dialogue, and straightforward style, Edgeworth pens tales that are as readable now as they were when first written....

H. D. Traill examines the life of Laurence Sterne, from his clergyman days to the scandals created by his comic and bawdy novel The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman.  This biography reveals a story about a man who discovered his literary talents late in life to become a man of notoriety and wealth.

Published in 1883, this biography of Sheridan is the sole volume in the English Men of Letters series written by a woman. Her portrait of the Irish politician, poet, and playwright sharply examines all eccentricities, both good and bad of the man who wrote the great comedy “The School for Scandal.” 

This 1890 biography of the English historian, politician, man of letters, and author of the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), is written in a light and anecdotal style—yet with sound literary judgment.  "Walpole has an almost perfect memoirist in Mr. Dobson," was the verdict of the New York Times.