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From Aaron’s Tomb in Arabia Petraea to the Zwinger building in Dresden, this charming 1881 handbook brims with the names of celebrated statues, paintings, ruins, churches, ships, streets, clubs, natural curiosities, and more. Utterly addictive and entertaining, Familiar Allusions is so informative that it’s sure to enlighten any history buff.

This 1900 collection features Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, a remarkable work of disturbing gothic fiction which influenced science fiction’s development as well as the work of Jules Verne and Herman Melville.  The tale follows a young boy, Pym, and his friend, Augustus,...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Signs and Seasons reminds Americans about the virtues of a simple lifestyle.  Enjoyed by everyone from schoolchildren to presidents, John Burroughs’ casual, entertaining style made him one of the first great nature...

Jane Austen wrote the delightfully silly Love and Freindship and Other Early Works in her teenage years to entertain her family. With its endearingly misspelled title, the collection of brief experimental sketches reveals the making of one of the best-loved authors of British literature.In "Love and...

In the 18th and 19th centuries, Devonshire House in Piccadilly, London, was the center of the universe for entertainment, culture, fashion, and politics. This period of English history, captured in this 1916 work, boasts a cast of characters that includes Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire; Horace Walpole, Dr. Johnson, George III, Edward Gibbon, and many more.

As the Great War raged, Veblen, a leading thinker of his day, pondered just what it would take to create a peaceful world, and what such a world might look like. Veblen’s answer (1917) included a league of peaceful and democratic nations, and the neutralization of Germany as a future military threat.

This 1921 biography of the controversial French poet was the first English monograph on the subject.  Nicolson not only reveals Verlaine through his poetry and his relationships, including his infamous affair with Rimbaud, but uses Verlaine as a kind of lens through which to observe what he calls "the currents and cross-currents which swayed French poetry."

This 1913 volume traces the influence of the poet Charles Baudelaire in England and France. The author claims that without Baudelaire, “the world would in some way, great or small, have been other than it is.” The book is divided into seven parts: “Development of the Baudelairian Spirit,” “Baudelaire,”...

Originally published as The Early Italian Poets in 1861, this book is full of Rossetti’s beautiful translations from the original Italian of Dante Alighieri. The first section treats Dante’s “La Vita Nuova” and other poems, as well as poems by Dante’s close friends, such as Guido Cavalcanti and Cino da Pistoia. The second section covers many important poets preceding Dante.

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Bertrand Russell’s Our Knowledge of the External World investigates the problem of perception from an analytic-philosophical perspective. Here the great British mathematician and philosopher gives a thoughtful exposition...

One of the most interesting features of A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge is the symbiosis between a radical empiricism and a bold and uncompromising idealism. An artful combination of analytical rigor and unfettered speculation, of crystal-like precision of language and winged...

Published in 1920, this collection of essays and lectures features Santayana's impressions of American national character. He discusses topics, such as morality, academia, materialism, idealism, and liberty – as well as people, such as William James and Josiah Royce.  "There is much forgetfulness,"...

Published in 1912, this collection of seven essays sets out Royce's own religious views on such topics as "The Religious Problem and the Human Individual," "Individual and Social Experience as Sources of Religious Insight," "The World and the Will," and "The Religious Mission of Sorrow."  The New York Times called it "vital and intelligible."

In the preface to this 1918 work, Hocking writes that the object of the book is the quest for the principles of educating, civilizing, converting, and ultimately saving the human being through a new method of philosophical and religious interpretation.  He explores the notions of human instinct, will,...