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Ripped from the headlines of her day, Mrs. Ward’s 1905 bestseller was based on the whirlwind lives of Britain’s rich and powerful. Distinguished statesman William Ashe falls in love with the “quite mad” Kitty Bristol, but their marriage fails to end her blazing jealousy over William’s old flame.

This early (1905) short novel is a gentle comedy of errors and manners. Ansolini, a down-and-out artist working in Paris as a carrier of advertising placards, falls for a woman whose face he does not see—but her kindness is unmistakable. His appreciation for her beautiful soul propels him to protect her against a malevolent suitor, without hopes of gaining her love.

Evelyn Innes tells the story of an opera singer raised in a devoutly Catholic family who is seduced by two men—a wealthy baronet who makes her famous, and later, an Irish composer (a thinly disguised version of William Butler Yeats). A priest tries to convince Evelyn, tired of life as a mistress, to renounce her career as an opera singer in favor of the religious life.

Moore wrote about The Lake that readers, “will learn how the Irish priest lives in single strictness, how he sometimes flies from it or takes to drink.” The novella concerns an Irish priest named Father Oliver Gogarty who is tormented by his unkind treatment of an unmarried pregnant woman who leaves...

This 1917 novel tells the tale of a handsome, struggling artist who carelessly manipulates women for his own advantage—including Lady Helen Seely, the rich and beautiful aristocrat whom he seduces and marries. The novel is a rewriting of Moore’s first novel, A Modern Lover, which was banned from...

Moore wrote ten plays, a number of them in connection with his involvement with the Irish Literary Theatre. Elizabeth Cooper was first performed in the Haymarket Theatre in London in 1913. That same year, Moore also adapted his groundbreaking novel Esther Waters as a play. Moore, who was notorious for...

Published in 1893, The Coast of Bohemia features a female art student as its protagonist. The scenery and feel of the book is said to have been inspired by Howells’s early experiences at Pfaff’s, a beer cellar in New York that drew artists, playwrights, and writers.

This 1914 book is a survey of Nietzsche’s views on topics such as valuation, individualism, and ego-sovereignty. Carus also gathers biographical information from Nietzsche’s close friend Paul Deussen and presents them alongside chapters on those with whom Nietzsche worked most closely. 

In this 1922 volume, the author applies his noteworthy psycho-critical methods to a study of Friedrich Nietzsche as exemplar of modern consciousness. At the time, the book was called “the standard short work on the subject.”

This 1898 biography of the great Russian writer and spiritual leader lays particular stress upon the latter part of Tolstoy's life, as well as the facets of his complex and often contradictory personality. 

In this 1921 volume, Mais helps readers sort through the glut of fiction in the modern world—reminding them that good fiction does exist. His survey of world literature finds much to admire in classic and contemporary fiction, and points to Tom Jones, Wuthering Heights, the works of Boswell, Pepys, Aldous Huxley, E. M. Forster, Montaigne, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and others.

"Critical writing could scarcely be more admirable than this," pronounced the New York Times in its review of this 1921 classic of literary criticism.  This immensely influential text examines such authors as Tolstoy, Flaubert, Thackeray, and James, with an eye toward the form rather than the content of storytelling. 

The first comprehensive history of the world, The Outline of History is a vibrant synthesis of real history, told in a sweeping, panoramic style, as if it were fiction. H. G. Wells removes nationalism from the equation, creating the premier worldview of history, told from a global rather than a local...

Two years after his towering two volumes of The Outline of History, Wells offered a brief 1922 version for the busy reader. Beginning with the Earth’s place in the universe and the earliest life forms, Wells conducts the reader through ancient and modern history, looking forward to the reconstruction of the world.