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Short collection of short pieces, including Phrases And Philosophies for the Use of The Young, Mrs. Langtry as Hester Grazebrook, Slaves of Fashion, Woman's Dress, More Radical Ideas upon Dress Reform, Costume, The American Invasion, Sermons in Stones at Bloomsbury, and L'Envoi. According to Wikipedia:...

Accounts of personal contacts with well-known authors. Chapters cover: Longfellow, Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Celia Thaxter, Whittier, and Tennyson According to Wikipedia: "Annie Adams Fields (June 6, 1834 January 5, 1915) was a United States writer.... Born in Boston,...

A collection of 16 pictures (in black and white) reproducing works by Donatello, the Della Robbia, Mino da Fiesoe, and others. According to Wikipedia: "Estelle May Hurll (18631924), a student of aesthetics, wrote a series of popular aesthetic analyses of art in the early twentieth century.Hurll...

The classic reference work, in an edition first published before 1923. As a Word document, the file is over 14,000 pages long. We have added over 6,000 links to help you navigate to the word you want. (Searching for a word would take you to any instance of that word in definitions, not the word you...

Classic novel. According to Wikipedia: "Rabindranath Tagore (May 1861 7 August 1941)was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature...

First published in 1918. According to the Preface: "In treating this movement of the Negroes, the writer does not presume to say the last word on the subject. The exodus of the Negroes from the South has just begun. The blacks have recently realized that they have freedom of body and they will...

Accounts of personal contacts with well-known authors. Chapters include: Thackeray, Hawthorne, Dickens, Wordsworth, and Miss Mitford. According to Wikipedia: "James Thomas Fields (December 31, 1817 April 24, 1881) was an American publisher and author." Husband of author Annie Fields.

Camillo Castello Branco por Silva Pinto e 21 livros por Camillo Castello Branco: AGRIMAS ABENÇOADAS, ROMANCE, 1853; FILHA DO ARCEDIAGO, 1854; ANNOS DE PROSA, ROMANCE; A GRATIDÃO, ROMANCE; O ARREPENDIMENTO, ROMANCE, 1858; CARLOTA ANGELA, ROMANCE ORIGINAL, 1858; O QUE FAZEM MULHERES, ROMANCE PHILOSOPHICO,...

Others of the series are: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, and Last Chronicle of Barset. According to Wikipedia: "Anthony Trollope ( 1815 1882 ) became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some...

This satiric classic begins: "The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:-- I am the individual destined to write that work--My vocation is announced in terms of great eloquence--I show that the world has been gradually preparing itself for...

Biographical sketches of Mrs. Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs. Opie, and Jane Austen, first published in 1883. According to Wikipedia: " Anne Isabella, Lady Ritchie, née Thackeray (9 June 1837 26 February 1919) was an English writer. She was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray.

11 black-and-white illustrations. Volume 10 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: "Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most Eminent Painters,...

36 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 7 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: "Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most...

64 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 9 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: "Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most...