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Author
Series
Publisher
Dodd Mead
Pub. Date
1893
Physical Desc
3 v.
Language
English
Description
The first novel of Trollope's six-part Palliser series, also known as the Parliamentary Novels, "Can You Forgive Her?" revolves primarily around the young Alice Vavasor, a woman who cannot decide which of two men to marry. While the respectable gentleman John Grey seems the wiser choice, his lack of ambition pales to her virulent and aspiring cousin George. She alternately accepts and rejects each man, only increasing the confusion she feels concerning...
Author
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Pub. Date
c1892
Edition
Standard library ed.
Physical Desc
x, 332 p. : ill., front. (port.) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This 1860 sequel to the author's popular 1858 collection of essays, The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, continues the genial, conversational quality of its predecessor. In order to continue interest in a second volume, this book is much more aggressive in tone and thought. It questions aspects of religion, for which an apologia appears in the preface. The essays demonstrate Yankee Ingenuity – or, the self reliance displayed by early colonial settlers....
5) Ninety-three
Author
Publisher
Caldwell
Pub. Date
n.d
Language
English
Description
Ninety-Three (1874) is the final novel of Victor Hugo. As a work of historical fiction, the story is set during the period of conflict between the newly formed French Republic and the Royalists who sought to reverse the gains of the revolution. Praised for its morality and honest depiction of the horrors of war, Ninety-Three influenced such wide-ranging political thinkers as Joseph Stalin and Ayn Rand. "The soldiers forced cautiously. Everything was...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
c1961, c1918
Physical Desc
xxiv, 517 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Many great artists have had at least intermittent doubts about their own abilities. But The Education of Henry Adams is surely one of the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority complex. The author, to be sure, had bigger shoes to fill than most of us. Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were U.S. presidents. His father, a relative underachiever, scraped by as a member of Congress and ambassador to the Court of St. James....
Author
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
c1895
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Out of the East came wonderful tales by a Westerner who loved the old Japan-devotion, ancestor worship, courtesy, and kindness-and record his feelings for the rest of the world to read. This collection of "reveries and studies," as author and legendary Japanologist Lafcadio Hearn subtitled Out of the East, contains unforgettable tales like "The Red Bridal," in which the conflict between duty and human feelings leads to tragedy in classically Japanese...
Author
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Pub. Date
c1893
Edition
Riverside ed.
Physical Desc
x, 442 p. : 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Posthumously published in 1864, The Maine Woods depicts Henry David Thoreau's experiences in the forests of Maine, and expands on the author's transcendental theories on the relation of humanity to Nature. On Mount Katahdin, he faces a primal, untamed Nature. Katahdin is a place "not even scarred by man, but it was a specimen of what God saw fit to make this world." In Maine he comes in contact with "rocks, trees, wind and solid earth" as though he...
Author
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
Pub. Date
1900
Edition
Haworth ed.
Physical Desc
xxxvi, 670 p. : illus. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Life of Charlotte Bronte, by Elizabeth Gaskell, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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• Biographies of the authors
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Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Company
Pub. Date
1906
Physical Desc
ix, 364 p. : front. (port.) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Published in 1870, this was the first full-length biography of Jane Austen. Written by her nephew, it is filled with loving family remembrances as well as details of social and domestic life in rural England. Austen-Leigh's biography is the most influential source on Austen scholarship outside of Austen's own writings.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1892, 1899
Edition
3rd ed.
Language
English
Description
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People (1892) is a novel by Israel Zangwill. Raised in London by parents from Latvia and Poland, Zangwill understood the plight of the city's Jewish community firsthand. Having risen through poverty to become an educator and author, he dedicated his career to the voiceless, the oppressed, and the needy, advocating for their rights and bearing witness to their suffering in some of the most powerful novels...