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Hudson’s classic travel memoir recalls the achievement of a lifelong dream: to visit Patagonia. His adventure in this remote region fulfilled not only a private dream, but also a scientific mission, mainly focused on his ornithological interests. This extraordinary narrative of his year-long visit combines history, nature, reflection, and anecdotes about local life.

This 1888 volume showcased Butler's encyclopedic knowledge of the art of Northern Italy and helped acquaint a wide English readership with the art of Tabachetti and Gaudenzio Ferrari at Varallo.

This absorbing 1915 biography, written in a brisk conversational style, was penned by the influential English poet as he contemplated enlisting in the Great War. Thomas covers the life and times of John Churchill, the First Duke of Malrborough (1650-1722), whose career spanned five monarchs, and who fell from grace during the political battles of Tory versus Whig.

Originally given as a lecture at the Royal Institution, The Chemical History of a Candle is one of the most popular and widely distributed works of popular science ever written. A remarkably clear and beautifully organized explication of Victorian chemistry and physics, it has gone through myriad editions...

A scholarly review of the beginning, development, and current status of fiction, this conversational 1916 book spans two centuries of literary development. Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, the eighteenth century, and the Romantic Revival are all discussed here, as well as the Victorians—with...

This 1915 edition of Carlyle’s essays collects “Boswell’s Life of Johnson,” “On History,” “Two Hundred and Fifty Years Ago,” “Chartism,” “The Opera,” “Petition on the Copyright Bill,” and six others.

Culled from lectures delivered at Oxford from 1883-1885, this collection of Ruskin’s critiques of the overall condition of England’s artistic life, past and present, is divided into two sections. The “Art” lectures deal with three traditions of art:  the Realistic, the Mythic and the Classic....

Part of the highly regarded English Men of Letters series, Sidney Colvin’s biography examines the life and work of English writer and poet Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864). Landor is best remembered for his work Imaginary Conversations, which envisions conversations between figures from classical Greece and Rome, poets and authors, statesmen and women, and other individuals.

This 1895 volume visits the lesser-known literary haunts of such British writers as Dickens, Chaucer, Pope, Keats, Shakespeare, Carlyle, Byron, Eliot, the Brontës, and many, many more. Locations include places which inspired a particular author as well as spots shared by multiple groups such as Highgate, Lord Byron’s tomb, Gray’s country churchyard, Gad’s Hill, childhood homes, and more.

Think you know cats? Here is the domesticated feline in history, folklore, art, theater, fiction, poetry, music, the law, and even the occult. The author includes a list of more than 300 references to cats in literature, from the British Medical Journal and Darwin to Baudelaire and Mark Twain. A classic in the genre.

Renowned literary critic and prose stylist Lytton Strachey republished some of his numerous literary essays in this volume. Here are fifteen of them examining the works of French and English authors, including Racine, Sir Thomas Browne, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Blake, among others.

James published this work of collected literary criticism in 1914, with the individual pieces drawn from the preceding two decades. James discusses Robert Louis Stevenson, Gustave Flaubert, George Sand, and others. It is on these essays, as well as the introductions to his own collected works, that James's reputation as one of the most acute literary critics of his era rests.

This engrossing volume of literary criticism from Henry James, one of the world’s foremost critics, looks at the work of the Goncourt brothers, James Russell Lowell, Henrik Ibsen, Robert Browning, and Gustave Flaubert, among others. It also includes a piece of travel writing about London.

Published in 1891, this volume is a gathering of Moore’s previously published articles, largely revised or rewritten for the book’s publication. Moore offers incisive commentary and insights on such artists as Balzac, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Degas, and proves to be a formidable art critic in a collection that the New York Times lauded as “fascinating.”