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Collected here are seven engaging essays by Austin Dobson, the highly esteemed English writer and poet. Austin was notable for his wide-ranging interests, and this collection of portraits of eighteenth-century figures reflects his expansive studies, making the volume ideal reading for anyone passionate...

Britain’s Reform Bill of 1832 expanded voting and workers’ rights, corrected electoral abuses, and abolished slavery in the colonies. In this second of a two-volume 1898 social history, the gauntlet for reform is cast down during the Parliament of 1830, throwing the country into a frenzy of passion that echoed throughout the age of steam, telegraph, and Queen Victoria.

Published in 1876, this collection was shepherded into print by Emerson's daughter, Ellen Tucker Emerson, and his friend, James Elliot Cabot, due to Emerson's diminished health.  But the essays themselves, especially the masterful "Poetry and the Imagination," a ringing defense of the symbolic power of poetry, belie the notion of any decline.

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Leopold Auer's book, Violin Playing As I Teach It, should be required reading for every burgeoning teacher and thoughtful student of the violin, whether amateur or professional, whose interest is in gaining more insights...

Upon publication, the New York Times reviewed this 1895 collection of Hearn's essays and pieces of journalism, praising "the marvelous simplicity of his style, at once vigorous and delicate."  The contents run the gamut from spooky stories like "The Red Bridal" to the provocative cultural analysis of essays like "Jiujutsu."

Howells spent several years in Italy as a diplomat. He wrote a number of timeless books based on his travels there, including Italian Journeys and Venetian Life. A captivating portrait of one of Italy’s fabled regions, Tuscan Cities is indispensable reading for travelers and armchair dreamers alike.

English playwright and poet Ben Jonson (1572–1637) is considered the second greatest playwright of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. This study of Jonson’s life—“First (And Second) Period of Manhood” and “Old Age”—and work—“Dramatic Style” and “Masterpieces”—offers an...

This volume of the English Men of Letters is an evocative biography of Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586), the poet, courtier, soldier, and one of the Elizabethan Age’s most prominent figures. Learned and politic, but also generous, brave, and impulsive, Sidney was memorialized as the flower of English manhood in Edmund Spenser’s Astrophel.

Published posthumously in 1909, this collection of sixteen short stories, to quote from a contemporary New York Times review, "makes evident once more the loss American literature sustained in the early death of the author."  Contents include "The Third Circle," "The House with the Blinds," "A Defense of the Flag," and "The Guest of Honour."

Sir Francis Drake, Sir Henry Morgan, and other legendary figures from the age of buccaneers star in this 1906 history of the Elizabethan age of sailing ships. Ocean voyages, shipwrecks, treasure hunts, raids, sacks, sea battles and privateer customs and politics round out accounts of how ships were rigged, sailed, armed, and crewed.

In his bestselling book, silent film actor Douglas Fairbanks recounts his years as a superstar in early twentieth century Hollywood, and uses the lessons he drew from these experiences to encourage readers to live better lives through laughter, optimism, and opportunism.

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Of all the collections of sketches and stories for which nineteenth-century fiction is famous, Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. remains foremost for its combined anthropological and comic value. With an ear for native...

A poignant memoir of his late brother George, who was an enormous influence on Hughes, so much so that Hughes based his famous character Tom Brown, of Tom Brown’s School Days, on him. This collection of reminiscences captures the youthful adventures and bonds between two brothers who are also the closest of friends.

In 1886, exhausted and mourning the death of his youngest son, Holmes and his daughter, Amelia, traveled to England and France, where they visited various friends, distinguished writers, and where Holmes received a number of honorary doctorates. This memoir is an elegantly composed travelogue of their trip.