ENGLISH POETS OF THE Selected and Edited by ERNEST BERNBAUM Professor of English at the University of Illinois The great age of the eighteenth century is, more than any other, perhaps, mirrored in its poetry, and this anthology reveals its manners and ideals. While the text of the various poems is authentic, it is not burdened with scholastic editing and marginal comment. The collection and its form is one which satisfies in an unusual way the interest of the general reader as well as that of the specialist. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS BY JOHN BUNYAN With an Introduction and Notes by This book is one of the most vivid and entertaining in the English language, one that has been read more than any other in our language, except the Bible. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE BY JANE AUSTEN With an Introduction by To have this masterpiece of realistic literature introduced by so eminent a critic as William Dean Howells is, in itself, an event in the literary world. We cannot better comment upon the edition than by quoting from Mr. Howells's introduction: He says: "When I came to read the book the tenth or fifteenth time for the purposes of this introduction, I found it as fresh as when I read it first in 1889, after long shying off from it." NINETEENTH CENTURY LETTERS Selected and edited by BYRON JOHNSON REES Professor of English at Williams College Contains letters from Blake, Wordsworth, Smith, Southey, Lamb, Irving, Keats, Emerson, Lincoln, Thackeray, Huxley, Meredith, “Lewis Carroll,” Phillips Brooks, Sidney Lanier, and Stevenson. PAST AND PRESENT BY THOMAS CARLYLE With an Introduction by EDWIN W. MIMS Professor of English at Vanderbilt University "Past and Present," written in 1843, when the industrial revolutions had just taken place in England and when democracy and freedom were the watchwords of liberals and progressives, reads like a contemporary volume on industrial and social problems. BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON Abridged and edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Professor of English at Princeton University Seldom has an abridgment been made with as great skill in omitting nothing vital and keeping proper proportions as this edition by Professor Osgood. AMERICAN BALLADS AND SONGS Collected and edited by LOUISE POUND Professor of English, University of Nebraska An anthology intended to present to lovers of traditional songs such selections as illustrate the main classics and types having currency in English-speaking North America. It includes a number of imported ballads and songs, Western songs, dialogue and nursery songs, etc. BACON'S ESSAYS Selected, with an Introduction and Notes, by Late Professor of English Literature at Smith College These essays, the distilled wisdom of a great observer upon the affairs of common life, are of endless interest and profit. The more one reads them the more remarkable seem their compactness and their vitality. ADAM BEDE With an Introduction by LAURA J. WYLIE With the publication of "Adam Bede" in 1859, it was evident both to England and America that a great novelist had appeared. "Adam Bede" is the most natural of George Eliot's books, simple in problem, direct in action, with the freshness and strength of the Derbyshire landscape and character and speech in its pages. THE RING AND THE BOOK With an Introduction by FREDERICK MORGAN PADELFORD ""The Ring and the Book,' says Dr. Padelford in his introduction, "is Browning's supreme literary achievement. It was written after the poet had attained complete mastery of his very individual style; it absorbed his creative activity for a prolonged period; and it issued with the stamp of his characteristic genius on every page." ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S With an Introduction by WILLIAM LYON PHELPS This volume includes not only essays in formal literary criticism, but also of personal monologue and gossip, as well as philosophical essays on the greatest themes that can occupy the mind of man. All reveal the complex, whimsical, humorous, romantic, imaginative, puritanical personality now known everywhere by the formula R. L. S. PENDENNIS With an Introduction by ROBERT MORSS LOVETT Professor of English at the University of Chicago "Pendennis" stands as a great representative of biographical fiction and reflects more of the details of Thackeray's life than all his other writings. Of its kind there is probably no more interesting book in our literature. THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE BY THOMAS HARDY With an Introduction and Notes by JOHN W. CUNLIFFE Professor of English at Columbia University "The Return of the Native" is probably Thomas Hardy's great tragic masterpiece. It carries to the highest perfection the rare genius of the finished writer. It presents in the most remarkable way Hardy's interpretation of nature in which there is a perfect unison between the physical world and the human character. SELECTIONS FROM "THE FEDERALIST" Edited with an Introduction by A careful and discriminating selection of the "Essays written in favor of the new constitution, as agreed upon by the federal convention, September 17, 1787." HISTORICAL ESSAYS Selected with an Introduction by 99.66 A group of the better-known historical essays which includes "John Hampden, 'William Pitt," "The Earl of Chatham,” “Lord Clive," "Warren Hastings," "Machiavelli," and "Frederick the Great." SARTOR RESARTUS BY THOMAS CARLYLE Edited with an Introduction by ASHLEY THORNDIKE Professor of English at Columbia University This "Nonsense on Clothes,” as Carlyle referred to it in one entry of his journal, reaches into all the human realm and is perhaps the greatest philosophical expression of Carlyle's genius. Surely there is a power of pure thought which he has put into the mind of Professor Tempelsdröch and a charm of words which he has given him to speak which he has nowhere surpassed. A glossary in this edition will be of invaluable service to the student. |