Here is an immensely engaging introduction to one of the great novelists of our own or any country, the first volume in the Library of America edition of Henry James’s complete works. James’s first novel, Watch and Ward (1871), written when he was only 28, is a Pygmalion-type story in which a proper
History Of Mankind Cultural & Scientific Development – 6 Vol. Set Bound In 14 Vols. (Each Vol. Containing Several Parts)Published for the International Commission for a History of Scientific & Cultural Development of Mankind Prepared under the auspices of UNESCO
History Of The English Speaking Peoples – 12 Vol. Set: This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues ― its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it
The four novels collected in this Library of America volume are among the classic works from the immensely productive career of America’s most influential man of letters at the turn of the twentieth century. William Dean Howells was a champion of French and Russian realistic writers and a brilliant advocate
India of Rajahs Hard cover in an ornamental box, illustrated with tipped-in plates, 268 pages. This is copy # 420 of an edition limited to 5,000 copies. Clean and attractive copy still has the cntrollato/quality checked card laid-in. Box is bound in black cloth with decorative panels glue on to
Washington Irving’s career as a writer began obscurely at age seventeen, when his brother’s newspaper published his series of comic reports on the theater, theater-goers, fashions, balls, courtships, duels, and marriages of his contemporary New York, called Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. Written in the persona of an elderly gentleman of
