Barbara Baker
31 books
Essays & Short Works
1.2K
Isaac D'Israeli - Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1
This is a collection of short essays on literature. Various subjects are discussed, such as libraries, critics, the classics, and all sorts of things which, in the opinion of Mr. Disraeli, a writer or a reader can do...
24 hours 2 minutes
Memoirs
923
Thomas Babington Macaulay - Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay
An review essay of «Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay». The Edinburgh Review, January, 1843. Reprinted in vol. iii of Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays. «Hundreds of remarkable persons had passed in review...
2 hours 47 minutes
Essays & Short Works
1.1K
Samuel Johnson - Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson
This is a volume of selected essays by «the great master of reason» Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The Adventurer and The Idler are included, covering a vast range of topics. — Summary by...
13 hours 21 minutes
Anthologies
1.3K
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 6
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering «American households a mass of good reading», the editors drew from...
19 hours 18 minutes
Exploration
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Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 3
This volume, entitled «The great explorers of the 19th century», forms the third of three volumes under the general title of «Celebrated travels and travellers». Volume three comprehends: «The dawn of a century...
17 hours 35 minutes
