This 1900 comedy was part of the Irish Literary Revival movement. It was produced by
the Irish Literary Theater in Dublin. The play features a commercial—and romantic—rivalry between the towns of Northhaven and Southhaven: allegorical names for Ireland and England, ...
Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales, by Herman Melville, is part of the Barnes &
Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of ...
The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series,
which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. ...
After his post office job and a failed run for Parliament, Trollope set up shop
as a magazine editor. These stories of the publishing trade, gathered in 1870, reveal his bawdy side: “The Turkish Bath,” “Mary Gresley,” “Josephine de Montmorenci,” ...
Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series,
which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. ...
Of his many books, Hadrian the Seventh is Baron Corvo’s best known. In this fantastical
novel—which includes a flourish of autobiography—a humble British man named George Arthur Rose is elected Pope, taking the name Hadrian VII. He unfolds a grand ...
John Jorrocks—a “renowned sporting citizen”—is the first character created by English comic writer Robert Smith
Surtees. Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities is one of the author’s most celebrated and entertaining novels. A humorous narrative of the hunting, shooting, racing, ...
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. General William Tecumseh
Sherman stands out as a master of maneuver warfare. In a bloody Civil War chiefly remembered for battles in which each side tried too often ...