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Elizabeth Banks was an American journalist and author. She grew up in Wisconsin, then lived in England the last forty years of her life. She became a regular contributor to English publications such as The Daily News, Punch, St James' Gazette, and London Illustrated. She created a sensation by recording her observations on the plight of the lower classes, which she researched posing as a housemaid, street sweeper, and Covent Garden flower girl. Her later journalistic writings promoted women's right to vote and denounced prison conditions for jailed suffragettes. This memoir was written about ...

Rodin has pronounced Rilke's essay the supreme interpretation of his work. (From the translators’ Preface)Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917, was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past. He was schooled traditionally, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, and desired academic recognition, although he was never accepted into Paris's foremost school of art. Sculpturally, Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, deeply pocketed surface in clay. … Rodin… modeled the human ...

Nominally an autobiography, Biographia Literaria ranges widely across the realms of philosophy, poetry and memoir, in Coleridge's trademark discursive style, providing a living glimpse of the great talker, the man who could hold his contemporaries in thrall for hours with his dazzling conversation, and who was famously described as the last man "to have read everything". Summary by Nicole Lee.

Robert Sherard was Oscar Wilde's friend of 20 years and first biographer. The Life of Oscar Wilde was the second of his four biographies of the Irish playwright and wit. - Summary by Rob Board

Augustus Caesar and the Organisation of the Empire of Rome explores the remarkable career of the man who transformed a fractured republic into a stable imperial system. John Benjamin Firth follows Octavian, the adopted heir of Julius Caesar, from the dangerous aftermath of Caesar’s assassination through years of political intrigue, civil war, and rivalry with Mark Antony.The narrative examines not only Augustus’s rise to supreme power but also the methods he used to restore order throughout the Roman world. Firth describes the reorganisation of the provinces, the army, public ...

Grant Allen was an anthropologist, scientific writer, novelist and poet, though the biographer and writer Frank Harris has said of him that "He could be described with more 'ists' than anyone else I ever saw. He was an atheist and pacifist and socialist, a botanist and zoologist and optimist, a chemist and physicist, a scientist of scientists, a monist, meliorist and hedonist…". As a novelist, he is noted as a pioneer in both the detective and science fiction genres. He was born in Canada but spent the latter part of his life in England. "Biographies of Working Men" is a volume containing ...

Fanny relates the experiences of a 19th century missionary as she and her young husband proselytize throughout Europe in search of converts to the new Mormon faith. Her religious zeal is sorely tested upon receipt of news from America revealing that their religion has adopted the practice of polygamy as the means to exaltation. The couple is summoned to Utah only to find themselves firmly ensconced in Brigham Young's inner circle and called upon to practice plural marriage or risk a fall from family, friends, and faith. - Summary by Spiffycat

Abigail Adams and Her Times by Laura E. Howe Richards offers an engaging portrait of one of the most influential women of early American history. Born Abigail Smith in colonial Massachusetts, she developed a keen intelligence, an independent spirit, and a lasting interest in the political questions shaping the emerging nation.The biography follows Abigail through her marriage to John Adams, the long separations caused by his public duties, the hardships of the American Revolution, and her later experiences in Europe and Washington. Richards draws upon Abigail’s celebrated correspondence to ...

Andreas Vesalius, The Reformer of Anatomy by James Moores Ball explores the life and achievements of the Renaissance physician who transformed the study of the human body. At a time when medical teaching relied heavily on ancient authorities, Vesalius insisted on direct observation and challenged anatomical errors that had remained unquestioned for centuries.The book traces Vesalius’s education, his early anatomical studies, and his rise to prominence as a teacher at the University of Padua. Particular attention is given to his monumental work *De Humani Corporis Fabrica*, published in 1543....

Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers presents a series of concise biographies devoted to philosophers, reformers, skeptics, and religious critics who challenged the accepted beliefs of their societies. Moving from the ancient world to the nineteenth century, the collection introduces influential figures such as Epicurus, Giordano Bruno, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Voltaire, and Thomas Paine.Each portrait combines personal history with an accessible explanation of the subject’s principal ideas. The book pays particular attention to the courage required to question powerful religious ...

The Autobiography of a Thief takes listeners into the hidden criminal world of late nineteenth-century New York. Collected and edited by journalist and social reformer Hutchins Hapgood, the book presents the remarkable first-person testimony of “Light-Fingered Jim,” a professional pickpocket and burglar raised on the city’s Lower East Side.Jim recounts his difficult childhood, early encounters with street crime, and gradual initiation into a dangerous life of theft. He describes the techniques, secret language, loyalties, betrayals, arrests, and prison sentences that shaped his years in ...

Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines the tenets of Comte's movement and alerts us to defects. Part 2 concerns all Comte's writings except the Cours de Philosophie Positive. During Comte's later years he gave up reading newspapers and periodicals to keep his mind pure for higher study. He also became enamored of a certain woman who changed his view of life. Comte turned his philosophy into a religion, with morality the supreme guide. Mill finds that Comte learned to despise science and the ...

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 literature of all times and all kinds what they considered the best pieces of human writing, and compiled an ambitious collection of 45 volumes (with a 46th being an index-guide). Besides the selection and translation of a huge number of poems, letters, short stories and sections of books, the collection offers, before each chapter, a short essay about the author or subject in question...

Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others by John Kendrick Bangs is a witty and imaginative collection of supernatural stories that approaches the world of ghosts with humor rather than terror. Instead of presenting spirits as purely frightening figures, Bangs gives them personalities, habits, opinions, and often an amusing sense of absurdity.Throughout the collection, the narrator recounts a series of strange encounters with ghosts and other mysterious beings. These supernatural visitors appear in unexpected situations, creating conversations and comic misunderstandings that blend fantasy, satire, ...

*The Giant’s Robe* by F. Anstey is a Victorian drama about ambition, authorship, and the price of a borrowed reputation. Mark Ashburn, an unsuccessful schoolmaster and aspiring novelist, receives a manuscript from his friend Vincent Holroyd before Vincent leaves England. When circumstances tempt Mark to submit the work as his own, its publication under the title *Illusion* brings sudden critical success and opens doors that were previously closed to him.But fame quickly becomes a burden. Mark’s growing relationship with Mabel Langton and his new literary career are threatened by guilt, ...

The Lark by E. Nesbit is a warm, witty story about friendship, independence, and finding adventure in unexpected circumstances. In postwar England, cousins Jane and Lucilla leave school expecting a comfortable future, only to discover that their guardian has lost most of their inheritance. Their remaining assets are a modest country cottage and a small sum of money—hardly enough to support them for long.Rather than surrender to worry, the resourceful young women decide to treat their situation as “a lark.” They begin by selling flowers from their garden, then move on to increasingly ...

Jim, an axe-man for a sawmill, who is a hard-knuckled, two-fisted fighting man when he has to be, but is shy around women, longs to find a wife and settle down. Two women, one a mercenary widow of the country town, the other a classy city girl, both set their caps for Jim. Will true love triumph? Will Jim's dog ever get his dinner? Will Jim ever get his tongue untied? These and other questions are answered in this story in rhyme. - Summary by Son of the Exiles

The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth by H. G. Wells follows two scientists, Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood, who create an experimental substance called Herakleophorbia IV. Designed to accelerate growth, the “Food of the Gods” soon escapes laboratory control. Animals, plants, and eventually human children exposed to it grow to enormous size, creating fear and chaos across England.As giant creatures spread through the countryside, ordinary society struggles to contain the consequences. The children raised on the substance become a new generation of powerful giants whose ...

The Enchanted Typewriter is a collection of short stories by the American author John Kendrick Bangs, written in 1899 in the style that has become known as Bangsian fantasy. Bangs attributes many of the stories to the late (and invisible) James Boswell, who has become an editor for a newspaper in Hades, and who communicates with the author by means of an old typewriter. The fantasy stories in this book are part of the author's Hades series, named for the stories' setting. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Der Roman aus der Epoche des russischen Realismus gibt einen tiefgründigen Einblick in das Leben und die Lebensanschauungen der russischen Aristokratie des 19. Jahrhunderts. Mehr noch begeistert er durch die bis ins kleinste Detail mit großer Menschenkenntnis dargestellten Charaktere, deren Wesen Tolstoi uns weitestgehend durch ihre Art zu sprechen, denken, handeln und ihre "Kreise" auszuwählen näher bringt.Seitensprünge sind in der besseren Gesellschaft durchaus üblich, jedoch nicht solche von der Art, wie Anna Karenina ihn begeht. Auch gelten für Ehebruch bei Frauen andere Maßstäbe ...