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Collected Essays
Edmund GosseEdmund Gosse. WOLCOTT BALESTIER IT was early in 1889 that, on an evening which must always remain memorable to some of us, two or three English writers met, at the house of Mrs. Humphry Ward, a young American man of business ...
Father and Son
Edmund GosseSince the book's first publication, it has been a common reaction for readers to prefer the father to the son. In his biography of Gosse, Evan Charteris notes this fact, and declares it to have been one of Gosse's intended aims. He quotes a letter, ...
Father and Son
Edmund GosseEdmund Gosse wrote of his account of his life, "This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs." Father and Son remains one of English literature's seminal autobiographies.
The Library of Edmund Gosse: Being a Descriptive and ...
Edmund GosseDIXON, RICHARD WATSON. Christ's Company and Other Poems. By Richard Watson Dixon, M.A., London: M.DCCC.LXI. 8vo. Original cloth. Historical Odes and Other Poems. Bv Richard Watson Dixon, M.A. London. M.DCCC.LXIV. 8vo.
The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870: Omphalos
Philip GosseGosse argued that fossils are not really the remains of creatures which existed. Gosse's work was popular with neither Christians nor evolutionists.
The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse
Evan CharterisThis is a new release of the original 1931 edition.
Omphalos, 1857
Philip GosseGosse argued that fossils are not really the remains of creatures which existed.
Questions at Issue
Edmund GosseThis is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
The Violet Fairy Book (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)
Andrew LangThis book is fully illustrated and annotated with a rare extensive biographical sketch of the author, Andrew Lang, written by Sir Edmund Gosse, CB, a contemporary poet and writer.
The Red Fairy Book (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)
Andrew LangThis book is fully illustrated and annotated with a rare extensive biographical sketch of the author, Andrew Lang, written by Sir Edmund Gosse, CB, a contemporary poet and writer.
Virginia Woolf: Interviews and Recollections
John Henry StapeInterviews and Recollections John Henry Stape. Gosse, Edmund, 12, 56 Grant, Duncan, 18, 56, 57-8, 87, 89, 99, 102, 126, 135-9, 152, 153, 155, 161, 189 Graves, Robert, 12 Green, Alice, 32 Greville, Fulke, 62-3, 64 Guinness, Diana, 123 ...
Annual Report - National Endowment for the Humanities
More editionsLouisiana State University Press Baton Rouge, LA Beverly Jarrett $2,733 To support the publication of a volume of selected letters written by Henry James to the English man of letters, Edmund Gosse. Louisiana State University Press Baton ...
The Essential Edmund Leach: Culture and human nature
Edmund Ronald LeachBrings together a representative selection of the writings of Edmund Leach.
The Pirates' Who's Who: Giving Particulars of the Lives and ...
Philip GosseGiving Particulars of the Lives and Deaths of the Pirates and Buccaneers Philip Gosse. What a delightful picture this calls to the mind—the little Brazilian town, the tropical foliage, the Holy Procession, "wax figure" and priests, followed by the ...
The Essential Edmund Leach: Anthropology and society
Edmund Ronald LeachBrings together a representative selection of the writings of Edmund Leach.
Selected Letters of Edmund Burke
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke (1729-97) was a British statesman, a political philosopher, a literary critic, the grandfather of modern conservatism, and an elegant, prolific letter writer and prose stylist.
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