Maelcho
Emily Lawless
Published 1894
444 pages
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The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
1881 · 1887 edition
462 pages
Poems and Songs, on Various Subjects
William Bannatyne
Published 1853
284 pages
A Ken of Kipling
William Montgomery Clemens
Published 1899
160 pages
History of French Literature
Henri Van Laun
Published 1877
418 pages
Guy Mannering
Walter Scott
Published 1871
496 pages
Waverley Novels
Walter Scott
1851 · 1886 edition
512 pages
Mark Twain's Library of Humor
Mark Twain
Published 1888
748 pages
History of the Ceramic Art
Albert Jacquemart
Published 1873
692 pages
Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets
Leigh Hunt
Published 1846
386 pages
Analecta
Robert Wodrow
Published 1843
414 pages
Alexander Pope
Leslie Stephen
Published 1880
234 pages
Prose Writings of Swift
Jonathan Swift
Published 1886
392 pages
The Professor at the Breakfast-table
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Published 1860
428 pages
The Childishness and Brutality of the Time
Hargrave Jennings
Published 1883
372 pages
The Uncommercial Traveller
Charles Dickens
Published 1868
466 pages
The Biglow Papers
James Russell Lowell
1885 · 1899 edition
250 pages
Mirthfulness and Its Exciters; Or, Rational Laughter and Its Promoters
Benjamin Franklin Clark
Published 1870
364 pages
The Modern British Essayists
Francis Jeffrey
Published 1852
778 pages
Physical Expression
Frances Warner
Published 1885
468 pages
The Modern British Essayists
Published 1852
782 pages
The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare
William Shakespeare
Published 1821
574 pages
T Leaves
Edward Francis Turner
Published 1882
234 pages
Primitive Man
Louis Figuier
Published 1876
440 pages