19th Century Literature
From Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass to Mamsfield Park, from The Posthumous Papers Of the Pickwick Club to Ralph Waldo Emerson a Descriptive Bibliography,
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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through
the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, tell the story of a young
girl in a fantasy world filled with peculiar, anthropomorphic
creatures. The classic tale of literary nonsense takes the reader on an
exploration of logic and absurdities. The Alice books — sometimes
combined or referred to with the abbreviated title Alice in Wonderland —
have been translated into at least 97 languages with over a hundred
different editions....
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Written by Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel that follows Manette, a French doctor imprisoned for 18 long years in Paris’s Bastille. Following his release, he goes to live in London with his daughter Lucie, who had never met him and believed him to be dead. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution and Reign of Terror, A Tale of Two Cities is a fictitious story that falls both into the historical and adventure genres. The famous book is one of the...
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In Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe, the title character Uncle Tom is a long-suffering slave, loyal to both his faith and his master. Presented with an opportunity to escape, he instead chooses to remain in slavery to avoid embarrassing his master. After being sold to a slave trader, Tom suffers brutal treatment and is eventually beaten to death for his refusal to betray his friends — made to represent an ideal of true Christianity. Enormously popular (it was the best-selling novel of the...
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The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (1850) is considered the American author Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'masterwork.' A work of historical fiction set in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Puritan settlement of 1642-1949 itells the story of Hester Prynne, who after having a child as a result of an extra-marital affair attempts to live a life of repentance and dignity although she is marked by having to wear a Scarlett A on her person. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and...
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Published in 1820 by author Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe is an influential historical romance novel set in medieval England. Ivanhoe represents a departure from Scott’s other novels, and remains his most well-known work. Scott explores many different themes in Ivanhoe, chief among them the rivalry and tension between the Saxons and Normans, feudal injustice as well as the oppression of England’s Jewish communities at the time.Critical reception was very positive at the time of publication, and Scott is...
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Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before and after the American Civil War. The book begins with a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1542. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot, as the 'cub' of an experienced pilot. He describes, with great affection, the science of navigating the ever-changing Mississippi River.
Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage between 1812 and 1814. It was published in July 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who published Jane Austen's two earlier novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. When the novel reached a second edition, its publication was taken over by John Murray, who also published its successor, Emma.
The original American satiristCracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur's England. Branded by Twain's aptitude for broad comedy and biting social satire, the grim truths of Twain's Camelot-fear, injustice, ignorance-resound as clearly now as when it was written
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From the book:The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841. Schoolcraft married Jane, O-bah-bahm-wawa-ge-zhe-go-qua (The Woman of the Sound Which the Stars Make Rushing Through the...
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (commonly known as The Pickwick Papers) is the first novel published by Charles Dickens. The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club catapulted the 24-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle &, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr. Pickwick, & his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell...
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, was first published as a censored and serialized version in the British illustrated newspaper, The Graphic in 1891. An intimate portrait of a woman, one of literature's most admirable and tragic heroines...Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne'er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d'Urbervilles, he sends...
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Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English author of many notable works, including Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, and A Tale of Two Cities. Multiple publishing firms have released bound collections of his works. Notable sets of Dickens Works have been published by Chapman and Hall in a 24 piece set, and Baker and Taylor in a 12 volume set.
Harvey Cheyne is the over-indulged son of a millionaire. When he falls overboard from an ocean liner her is rescued by a Portuguese fisherman and, initially against his will, joins the crew of the We're Here for a summer. Through the medium of an exciting adventure story, Captains Courageous (1897) deals with a boy who, like Mowgli in The Jungle Book, is thrown into an entirely alien environment.
Nicholas Nickleby is left responsible for his mother and sister when his father dies. The novel follows his attempt to succeed in supporting them, despite his uncle Ralph's antagonistic lack of belief in him. It is one of Dickens' early comic novels.
Sir Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1771. Educated for the law, he obtained the office of sheriff-depute of Selkirkshire in 1799 and in 1806 the office of clerk of session, a post whose duties he fulfilled for some twenty-five years. His lifelong interest in Scottish antiquity and the ballads which recorded Scottish history led him to try his hand at narrative poems of adventure and action. The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Marmion (1808), and The Lady of the Lake (1810) made his reputation as...
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Young Frank Osbaldistone, sent to live in Scotland, is drawn to the powerful figure of Rob Roy MacGregor, who, with his wife, fights for justice and dignity for Scotland. Twists of plot and a romantic outlaw's cunning escapes make this a classic epic.
When Joseph Mason of Groby Park, Yorkshire, died, he left his estate to his family. A codicil to his will, however, left Orley Farm (near London) to his much younger second wife and infant son. The will and the codicil were in her handwriting, and there were three witnesses, one of whom was no longer alive. A bitterly fought court case confirmed the codicil.
Twenty years pass. Lady Mason lives at Orley farm with her adult son, Lucius. Samuel Dockwrath, a tenant, is asked to leave by Lucius, who wants to...
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Felix Holt, the Radical is a social novel written by George Eliot about political disputes in a small English town at the time of the First Reform Act of 1832. In January 1868, Eliot penned an article entitled "Address to Working Men, by Felix Holt". This came on the heels of the Second Reform Act of 1867 which expanded the right to vote beyond the landed classes and was written in the character of, and signed by, Felix Holt.
by William Makepeace Thackeray
by Henry Wadsworth Longefellow
19th Century Literature Books & Ephemera
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (commonly known as The Pickwick Papers) is the first novel published by Charles Dickens. The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club catapulted the 24-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle &, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr. Pickwick, & his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell...
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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through
the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, tell the story of a young
girl in a fantasy world filled with peculiar, anthropomorphic
creatures. The classic tale of literary nonsense takes the reader on an
exploration of logic and absurdities. The Alice books — sometimes
combined or referred to with the abbreviated title Alice in Wonderland —
have been translated into at least 97 languages with over a hundred
different editions....
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From the book:Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyesSee nothing save their own unlovely woe,Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know, -But that the roar of thy Democracies,Thy reigns of Terror, thy great Anarchies,Mirror my wildest passions like the seaAnd give my rage a brother -! Liberty!For this sake only do thy dissonant criesDelight my discreet soul, else might all kingsBy bloody knout or treacherous cannonadesRob nations of their rights inviolateAnd I remain unmoved - and yet, and...
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Barnes & Noble, Incorporated, 2005. Paperback. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Small stain to the margins of several pages. Front hinge with some cracking, as often the case, but still tight. Slight rubbing and soiling to covers, gilt on spine still bright. Near Fine housed in a Very Good half morocco slipcase with rubbing to the raised bands and spine tips of the slipcase. Stories Reconstructed from the Anvari-Soheill, Baital, Pachisi, Mahabharata, Pantchatantra, Gulistan, Talmud, Kalewala, etc. Blue-green cloth with...
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Hugo, Victor. Please see book in beigde and red dust jacket at bottom right of our enclosed batch photo: The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Undated. Circa 1940. Books, Inc. VG/VG original Publishers price-clipped DJ. QUITE RARE THUS. Green leatherette boards. Beige dust jacket with red and yellow titling and ornamentation. Protected in a mylar wrap. 360 pages. Summary: Classic title by French Author Victor Hugo about cruelty, courage, and love.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. Second American edition. Octavo (19cm). In original brick red publisher's cloth, titled in gilt on spine; stamped in black and gold with black clover ornaments; [vi], 455p; 11 halftone illustrations. A bright copy, somewhat rubbed; with signs of a minor repair to reattach title page; else Good. The second American book edition restored some portions of the text that had been bowdlerized for serialization in 1891. PURDY p. 76.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865 Edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson. First edition, first printing, in Blanck's "A" binding. One of 2,130 copies. Publisher's brown cloth, with wreath illustrations stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt, and brown coated endpapers. Near fine, with light toning to spine and bottom margin of front board, light wear to spine ends, some ink staining to verso of front free endpaper, and text outlined in ink on pp. 74-77. Overall, a sturdy and attractive copy....
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Nelson Doubleday, Inc, 1951. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1917. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Henry Pitz. Usual ex-library markings. Spine is sun faded. Lightly worn corners. Heavy soiling to exterior. Inking on inside front cover & front endpage. The front cover & first 12 pages have a liquid stain in top corner that does extend into text but everything is still readable. Words in title & authors name on title page are underlined in pencil. Library flap has been partially removed from last endpage....
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1889. xvi + 526 + 32 advts pp. Frontispiece and 220 illustrations by Dan Beard. Spine broken at hinges and some wear on cover, but internally very good in need of some repairs. Postage may vary from what is quoted on the site depending on the size of the book. It may be less, or in the case of a very heavy book, slightly more, so please contact bookdealer direct.. 1st English Edition.. Red pictorial lttered in gilt.. Crown 8vo.
1837. DICKENS, Charles. THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition in book form, extra illustrated and finely bound. Octavo. (iii)-(xvi), 609 pp.; lacks half-title. This special copy has a duplicate hand-colored set of the original plates by Robert Seymour and "Phiz" (Hablot K. Browne), 2 hand-colored plates by Robert William Buss, a small set of 7 hand-colored plates by Phiz, a hand-colored plate of Sam Vale, the original of Sam Weller, by George...
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Washington D.C.: National Home Library Foundation, 1935. National Home Library edition; Sherman F. Mittell, editor. Complete and unabridged. Very light shelf wear. The first 25 or so leaves have narrow creases on their fore edges. Otherwise fine. The dust jacket has very light edge wear and is a bit darkened on the spine. The price, 25¢, is present on the front flap.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
George Routledge and Sons. hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. undated. the boards are scuffed and edge worn. foxing and age related wear. some insect wear. all pages are intact and legible. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
by LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition, first printing: with all issue points noted, including the missing letter "n" absent from the word "one" on page 279, line 5 up. 12mo. iv, 316pp., and 12-page publisher's catalog (dated November, 1855) bound-in after the back free endpaper. Publisher's brown decorative cloth stamped in blind on both covers, gilt spine, light yellow endpapers. From the library of American historian Solomon Lincoln, with his small ink name...
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London.: Chapman & Hall.. Undated. . Hard. Good. 8vo. 7 4/5".. With 40 illustrations.. Good. 515pp. 0
215DoyleWorks A. Conan Doyle. Collected Works of A. Conan Doyle, One Volume Edition. 1920, Walter J. Black. SHERLOCK HOLMES. USED. VG Condition/ No DJ as issued. 1020 pages. Rare in nice condition like this one. 5 ¾ X 8 3/8.
Paperback / softback. New.
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
NY: Classics Illustrated, 1968. Aged textblock clean and tight; Front cover shows price of 25 cents; Covers spine-worn, lightly sunned and edge worn; Unpaginated.. Fall 1968. Stapled Wraps. Very Good. Illus. by Alex A. Blum. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Paperback.
by TWAIN, Mark; (CLEMONS, Samuel L.)
New York: The Heritage Press. Very Good. 1942. Hardcover. The famous novel by Mark Twain (1835-1910) features a time-traveling New Englander who, thanks to a blow to the head, visits the England of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. This attractive Heritage Press edition includes illustrations by Warren Chappell and an introduction by John T. Winterich. --- In full rust buckram cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped titling and image of King Arthur to spine; red topstain. Text and...
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1889. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1889 Chatto & Windus First edition, First printing with 220 Illustrations by Dan Beard( a founder of the Boy Scouts) A TRUE First edition, preceding the American edition by a few days. In GOOD condition with original red cloth boards & pictorial decorations. Alas it is missing the spine cover The tissue-guarded frontispiece is present as well as the Publisher's Catalog inserted at the rear dated...
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London: Octopus Bks, 1986. Octopus Books Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in gilt-blocked decorated leatherette over cushioned boards. All edges gilt. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 279 pages; 22 cm. Notes: Tess of the d'Urbervilles was originally published in Great Britain in 1891. Subjects: Wessex (England) -- Fiction. England -- Rural conditions -- Fiction. England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction. 19th century fiction.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First. hardcover. very good(-). Illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz. 609pp., 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards; marbled edges .London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First Edition.<br/><br/> Early issue with many of the required points, including the 2 Buss plates (facing pp. 69 & 74) "Tony Veller" & "Phiz fecit." on half-title, signature E on p. 25, etc. Some plates are signed with, and others without page numbers, but none have...
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New York: P.F. Collier & Son Company, 1917. Hardcover. Very Good. 447p. A navy blue cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Publisher's name starting to wear off bottom of spine. Top corners of front and back cover are mottled. Otherwise clean and tight. Vintage edition of this Twain classic. Illustrated with a few black and white plates.
Anatole France. Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library Edition. No date or statement on copyright page. Circa 1929. USED. VERY GOOD/GOOD ORIGINAL UNIVERSAL LIBRARY DUST JACKET. QUITE RARE THUS. Dust jacket has a bit of loss at top of spine. Glossy black boards with silver, green and black titling and ornamentation. Lime green endpapers. No frontispiece or any other photos appear in this edition. 5 7/8 X 8 ½. 154 pages. "Thais is a 1917 American silent drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and based on the...
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