Literary Figures

The Man Behind the Book

Henry James

Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D

Reveries over Childhood and Youth

Introduction and brief biography of Honore de Balzac

The Memoirs of Victor Hugo

Sir Walter Scott

The Secret of Charlotte Brontë

The Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett

Introduction and brief biography of Honore de Balzac

My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)

Shelley at Oxford

Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson, with a Selection from his Essay on Johnson

Louise Imogen Guiney

Mary Lamb

Alfred Tennyson

Edgar Saltus: The Man

Famous Persons and Places

Anatole France

Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men & Women (Vol. 1–5)