ISBN : 1598757679 Author : Stevenson, Robert Louis Publisher : Electric Book Company Description : Stevenson was called to the Scottish bar in 1875, but instead of practicing law Stevenson he himself to writing travel sketches, essays, and short stories for magazines. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne , his popular description of a […]
ISBN : 1598756729 Author : Carlyle, Thomas Publisher : Electric Book Company Description : In his 1840 lectures on heroes, Thomas Carlyle, Victorian essayist and social critic, championed the importance of the individual in history. Published the following year and eventually translated into fifteen languages, this imaginative work of history, comparative religion, and literature is […]
ISBN : 1598756834 Author : Butler, Samuel Publisher : Electric Book Company Description : Transcribed by R.N. Robinson from the Traveller's Library Edition (Jonathan Cape 1927) this edition of Butler's Selected Essays contains a sketch of his life by Henry Festing Jones. Butler (1835-1902) contributed numerous articles and letters to various periodicals, some of which […]
ISBN : 159875758X Author : Bronte, Anne Publisher : Electric Book Company Description : The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , Bronte's second novel, was published a year before her death, in 1848. The story is narrated by a young farmer, Gilbert Markham, and initially focuses upon his love for Helen Graham. Helen is a widow, […]
ISBN : 1598757784 Author : Bronte, Emily Publisher : Electric Book Company Description : Wuthering Heights is a classic tale of possessive and thwarted passion, one of the forerunners of today's soap operas and romance novels. The tempestuous and mythic story of Catherine Earnshaw, the precocious daughter of the house, and the ruggedly handsome, uncultured […]
ISBN : 1598757075 Author : Engels, Frederick Publisher : Electric Book Company Description : Frederick Engels was the son of a textile manufacturer, and after managing a factory in Manchester, England, he wrote his first major work, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844. This is his best known work and is […]
ISBN : 1598756672 Author : Morris, William Publisher : Electric Book Company Description : News From Nowhere describes how a socialist goes to sleep and wakes up many years later (in 2102) to find the revolution has won and the England is now a free collection of villages where people freely work at crafts for […]
ISBN : 1598756214 Author : Malthus, Thomas Robert Publisher : Electric Book Company Description : Malthus published a variety of pamphlets and tracts on economics in which he approached the problem of what determines price. In this pamphlet, published in 1815, he states 'It may be laid down then as a general truth, that rents […]
ISBN : 1598756222 Author : Malthus, Thomas Robert Publisher : Electric Book Company Description : 'To proceed to the point: I am most strongly inclined to suspect, that the attempt in most parts of the kingdom to increase the parish allowances in proportion to the price of corn, combined with the riches of the country, […]
ISBN : 1598756141 Author : Mathus, Thomas Robert Publisher : Electric Book Company Description : Malthus (1766-1834) was a political economist who was concerned about the decline of living conditions in nineteenth century England. He blamed this decline on three elements: the overproduction of children; the inability of resources to keep up with the rising […]