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Anthologies
Eliot, Charles
W., ed. 1909–17. The Harvard Classics
and Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction.
The greatest anthology of
the 20th century comprises 70 volumes.
Stedman, E.C., and
Hutchinson, E.M., eds. 1891. A Library of
American Literature: An Anthology in 11 Volumes.
The 6000 pages of the 11
volumes contain over 2500 selections by more than 1100 authors.
Strachey, Lionel, et al., eds. 1906. The World’s Wit and Humor: An Anthology
in 15 Volumes.
Over 1000 selections from
some 500 sources weighted toward American and English.
Bryan, William
Jennings, ed. 1906. The World’s
Famous Orations.
Two millennia of Western
Civilization come into focus through these 281 masterpieces by 213
rhetoricians.
Sinclair,
Upton, ed. 1915. The Cry for Justice:
An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest.
With many verse selections,
these 665 annotated entries show American Progressivism at its heyday.
Bridges, Robert,
ed. 1916. The Spirit of Man: An
Anthology.
Created in the darkness of
the Great War, Bridges collects a book of lights from the literature of his
nation and its allies.
Trent and Wells, ed. 1901. Colonial
Prose and Poetry.
57 writers represent the
literary and cultural trends in Early America.
Craik, Henry, ed. 1916. English
Prose: An Anthology in 5 Volumes.
This comprehensive
anthology with expertly written annotations comprises 978 selections from 235
authors
American Historical Documents:
1000–1904. 1909–17.
47 works trace the United
States from the settling of the continent to early twentieth-century
international relations.
English Essays from Sir Philip Sidney
to Macaulay. 1909–17.
Four centuries of the
development of English prose are illustrated by 24 works from 17 authors.
Essays: English and American.
1909–17.
Twelve nineteenth-century
authors on topics biographical, literary and philosophical.
Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents
of the United States. 1989.
Illustrated and annotated
edition of all Inaugural addresses from George Washington to Barack
Obama.
Literary and Philosophical Essays.
1909–17.
13 works of 7 continental
authors spanning 3 centuries.
Matthews,
Brander, ed. 1914. Oxford Book of
American Essays.
Thirty-two essays on topics
literary, political and humorous, spanning over a century of this form’s
development in America.
Morley,
Christopher, ed. 1921. Modern
Essays.
Thirty-three personal
essays by such twentieth-century greats as Milne, Kilmer, Conrad, Beerbohm and
Santayana.
Smith, G. Gregory, ed. 1904. Elizabethan Critical Essays.
These early modern prose
writers sought to make the Western world safe for verse against conservative
religious and scholarly forces.
Scientific Papers. 1909–17.
Illustrated lectures by the
fathers of the core sciences.
Voyages and Travels. 1909–17.
Seven accounts from the
ancient fathers of historical prose to the great Elizabethan explorers.
Volumes
Adams, Henry.
1918. The Education of Henry Adams.
An honest and probing
reflection of one man’s life in relation to the world around him.
Augustine,
Saint. 1909–14. The Confessions of
St. Augustine.
The autobiography of the
great defender of the Church.
Bacon, Francis
1909–14. Essays, Civil and Moral.
Whether turning a phrase or
observing the politics of the day, the Essays epitomize Bacon as the
master of English prose.
1909–14. The New Atlantis.
This account of an ideal
state reveals both practical methods and unique fantasy.
1857. Advancement of Learning.
A powerful defense of
science against religion and the advocacy of the modern university.
1857. The New Organon.
1857. Of the Wisdom of the
Ancients.
1857. Apophthegms New and Old.
Berkeley,
George. 1909–14. Three Dialogues
Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists.
The Bhagavad-Gita. 1909–14.
The Bible. 1999. King James Version.
The culmination of English
translations of the Bible by the American Bible Society.
1909–14. Job, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Luke & Acts.
From the American Standard Edition of the
Revised Bible.
Bok, Edward.
1921. The Americanization of Edward
Bok.
Pulitzer Prize–winning
autobiography of an influential publisher and editor.
Browne, Thomas,
Sir. 1909–14. Religio Medici.
A personal essay
reconciling the religious and scientific life.
Buddhist Writings. 1909–14.
Burke, Edmund
1909–14. A Letter to a Noble
Lord.
A personal
defense from the master of prosaic irony.
1909–14. On Taste.
The introductory discourse to On
the Sublime and Beautiful.
1909–14. On the Sublime and
Beautiful.
This
aesthetic treatise was an advance in the uniting of philosophy with
psychology.
1909–14. Reflections on the French
Revolution.
The
prophetic warning against the pulling down of all that is good in society with
the bad.
Carlyle, Thomas
1909–14. Characteristics.
A seminal work of Romantic
interpretation.
1909–14. Inaugural Address at
Edinburgh.
A clear
statement of Carlyle’s moral passions.
1909–14. Sir Walter Scott.
One of Carlyle’s many
essays extolling great men.
Cellini,
Benvenuto. 1909–14. Autobiography.
The honest if
self-aggrandized life of the epitomal Renaissance man.
Chamfort, Nicolas
de. 1902. The Cynic’s Breviary.
Cicero
1909–14. On Friendship & On Old Age.
The master of prose exemplifies the
pragmatism of the philosopher’s mind applied to the human condition.
1909–14. Letters.
The epistles of the great orator and
politician offer both personal insight and policy initiative.
Confucius. 1909–14. The Sayings of
Confucius.
500 verses attributed to
the ancient Chinese teacher.
Dana, Richard Henry,
Jr. 1909–14. Two Years before the
Mast.
Darwin, Charles
1909–14. The Origin of Species.
The revolutionary theory of
evolution.
1909–14. The Voyage of the Beagle.
Popular account of a
five-year journey of geological, botanical, biological and paleontological
observation.
Descartes, René.
1909–14. Discourse on Method.
The work that would sweep
away accepted truths to create the foundation of modern thought.
Du Bois, W.E.B.
1903. The Souls of Black Folk.
W.E.B. Du Bois sets out to
show to the reader “the strange meaning of being black here in the dawning of
the Twentieth Century.”
Einstein, Albert.
1920. Relativity: The Special and
General Theory.
Professor Einstein follows
a “train” of thought with a Socratic style that provides the reader “a few happy
hours of suggestive thought.”
Eliot, T.S. 1920.
The Sacred Wood.
Eliot’s collection of
essays on poetry and criticism.
Emerson, Ralph
Waldo
1904. The Complete Works.
The twelve-volume Concord
edition features voluminous footnotes painstakingly compiled by his son.
1909–14. Essays and English Traits.
Epitomal works demonstrate
the genius of the father of the American Renaissance.
Epictetus.
1909–14. The Golden Sayings of
Epictetus.
Like those of Socrates and
Christ, these aphorisms were transcribed by the disciples of the great
Stoic.
Equiano, Olaudah.
1837. The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or
Gustavus Vassa.
Franklin,
Benjamin. 1909–14. His
Autobiography: 1706–1757.
The cornerstone of the
Harvard Classics and Franklin’s account of his journey of self-education.
Freud, Sigmund
1922. Beyond the Pleasure
Principle.
1916. Leonardo da Vinci.
1910. Three Contributions to the
Sexual Theory.
1916. Wit and Its Relation to the
Unconscious.
1912. Selected Papers on Hysteria and
Other Psychoneuroses.
1918. Totem and Taboo.
1918. Reflections on War and
Death.
1920. A General Introduction to
Psychoanalysis.
1914. Psychopathology of Everyday
Life.
1913. The Interpretation of
Dreams.
1917. The History of the
Psychoanalytic Movement.
1917. Delusion and Dream.
1921. Dream Psychology:
Psychoanalysis for Beginners.
1910. Origin and Development of
Psychoanalysis.
1922. Group Psychology and the
Analysis of the Ego.
Froissart, Jean.
1909–14. The Chronicles of
Froissart.
Historical account of
battles of the Hundred Year’s War
Grant, Ulysses S.
1885–86. Personal Memoirs.
Among the greatest of
military memoirs, Grant wrote to the last month of life to restore his family
fortunes.
Grotius, Hugo.
1901. The Rights of War and Peace.
Harrison, William. 1909–14. A
Description of Elizabethan England.
Observations and comments
on life in pre-Elizabethan England.
Harvey, William.
1909–14. On the Motion of the Heart and
Blood in Animals.
Hippocrates.
1909–14. The Oath and Law of
Hippocrates.
Hobbes, Thomas.
1909–14. Of Man, Being the First Part of
Leviathan.
The analogy of the physical
body to the body politic.
Holmes, Oliver
Wendell. 1909–14. The Contagiousness
of Puerperal Fever.
Hume, David.
1909–14. An Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding.
Hutchinson,
Lucy
1906. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel
Hutchinson.
Eyewitness
biography to the English Civil War.
1817. On the Principles of the
Christian Religion.
The
seventeenth-century Puritan theology.
Jenner, Edward.
1909–14. Publications on Vaccination
Against Smallox.
Joubert, Joseph.
1899. A Selection from His Thought.
Jusserand, Jean
Jules. 1916. With Americans of Past
and Present Days.
Seven Pulitzer
Prize–winning biographical vignettes trace U.S.–French relations.
Koran, Chapters from the.
1909–14.
La Bruyère, Jean
de. 1885. Characters.
La Rochefoucauld,
François, duc de. 1912. The Moral
Maxims and Reflections of the Duke de la Rochefoucauld.
Early English translation
of the pillar of French thought.
Lincoln, Abraham.
1897. Political Debates Between Lincoln
and Douglas.
The seven masterpieces of
debate on the evil of slavery.
Lister, Joseph.
1909–14. On the Antiseptic Principle of
the Practice of Surgery.
Locke, John
1909–14. Some Thoughts Concerning
Education.
At the time,
the most significant work advocating educational reform.
1821. Two Treatises on
Government.
Luther, Martin
1909–14. Address to the Christian
Nobility of the German Nation Respecting the Reformation of the Christian
Estate.
1909–14. Concerning Christian
Liberty.
1909–14. The Ninety-Five Thesis.
Lyell, Charles.
1909–14. Scientific Papers.
Machiavelli,
Niccolo. 1909–14. The Prince.
Mandeville, Sir John. 1895. The
Marvellous Adventures of Sir John Maundevile Kt.
The fourteenth-century call
to Crusade through a symbolic mapping of the world, known and unknown.
Marcus Aurelius.
1909–14. The Meditations of Marcus
Aurelius.
This Roman Stoic hands down
the day-to-day principles on which an all-powerful Emperor ruled for the welfare
of the people.
Mill, John Stuart
1909–14. Autobiography.
The honest and heart-felt
account of the tortured philosopher’s education.
1869. On Liberty; 1909–14. On Liberty.
This timeless essay addresses points on
civil liberties that resonate into our twenty-first century world.
Milton, John
1909–14. Areopagitica.
Responds to attempts of the day to
“license,” or ban, religious and political writings.
1909–14. Tractate on Education.
A personal epistle aimed at
the training of youth in the classic and poetic traditions as well as the future
of scientific studies.
More, Sir Thomas.
1909–14. Utopia.
Paine, Thomas.
1776. Common Sense.
An instant bestseller, this
popular pamphlet set the foundation for the “Declaration of
Independence.”
1906. The Writings of Thomas
Paine.
Paré, Ambrose.
1909–14. Journeys in Diverse Places.
Pasteur, Louis.
1909–14. Scientific Papers.
Penn, William.
1909–14. Fruits of Solitude.
The aphorisms of the
founder of Pennsylvania published anonymously so as not to be reimprisoned for
disloyalty.
Plato. 1909–14. The Apology, Phædo and Crito.
Three dialogues that
epitomize the Socratic question-and-answer style turned philosophy.
Pliny the
Younger. 1909–14. Letters.
A glimpse into the daily
life of a Roman patrician.
Plutarch.
1909–14. Lives.
Biographies of Greeks and
Romans aimed more at the kernel of a man than the facts of his life.
Reed, John. 1922.
Ten Days That Shook the World.
The first-person chronicle
of a legendary journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution.
Rhodes, James
Ford. 1917. History of the Civil
War, 1861–1865.
The Pulitzer Prize–winning
chronicle for the general reader of four bloody years that stemmed from the
practice of slavery.
Riis, Jacob
1890. How the Other Half Lives.
Through sensationalist
prose and photography, Riis reveals the appalling living conditions in the Lower
East Side of turn-of-the-century New York City.
1902. The Battle with the Slum.
Sequel to How the Other
Half Lives.
1904. Theodore Roosevelt, the
Citizen.
Biography by
Roosevelt’s lifelong friend and co-worker.
Roosevelt, Theodore
1899. The Rough Riders.
Roosevelt’s memoir of his adventures,
triumphs and defeats in the Spanish-American War.
1885. Hunting Trips of a Ranchman.
Roosevelt’s ode to the
beauty, vigor and challenges of the Dakota Badlands and the frontier
life.
1919. Letters to His Children.
This endearing collection
contains more than twenty years of Roosevelt’s loving correspondence with his
children.
1896. Ranch Life and the Hunting
Trail.
Roosevelt
records the joyous experiences on his ranch in the Dakota Territories, with over
ninety unique illustrations by Frederic Remington.
1913. An Autobiography.
The life that formed one of the
greatest and outspoken Presidents in American history.
1913. History as Literature.
Covers such topics as
modern art, the pursuit of scholarship, science and history, and the poetry of
Dante.
1916. A Book-Lover’s Holidays in the
Open.
Essays
encouraging the average person to cross the line of comfortable and traditional
travel to discover the vitality of outdoor life.
1900. The Strenuous Life.
Commentaries and public
addresses on what is necessary for a vital and healthy political, social and
individual life.
1906. New York.
“A sketch of the city’s social, political,
and commercial progress from the first Dutch settlement to recent times.”
1914. Through the Brazilian
Wilderness.
Biographical account of hunting, camping and
“zoogeographical reconnoissance” with his son Kermit.
1919. Theodore Roosevelt.
An “intimate biography” by
Charles Roscoe Thayer.
1920. A Bibliography of Theodore
Roosevelt.
John
Wheelock’s comprehensive bibliography of Theodore Roosevelt’s writings to
1920.
Roper, William. 1909–14. The Life of
Sir Thomas More.
Rousseau, Jean
Jacques
1909–14. On the Inequality among
Mankind.
The movers of
the French Revolution would embrace the ideas elaborated herein.
1909–14. Profession of Faith of a
Savoyard Vicar.
One
statement of Rousseau’s principles of religious faith.
1913. Social Contract &
Discourses.
Includes
the Discourses on the Arts and Sciences and on the Inequality of Mankind.
Sanger, Margaret.
1920. Woman and the New Race.
Manifesto and chronicle of
the crusader for women’s reproductive rights.
Smith, Adam.
1909–14. Wealth of Nations.
The first complete system
of political economy by the articulator of laissez-faire capitalism.
Strachey,
Lytton. 1918. Eminent Victorians.
Four artful “Victorian
visions” that revolutionized the biography.
Thayer, Charles Roscoe. 1919. Theodore Roosevelt.
Thomas à Kempis.
1909–14. The Imitation of Christ.
This pastiche of biblical
and Catholic passages remains the most influential of Christian devotional
writings.
Van Doren, Carl.
1921. The American Novel.
Historical treatment of the
development of the “Great American Novel.”
Vauvenargues,
Marquis de. 1903. Selections.
Voltaire.
1909–14. Letters on the English.
An examination of the
English free thinkers, scientists, religion and government.
Walton, Izaak.
1909–14. The Lives of John Donne and
George Herbert.
Two of a handful of short
biographies by the subjects’ fellow divine and fishing companion.
Washington, Booker
T. 1901. Up from Slavery.
This autobiographical work
reveals a forceful and potent voice in the fight for African-American equality
from a century ago.
Wells, H.G. 1922.
A Short History of the World.
Wells’s tribute to “the
needs of the busy general reader who wishes to refresh and repair his faded or
fragmentary conceptions of the great adventure of mankind.”
Wheelock, John. 1920. A Bibliography
of Theodore Roosevelt.
Whitman, Walt.
1892. Prose Works.
The Good Gray Poet also
contributed to the greatest prose of American letters with his war diaries,
Prefaces and Democratic Vistas.
Wollstonecraft,
Mary. 1792. A Vindication of the
Rights of Woman.
The first great feminist
treatise.
Woolman, John.
1909–14. The Journal of John Woolman.
Exemplifies the inner life
of the Society of Friends and the first crusade against slavery in the
Americas.
Carlyle,
Thomas
1909–14. Characteristics.
A seminal work of Romantic
interpretation.
1909–14. Inaugural Address at
Edinburgh.
A clear
statement of Carlyle’s moral passions.
1909–14. Sir Walter Scott.
One of Carlyle’s many
essays extolling great men.
Cellini,
Benvenuto. 1909–14. Autobiography.
The honest if
self-aggrandized life of the epitomal Renaissance man.
Chamfort, Nicolas
de. 1902. The Cynic’s Breviary.
Cicero
1909–14. On Friendship & On Old Age.
The master of prose exemplifies the
pragmatism of the philosopher’s mind applied to the human condition.
1909–14. Letters.
The epistles of the great orator and
politician offer both personal insight and policy initiative.
Confucius. 1909–14. The Sayings of
Confucius.
500 verses attributed to
the ancient Chinese teacher.
Dana, Richard Henry,
Jr. 1909–14. Two Years before the
Mast.
Darwin,
Charles
1909–14. The Origin of Species.
The revolutionary theory of
evolution.
1909–14. The Voyage of the Beagle.
Popular account of a
five-year journey of geological, botanical, biological and paleontological
observation.
Descartes, René.
1909–14. Discourse on Method.
The work that would sweep
away accepted truths to create the foundation of modern thought.
Du Bois, W.E.B.
1903. The Souls of Black Folk.
W.E.B. Du Bois sets out to
show to the reader “the strange meaning of being black here in the dawning of
the Twentieth Century.”
Einstein, Albert.
1920. Relativity: The Special and
General Theory.
Professor Einstein follows
a “train” of thought with a Socratic style that provides the reader “a few happy
hours of suggestive thought.”
Eliot, T.S. 1920.
The Sacred Wood.
Eliot’s collection of
essays on poetry and criticism.
Emerson, Ralph
Waldo
1904. The Complete Works.
The twelve-volume Concord
edition features voluminous footnotes painstakingly compiled by his
son.
1909–14. Essays and English Traits.
Epitomal works demonstrate
the genius of the father of the American Renaissance.
Epictetus.
1909–14. The Golden Sayings of
Epictetus.
Like those of Socrates and
Christ, these aphorisms were transcribed by the disciples of the great
Stoic.
Equiano, Olaudah.
1837. The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or
Gustavus Vassa.
Franklin,
Benjamin. 1909–14. His
Autobiography: 1706–1757.
The cornerstone of the
Harvard Classics and Franklin’s account of his journey of self-education.
Freud, Sigmund
1922. Beyond the Pleasure
Principle.
1916. Leonardo da Vinci.
1910. Three Contributions to the
Sexual Theory.
1916. Wit and Its Relation to the
Unconscious.
1912. Selected Papers on Hysteria and
Other Psychoneuroses.
1918. Totem and Taboo.
1918. Reflections on War and
Death.
1920. A General Introduction to
Psychoanalysis.
1914. Psychopathology of Everyday
Life.
1913. The Interpretation of
Dreams.
1917. The History of the
Psychoanalytic Movement.
1917. Delusion and Dream.
1921. Dream Psychology:
Psychoanalysis for Beginners.
1910. Origin and Development of
Psychoanalysis.
1922. Group Psychology and the
Analysis of the Ego.
Froissart, Jean.
1909–14. The Chronicles of
Froissart.
Historical account of
battles of the Hundred Year’s War
Grant, Ulysses S.
1885–86. Personal Memoirs.
Among the greatest of
military memoirs, Grant wrote to the last month of life to restore his family
fortunes.
Grotius, Hugo.
1901. The Rights of War and Peace.
Harrison, William. 1909–14. A
Description of Elizabethan England.
Observations and comments
on life in pre-Elizabethan England.
Harvey, William.
1909–14. On the Motion of the Heart and
Blood in Animals.
Hippocrates.
1909–14. The Oath and Law of
Hippocrates.
Hobbes, Thomas.
1909–14. Of Man, Being the First Part of
Leviathan.
The analogy of the physical
body to the body politic.
Holmes, Oliver
Wendell. 1909–14. The Contagiousness
of Puerperal Fever.
Hume, David.
1909–14. An Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding.
Hutchinson,
Lucy
1906. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel
Hutchinson.
Eyewitness
biography to the English Civil War.
1817. On the Principles of the
Christian Religion.
The
seventeenth-century Puritan theology.
Jenner, Edward.
1909–14. Publications on Vaccination
Against Smallox.
Joubert, Joseph.
1899. A Selection from His Thought.
Jusserand, Jean
Jules. 1916. With Americans of Past
and Present Days.
Seven Pulitzer
Prize–winning biographical vignettes trace U.S.–French relations.
Koran, Chapters from the.
1909–14.
La Bruyère, Jean
de. 1885. Characters.
La Rochefoucauld,
François, duc de. 1912. The Moral
Maxims and Reflections of the Duke de la Rochefoucauld.
Early English translation
of the pillar of French thought.
Lincoln, Abraham.
1897. Political Debates Between Lincoln
and Douglas.
The seven masterpieces of
debate on the evil of slavery.
Lister, Joseph.
1909–14. On the Antiseptic Principle of
the Practice of Surgery.
Locke, John
1909–14. Some Thoughts Concerning
Education.
At the time,
the most significant work advocating educational reform.
1821. Two Treatises on
Government.
Luther,
Martin
1909–14. Address to the Christian
Nobility of the German Nation Respecting the Reformation of the Christian
Estate.
1909–14. Concerning Christian
Liberty.
1909–14. The Ninety-Five Thesis.
Lyell, Charles.
1909–14. Scientific Papers.
Machiavelli,
Niccolo. 1909–14. The Prince.
Mandeville, Sir John. 1895. The
Marvellous Adventures of Sir John Maundevile Kt.
The fourteenth-century call
to Crusade through a symbolic mapping of the world, known and unknown.
Marcus Aurelius.
1909–14. The Meditations of Marcus
Aurelius.
This Roman Stoic hands down
the day-to-day principles on which an all-powerful Emperor ruled for the welfare
of the people.
Mill, John
Stuart
1909–14. Autobiography.
The honest and heart-felt
account of the tortured philosopher’s education.
1869. On Liberty; 1909–14. On Liberty.
This timeless essay addresses points on
civil liberties that resonate into our twenty-first century world.Milton, John
1909–14. Areopagitica.
Responds to attempts of the day to
“license,” or ban, religious and political writings.
1909–14. Tractate on Education.
A personal epistle aimed at
the training of youth in the classic and poetic traditions as well as the future
of scientific studies.
More, Sir Thomas.
1909–14. Utopia.
Paine, Thomas.
1776. Common Sense.
An instant bestseller, this
popular pamphlet set the foundation for the “Declaration of
Independence.”
1906. The Writings of Thomas
Paine.
Paré, Ambrose.
1909–14. Journeys in Diverse Places.
Pasteur, Louis.
1909–14. Scientific Papers.
Penn, William.
1909–14. Fruits of Solitude.
The aphorisms of the
founder of Pennsylvania published anonymously so as not to be reimprisoned for
disloyalty.
Plato. 1909–14. The Apology, Phædo and Crito.
Three dialogues that
epitomize the Socratic question-and-answer style turned philosophy.
Pliny the
Younger. 1909–14. Letters.
A glimpse into the daily
life of a Roman patrician.
Plutarch.
1909–14. Lives.
Biographies of Greeks and
Romans aimed more at the kernel of a man than the facts of his life.
Reed, John. 1922.
Ten Days That Shook the World.
The first-person chronicle
of a legendary journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution.
Rhodes, James
Ford. 1917. History of the Civil
War, 1861–1865.
The Pulitzer Prize–winning
chronicle for the general reader of four bloody years that stemmed from the
practice of slavery.
Riis, Jacob
1890. How the Other Half Lives.
Through sensationalist
prose and photography, Riis reveals the appalling living conditions in the Lower
East Side of turn-of-the-century New York City.
1902. The Battle with the Slum.
Sequel to How the Other
Half Lives.
1904. Theodore Roosevelt, the
Citizen.
Biography by
Roosevelt’s lifelong friend and co-worker.
Roosevelt,
Theodore
1899. The Rough Riders.
Roosevelt’s memoir of his adventures,
triumphs and defeats in the Spanish-American War.
1885. Hunting Trips of a Ranchman.
Roosevelt’s ode to the
beauty, vigor and challenges of the Dakota Badlands and the frontier
life.
1919. Letters to His Children.
This endearing collection
contains more than twenty years of Roosevelt’s loving correspondence with his
children.
1896. Ranch Life and the Hunting
Trail.
Roosevelt
records the joyous experiences on his ranch in the Dakota Territories, with over
ninety unique illustrations by Frederic Remington.
1913. An Autobiography.
The life that formed one of the
greatest and outspoken Presidents in American history.
1913. History as Literature.
Covers such topics as
modern art, the pursuit of scholarship, science and history, and the poetry of
Dante.
1916. A Book-Lover’s Holidays in the
Open.
Essays
encouraging the average person to cross the line of comfortable and traditional
travel to discover the vitality of outdoor life.
1900. The Strenuous Life.
Commentaries and public
addresses on what is necessary for a vital and healthy political, social and
individual life.
1906. New York.
“A sketch of the city’s social, political,
and commercial progress from the first Dutch settlement to recent
times.”
1914. Through the Brazilian
Wilderness.
Biographical account of hunting, camping and
“zoogeographical reconnoissance” with his son Kermit.
1919. Theodore Roosevelt.
An “intimate biography” by
Charles Roscoe Thayer.
1920. A Bibliography of Theodore
Roosevelt.
John
Wheelock’s comprehensive bibliography of Theodore Roosevelt’s writings to
1920.
Roper, William. 1909–14. The Life of
Sir Thomas More.
Rousseau, Jean
Jacques
1909–14. On the Inequality among
Mankind.
The movers of
the French Revolution would embrace the ideas elaborated herein.
1909–14. Profession of Faith of a
Savoyard Vicar.
One
statement of Rousseau’s principles of religious faith.
1913. Social Contract &
Discourses.
Includes
the Discourses on the Arts and Sciences and on the Inequality of Mankind.
Sanger, Margaret.
1920. Woman and the New Race.
Manifesto and chronicle of
the crusader for women’s reproductive rights.
Smith, Adam.
1909–14. Wealth of Nations.
The first complete system
of political economy by the articulator of laissez-faire capitalism.
Strachey,
Lytton. 1918. Eminent Victorians.
Four artful “Victorian
visions” that revolutionized the biography.
Thayer, Charles Roscoe. 1919. Theodore Roosevelt.
Thomas à Kempis.
1909–14. The Imitation of Christ.
This pastiche of biblical
and Catholic passages remains the most influential of Christian devotional
writings.
Van Doren, Carl.
1921. The American Novel.
Historical treatment of the
development of the “Great American Novel.”
Vauvenargues,
Marquis de. 1903. Selections.
Voltaire.
1909–14. Letters on the English.
An examination of the
English free thinkers, scientists, religion and government.
Walton, Izaak.
1909–14. The Lives of John Donne and
George Herbert.
Two of a handful of short
biographies by the subjects’ fellow divine and fishing companion.
Washington, Booker
T. 1901. Up from Slavery.
This autobiographical work
reveals a forceful and potent voice in the fight for African-American equality
from a century ago.
Wells, H.G. 1922.
A Short History of the World.
Wells’s tribute to “the
needs of the busy general reader who wishes to refresh and repair his faded or
fragmentary conceptions of the great adventure of mankind.”
Wheelock, John. 1920. A Bibliography
of Theodore Roosevelt.
Whitman, Walt.
1892. Prose Works.
The Good Gray Poet also
contributed to the greatest prose of American letters with his war diaries,
Prefaces and Democratic Vistas.
Wollstonecraft,
Mary. 1792. A Vindication of the
Rights of Woman.
The first great feminist
treatise.
Woolman, John.
1909–14. The Journal of John Woolman.
Exemplifies the inner life
of the Society of Friends and the first crusade against slavery in the
Americas.
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