1898 The Literature of America and Our Favorite Authors, buy Poe Whitman Longfellow Dickens Whittier Irving Tennyson Shakespeare Twain etc.
Terrific condition copy of "The Literature of America and Our Favorite Authors" -.
buy Terrific condition copy of "The Literature of America and Our Favorite Authors" - Containing the Lives of Our Noted American and Favorite English Authors. 1898; Eaton & Mains; New York. The book is illustrated with 150 half-tone portraits and about 200 text illustrations. Decorative floral end papers. "Together with choice selections from their writings, embracing the great poets of England and America, famous novelists, distinguished essayists and historians, our humorists, noted journalists and magazine contributors, statesmen in literature, noted women in literature, popular writers for young people, great orators and public lecturers, etc.
Here are a few of the authors included: Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, Shakespeare, John Milton, Robert Burns, Alfred Tennyson, Sir Walter Scott, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Susan B. Anthony, Daniel Webster, Patrick Henry, Horace Greeley, Louisa May Alcott, Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus), Mark Twain, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier...and many more.
The contents are grouped into the following "departments": Great Poets of America; Our Most Noted Novelists; Famous Women Novelists; Representative Women Poets of America; Well-known Essayists, Critics and Sketch Writers; Great American Historians and Biographies; Our National Humorists; Popular Writers for Young People; Noted Journalists and Magazine Contributors; Great Orators and Popular Lecturers; Famous Women Orators and Reformers; Miscellaneous Masterpieces and Choice Gems; Seventeen of Our Favorite English Authors.
Condition:
Clean covers and spine; sharp corners; there are a few scratch lines over the title on the front cover. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. The inside of the book is in excellent condition - clean pages with no issues found. Overall a very nice copy.