This beautiful volume showcases the full range of Poe's genius--from "The Raven" and terrifying tales like "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Masque of the Red Death," to humorous sketches, the very first detective stories, early works of science fiction, and literary criticism.

    William Makepeace Thackeray, Benjamin Disraeli, Thomas Carlyle, Alfred Tennyson, Edgar Allan Poe, George Eliot, and Queen Victoria are among the players in the drama of his life: a drama in which he appears as one of the most complex figures of his time, a man whose political and social crusades against illiteracy, capital punishment, unjust penal systems, and child abuse are as compelling as his literary achievements. As the original 2-volume edition of Charles Dickens: His Tragedy & Triumph appeared, Lionel Trilling wrote: "We cannot say less of Mr. Johnson's book than it is the definitive life of Dickens. & to say that is to say that it is a splendid achievement & a work of superlative interest & charm."V1 The anvil & the iron: 1812-33: Birth & backgroundThe happy time The challenge of despairAmbition's ladder First love Climb to fame: 1833-37: The career takes shapeBoz is born Catherine Pickwick triumphantKnight of the joyful countenanceTroubles & triumphs: 1837-39: Metamorphosis of a journalistLost love Ascent of the rocketThe break with BentleyThe will in command Deeper cast: 1839-41: The thieves' den & the worldMaster Humphrey's clock strikes one Emergence of a radical The neglected & misusedTriumph in Scotland & the eve of a new departureThe new World: 1842: The American dream Conquest with undertonesNot the republic of my imaginationReturn journey Home again: valedictory on America Crescendo of restlessness: 1843-46: Year of disappointmentSelfishness & the economic man Battles & Italinan air-castles From the bells of Genoa ...To the chimes of LondonLast days in Italy Birth pangs of the daily newsV2 At grips with himself: 1846-51: Difficulties with DombeyThe want of something The world of DombeyismA haunted man Myself into the shadowy world His favorite child Household words Splendid barnstormingFog over England The anatomy of societyThe heaviest blow in my powerCritique of materialism Fire bursts out Nobody's fault Old hell shaft The prison of societyBreaking point The track of a stormSurface serene The tempest & the ruined gardenIntimations of mortality The great dust-heap The bottom of the cup: 1865-70: Pilgrim of Gad's Hill To the loadstone rock Last rally The dying & undying voiceThe narrow bed

    Great Books of the Western World54 volume setRobert Maynard Hutchins, Editor in Chief

    During the first decades of its existence, the Staff was led by idealists with constructive political conceptions. The emergence later of anonymous technicians, whose political convictions were either nonexistent or based on ambition, only aggravated a militaristic national temperament. Hitler's hostility caused many Staff members to be torn between their ethical responsibilities & the traditional military obedience dictated by their oath of office. In the end, Hitler succeeded in destroying the German General Staff, perhaps because it had become composed of so many different political and intellectual strains. Based on research & interviews with military staff who survived WWII.

    Pierce introduces his family to the daunting challenge of life in a sod hut on the windswept plain of the Texas Panhandle. While the move offers a prospect of something new to little Carolyn and adventure to the lively twins, Bert and Dick, it promises to be an ordeal of labor and isolation for Mama, Melinda and timid Katie. 14-year-old Melinda Pierce, the oldest, is especially dismayed. She has given up her friends and happy town life, for this? She clings tightly to her grandmother’s promise that when Melinda is 16 she may return to East Texas and join her friends at school. Before long, however, Melinda is caught up in the compelling beauty of this land of wind and wide horizons, with its adventures and with its gift of new friendship. This is the first of three stories about the Texas Panhandle of the 1890’s, each highlighting one of the Pierce family daughters. Ages 11 and up

    With passion and verve, Joseph Kinsey Howard, author of the best-selling Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome, narrates the tragic story of Riel, the Metis people, and their struggle for a homeland on the plains of the U.S.-Canada border.

    • Two Complete Novels: Typee and Billy Budd• Self-contained portions of four other novels• Stories, including "Bartleby"• Selections from travel-journals• Letters, poems, marginalia, and other writings—specially arranged with editorial comments that tell the story of Herman Melville's life in relation to his work

    Here also are examples of Crane's newspaper reporting, such as the raw materials of his fiction as his accounts of the Battle of San Juan and the wreck of the S.S. Commodore. All of Stephen Crane's finest fiction except The Red Badge of Courage is contained in this book.

    Besides the House of Lords controversy, Home Rule dispute and his role in the war it describes the King's childhood and naval training. New information is also provided concerning the 1931 crisis.