From the Easy Chair Vol. 1 - Free Audiobook
Author(s): George William Curtis
Language: English
Genre(s): Essays & Short WorksNon-fiction
1 / 27Edward Everett in 1862
- 1. Edward Everett in 1862
- 2. At the Opera in 1864
- 3. Emerson Lecturing
- 4. Shops and Shopping
- 5. Mrs. Grundy and the Cosmopolitan
- 6. Dickens Reading (1867)
- 7. Phillis
- 8. Thoreau and my Lady Cavaliere
- 9. Honestus at the Caucus
- 10. Thalberg and Other Pianists (1871)
- 11. Urbs and Rus
- 12. Rip Van Winkle
- 13. A Chinese Critic
- 14. Holiday Sauntering
- 15. Wendell Phillips at Harvard (1881)
- 16. Easter Bonnets
- 17. Jenny Lind
- 18. The Town
- 19. Sarah Shaw Russell
- 20. Street Music
- 21. A Little Dinner with Thackeray
- 22. Cecilia Playing
- 23. The Mannerless Sex
- 24. Robert Browning in Florence
- 25. Players
- 26. Unmusical Boxes
- 27. The Academy Dinner in Arcadia
About
George William Curtis was a writer and public speaker. He was editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the American Republican party, and served Ulysses S. Grant; although he split from the party in the 1880s over the choice of presidential candidate. He was an original member of the New York Board of Education. This anthology of essays is the first of a three volume work, showing his broad knowledge and interest. - Summary by Lynne Thompson
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