Austin Dobson: 25 books

This 1902 collection of papers is described by its author as having unique subjects, away from “the glitter and bustle of the more-frequented promenades of letters.” Included are "Dr. Johnson's Haunts and Habitations," "Titled Authors of the Eighteenth Century," "A Walk from Fulham to Chiswick," and "'Vader Cats,'" among others.

Between projects, the distinguished English poet dipped into his notebooks in 1917 to offer this “commonplace book of a journeyman of letters.” Includes “Literature and Life,” “True Learning,” “Catholicity in Taste,” “His Greek Models,” “An Aphorism for Critics,” “Petty Criticism,”...

This 1899 collection includes the eponymous "A Paladin of Philanthropy," about the eccentric figure of Sir James Oglethorpe (1696-1785), British general and MP, philanthropist, social reformer, and founder of the colony of Georgia. Also included are pieces on Oliver Goldsmith's poems and plays, John Gay, and Boswell's literary predecessors.

This 1910 collection of essays on literature, history, and culture by the distinguished English poet includes the title essay as well as “Percy and Goldsmith,” “Mr. Craddock of Gumley,” “Sir John Hawkins, Knight,” “Laureate Whitehead,” “Lyttleton as a Man of Letters,” “Chambers the Architect,” “The Oxford Thackeray,” and others.

Sir Richard Steele (1672–1729) was an Irish writer and politician who is best remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine The Spectator. This engaging biography of Steele, part of the authoritative English Men of Letters series, is an invaluable resource for students of history and literature.

This biography of Henry Fielding (1707–1754), part of the authoritative English Men of Letters series, is an invaluable resource for students of literature. Fielding, renowned for his satirical skills and bawdy humor, is best known for his rambunctious novel Tom Jones (1749), although The Adventures of Joseph Andrews (1742) marked his debut as a serious novelist.

Leslie Stephen's brilliant studies, in the recent edition de luxe and the Cornhill Magazine, are now in every one's hands, it is perhaps no more than a wise discretion which has prompted me to confine my attention more strictly to the purely biographical side of the subject. III. Sir Walter Scott's biographical...

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 6200 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • History of Tom Jones, a Foundling • Joseph Andrews, Vol. • An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela...

New books can have few associations. They may reach us on the best deckle-edged Whatman paper, in the newest types of famous presses, with backs of embossed vellum, with tasteful tasselled strings,--and yet be no more to us than the constrained and uneasy acquaintances of yesterday. Friends they may...