Thomas Wentworth: 37 books

From the distinguished “English Men of Letters” series comes this biography of Quaker author and activist John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892). A member of nineteenth century New England’s family-friendly Fireside Poets School, Whittier was frequently mobbed for his outspoken antislavery beliefs....

This edition features a linked Table of Contents. CONTENTS. THE MAROONS OF JAMAICA THE MAROONS OF SURINAM GABRIEL’S DEFEAT DENMARK VESEY NAT TURNER’S INSURRECTION APPENDIX

This 1898 collection of the militant abolitionist’s essays and sketches includes “A Cambridge Boyhood,” “A Child of the College,” “The Rearing of a Reformer,” “The Fugitive Slave Epoch,” “Kansas and John Brown,” “Civil War,” “Literary London Twenty Years Ago,” and “On the Outskirts of Public Life,” among others.

This 1884 volume in the American Men of Letters series presents the biography of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, better known as Margaret Fuller, a proto-feminist and leading transcendentalist.  Drawing on her letters and papers, Higginson takes pains to show her as a woman of action as well as intellect.

The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern artificiality does not prevent a prompt appreciation of the qualities of directness and simplicity in approaching the greatest themes, — life and love and death. That “irresistible...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Complete Works World's Best Collection This is the world’s best Longfellow collection, including the most complete set of Longfellow’s works available plus many free bonus materials. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American...

Hawthorne in his 'Wonder Book' has described the beautiful Greek myths and traditions, but no one has yet made similar use of the wondrous tales that gathered for more than a thousand years about the islands of the Atlantic deep. Although they are a part of the mythical period of American history,...

AS one wanders along this southwestern promontory of the Isle of Peace, and looks down upon the green translucent water which forever bathes the marble slopes of the Pirates' Cave, it is natural to think of the ten wrecks with which the past winter has strewn this shore. Though almost all trace of their...

Our August life rushes by, in Oldport, as if we were all shot from the mouth of a cannon, and were endeavoring to exchange visiting-cards on the way. But in September, when the great hotels are closed, and the bronze dogs that guarded the portals of the Ocean House are collected sadly in the music pavilion,...

Hawthorne in his 'Wonder Book' has described the beautiful Greek myths and traditions, but no one has yet made similar use of the wondrous tales that gathered for more than a thousand years about the islands of the Atlantic deep. Although they are a part of the mythical period of American history,...