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A landmark book, published in 1840, six years after Coleridge’s death, Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit is a major contribution to both theological and philosophical reflection within Romanticism. Confessions focuses on the question of Scriptural infallibility, protesting blind and uncritical worship of the Scriptures, and plays a central role in the development of biblical criticism.

Hand-picked from several hundred letters from readers to Nicoll’s beloved British Weekly, and published under the pen-name Claudius Clear, this collection offers “Memories of Meredith,” “The Six Best Biographies,” “The Secret of Emerson,” “Was Thackeray a Cynic?,” “The Conversation...

This 1912 collection of essays on books and bookselling includes “The Christmas Book,” “Bookselling and Some of its Humours,” “Early Victorian Bookselling,” “Some Old Libraries,” “The Revolution in Educational Literature,” “The Evolution of the Bookseller,” “Nineteenth Century...

Cardinal Newman’s study outlines the history of Arianism—a belief system asserting that Christ is not a divine but a created being—between the first and second general councils (325-381 AD). It then describes the events surrounding the resolution of the divisions caused by the teachings of Arius,...

Along with sermons, essays, and religious books, Newman was a noted author of hymns and poetry. A poetic imagining of the state of a pious soul just after death—as it journeys towards judgment—The Dream of Gerontius is one of Newman’s most famous poems. It was later set to music as an oratorio by Sir Edward Elgar.

Never one to back away from controversy, Friedrich Nietzsche assails the Christian Church in Twilight of the Idols.  In this classic work, he sets out to substitute the morality of the Catholic and the Protestant Churches with that of Dionysian morality.  Twilight of the Idols furthermore lays the foundation for key arguments that Nietzsche more fully develops in later writings.

The legendary romance of Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson and the Lady Emma Hamilton comes to thrilling life in this dual 1888 historical biography based on letters and other papers that had recently come to light. Witness Emma’s spectacular debut, her meteoric rise in society, and how friendship with the naval hero turned to love.

This 1910 collection of scholarly articles discusses Thomas Hardy, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Henryk Sienkiewicz, William De Morgan, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alfred Ollivant, and Richard Doddridge Blackmoore’s romance Lorna Doone. Also...

The prolific biographer, first editor of the 26 volumes of the Dictionary of National Biography, and father of Virginia Woolf, shares secrets of the trade in this wide-ranging collection of essays. This second of four volumes published from 1898-1902 includes "The Story of Scott's Ruin," "The Importation...

Written in a vivid, pointed, and direct style, this posthumous collection of writings by an eminent British poet and critic includes considerations of works by Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Morris, John Davidson, Mrs. Humphry Ward, George Meredith, Austin Dobson, Cardinal Manning, L. Osbourne, Nicolas Caussin, and Richard le Gallienne.

The prolific biographer, first editor of the 26 volumes of the Dictionary of National Biography, and father of Virginia Woolf, shares secrets of the trade in this wide-ranging collection of essays. This third of four volumes published from 1898-1902 includes "The Browning Letters," "John Donne," "John...

Saintsbury examines the life of John Dryden (1631–1700), England’s first Poet Laureate and one of the most important writers of the late seventeenth century. He is best known for his poems, plays, literary essays and translations, including such satirical works as MacFlecknoe. Saintsbury focuses...

This 1897 work of historical criticism examines the life and works of Paradise Lost’s author—within the context of his pre-Restoration career (1632-1660). Masterman also considers many of Milton’s contemporaries such as Thomas Hobbes, Sir Thomas Browne, and Thomas Fuller.

Written in Whibley’s entertaining prose, this 1913 volume features profiles of Sir Thomas Overbury; George Buchanan; Edward Hall; John Tiptoft; John Stow; James Crichton; Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle; and Sir Thomas Browne.