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Stoddard Library, The - 10 Volumes : Christian Anderson, George Eliot, Emerson, Tennyson, Thackeray, Thoreau, French Literature, German Literature, Marlowe, Maupassant, Melville, Milton, Poe And More

by Hans Christian Anderson, George Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy De Maupassant, Herman Melville, John Milton, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred Tennyson, Omar Khayyam, Plato, Thomas Babington Macaulay

Publisher :Geo. L. Shuman & Co.
Year :1913
Edition :First, Thus
Pages :4000
Condition :Very Good
Binding :Hardcover
Price : $179.95


Item Description :

Geo. L. Shuman & Co. of Chicago and Boston, 1913. "A Thousand Hours of entertainment With The World's Great Writers". Ten of 12 volume matched set. Very good condition, green cloth with paper spine labels, moderate general wear; interiors quite clean and mark free, volume IX cover shows some roughing on back board and last several pages have creaeing and a bit soiled. Set includes : Volumes I - VI, VIII - X, and XII (missing Volumes VII and XI.). A wonderful compendium of exerpts and biographical material which could serve as a primer to English literature. Volume one, for example, introduces Hans Christian Andersen, the Arabian Knights, Audobon, and Balzac, to name but a few. Read these and you will be conversent at any literatti cocktail party. Each volume features several colored plates with captioned tissue guards. The authors include Hans Christian Anderson, George Eliot, Emerson, Franklin, French Literature, German Literature, Marlowe, Maupassant, Melville, Milton, Moliere, Omar Khayyam, Plato, Poe, Plutarch, Pope, Rabelais, Rossetti, Ruskin, Scott Kipling, Lamb, Lincoln, Longfellow, Lowell, Lytton, Macaulay, Tennyson, Thackeray, Thoreau, Virgil, Whitman, Whittier and many others. Approximately 4000 pages.



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