Hours in a Library, Volume 3 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Leslie Stephen

Overview

Sir Leslie Stephen was a distinguished literary and social critic. The third of four wide-ranging volumes on books, writers, and history, this 1907 edition includes the essays “Charlotte Brontë,” “Charles Kingsley,” “Godwin and Shelley,” “Macaulay,” “Landor’s Imaginary Conversations,” “The First Edinburgh Reviewers,” “Cowper and Rousseau,” “Wordsworth’s Ethics,” and “Fielding’s Novels.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411457089
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	10/25/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	418
File size:	320 KB

About the Author

Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) was a British biographer, journalist, literary critic, and avid mountaineer. His works include The Playground of Europe (1871), Essays on Free Thinking and Plain Speaking (1873), The Utilitarians (1900), and biographies of Johnson, Pope, Swift, Eliot, and Hobbes. He was the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.