Great books as life-teachers
Subtitle: studies of character, real and ideal
By: by Newell Dwight Hillis ...
Edition: 25th ed.
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell company
Published: 1906
Place of publication: Chicago; New York [etc.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.; Eliot, George, 1819-1880.; Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.; Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885.; Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.; Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1801-1885.; Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 1839-1898.; Livingstone, David, 1813-1873.; Gladstone, W. E. 1809-1898.; Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.; Character.
Table of contents: value: The new times, and the poets and essayists as prophets of a new era.; value: John Ruskin's "Seven lamps of architecture" as interpreters of the seven laws of life ...; value: George Eliot's Tito, in "Romola" ...; value: Hawthorne's "Scarlet letter" and the retributive workings of conscience ...; value: Victor Hugo's "Les miserables."; value: Tennyson's "Idylls of the king."; value: The tragedy of the ten-talent men; a study of Browning's "Saul."; value: The memoirs of Henry Drummond, and the dawn of an era of friendship between science and religion.; value: The opportunities of leisure and wealth; an outlook upon the life of Lord Shaftesbury.; value: The biography of Frances Willard, and the heroes of social reform.; value: Blaikie's life of David Livingstone; a study of nineteenth-century heroism.; value: The Christian scholar in politics; a study of the life of William Ewart Gladstone.