Companionable books
By: by Henry Van Dyke.
Series: The Works of Henry Van Dyke. Avalon ed -- v.17. -- Companionable books
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1922
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Literature -- History.; English literature -- History and criticism.
Table of contents: value: The Book of books.; value: Poetry in the psalms.; value: The good enchantment of Charles Dickens.; value: Thackeray and real men. George Eliot and real women.; value: The poet of immortal youth (Keats); value: The recovery of joy (Wordsworth); value: "The glory of the imperfect." (Browning); value: A quaint comrade by quiet streams (Walton); value: A sturdy believer (Samuel Johnson); value: A Puritan plus poetry (Emerson); value: An adventurer in velvet jacket (Stevenson)