| Author |
Curtis, George William, 1824-1892 |
| Title |
From the Easy Chair, Volume 1
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| Contents |
Edward Everett in 1862 -- At the opera in 1864 -- Emerson lecturing -- Shops and shopping -- Mrs. Grundy and the cosmopolitan -- Dickens reading [1867] -- Phillis -- Thoreau and my Lady Cavaliere -- Honestus at the caucus -- Thalberg and other pianists [1871] -- Urbs and rus -- Rip Van Winkle -- A Chinese critic -- Holiday sauntering -- Wendell Phillips at Harvard [1881] -- Easter bonnets -- Jenny Lind -- The town -- Sarah Shaw Russell -- Street music -- A little dinner with Thackeray -- Cecilia playing -- The mannerless sex -- Robert Browning in Florence -- Players -- Unmusical boxes -- The academy dinner in Arcadia.
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| Credits |
Produced by Eric Eldred, Brendan Lane and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team.
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
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| Subject |
American essays
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| Category |
Text |
| EBook-No. |
7475 |
| Release Date |
Feb 1, 2005 |
| Most Recently Updated |
Feb 7, 2015 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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