The literature of America and our favorite authors : containing the lives of our noted American and favorite English authors, together with choice selections from their writings ... / Compiled and edited by William Wilfred Birdsall ... Rufus M. Jones ... Embellished with nearly one hundred and fifty half-tone portraits and about 200 text illustrations, by Charles Dana Gibson, Corwin K. Linson and others
- Author
- Birdsall, William Wilfred, 1854-1909
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Butler & Alger, [c1898].
- Physical Description
- 672 p. incl. front. illus., plates, ports. ; 25 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Jones, Rufus Matthew, 1863-1948
- Subject(s)
- Note
- Issued also under titles: Home school of American literature, and Shepp's Literary world: issued 1901 (with substitution of the sections "American literature at the close of the century" and "The ten greatest books of the nineteenth century" for the section "Seventeen of our favorite English authors") under titles: Beautiful gems from American writers, Library of American literature, and A century of American literature: issued in part under titles: Pleasant hours with American authors, Library of the best American literature, and as "volume II" of Famous authors and the best literature of England and America.
- Action Note
- committed to retain 20170930 20430101 HathiTrust https://www.hathitrust.org/shared_print_program
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