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 THE MODERN STUDENT'S LIBRARY

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON’S ESSAYS

With an Introduction by

WILLIAM LYON PHELPS Professor of English at Yale University

This volume includes not only essays in formal literary criticism, but also of personal monologue and gossip, as well as philosophical essays on the greatest themes that can occupy the mind of man. All reveal the complex, whimsical, humorous, romantic, imaginative, puritanical personality now known everywhere by the formula

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PENDENNIS By THaAckERAY

With an Introduction by ROBERT MORSS LOVETT Professor of English at the University of Chicago “Pendennis” stands as a great representative of biographical fiction and reflects more of the details of Thackeray’s life than all his other writings. Of its kind there is probably no more interesting book in our literature.

THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE

By Tuomas Harpy

With an Introduction and Notes by

JOHN W. CUNLIFFE Professor of English at Columbia University

“The Return of the Native” is probably Thomas Hardy’s great tragic masterpiece. It carries to the highest perfection the rare genius of the finished writer. It presents in the most remarkable way Hardy’s interpretation of nature in which there is a perfect unison between the physical world and the human character.