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Published by Columbia University Press in 1929, this substantial volume gathers selections and commentary from many of the most influential English writers of the nineteenth century. Inside are works by Thomas Hardy, William Morris, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, and many others, accompanied by critical essays prepared for Columbia University’s literature curriculum. The richly embossed green binding with the university seal gives the book a distinguished academic presence. An attractive piece for collectors of literary history, university press publications, and beautifully produced educational books from the interwar period.