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Arthur Schnitzler (1862 ù 1931) was an Austrian playwright, author and doctor. SchnitzlerZs writings were criticized for their anti-Semitism and their explicit descriptions of sexuality. Schnitzler kept a diary for many years and for a period of time he recorded every orgasm and with whom in great detail. Schnitzler was branded as a pornographer after the release of his play Reigen, and his works were later cited as an example of "Jewish filth...

Annals of Oxford gives the reader a delightful history of Oxford. Jeaffreson combines historical information with a bit of humor. Jeaffreson discusses the University under the reigns of the Stuarts and the Georges. The events that occurred at Oxford had a lasting effect on the history of England.

Alice Hegan Rice was born on January 11, 1870, in Shelbyville, Kentucky to Samuel Watson Hegan and Sallie P. Hegan. Her father was an art dealer so she was born with a knack for creativity. As a child, she would entertain her family members with creative stories that she came up with on the spot. When she was in school, writing was obviously her strongest subject. She was so good at writing that she even had a submission that was published by ...

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Theodore Roosevelt was a writer, naturalist soldier and 26th President of the United States. His military exploits and his love of nature are well known. While spending 2 years at his ranch in the badlands of the Dakotas, Roosevelt became increasingly aware of the environment and the need to preserve it. Roosevelt was president of the United States from 1901 to1909. Roosevelt was also a ranch rider, ornithologist, big game hunter, and soldier,...

Anglers' Evenings contains a group of papers read by members of the Manchester anglersZ Association at their monthly meetings. This is not a scholarly work. It is instead a group of papers meant for entertainment to be enjoyed by kindred spirits. Papers include Let Patience Have Her Perfect Work, Trout Fishing in Norway, The AnglerZs Joy, The Mind of Fishes, Rod Fishing off the Isle of Man, Rod Fishing in the Sea, A Conger Story, The Derbyshir...

Harkness brings the thrill of the circus alive in Andy the Acrobat. You can almost smell the grease paint, hear the flapping of the tent, see the antics of the clowns, and hear the roar of the animals. An excerpt reads, ôThinking over all this, Andy realized that the beginning and end of all his troubles was his irrepressible tendency towards acrobatic performances. "And I simply can't help it!" he cried in a kind of reckless despair. "It's bo...

Toru Dutt (1856 ù1877) was an Indian poet who wrote in English and French. At the time of her death, she left behind two unpublished novelsÚ Le Journal de Mademoiselle dZArvers (thought to be the first novel in French by an Indian writer) and Bianca, or the Young Spanish Maiden (thought to be the first novel in English by an Indian woman writer)Úin addition to an unfinished volume of original poems in English, Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hi...

Book Excerpt: him would have spent his first earnings, as other ambitious ones did, for a saddle, but 'Thanase Beausoleil had bought a fiddle.He had hardly got it before he knew how to play it. Yet, to the father's most welcome surprise, he remained just as bold a rider and as skilful a thrower of the arriatte as ever. He came into great demand for the Saturday-night balls. When the courier with a red kerchief on a wand came galloping round, t...

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John Solomon Rarey (1827-1866) was one of the nineteenth century horse whisperers and an important figure in the rehabilitation of abused and vicious horses during the 1850s. An excerpt from The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans says ôWord of his gift spread and in 1858 he was summoned to Windsor Castle in England to calm a horse of Queen Victoria. The Queen and her entourage watched astonished as Rarey put his hands on the animal and laid it ...

Thomas Henry Huxley was a 19th century British biologist known as DarwinZs Bulldog. Huxley's famous 1860 debate with Samuel Wilberforce was a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution. Huxley was instrumental in developing scientific education in Britain. He became perhaps the finest comparative anatomist of the second half of the nineteenth century even though he had very little schooling and was primarily self-taught. The Table of Cont...

Julia Ward Howe (1819 ù1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." In 1870 Howe was the first to proclaim Mother's Day, with her Mother's Day Proclamation. After the war she worked with the suffrage movement, promoted pacifism, and Russian freedom. This collection of poems includes Abraham Lincoln, Marines Hymn, New York, Old Home Week in Boston, Kansas,...

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John Burroughs (1837 ù 1921) was an American naturalist important to the Conservation movement. He like Thoreau wrote essays on nature. Burroughs was the ôGrand Old Man of Natureö when the American romance with nature, and the American conservation movement, had come fully into their own. He grew up on a farm in New York and at age 17 became a teacher. Burroughs wrote over 30 books and published hundreds of essays. The table of Contents includ...

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