Books and the Man

xiv, 374 pp. CONTENTS: Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass; Daniel Defoe and Robinson Crusoe; Charles Dickens and The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; Izaak Walton and The Compleat Angler; Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin; George du Maurier and Trilby; John Bunyan and The Pilgrim's Progress; John James Audubon and The Birds of America; Robert Burns and His Poems; Mark Twain and The Innocents Abroad; Oliver Goldsmith and The Vicar of Wakefield; Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter; Samuel Johnson and His Dictionary of the English Language; Edgar Allan Poe and His Tales; Lewis Carroll and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Washington Irving and The Sketch Book; Samuel Pepys and His Diary; Edward Fitzgerald and His Translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Benjamin Franklin and His Autobiography; William Makepeace Thackeray and Vanity Fair.