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A Treatise of Human Nature proposes an empiricist science of mind, morals, and society. In three booksOf the Understanding, Of the Passions, and Of MoralsHume derives ideas from impressions, treats causation as custom, diagnoses the problem of induction, and advances a bundle theory of the self; he then explains pride, sympathy, and practical reasoning, and grounds justice, property, and promising as artificial virtues while marking the isought gap. Its rigorous, Newtonian style and vivid examples place it at the apex of British empiricism. Composed in his twenties while in France, notably at La Fleche, David Hume sought to be the "Newton of the moral sciences." Educated in Edinburgh and steeped in the Scottish Enlightenment, he fused classical learning with commercialage psychology and ancientmodern skepticism. Though the Treatise "fell deadborn from the press," he later recast portions in the Enquiries. Demanding yet rewarding, this volume suits readers in philosophy, cognitive science, law, and political theory. Read it in a reliable critical edition, with Humes Abstract and crossreference to the Enquiries; the result is a durable framework for belief, action, and social order. For anyone seeking modern empiricisms foundations and a lucid map of the minds limits, the Treatise is indispensable.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Published in 1873 as the third Rougon-Macquart novel, The Belly of Paris immerses readers in Les Halles, the iron-and-glass market of the Second Empire. Following the returned exile Florent and the charcutiers Quenu and Lisa, Zola opposes the thin and the fat while staging politics amid pyramids of food. Naturalist cataloguesmost famously the symphony of cheeseslink sensory excess to surveillance and social control. Zola (18401902), architect of literary naturalism, conceived the Rougon-Macquart as a natural and social history of a family under Napoleon III, governed by heredity and milieu. Informed by Tainean determinism and rigorous reporting, he haunted Les Halles with notebooks and sketches. Written after the Commune, the novel tests how abundance and civic order cloak repression and betrayals among neighbors. Readers of Balzac and Flaubert, as well as students of urban modernity and food culture, will find this anatomy of consumption indispensable. For its vivid prose and lucid sociology alike, The Belly of Paris remains a masterclass in seeing power in everyday plentyrewarding in any reliable modern translation.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Science of Psychic Healing (Unabridged) is a compelling anthology that explores the intricate interplay between mind and body, showcasing a profound range of literary styles indicative of early 20th-century metaphysical thought. Within its pages, readers will encounter a rich tapestry of essays and discourses, offering an in-depth examination of alternative healing methodologies. This collection challenges conventional medical paradigms, presenting a spectrum of ideas from the intellectually rigorous to the spiritually contemplative, and includes standout pieces that delve into the transformative power of mental training and vibrational healing, making it a significant contribution to the literature of psychic energy. This anthology is curated by notable figures in the New Thought movement, William Walker Atkinson and Yogi Ramacharaka, who together bring a wealth of experience and revolutionary perspective, serving as linchpins in the dissemination of Eastern philosophy in Western contexts. Atkinsons pragmatic approach is complemented by Ramacharakas spiritual insights, creating a dynamic dialogue that aligns with the burgeoning interest in esoteric and psychic phenomena at the time. Their combined efforts illuminate the manifold ways in which psychology and spirituality intersect, inspiring readers to reconsider the boundaries of conventional healing practices. The Science of Psychic Healing (Unabridged) offers a unique opportunity to engage with a multiplicity of perspectives that are as educational as they are thought-provoking. This anthology is recommended for those seeking to enhance their understanding of holistic healing through historical and cultural lenses. Readers are invited to immerse themselves in this volume and witness the intricate dialogues that emerge between differing philosophies, ultimately fostering a broader appreciation for the science and art of psychic healing.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Set in New Kingdom Egypt, The Cat of Bubastes follows Amuba, a Rebu prince enslaved in the Nile valley, whose friendship with Chebron, son of a high priest, triggers crisis when a sacred cat is slain. What begins as domestic training and temple routine unfurls into flight, conspiracy, and survival across river, marsh, and desert. Henty couples brisk incident with exposition, weaving religion, craft, warfare, and law into a narrative that reflects Victorian Egyptology; the central sacrilege becomes a lens on piety, civic order, and priestly power. A journalist and war correspondent before turning to historical fiction for the young, G. A. Henty (18321902) wrote with a reporters economy and a schoolmasters pedagogy. He mined contemporary Egyptology and travel literature to furnish convincing material culture, while channeling Victorian ideals of duty, resourcefulness, and Protestant fortitude through adolescent protagonists. His outsiders curiosity about ancient institutions, joined to a taste for tactical problem-solving, shapes the books blend of ethnography and escape. Readers of historical adventure, students of Ancient Egypt, and educators seeking discussable fiction will find this a lively, instructive tale. Read it for pace and period detail, and also for the ethical questions it poses.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Eight Homilies Against the Jews comprises late fourth-century Antiochene sermons in which John Chrysostom chastises Christians who visited synagogues and observed Jewish festivals. Blending expository exegesis with courtroom invective, he wields Pauline argument, Septuagint proof-texts, typology, and relentless anaphora to assert Christian supersession and deter judaizing. The homilies are pastoral performances as much as polemics, framed by a Christianizing empire in which urban congregations negotiated proximity to Jews and God-fearers. Trained by the pagan rhetor Libanius and seasoned by ascetic discipline, Chrysostom, later archbishop of Constantinople, brought classical technique to pastoral crisis. In Antioch he faced Christians drawn to synagogue liturgy, shared festivals, and healing rites; coupled with new imperial laws and his reformist zeal, these pressures sharpened his boundary-policing tone. The homilies join his wider program of moral admonition and biblical commentary aimed at consolidating Christian identity. Students of late antique religion, patristic rhetoric, and Jewish-Christian relations should read this volume critically yet attentively. While ethically troubling, it is crucial for understanding how preaching shaped doctrine, discipline, and intercommunal hostilities. Use with a scholarly translation and robust historical commentary.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Following the Equator chronicles Twains 189596 circumnavigation of the Pacific islands, Australia and New Zealand, India and Ceylon, Mauritius, and South Africa, marrying nimble reportage to satiric sting. Composed amid lateVictorian imperial expansion, it extends The Innocents Abroad yet darkens it. Shipboard diaries, ethnographic sketches, and comic setpieces are threaded with the mordant epigrams of "Puddnhead Wilsons New Calendar," yielding a braid in which humor unsettles. Twain probes indenture, missionary zeal, racial hierarchy, and penal legacies with an eye for the absurd and the cruelly ordinary. Samuel L. Clemensalready celebrated as Mark Twainundertook the tour to repay debts from his failed publishing house and the Paige typesetter, only to be struck, while abroad, by news of Susys death. The shock honed his skepticism and pity. From notebooks and the lecture platform he fashioned prose that blends ledgerbook exactitude with a performers timing, anticipating his public antiimperialism. Readers of travel writing, postcolonial history, and American literature will find this a bracing companion: vivid in scene, aphoristic in insight, ethically restless. Choose it for laughter with conscience, and keep it for the clarity with which it unsettles certainties.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie follows Norwegian homesteaders in the Dakota Territory of the 1870s, centering on buoyant Per Hansa and his tormented wife, Beret. In spare, incantatory prose that echoes saga and Scripture, Rolvaag blends granular realism with psychological insight: blizzards erase trails, grasshoppers devour hopes, and the prairie itself becomes character. Positioned within Midwestern realism and immigrant naturalism, it unsettles the frontier myth. A Norwegian immigrant who made his home in Minnesota, O. E. Rolvaag taught Norwegian language and literature at St. Olaf College and became a leading voice in Norwegian-American letters. First published in Norwegian, then in an English version he helped prepare, the book reflects his close study of immigrant communities and his belief that assimilation pressures endanger spiritual and cultural integrity, themes distilled in the contrast between Berets anxiety and Per Hansas optimism. Readers of Willa Cather and students of immigration, American regionalism, and environmental history will find in Giants in the Earth a foundational, unsettling classic. It is recommended to anyone seeking a rigorous, humane account of how landscape, language, and belief shape lives at the edge of a new nation.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Odyssey traces Odysseuss arduous nostos from Troy to Ithaca, interweaving the Telemachy with episodes of wonder and perilCyclops, Circe, the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, Calypso, the Phaeacians. Composed in dactylic hexameter and launched in medias res, it marries ring composition to expansive Homeric similes and formulaic epithets. Exploring xenia, marriage, and justice, the poem contrasts metis with brute force as Athena aids and Poseidon obstructs. Layered narrationOdysseus recounting his wanderingssituates the epic at the heart of archaic Greek poetics and as a counterpoint to the Iliad. Attributed to the shadowy Homer, likely an Ionian aoidos of the late eighth or early seventh century BCE, the poem crystallizes an oral tradition. A bardic milieu of seafaring communities, colonial ventures, and courtly performance shaped its themes and mnemonic art. Whether by one master singer or successive redactors, The Odyssey bears the imprint of a performer attuned to social codesoaths, guest-friendship, reputationand to the ethics of cunning in a world of shifting alliances. Readers seeking a foundational epic of adventure, moral inquiry, and narrative brilliance will find The Odyssey indispensableequally rewarding in the classroom and at leisure, and renewed with each translation, commentary, and re-reading.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Rainbow Trail, Zane Greys sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage, returns to Utahs canyonlands in a chase that doubles as spiritual inquiry. John Shefford seeks the vanished Lassiter and Jane Withersteen and confronts a clandestine system of "sealed" wives while guiding Fay Larkin toward freedom, all beneath the austere grandeur of Rainbow Bridge. Greys cinematic, melodically descriptive prose makes landscape a moral agent, situating the novel within Progressive Era debates over Mormon polygamy, law, and individual conscience. Grey, a dentist turned bestselling outdoorsman-author, refashioned notes from pack trips through Arizona and southern Utah into fiction. Traveling with local guides and observing Mormon settlements and Indigenous trails, he developed a documentary eye for sandstone, weather, and isolation. His belief that wilderness tests character, alongside contemporary quarrels over religious authority, clearly propelled this continuation of his frontier saga. Recommended to readers of Western literature, American religious history, and environmental writing, The Rainbow Trail couples breathless pursuit with a measured critique of coercive community. It completes Riders of the Purple Sage with moral clarity and scenic splendor, rewarding scholars and general readers in equal measure.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

History of the Ancient Chaldea surveys southern Mesopotamia from Sumerian city-states to the NeoBabylonian age. Rawlinson blends cuneiform evidencetablets, cylinder seals, brick inscriptionswith Herodotus and Berossus, charting Ur and Uruk, Sargon of Akkad, Hammurabi, and Nebuchadnezzar II, alongside religion, astronomy, law, and Gulf commerce. In measured Victorian prose with ample apparatus, it exemplifies early, synthetic Assyriology. George Rawlinson (18121902), Camden Professor of Ancient History at Oxford and an Anglican cleric, wrote amid the first wave of cuneiform decipherment. A collaborator and brother of Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, he drew on British Museum holdings, his Herodotus scholarship, and The Five Great Monarchies to reconcile epigraphic, classical, and biblical testimonies in a coherent narrative. Scholars of the ancient Near East, classicists, and readers of biblical backgrounds will find this volume indispensable as both synthesis and historiographical landmark. Some Victorian categories now date it, yet its clarity, source-awareness, and breadth make it rewarding for coursework, research libraries, and anyone tracing how knowledge of Chaldeaand Babylonia broadlywas first assembled.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

East Lynne, a keystone of the 1860s sensation novel, fuses domestic tragedy with legal drama. It charts the ruin and remorse of Lady Isabel Vane, who, after eloping with the rakish Sir Francis Levison, returns incognito as "Madame Vine" to serve in the household of her steadfast former husband, lawyer Archibald Carlyle. Through cliffhangers, courtroom revelations, and close social detail, Wood interrogates identity, female desire, class and reputation, balancing melodramatic incident with a distinctly Anglican moral framework. Mrs. Henry Wood (Ellen Wood) wrote under pressing financial necessity after her husbands business failures and years in France, cultivating a sure feel for serial markets and respectable scandal. A devout Anglican and later editor of the Argosy, she married moral didacticism to exact pacing; her own domestic burdens shape the novels obsession with secrecy and repentance. Recommended to readers of Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, East Lynne remains indispensable for courses on Victorian fiction, gender, and law. Its propulsive plot and ethical nuance reward general audiences and scholars alike, inviting debate about justice, forgiveness, and the perilous performance of respectability.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

First published in 1908 and subtitled A Nightmare, The Man Who Was Thursday is Chestertons metaphysical thriller in which poet-detective Gabriel Syme infiltrates an anarchist council whose members bear the days of the week, pursuing the enigmatic Sunday through chases and maskings. Chesterton splices detective conventions, spy caper, and allegory, using paradox, epigram, and dream-logic to test order and chaos, authority and freedom. Set against Edwardian London and fin-de-siecle fears of anarchism, the narrative slides from satire into visionary pageant, culminating in a masquerade. A journalist, illustrator, and controversialist, Chesterton honed his taste for paradox in polemics and in Orthodoxy (also 1908), where he cast Christian belief as romantic adventure. Though not yet a Catholic, his intuition of providence and his critiques of nihilism shape the novels riddling police-versus-anarchist premise. His theatrical sense, love of masquerade, and comic largesse animate the books pageantry while his metaphysical seriousness ensures its aftertaste. Readers of Kafka, Borges, or Wolfe will relish this slim, inexhaustible puzzleat once page-turner and parablethat rewards rereading and discussion. Recommended for those interested in genre-bending fiction, modernist preoccupations with identity and authority, or the metaphysical detective story; it offers a bracing, humane antidote to despair without sacrificing ambiguity.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Set in the imagined cathedral city of Polchester, The Cathedral anatomizes the moral and political tensions within the Close, where ritual authority meets restless modernity. Walpole orchestrates councils, festivals, and intimate households into a social fresco, his supple omniscience and motifs of stone, music, and light shaping keen psychological study. Between late-Victorian realism and early modernist inwardness, the novel probes pride, conscience, and belonging in the unsettled postwar Church of England. Hugh Walpolecosmopolitan man of letters and son of an Anglican clergymanbrought lifelong familiarity with church life and a postwar sensibility sharpened by wartime relief work. His admiration for Dickens and Trollope informs the novels breadth, while Jamesian attention to motive lends ethical ambiguity to its conflicts. The Cathedral will reward readers intrigued by institutional drama and provincial nuance. Recommended for admirers of Trollopes Barchester, Forsters social comedies, and thoughtful realist fiction, it offers narrative sweep with probing character work and a memorable sense of placeproof that the life of a cathedral is, in truth, the drama of a society.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

First published in 1929, The Byzantine Achievement is Robert Byrons ardent reappraisal of a culture long caricatured in English letters. Blending art history, cultural polemic, and the eyewitness verve of a traveler, he follows the thread from late antiquity to the Renaissance, showing how Byzantine theology, aesthetics, and governance sustained and fertilized Europe. With lapidary description of Hagia Sophia, Ravennas mosaics, and the severe poise of icons, Byron overturns the cliche of decadence, marrying close visual analysis to a capacious historical argument. Educated at Eton and Oxford and hardened by journeys through Greece, Mount Athos, and the Near East, Byron wrote from the primacy of seeing. Monastic ritual, chant, and weathered stone trained his eye for structure and symbol, while a modernist taste for clarity made him receptive to Byzantine abstraction. Field notes and early essays flow into this books plea to judge civilizations by experienced form, not inherited prejudice. Scholars of medieval and Mediterranean worlds, architects, and reflective travelers will find this a bracing corrective. Read it to widen Europes lineage, and for prose that makes buildings visible.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Intra Muros is Rebecca Ruter Springers luminous first-person testament of a convalescent soul ushered beyond deaths threshold. Framed as a vision rather than allegory, the narrative guides readers through gardens, homes of rest, halls of learning, and waters of life where love, growth, and service continue. Its devotional prose blends Victorian domestic realism with eschatological speculation, offering concrete textures: music, companionship, purposeful labor, without polemics. Set within a lineage from Dante to Bunyan and, nearer her day, Elizabeth Stuart Phelpss The Gates Ajar, the book domesticates heaven while resisting rigid dogma. Springer, an American Christian writer of the late nineteenth century, composed the work after a debilitating illness, treating the experience not as sensational memoir but as pastoral consolation. Immersion in evangelical piety, bereavement culture, and womens domestic writing shapes the visions emphasis on kinship, healing, and moral continuance, yielding a theologically modest yet imaginatively confident picture of perfected life. Readers seeking a consoling portrait of heaven - students of Christian spirituality, pastors, grief counselors, and scholars of Victorian religion alike - will find Intra Muros both tender and probing. It rewards slow reading and conversation, not for dogmatic certainty, but for its humane imagination of loves work continuing "within the gates".Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Revealing Word distills Charles Fillmores metaphysical Christianity into an alphabetic lexicon, redefining biblical and devotional terms as states of consciousness and powers of mind. In crisp, aphoristic entriescrossreferenced and oriented to practiceUnitys doctrines of the I AM, Christ mind, substance, and spiritual law cohere. Situated in early New Thought, the book weds sermon clarity to the economy of a reference work. Fillmore, cofounder of the Unity School of Christianity with Myrtle Fillmore, wrote after decades of teaching, editing, and the prayer discipline of Silent Unity. Selfeducated and shaped by Emersonian idealism and the healing currents of New Thought, he treated language as a focusing lens for consciousness, systematizing Unitys vocabulary from pulpit, classroom, and magazine page. Scholars of American religion, ministers, and seekers alike will value The Revealing Word as both reference and devotional companion. It clarifies Unitys idiom without jargon, aids metaphysical Bible reading, and furnishes practical cues for affirmation and denial. Read selectively for study or slowly for meditation; either way, it maps Fillmores system with disciplined, accessible precision.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Old Road is Hilaire Bellocs topographical meditation on the Pilgrims Way from Winchester to Canterbury, reconstructed through walking, charters, placenames, and the lie of the land. Part travelogue, part antiquarian inquiry, it reads the route as a palimpsest of prehistoric track, Roman alignment, and medieval pilgrimage. In brisk, epigrammatic prose, often accompanied by Bellocs maps, the book joins Edwardian debates over origins, access, and the disruptions of enclosure and rail. BellocFrench-born, English-educated at Balliol, a celebrated walker since The Path to Rometreated roads as the grammar of civilization. His Catholic historical imagination and draughtsmans habit of verification shape every page: archives are tested against hedgerows, ridgeways, and fords, and modern evasions of continuity are challenged by what his feet and eye record. Scholars of medieval pilgrimage, historical geographers, walkers planning the WinchesterCanterbury traverse, and readers of robust prose will find lasting value here. The Old Road offers a vivid argument for reading England underfootpart guide, part polemic, and wholly attentive to how paths store memorymaking it an indispensable, provocative companion for study and for the road.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ is a meticulously sourced survey of Second Temple Judaism, from the Hasmoneans and Herodians to Roman provincial rule that framed Jesuss ministry and the earliest church. Schurer synthesizes Josephus, Philo, the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, rabbinic traditions, inscriptions, and coins to reconstruct institutions, parties (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots), law, worship, and daily life. Written in sober, exacting prose with dense philological notes and bibliographies, it typifies nineteenthcentury historicalcritical scholarship and helped link Jewish history and New Testament studies. Emil Schurer, a German Protestant theologian and historian (18441910), trained in rigorous philology, sought to replace confessional polemic with verifiable history. Immersed in Oriental studies and classical sources, he spent decades assembling a reliable backdrop for interpreting early Christian texts within Jewish contexts. His commitment to Quellenkritik and careful chronology shaped a reference work that later translations and revisions continued to refine. This classic remains indispensable for scholars of early Judaism, classicists, and readers of the New Testament who want a disciplined map of the period. While some terminology is dated and newer findings should be consulted alongside it, Schurers architecture endures; read it to ground interpretation in patiently sifted evidence.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

On the Art of Writing distills a series of Cambridge lectures in the early twentieth century into a lucid manifesto for clear, vigorous English prose. Quiller-Couch moves with urbane ease from classical rhetoric to the King James Bible and Swift, illustrating how cadence, vocabulary, and structure carry ethical responsibility as well as aesthetic force. He attacks cant and jargon, counsels economy without anemia, and champions reading as apprenticeship to style. Memorable dictaoften summarized as the need to murder ones darlingsare grounded in close examples, historical anecdotes, and a confident, humane belief in the civilizing work of sentences. Known to generations as Q, Arthur Quiller-Couch was a Cornish novelist, journalist, and the influential Cambridge Professor of English Literature, as well as editor of The Oxford Book of English Verse. His breadth as anthologist and practitioner, and his commitment to public letters, shaped these lectures: practical, historically informed, and animated by a teachers ear for cadence and clarity. This book rewards writers, teachers, and readers seeking disciplined grace on the page. Read it for its examples, its humane standards, and its unfashionable but enduring claim that style is characterand that careful prose remains an ethical craft as much as an art.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Set during the U.S. Civil War, Who Would Have Thought It? follows the New England Norval household after the arrival of Lola, a Mexican girl wealthy in her own right, whose presence exposes Northern piety and abolitionist rhetoric as racialized self-interest. Mixing sentimental domesticity with sensation fiction and political satire, Ruiz de Burton uses melodrama and irony to anatomize hypocrisy across religious and civic spheres. The novels transregional vantage situates New England reform within imperial and hemispheric circuits, overturning the moral geography of mid-nineteenth-century American letters. Ruiz de Burton, a Californio-born writer and among the first Mexican American novelists in English, married U.S. Army officer Henry Burton and lived between California and the East during and after the war. Her battles over land and citizenship under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and proximity to federal power, sharpened her critique of legal dispossession, racial hierarchy, and sanctimonious reformism. Readers of American realism, Civil War culture, and borderlands studies will find this novel indispensable. It pairs gripping plot with a decolonial intelligence that revises the canon from within. Assign it alongside Stowe, Alcott, or Howells to witness a contemporaneous counterpoint, witty, acrid, and prescient about the entanglements of virtue, capital, and race.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.