Riverside Literature Series

Biographical sketch of John Burroughs, by Clifton Johnson.--A summer boating trip (From Pepacton and other sketches)--Camping with the President (From the Atlantic monthly for May, 1906)--A tramp in the Catskills (From Birch browsings in Wake-robin)

In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family's salvation -- or its downfall. Hawthorne called The House of the Seven Gables "a romance," and freely bestowed upon it many fascinating gothic touches. A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, the novel is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that Henry James declared "the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel."

Robert Edward Lee was born to be a military leader. His father was leader of George Washington's light cavalry in the War of Independence, and Robert himself was a prize pupil at West Point military academy. After successes in the Mexican war he became commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and then led it to both success and ultimate failure during the testing campaigns of the Civil War. If Chancellorsville was his finest achievement then Gettysburg was his downfall. His masterful tactical mind and strength of will may have sometimes been hampered by his occasional lack of firmness with middle-ranking officers but he contributed magnificently to the Confederate cause. This study describes the military career of the man who came to epitomise the spirit of the Southern states' rebellion.

"The film, which was widely circulated among the armed services during World War II, was cut 24 minutes after its initial release in 1937 to reflect the wartme perception of the Chinese and to tone down the film's pacifism. Film historian Robert Gitt conducted many years of detective work tracking down the lost footage. Now for the first time this world premiere on Blu-ray showcases the stunning all new digital 4K 2014 restoration, completed using the preservation negative created in 1998 as the primary source, scanned at 4K and integrated with the director's personal nitrate print and deatures an additional one minute of previously lost footage preserving the original performance and another full minute of picture previously represented by the original soundtrack and still images"--Container.

Pauline Oliver, in Polly Oliver's Problem, chafes against spending the rest of her life helping her mother run a boarding house--then must take charge when the Widow Oliver suffers poor health and must move to a healthier clime.

Macbeth / by William Shakespeare ; from the Riverside edition with additional notes by Helen Gray Cone -- Minor poems / by John Milton ; with notes for careful study by Claude M. Fuess and suggestive questions and comments by Charles Swain Thomas -- Conciliation with the colonies / by Edmund Burke ; edited by Robert Andersen ; with an introduction by Woodrow Wilson -- Essay on Johnson / by Thomas Babington Macaulay ; edited by William P. Trent.