From the Easy Chair (Vol. 1-3): Collection of Essays & Articles on Various Topics of Social and Literary Interest

From the Easy Chair is a three-volume collection of essays and articles penned by the eminent American writer and orator, George William Curtis. This anthology delves into a myriad of subjects, blending a charming literary style with subtle humor and a generous spirit. Table of Contents: Volume 1: Edward Everett in 1862 At the Opera in 1864 Emerson Lecturing Shops and Shopping Mrs. Grundy and the Cosmopolitan Dickens Reading (1867) Phillis Thoreau and My Lady Cavaliere Honestus at the Caucus Thalberg and Other Pianists (1871) Urbs and Rus Rip Van Winkle A Chinese Critic Holiday Sauntering Wendell Phillips at Harvard (1881) Easter Bonnets Jenny Lind The Town Sarah Shaw Russell Street Music A Little Dinner with Thackeray Cecilia Playing The Mannerless Sex Robert Browning in Florence Players Unmusical Boxes The Academy Dinner in Arcadia Volume 2: The New Year The Public Scold National Nominating Convention Byrant's Country The Game of Newport The Lecture Lyceum Tweed Commencment The Streets of New York The Morality of Dancing The Hog Family The Enlightened Observer Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry Ward Beecher The Golden Age Spring Pictures Proper and Improper Belinda and the vulgar Decayed Gentility The Pharisee Lady Mavourneen on Her Travels General Sherman The American Girl Annus Mirabilis Statues in Central Park The Grand Tour "Easy does it, guvner" Siste, Viator Christendom vs. Christianity Francis George Shaw Volume 3: Hawthorne and Brook Farm Beecher in His Pulpit after the Death of Lincoln Killing Deer Autumn Days From Como to Milan during the War of 1848 Herbert Spencer on the Yankee Honor Joseph Wesley Harper Review of Union Troops, 1865 April, 1865 Washington in 1867 Reception to the Japanese Ambassadors at the White House The Maid and the Wit The Departure of the Great Eastern Church Street Historic Buildings The Boston Music Hall Public Benefactors Mr. Tibbins's New-Year's call The New England Sabbath The Reunion of Antislavery Veterans, 1884 Reform Charity Bicycle Riding for Children…

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