George William Curtis

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

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