Buy this book on-line Hillis, Newell Dwight : Great Books as Life-Teachers: Studies of Character Real and IdealFleming H. Revell Company, Chicago, IL, 1899
Original publisher's red cloth binding. 5" x 7 3/8." 339 pages, complete. One page of advertisements in the front for other books by the author. Index in the back. Beautiful gilt decoration of a tree on front cover. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Very minimal age wear to the covers and top edge. A few, very faint spots on front and back covers. A fine copy. Newell Dwight Hillis (1858-1929) was an American Congregationalist minister, philosopher, and writer. In this book, Hillis advocates for Christian living by examining secular literature, such as John Ruskin's The Seven Lamps of Architecture, George Eliot's Romola, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, Tennyson's "Idylls of the King," the biography of Frances Willard, William Blaikie's The Personal Life of David Livingstone, and works by Robert Browning and Henry Drummond. The lives of Lord Shaftesbuty and William Ewart Gladstone are also discussed.. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Hillis, Newell Dwight : Great Books as Life-Teachers: Studies of Character Real and Ideal. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including first editions, livres rares, incunabula, out-of-print books and livres anciens. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |