Housed in an attractive slipcase, this inexpensive collection of American classics presents five perennial bestsellers from the Dover Thrift Editions series: Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Jack London's The Call of the Wild, Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, ...
A quirky collection of true stories from the stranger side of teaching, including how a fight with his teacher paved the way for Al Capone's infamous crime empire, and the bizarre tale of the American teacher who sued her own pupils.
"An American in Victorian Cambridge" is a richly detailed account of student life in the Cambridge of the 1840s. The rationale for the book, which is as appealing today as it was then, is that this is pre-eminently a book about an American student at an English university. In this new edition, some substantial additions have been made.
