Purchase one of 1st World Librarys Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It is impossible to take a walk in the country with an average townsman - especially, perhaps, in April or May - without being amazed at the vast continent of his ignorance. It is impossible to take a walk in the country oneself without being amazed at the vast continent of ones own ignorance. Thousands of men and women live and die without knowing the difference between a beech and an elm, between the song of a thrush and the...

The first of two classic studies that examined the daily life of a typical small american city-in actuality, Muncie, Indiana-in the mid-1920s, using the approach of social anthropology. Of enduring interest to students of SOCIOLOGY (740), these works inspired an acclaimed six-part television series. Foreword by Clark Wissler; Index.

Mr. George Moore once summed up Crime and Punishment as "Gaboriau with psychological sauce." He afterwards apologized for the epigram, but he insisted that all the same there is a certain amount of truth in it. And so there is. Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news. There are more murders and attempted murders in his books than in those of any other great novelist....

Robert Wilson Lynd was an Irish writer, editor of poetry, urbane literary essayist and strong Irish nationalist.

Robert Wilson Lynd was an Irish writer, editor of poetry, urbane literary essayist and strong Irish nationalist. Mr. Pepys -- John Bunyan -- Thomas Campion -- John Donne -- Horace Walpole -- William Cowper -- A note on Elizabethan plays -- The office of the poets -- Edward Young as critic -- Gray and Collins -- Aspects of Shelley -- The wisdom of Coleridge -- Tennyson: a temporary criticism -- The politics of Swift and Shakespeare -- The personality of Morris -- George Meredith -- Oscar Wilde -- Two English critics: Mr. Saintsbury. Mr. Gosse -- An American critic: Professor Irving Babbit --...