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By Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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A wide-ranging collection of essays and sketches that profiles writers, thinkers, and public figures through brief biographical portraits, manuscript studies, and personal recollections. The pieces move between literary criticism and memoir, describing mannerisms, authorial habits, and specific texts while reflecting on themes of temperament, creative process, and public reputation. Several essays focus on encounters and archival discoveries, others examine historical episodes or regional reminiscences, yielding a conversational compilation that privileges anecdote and character study over systematic analysis and offers varied, accessible glimpses into 19th-century literary life.

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Title: Carlyle's laugh, and other surprises

Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Release date: May 19, 2022 [eBook #68129]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CARLYLE'S LAUGH, AND OTHER SURPRISES ***

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

WORKS. Newly arranged. 7 Vols. 12mo, each, $2.00.

  • 1. Cheerful Yesterdays.
  • 2. Contemporaries.
  • 3. Army Life in a Black Regiment.
  • 4. Women and the Alphabet.
  • 5. Studies in Romance.
  • 6. Outdoor Studies; and Poems.
  • 7. Studies in History and Letters.

THE PROCESSION OF THE FLOWERS. $1.25.

THE AFTERNOON LANDSCAPE. Poems and Translations. $1.00.

THE MONARCH OF DREAMS. 18mo, 50 cents.

MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI. In the American Men of Letters Series. 16mo, $1.50.

HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. In American Men of Letters Series. 16mo, $1.10, net. Postage 10 cents.

PART OF A MAN’S LIFE. Illustrated. Large 8vo, $2.50, net. Postage 18 cents.

LIFE AND TIMES OF STEPHEN HIGGINSON. Illustrated. Large crown 8vo, $2.00, net. Postage extra.

CARLYLE’S LAUGH AND OTHER SURPRISES. 12mo, $2.00, net. Postage 15 cents.

EDITED WITH MRS. E. H. BIGELOW.

AMERICAN SONNETS. 18mo, $1.25.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
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CARLYLE’S LAUGH
AND OTHER SURPRISES

CARLYLE’S LAUGH
AND OTHER SURPRISES

BY
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
MDCCCCIX

COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published October 1909