Annie and James Fields and Works by Authors They Knew

This CD with 172 books, includes "Authors and Friends" by Annie Fields and "Yesterdays with Authors" by her husband, the publisher James Fields, as well as works by the authors discussed in those books. That means the works of: Longfellow, Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Harriet Beecher Stowe, Whittier, Tennyson, Thackeray, Hawthorne, Dickens, Wordsworth, Miss Mitford, and Barry Cornwall.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our books are in plain-text format, not audio or video. You read them on your computer screen.

From the preface written for this edition by Mark Schorr:

"Annie Fields (1834-1915) was at the center of New England literary life after the Civil War. From her privileged perch as the wife of James Fields, the publisher of America's leading poets, as the biographer of Harriet Beecher Stowe, nineteenth century America's best selling author, and as the friend and companion of Sarah Orne Jewett, Annie Fields seems to have been destined for fame. However, her literary reputation, like that of Zora Neale Hurston, has lagged somewhat behind the quality of her work. ... today Annie Fields' work has been often out of print except in expensive editions.

"Now that B&R Samizdat Express has put a low-cost edition of Fields' Lives of Writers within the reach of every student of literature, many will rediscover Fields' biographies as well as the poets. Fields will then have the full citizenship in the critical pantheon that she richly deserves.

"Were Fields alive today, she would make a marvelous narrator of the American experience. The voice that we hear as we read her work reminds us of a time when great critics were also great friends, and when the best tour guides through our literature were the authors themselves."

-- Mark Schorr teaches American Literature at Cambridge College, and serves as Executive Director of the Robert Frost Foundation. He is the author of the core Wikipedia article on Annie Adams Fields at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Adams_Fields

You can see the complete table of contents below. Please use the Find function in your browser (under Edit) to look for a specific author or book.

You can see suggestions on how to get the most out of your plain-text books on CD ROM at our home Web site. Use the back button on your browser to return here.

---

Table of Contents

Authors and Friends by Annie Fields (1834-1915)

Preface to this edition by Mark Schorr
Mark Schorr's Wikpedia Encyclopedia entry about Annie Fields

Works by authors included in Annie Fields' book (all but Cecilia Thaxter and Lady Tennyson), in the order in which they appear in the book:

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

• The Children's Own Longfellow (selections from his poems)
• Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow
• Evangeline
• The Golden Legend
• Longfellow's translation of Dante's Divine Comedy
• Song of Hiawatha
• The Wreck of the Hesperus
• about Longfellow
The White Mr. Longfellow, from Literary Friends and Acquaintances by William Dean Howells

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

• The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Essays, First Series
• Essays, Second Series
• Poems
• Representative Men
• about Emerson
• Sketches from Concord and Appledore by Frank Stearns
• Emerson and Other Essays by John Jay Chapman

Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)

• The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
• Elsie Venner
• The Guardian Angel
• John Lothrop Motley, a Memoir
• Medical Essays
• A Mortal Antipathy
• One Hundred Days in Europe
• Over the Teacups
• Pages from an Old Volume of Life
• The Poet at the Breakfast Table
• Poetical Works
• The Professor at the Breakfast Table
• about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Literary Friends and Acquaintances: Oliver Wendell Holmes (essay) by William Dean Howells

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

• Betty's Bright Idea and The First Christmas of New England
• Lady Byron Vindicated
• Pink and White Tyranny
• Queer Little Folks
• Hen that Hatched Ducks
• The Nutcrackers of Nutcracker Lodge
• The History of Tip-Top
• Miss Katy-Did and Miss Cricket
• Mother Magpie's Mischief
• The Squirrels that live in a House
• Hum, the Son of Buz
• Our Country Neighbours
• The Diverting History of Little Whiskey
• Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• about Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Charles Edward Stowe (her son)

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

• Anti-Slavery Poems
• The Boy Captives: An Incident of the Indian War of 1695 (story)
• Margaret Smith's Journal 1678-9 Tales and Sketches
• Narrative and Legendary Poems
• Old Portraits and Modern Sketches
• Personal Poems
• Poems of Nature
• Yankee Gypsies (story)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Becket and Other Plays (as a single document)
• Becket
• The Cup
• The Falcon
• The Promise of May
• The Early Poems
• Enoch Arden
• Idylls of the King
• Lady Clare (short poem)
• The Last Tournament
• The Princess
• Queen Mary and Harold (two plays)
• Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
• About Tennyson
• Alfred Tennyson by Andrew Lang

Yesterdays with Authors by James T. Fields (husband of Annie Fields and partner in the publishing firm Ticknor and Fields) (1817-1881)

Works by authors included in James Field's book, in the order in which they appear in the book:
 

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

• Ballads
• Barry Lyndon
• The Bedford-Row Conspiracy
• The Book of Snobs
• Burlesques
• Catherine
• The Christmas Books (writing as Michael Angelo Titmarsh)
• The Fatal Boots
• The Fitz-Boodle Papers
• From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
• George Cruikshank
• The Great Hoggarty Diamond
• The History of Henry Esmond
• John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character (short story)
• A Little Dinner at the Timmins's (short story)
• Little Travels and Roadside Sketches (writing as Michael Angelo Titmarsh) (short story)
• Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
• The Newcomes
• The Notch on the Ax (short story)
• On Being Found Out (short story)
• Paris Sketch Book
• Pendennis
• The Rose and the Ring
• The Second Funeral of Napoleon (writing as Michael Angelo Titmarsh)
• Some Roundabout Papers
• The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan
• Vanity Fair
• The Virginian
• The Wolves and the Lamb

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

• American Notebooks
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• The Ancestral Footstep
• Biographical Studies
• Mrs. Hutchinson
• Sir William Phips
• Thomas Green Fessenden
• Jonathan Cilly
• The Blithedale Romance
• The Book of Autographs (story)
• Browne's Folly (story)
• The Dolliver Romance
• Dr. Bullivant (story)
• Fanshawe
• From Mosses from an Old Manse
• The Birthmark
• Young Goodman Brown
• Rappaccini's Daughter
• Mrs. Bullfrog
• The Celestial Railroad
• The Procession of Life
• Feathertop: A Moralized Legend
• Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent
• Drowne's Wooden Image
• Roger Malvin's Burial
• The Artist of the Beautiful
• The Gorgon's Head (story)
• The Great Stone Face
• The Great Stone Face
• The Ambitious Guest
• The Great Carbuncle
• Sketches from Memory
• Grimshawe's Secret
• The House of the Seven Gables
• Journal of an African Cruiser by Horatio Bridge, edted by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Marble Faun
• volume 1
• volume 2
• The Miraculous Pitcher (story)
• Old Woman's Tale (story)
• Our Old Home (English Sketches)
• The Paradise of Children (story)
• Passages from the English Notebooks (2 volumes)
• Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks (2 volumes)
• The Scarlet Letter
• Septimus Felton
• Sketches and Studies
• Sketches from Memory
• The Snow Image
• The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle
• The Great Stone Face
• Ethan Brand
• The Canterbury Pilgrims
• The Devil in Manuscript
• My Kinsman, Major Molineux
• Tales and Sketches (story)
• Tanglewood Tales
• Time's Portraiture (story)
• The Three Golden Apples (story)
• True Stories of History and Biography
• Benjamin West
• Sir Isaac Newton
• Samuel Johnson
• Oliver Cromwell
• Benjamin Franklin
• Queen Chistina
• Twice-Told Tales
• The Gray Champion
• The Wedding Knell
• The Minister's Black Veil
• The May-Pole of Merry Mount
• The Gentle Boy
• Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe
• Wakefield
• The Great Carbuncle
• David Swan
• The Hollow of the Three Hills
• Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
• Legends of the Province House
•   I. Howe's Masquerade
•   II. Edward Randolph's Portrait
•   III. Lady Eleanore's Mantle
•   IV. Old Esther Dudley
• The Ambitious Guest
• Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure
• The Shaker Bridal
• Endicott and the Red Cross
• Twice-Told Tales, 1889 edition
• The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808
• Grandfather and the Children and the Chair
• The Puritans and the Lady Arbela
• A Rainy Day
• Troublous Times
• The Government of New England
• The Pine-Tree Shillings
• The Quakers and the Indians
• The Indian Bible
• England and New England
• The Sunken Treasure
• What the Chair Had Known
• Extracts from the Life of John Eliot
• The Chair in the Firelight
• The Salem Witches
• The Old-Fashioned School
• Cotton Mather
• The Rejected Blessing
• Pomps and Vanities
• The Provincial Muster
• The Old French War and the Acadian Exiles
• The End of the War
• Thomas Hutchinson
• Account of the deportaion of the Acadians
• A New Year's Day
• The Stamp Act
• The Hutchinson Mob
• The British Troops in Boston
• The Boston Massacre
• A Collection of Portrait
• The Tea Party and Lexington
• The Siege of Boston
• The Tory's Farewell
• The War for Independence.
• Grandfather's Dream
• A Letter from Governor Hutchinson
• about Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thams Codman
• Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne
• Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns
• Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
• My Friends at Brook Farm by Jon Van Der See Sears
• Nathaniel Hawtorne by George E. Woodbury
• Sketches from Concord and Appledore by Frank Stearns
• A Study of Hawthorne by George Lathrop

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

• American Notes
• Barnaby Rudge
• The Battle of Life
• Bleak House
• A Child's History of England
• The Chimes
• A Christmas Carol
• Contributions to All the Year Round
• The Cricket on the Hearth
• David Copperfield
• Domby and Son
• Dr. Marigold (short story)
• George Silverman's Explanation (short story)
• Going into Society
• Great Expectations
• Hard Times
• The Haunted Man
• Holiday Romance (short story)
• The Holly-Tree (short story)
• House to Let
• Hunted Down (short story)
• The Lamplighter (short story)
• The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
• Little Dorrit
• Martin Chuzzlewit
• Master Humphrey's Clock
• Message from the Sea (short story)
• Miscellaneous Papers
• Mrs. Liripper's Legacy (short story)
• Mrs. Liripper's Lodgings (short story)
• Mudfog
• Mugby Junction
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• Nicholas Nickleby
• No Thoroughfare (co-author with Wilkie Collins)
• The Old Curiosity Shop
• Oliver Twist
• Our Mutual Friend
• The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
• Pickwick Papers
• Pictures from Italy
• Reprinted Pieces
• Seven Poor Travellers (short story)
• Sketches by Boz
• Sketches of Young Couples
• Sketches of Young Gentlemen
• Some Short Christmas Stories
• Somebody's Luggage
• Speeches
• Sunday Under Three Heads (short story)
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Three Ghost Stories
• The Signal-Man
• The Haunted-House
• The Trial For Murder
• To Be Read at Dusk (short story)
• Tom Tiddler's Ground (short story)
• The Uncommercial Traveller
• The Wreck of the Golden Mary (short story)
• about Dickens
• Inns and Taverns of Pickwick by B.M. Matz
• The Puzzle of Dickens' Last Plot by Andrew Lang
• Ten Boys from Dickens by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
• Ten Girls from Dickens by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

• Lyrical Ballads (with Coleridge) (1798)
• Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems (1800)
• Volume 1 of 2
• Volume 2 of 2
• Poems (in 2 volumes)
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Poetical Works of Wordsworth, edited by William Knight (1896)
• volume 1 (of 8)
• volume 2
• volume 3
• about Wordsworth
• Wordsworth by F.W.H. Myers

Miss Mitford (Mary Russell Mitford) (1787-1855)

• Our Village

Barry Cornwall (1787-1874)

• Charles Lamb, a Memoir

---