Literary and General Lectures and Essays

Charles Kingsley was an English priest, historian and novelist, famous mostly for his works Hypatia, Hereward the Wake and Westward Ho! Worried about social problems, Kingsley published his first novels Yeast and Alton Locke, comprising labour and social inequality issues. Due to his interest in history, Kingsley then turned to writing historical novels and achieved a great success after publishing his works Hereward the Wake and Westward Ho! 

Literary and General Lectures and Essays is a unique collection of Charles Kingsley's essays on various topics, including The Stage as it was Once, Thoughts on Shelley and Byron, Alexander Smith and Alexander Pope, Tennyson, Burns and his School and other.

A classic example of Kingsley's simply excellent style, this book is a real treasure. Enjoy the reading!