R. S. Steinberg

A life of King Alfred of England originally composed in Latin, possibly sometime around 888 A.D. by the Monk and Bishop Asser, although some…

Lytton Strachey’s first great success, and his most famous achievement, was "Eminent Victorians" (1918), a collection of four shor…

The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 2 month summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas when Parkm…

A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family…

The Wound Dresser is a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington by Walt Whitman during the War of the Rebellion to The New…

As a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps during the War of 1812 assigned to Marine Corps headquarters, English sailed to the…

Samuel Butler's biographer dedicates his urbane account of the culture and entertainments of rural Sicily to the unborn son of his guide to …

An account of World War I and the experience of filming it by an early cinematographer (and, after the war, successful director) who was the…

The Angels of Mons is a popular legend about a group of angels who supposedly protected members of the British army in the Battle of Mons at…