Introduction to the History of English Literature, by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine

<p>Through the pages of a book the reader sees the life of past days. Carnivals, processions, battles, coronations, voyages - the whole history of the world and its people is revealed in a stupendous pageant. Taine was a Frenchman who wrote an unsurpassed history of English literature; its introduction reveals the unusual combination of an imaginative and an analytical style. (Volume 39, Harvard Classics)</p> <p>H. A. Taine born April 21, 1828.</p> <p> </p>