From the Easy Chair (Vol. 1-3)

From the Easy Chair is a three-volume collection of essays and articles penned by the eminent American writer and orator, George William Curtis. This anthology delves into a myriad of subjects, blending a charming literary style with subtle humor and a generous spirit.

Table of Contents:

Volume 1:

Edward Everett in 1862

At the Opera in 1864

Emerson Lecturing

Shops and Shopping

Mrs. Grundy and the Cosmopolitan

Dickens Reading (1867)

Phillis

Thoreau and My Lady Cavaliere

Honestus at the Caucus

Thalberg and Other Pianists (1871)

Urbs and Rus

Rip Van Winkle

A Chinese Critic

Holiday Sauntering

Wendell Phillips at Harvard (1881)

Easter Bonnets

Jenny Lind

The Town

Sarah Shaw Russell

Street Music

A Little Dinner with Thackeray

Cecilia Playing

The Mannerless Sex

Robert Browning in Florence

Players

Unmusical Boxes

The Academy Dinner in Arcadia

Volume 2:

The New Year

The Public Scold

National Nominating Convention

Byrant's Country

The Game of Newport

The Lecture Lyceum

Tweed

Commencment

The Streets of New York

The Morality of Dancing

The Hog Family

The Enlightened Observer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry Ward Beecher

The Golden Age

Spring Pictures

Proper and Improper

Belinda and the vulgar

Decayed Gentility

The Pharisee

Lady Mavourneen on Her Travels

General Sherman

The American Girl

Annus Mirabilis

Statues in Central Park

The Grand Tour

"Easy does it, guvner"

Siste, Viator

Christendom vs. Christianity

Francis George Shaw

Volume 3:

Hawthorne and Brook Farm

Beecher in His Pulpit after the Death of Lincoln

Killing Deer

Autumn Days

From Como to Milan during the War of 1848

Herbert Spencer on the Yankee

Honor

Joseph Wesley Harper

Review of Union Troops, 1865

April, 1865

Washington in 1867

Reception to the Japanese Ambassadors at the White House

The Maid and the Wit

The Departure of the Great Eastern

Church Street

Historic Buildings

The Boston Music Hall

Public Benefactors

Mr. Tibbins's New-Year's call

The New England Sabbath

The Reunion of Antislavery Veterans, 1884

Reform Charity

Bicycle Riding for Children…