Literary and General Lectures and Essays (Esprios Classics)

Download or read book Literary and General Lectures and Essays (Esprios Classics) written by Charles Kingsley and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2022-03-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 - 23 January 1875) was a broad-church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives, which failed, but encouraged later working reforms. He was a friend and correspondent of Charles Darwin. Kingsley's interest in history is shown in several of his writings, including The Heroes (1856), a children's book about Greek mythology, and several historical novels, of which the best known are Hypatia (1853), Hereward the Wake (1865) and Westward Ho! (1855).