The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell is a biography of English writer Dr. Samuel Johnson. The work was from the beginning a critical and...
Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexi...
This is the third volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson.
Samuel Johnson's Life has been documented in great detail by his friends, this biograph...
This is the fourth volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson.
Samuel Johnson's Life has been documented in great detail by his friends, this biograph...
"Perceiving that much of the intrinsic value of these Journals would consist in a proper understanding of the historical facts to which allusions are...
This is a collection of short essays on literature. Various subjects are discussed, such as libraries, critics, the classics, and all sorts of things...
This is the second volume of the collected Curiosities of Literature by Isaac D'Israeli. As in volume one, D'Isreali again takes us on a tour around l...
This is the third and final volume of Isaac D'Israeli's monumental work Curiosities of Literature. It covers a great range of diverse topics, by no me...
Victorian Literature by Clement Shorter is a brief work that gives a good introduction to many of the important writers, historians, and critics of th...
Chicago in the 1880s was a deadly place. In an era before modern medicine or sanitation, the large immigrant populations sustained themselves by worki...
The full title of this book, published in 1909, is The Apocryphal Acts of Paul, Peter, John, Andrew and Thomas. As early as the second century, numero...
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically...
The English Romantic Period in literature featured a towering group of excellent poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. If we add in...
Public Domain newspaper articles in the US span a period of nearly two and a half centuries. Subjects, styles, period, publisher, and length vary grea...
The body of a well-dressed young man was found off Manhattan Beach, Sept. 28, 1913. In his pockets a torn photograph of Strindberg and receipts for th...
The prayers and meditations of Samuel Johnson, published posthumously by George Strahan to whom Johnson had entrusted the manuscripts. Johnson had bee...
It is a captivating collection of short stories that provides a glimpse into the lives of various characters residing in a German boarding house. Writ...
Are you ready to embark on a poetic journey through the captivating verses of Fitz-Greene Halleck? Dive into "The Poetical Works" and immerse yourself...
