Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would have preferre...
Do you love books? No, I mean REALLY love books? These series of sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures connected with bibliomania (b...
Henry Augustin Beers, native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bishop and f...
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays is a book by William Hazlitt, a 19th-century English essayist and critic. The book is a collection of essays in whic...
The American Language; An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States, first published in 1919, is H. L. Mencken's book about the Eng...
An 1859 essay by the prominent philosopher and literary critic, G. H. Lewes, who was an enthusiastic promoter of the novels of Jane Austen at a time w...
Emily Brontë (1818-1848) is best known for her only novel, "Wuthering Heights." She was born in Yorkshire, northern England, where her father was an A...
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...
A seminal essay on the development of horror as a genre, highly influential on later writers. The Tale of Terror is a brilliant guide book for the stu...
All of the foregoing does not mean that legend is trivial, irrelevant or misleading; far from it. Legend becomes an important aspect of a society’s un...
The late war, very unpopular at the start, was “sold” to them, as the advertising phrase has it, by representing it as a campaign for the salvation of...
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by...
The book is a collection of essays dedicated to several writers, Phelps had seen as remarkable/promising. Some are of English expression; some are for...
There is an old anecdote, probably apocryphal, which describes how a feminine admirer wrote to Browning asking him for the meaning of one of his darke...
Engaging history of American Lit from the 1600's up through the late 1890's. The author, who was a professor at Knox College, really put a lot into th...
Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Through the Magic Door” was serialized in 1906-07 when he was 48. His famous Sherlock Holmes stories appeared in The Strand Maga...
Paul Bourget was born in Amiens in the Somme département of Picardy, France. His father, a professor of mathematics, was later appointed to a post in...
That one who is not a recognized authority or an expert in literature should attempt the solution of a problem which has so far baffled specialists mu...
Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, is a collection of Walter Pater's previously-published essays on literature. The collection was well received b...
It is Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War. A French poet and a German composer come to admire one another's work and decide to collaborate on...
"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" is an essay by Mark Twain, written as a satire and criticism of the writings of James Fenimore Cooper. It draws...
“These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries of the clas...
In this book, Thomas Whittaker outlines the arguments of van Manen for an English-speaking audience. Van Manen’s work is not now generally known, but...
