Showing Curious ways in which the English Language may be made to convey Ideas or obscure them. A collection of unintentionally humorous uses of the E...
The Columbian Orator is a collection of political essays, poems, and dialogues collected and written by Caleb Bingham. Published in 1797, it includes...
Osmun arranges usage problems alphabetically and treats certain areas in greater detail as he sees fit. For example, his first entry is A-AN (articles...
How to Tell a Story and Other Essays is a series of essays by Mark Twain. In them, he describes his own writing style, attacks the idiocy of a fellow...
Cratylus is the name of a dialogue by Plato. Most modern scholars agree that it was written mostly during Plato's so-called middle period. In the dial...
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...
Throughout the ages, languages continue to adapt and change. English, being a relatively new language, is a nice example of that. Though the English v...
I address myself to the man or woman of talent—those people who have writing ability, but who need instruction in the manipulation of characters, the...
This is a very readable scientific account of Swearing and Cursing in the English Language. Not only is an enlightening historical account given, but...
The Technique of the Mystery Story is a complete practical guide for writing detective and mystery stories. The guide is useful reference for writing...
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...
Vera; or, The Nihilists is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich. It was Wilde's firs...
As a young man, Stevenson wished to be financially independent and began his literary career by writing travelogues. This is his first published work,...
Best known for having written "Uncle Tom's Cabin," Harriet Beecher Stowe also wrote several religious works, including the works in this book. The fir...
The Unbearable Bassington was the first novel written by Saki (H. H. Munro). It also contains much of the elegant wit found in his short stories. Comu...
Anton Chekhov was a Russian doctor who turned to fiction as a hobby, and quickly blossomed into one of the masters of the short story genre. Though he...
"The Figure in the Carpet" is a short story by American writer Henry James. It is told in the first person; the narrator, whose name is never revealed...
Go through the year, day by day, with the wit and wisdom of G.K. Chesterton! Compiled from the writings of 'G.K.C', both in verse and in prose, each d...
This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days and progresses to his relationships with Queen Elizabe...
Concerning Virgins is a series of letters; St. Ambrose wrote to his sister, Manellia, These, perhaps Ambrose's earliest writings, were written in 377...
In The Feast of St. Friend, a Christmas book, Arnold Bennett shares his views on Christmas as the season of goodwill. As always, Bennett's writing inc...
Both Kidnapped and its sequel Catriona were initially published in 1886 and 1893, respectively. Since they were both written a century ago, their attr...
These essays, based on Hawthorne’s stay in England as American Consul in Liverpool, were first published in the form of a series of travel articles fo...
