Literary Criticism
Is Shakespeare Dead?
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Mark Twain
A short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Mark Twain. It explores the controversy over the authorship of the Shakespearean li…
Über die Iphigenie auf Tauris
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Friedrich Schiller
Dieser dritte Band der Goethischen Werke … In griechischer Form, deren er sich ganz zu bemächtigen gewußt hat, die er bis zur h&o…
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
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Eugene Field
Do you love books? No, I mean REALLY love books? These series of sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures connected with bibl…
Victorian Literature
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Clement Shorter
Victorian Literature by Clement Shorter is a brief work that gives a good introduction to many of the important writers, historians, and cri…
From Ritual to Romance
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Jessie Laidlay Weston
From Ritual to Romance is a 1920 book written by Jessie L. Weston.Weston's book is an examination of the roots of the King Arthur legends an…
Lectures on the Harvard Classics
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Charles William Eliot
The Lecture Series on the contents of The Harvard Classics ought to do much to open that collection of literary materials to many ambitious …
The Writing of Fiction
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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton, a successful author of fiction herself, gives us some in-depth analysis of the writing of short stories and novels. Then she …
Visions and Revisions
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John Cowper Powys
Powys presents a set of literary devotions of great figures in Literature who have obsessed him. He attempts not so much a reasoned critique…
A Dish of Orts: Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare
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George MacDonald
Readers of George MacDonald are used to his engaging story-telling, winsome characters, and simple theology of trust in God as Father. But t…
The Quintessence of Ibsenism (Version 2)
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George Bernard Shaw
This is an essay providing an extended analysis of the works of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and of Ibsen's critical reception in Engla…
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3
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Isaac D'Israeli
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…
The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits
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William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt was a keen observer of his time and the people populating the literary landscape. He presents short monographs on such illus…
Über Matthissons Gedichte
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Friedrich Schiller
Wenn man unter Poesie überhaupt die Kunst versteht, „uns durch einen freien Effekt unserer produktiven Einbildungskraft in bestimmte Em…
The Bible in Shakspeare
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William Burgess
A compendium and analysis of similarities between the Bible and passages in Shakespeare's plays and other works, including Biblical referenc…
Supernatural Horror in Literature
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H. P. Lovecraft
In this essay Lovecraft traces the history of hair-raising fictional stories with a focus on things that go bump in the night, starting with…
Modern Russian Literature
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D. S. Mirsky
Prince D.S. Mirsky was a prominent Russian literary historian who spent several years in emigration, teaching at the University of London. T…
The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction
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Dorothy Scarborough
Scholar of the macabre Dorothy Scarborough provides us with the first comprehensive overview of supernatural fiction in literary history, a …
Essays on Modern Novelists
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William Lyon Phelps
A collection of essays on 19th century novelists, both famous ones and those largely forgotten now. Among the writers presented most wrote i…
Силуэты русских писателей, Выпуск 2
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Yuly Aykhenvald
Бесконечно преданный русской литературе, Юлий Айхенвальд видел писателя как уникальную личность и не признавал литературных школ и течений. …
The Ordeal of Mark Twain (Version 2)
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Van Wyck Brooks
The Ordeal of Mark Twain analyzes the literary progression of Samuel L. Clemens and attributes shortcomings to Clemens' mother and wife. The…