Literary Criticism
Gossip in a Library
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Edmund Gosse
A collection of informal essays about books in his library. He combines commentary, translations, and humorous asides about authors and thei…
Some American Storytellers
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Frederic Taber Cooper
Frederic Taber Cooper, who was an editor and author, provides a superb insight into the works of some of the most popular authors of the tur…
Collected Prose
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James Elroy Flecker
Best remembered for his poetry, James Elroy Flecker was also a playwright, novelist and prose writer. This collection of his idiosyncratic p…
The Introduction to Shakespeare Apocrypha
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C. F. Tucker Brooke
"The ambition of the editor has been to provide an accurate and complete text, with adequate critical and supplementary matter, of all …
The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 1: From the Beginnings to t…
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Various
In the preliminary statement of the aims and objects of this History, communicated to those who were invited to become contributors to it, t…
Essays Irish and American
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John Butler Yeats
From the noted artist and father of the celebrated Irish poet William Butler Yeats comes this short collection of essays on the literary lif…
'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf: Contemporary Reviews (1927)
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Various
Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse was published in May 1927 in both Britain and the United States. The publication of Mrs. Dalloway a year …
Aspects of the Novel
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E. M. Forster
This s a series of lectures given at Trinity College by the acclaimed author E.M. Forster (A Passage to India, Howard's End, A Room With a V…
Studies in Classic American Literature
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D. H. Lawrence
The staid academic title belies the freewheeling prose of D.H. Lawrence's essays, which are as contrarian, penetrating, and sometimes unpala…
Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism
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John Middleton Murry
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…
Русско-еврейская литература
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Vasily Lvov-Rogachevsky
Overview of Jewish themes in the Russian-language literature from the early 19th to the early 20th century.Обзор еврейской литературы на рус…
Through the Literature / Сквозь литературу
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Boris Eikhenbaum
Collection of literary studies and articles about writers and their styles by a prominent Russian literary scholar and historian of literatu…
Ingersoll on ROBERT BURNS, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lec…
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Robert Burns and Robert G. Ingersoll
This is a duet by Michele Fry, reading Ingersoll's essay, and Kay Williams, an authentic Scotsman, reading Burns' poetry. Robert Burns (25 J…
Excerpts from ''A Bibliography of the Work of Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clem…
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Merle Devore Johnson
As printed, this book contains an extensive listing of Mark Twain's work. Rather than repeating that listing, this recording simply reflects…
J. M. Synge and the Ireland of His Time
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William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats recounts his experiences with friend and colleague, John Millington Synge. - Summary by Kyle James Maclean
The Defense of Poesy
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Sir Philip Sidney
Sidney envisions the world as an ideally ordered structure that rewards good and punishes evil, but this order, vitiated by sin, has fallen …
Some German Women and Their Salons
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Mary Hargrave
German women living at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century have paved the way to modernity for the female gender in Germany. Mary Hargr…
Little Blue Book 646: The Spirit of Brazilian Literature
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Isaac Goldberg
One of the many Little Blue Books published to make learning available to all. These were short, informative, and inexpensive books that dis…
Cabos sueltos: Literatura y lingüística
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Julio Cejador y Frauca and Julio Cejador Y Frauca
Publicada en 1907 y dedicada a su “querido discípulo” Ortega y Gasset, esta colección de ensayos consiste en “articulejos” pub…
History of a Literary Radical, and Other Essays
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Randolph Silliman Bourne
A posthumous collection of Bourne's writing from publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and early issues of The New Republic, with a long…