Literary Criticism

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Geraldine Hodgson - English Literature

This book is not meant to be a History of English Literature, but an introduction for those who do not know much about it, or who may be thinking of it as a «dull, horrid thing» which they have to learn in school. I...

Lynette Caulkins and 11 more 12 hours 21 minutes

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Literary Criticism

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William Hazlitt - Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

This famous Shakespearean exploration illuminates its plays through the frame of character, while also weighing theme, mood, structure and poetics. In it, 19th-century critic William Hazlitt unveils Shakespeare's...

Nemo and 1 more 10 hours 15 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

478

H. L. Mencken - Prejudices, First Series

Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time. Among his targets in this volume (the first of six) are critics, H.G. Wells Thorstein Veblen,...

DrPGould and 4 more 7 hours

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Francis Bickford Hornbrooke - Ring and the Book - An Interpretation

Francis Bickford Hornbrooke was an American Unitarian minister who in later years was recognized as an expert commentator on literature, in particular the works of Robert Browning. Of all Browning's output, it was his...

Algy Pug 6 hours 12 minutes

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Narratives

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Edgar Allan Poe - Raven and The Philosophy Of Composition

Poe’s famous narrative poem and the author’s reflections on its composition. (David Wales)

David Wales 42 minutes

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H. L. Mencken - American Language

«It was part of my daily work, for a good many years, to read the principal English newspapers and reviews; it has been part of my work, all the time, to read the more important English novels, essays, poetry and...

DrPGould and 10 more 15 hours 41 minutes

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Charles Harold Herford - Six lectures on literature

C. H. Herford was Professor of English Literature at the Victoria University of Manchester in era when public lectures were published in pamphlet form. The six lectures in this collection span Herford's career at the...

Phil Benson 6 hours 18 minutes

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Arthur Wing Pinero, Playwright - A Study

Biography & Autobiography

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Hamilton Fyfe - Arthur Wing Pinero, Playwright - A Study

A discussion about the life and works of the playwright Arthur Wing Pinero. The perfect accompaniment to the plays by Pinero available here at Librivox. (Refer to the etext for cast lists of plays — through 1901 —...

Larry Wilson and 6 more 4 hours 17 minutes

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History

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Isaac D'Israeli - Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3

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 means limited to literature only, but also containing numerous essays...

Jim Locke and 7 more 25 hours 53 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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John Cowper Powys - Visions and Revisions

Powys presents a set of literary devotions of great figures in Literature who have obsessed him. He attempts not so much a reasoned critique or any attempt to categorise these figures but rather, as he describes in...

Keri Ford 6 hours 49 minutes

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Henry van Dyke - Companionable Books

Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed orange; but some have in them an unfailing sap, both from the tree of...

MaryAnn 6 hours 44 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Agnes Mary Frances Robinson - Emily Brontë

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 Anglican curate. When Brontë was three years old her mother died of...

Pamela Nagami 7 hours 40 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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