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Literary Criticism

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Old and New Masters

Literary Criticism

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Robert Lynd - Old and New Masters

Jane Austen, WB Yeats, Chesterton, Shaw… these are personal and intelligent short essays on a selection of great (and great-ish) writers: some well known, and some a bit more obscure to the average reader today....

chocmuse and 14 more 8 hours 31 minutes

Art of Fiction

Essays & Short Works

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Walter Besant - Art of Fiction

A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American writer Henry James in the same year. (Summary by Julie VW)

Julie VW 2 hours 24 minutes

Ars Poetica and Carmen Saeculare

Poetry

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) - Ars Poetica and Carmen Saeculare

The Ars Poetica, by Horace, also known as Epistula ad Pisones, is a treatise on poetry written in the form of a letter, and published around 18 B.C. In it, Horace defines and exemplifies the nature, scope and correct...

Leni 1 hour 58 minutes

Brief History of English and American Literature

History

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Henry A. Beers - Brief History of English and American Literature

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 first Chancellor of American University, has written a sweeping...

Kalynda 14 hours 25 minutes

Quintessence of Ibsenism (Version 2)

Essays & Short Works

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George Bernard Shaw - Quintessence of Ibsenism (Version 2)

InThis is an essay providing an extended analysis of the works of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and of Ibsen's critical reception in England. Shaw uses this «exposition of Ibsenism» to illustrate the...

Gesine and 9 more 4 hours 17 minutes

Robert Browning

Literary Criticism

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G. K. Chesterton - Robert Browning

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 darker poems, and received the following reply: «When that poem was...

Ray Clare 6 hours 32 minutes

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

Essays & Short Works

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G. K. Chesterton - Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

“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 classics which are one of the real improvements of recent times. Thus...

Ray Clare 8 hours 27 minutes

Stage Land

Essays & Short Works

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Jerome K. Jerome - Stage Land

A comic look at the curious habits and customs of the inhabitants of 'Stage Land'. Dedicated to 'that highly respectable but unnecessarily retiring individual, of whom we hear so much but see so little, «the earnest...

David Muncaster 1 hour 54 minutes

Charles Dickens

Biography & Autobiography

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G. K. Chesterton - Charles Dickens

G. K. Chesterton was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, and wrote a noted critique of Dickens' works expressing his opinion in his own inimitable style. (Summary by Karen Merline)

Stuart Bell and 8 more 7 hours 30 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

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

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

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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