Literary Criticism

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Thomas Alfred Spalding - Elizabethan Demonology

Elizabethan Demonology: An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Generally Held during the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately...

Eva Davis 4 hours 16 minutes

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War & Military

467

Agnes Mary Frances Robinson - Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre

Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre (Marguerite de Navarre), (1492-1549), was the sister of Francis I, King of France. She was highly-educated and was courted by the future Henry VIII of England. However, at the...

Pamela Nagami 7 hours 37 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

412

Bella Duffy - Madame de Staël

Madame Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) was the daughter of the Swiss banker and statesman, Jacques Necker. Her mother hosted a popular Paris salon where intellectuals gathered, many of whom contributed to the education...

Pamela Nagami 6 hours 19 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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William Lyon Phelps - Essays on Modern Novelists

A collection of essays on 19th century novelists, both famous ones and those largely forgotten now. Among the writers presented most wrote in English, but three foreign authors are also discussed. Phelps taught a...

Anna Simon and 4 more 6 hours 38 minutes

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Literary Criticism

439

George Henry Lewes - Novels of Jane Austen

An 1859 essay by the prominent philosopher and literary critic, G. H. Lewes, who was an enthusiastic promoter of the novels of Jane Austen at a time when they were yet to achieve great critical acclaim. Lewes was the...

Barbara Baker 1 hour 18 minutes

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Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series Two : XVIIIth to XIXth Dynasty

Literary Criticism

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William Matthew Flinders Petrie - Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series Two : XVIIIth to XIXth Dynasty

Egyptian stories translated from ancient, often incomplete, documents. — Summary by Timothy Ferguson

Timothy Ferguson 1 hour 59 minutes

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Poetry

539

Alexander Pope - Essay on Criticism (version 2)

The title, An Essay on Criticism hardly indicates all that is included in the poem. It would have been impossible to give a full and exact idea of the art of poetical criticism without entering into the...

cwanki 42 minutes

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Literary Criticism

469

George Bernard Shaw - Quintessence of Ibsenism

George Bernard Shaw, a playwright with a few bones to pick of his own, undertakes a surgical analysis of the social philosophies underlying the work of Henrik Ibsen. Focusing his analysis on Ibsen's challenge to the...

Expatriate 5 hours 58 minutes

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Literary Criticism

452

George Borrow - Welsh And Their Literature

Originally an article in the US Edition of the London Quarterly Review, George Borrow offers a sweeping history of Welsh literature, beginning with the legendary origin of the Welsh people, then their major bards and...

Eric Metzler 1 hour 27 minutes

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Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance

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Edith Birkhead - Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance

A seminal essay on the development of horror as a genre, highly influential on later writers. — Summary by Timothy Ferguson

Timothy Ferguson 7 hours 5 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

546

Frederika Richardson Macdonald - Secret of Charlotte Brontë

Twenty years ago, now, I attempted (but was not especially successful in the task) to establish upon the personal knowledge that my own residence as a pupil in the historical Pensionnat in the Rue d'Isabelle, at...

Lucretia B. and 7 more 5 hours 28 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

462

James Elroy Flecker - Collected Prose

Best remembered for his poetry, James Elroy Flecker was also a playwright, novelist and prose writer. This collection of his idiosyncratic prose writings includes The Last Generation (a short science fiction story),...

Phil Benson and 5 more 7 hours 19 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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