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In this famous early work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he investigates the artistic characteristics of Apollonian (reason) and…

The American Language

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H. L. Mencken

"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…

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

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William Matthew Flinders Petrie

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

The Raven and The Philosophy Of Composition

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Edgar Allan Poe

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

Portraits of Russian Poets

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Ilya Ehrenburg

«Портреты русских поэтов»: Ахматова, Бальмонт, Балтрушайтис, Блок, Брюсов, Белый, Волошин, Есенин, Иванов, Мандельштам, Маяковск…

Essays and Literary Studies

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Stephen Leacock

A collection of wry looks at literature, education, and other social phenomena by Canadian humourist and economics professor, Stephen Leacoc…

Fear and Trembling (selections)

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Soren Kierkegaard

"And God tempted Abraham and said unto him: take Isaac, thine only son, whom thou lovest and go to the land Moriah and sacrifice him th…

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (Version 2)

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Mark Twain

This is Mark Twain's vicious and amusing review of Fenimore Cooper's literary art. It is still read widely in academic circles. Twain's essa…

Emily Brontë

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Agnes Mary Frances Robinson

Emily Brontë (1818-1848) is best known for her only novel, "Wuthering Heights." She was born in Yorkshire, northern England, …

Stage Land

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Jerome K. Jerome

A comic look at the curious habits and customs of the inhabitants of 'Stage Land'. Dedicated to 'that highly respectable but unnecessarily r…

Voltaire and the French Enlightenment

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Will Durant

In this Little Blue Book Number 512, Will Durant describes François-Marie Arouet, the writer, historian, and philosopher known as Vol…

Reviews

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Oscar Wilde

Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would hav…

The Lost Art of Reading

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Gerald Stanley Lee

Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…

Appreciations, with an Essay on Style

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Walter Pater

Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, is a collection of Walter Pater's previously-published essays on literature. The collection was well …

Old and New Masters

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Robert Lynd

Jane Austen, WB Yeats, Chesterton, Shaw... these are personal and intelligent short essays on a selection of great (and great-ish) writers: …

The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance

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Edith Birkhead

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

Bunyan Characters Volume II

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Alexander Whyte

This is the second volume of four which goes into the details of Characters from John Bunyan's books. This one continues with the characters…

A Student's History of American Literature

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William Simonds

Engaging history of American Lit from the 1600's up through the late 1890's. The author, who was a professor at Knox College, really put a …

Shakespeare Identified

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J. Thomas Looney

That one who is not a recognized authority or an expert in literature should attempt the solution of a problem which has so far baffled spec…

The Quintessence of Ibsenism

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George Bernard Shaw

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