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Pollyanna

Eleanor H. Porter

Pollyanna is a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter that is now considered a classic of children's literature, with the title character's name becoming a popular term for someone with the same..

The Works of John Dryden

John Dryden

John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to su..

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama

E. Cobham Brewer

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama is a dictionary of romance literature written by E. Cobham Brewer. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, was the author of A Guide to the Scientific Kn..

Fashions in Literature

Charles Dudley Warner

Fashions in Literature is a literary criticism book written by Charles Dudley Warner, an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: ..

Pygmalion's Spectacles

Stanley G. Weinbaum

Pygmalion's Spectacles is a collection of short science fiction stories written by Stanley G. Weinbaum,  an American science fiction writer. His first story, "A Martian Odyssey", was pu..

Swan Song

Anton Chekhov

Inspired by 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' and written in a similar epistolary form, 'Lady Susan' was one of Austen's earliest finished works. In it she reveals the caustic wit and social satire of her la..

The Eight Pillars of Prosperity

James Allen

The Eight Pillars of Prosperity is a discussion on Energy, Economy, Integrity, Systems, Sympathy, Sincerity, Impartiality, Self-Reliance, and the Temple of Prosperity written by James Allen,..

The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath

William Walker Atkinson

The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath is a manual on the science of controlling your breathing by Yogi Ramacharaka.The Western student is apt to be somewhat confused in his ideas regarding the Yogis and th..