Classicly Collection of Books

Bunyan Characters (Ist Series)

Alexander Whyte

The word ‘character’ occurs only once in the New Testament, and that is in the passage in the prologue of the Epistle to the Hebrews, where the original word is translated ‘express image’ in our versi..

Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920)

Carl Van Doren

The American Novel, published last year, undertook to trace the progress of a literary type in the United States from its beginnings to the end of the nineteenth century; Contemporary American Novelis..

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (Essay 1 - Robespierre)

John Morley

A French writer has recently published a careful and interesting volume on the famous events which ended in the overthrow of Robespierre and the close of the Reign of Terror. These events are known in..

Der Streit Über die Tragödie

Theodor Lipps

No more than artistic activity, nor is our enjoyment of art conditioned by the intelligible insight into the reasons on which the work of art is based. And it's good that it behaves that way. If it we..

Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Anonymous

The identity of the "Anonymous" of Some Remarks on Hamlet Prince of Denmark has never been established. The tradition that Hanmer wrote the essay had its highly dubious origin in a single unsupported ..

The Craft of Fiction

Percy Lubbock

The Craft of Fiction is an important Criticism work by essayist, and literary critic Percy Lubbock. Lubbock's outlook in this publication is an obvious extension to that of Henry James and he works to..

The Land That Time Forgot

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Imagine an episode of Lost mixed with the movie Jurassic Park and you might have Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic book The Land That Time Forgot. Set during WWI, it features a German U-boat with British ..

We Philologists, Volume 8

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

To what a great extent men are ruled by pure hazard, and how little reason itself enters into the question, is sufficiently shown by observing how few people have any real capacity for their professio..