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Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (Essay 4 - Macaulay )
John Morley'After glancing my eye over the design and order of a new book,' says Gibbon, 'I suspended the perusal till I had finished the task of self-examination, till I had revolved in a solitary walk all that..
Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 2 (Essay 1 - Vauvenargues )
John MorleyOne of the most important phases of French thought in the great century of its illumination is only thoroughly intelligible, on condition that in studying it we keep constantly in mind the eloquence, ..
Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 2 (Essay 2 - Condorcet)
John MorleyOf the illustrious thinkers and writers who for two generations had been actively scattering the seed of revolution in France, only Condorcet survived to behold the first bitter in gathering of the ha..
A Midsummer Night's Dream
William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's Dream is one of William Shakespeare's most beloved comedies. It portrays events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, and the..
Endymion
Benjamin D'israeliEndymion is a novel published in 1880 by Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, the former Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was paid £10,000 for it. It was the last novel Di..
The Song of Roland
MoncriefThe Song of Roland is an epic poem based on the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778, during the reign of Charlemagne. It is the oldest surviving major work of French literature and exists in various manus..
Little Men
Louisa May AlcottLittle Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys, is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1871. The novel reprises characters from Little Women and is considered by some the..
The Secret Sharer
Joseph Conrad"The Secret Sharer" is a short story by Polish-British author Joseph Conrad, originally written in 1909 and first published in two parts in Harper's Magazine in 1910. It was later included in the shor..