Criticism Books
English Past and Present
Richard Chenevix TrenchA series of four lectures which I delivered last spring to the pupils of the King’s College School, London, supplied the foundation to this present volume. These lectures, which I was obliged to prepa..
Brief History of English and American Literature
Henry A. BeersHenry Augustin Beers, native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bishop and first Chancellor of American University, has writte..
The Women of the French Salons
Amelia Gere MasonThe Women of the French Salons is a criticism by Amelia Gere Mason. who developed Women of the French Salons by creating an archive of oral histories of women who participated in the salons.It ha..
A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse
Sylvester BlissThe Apocalypse should be regarded as a peculiarly interesting portion of scripture: a blessing being promised those who read, hear, and keep the things which are written therein. It has been subjected..
A History of English Literature
Robert Huntington FletcherThis book aims to provide a general manual of English Literature for students in colleges and universities and others beyond the high-school age. The first purposes of every such book must be to outli..
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
Thomas Babington MacaulayCritical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 contains the Great Britain's history written by Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, FRS FRSE PC was a British historian and Whig politician. H..
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
Samuel JohnsonLives of the Poets, Volume 1 is a multi volume biography about popular poets written by Samuel Johnson, an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwrigh..
Familiar Quotations
John BartlettBartlett's Familiar Quotations, often simply called Bartlett's, is an American reference work that is the longest-lived and most widely distributed collection of quotations. The book was first issued ..