Criticism Books

English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World

William J. Long

This book, which presents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era, has three specific aims. The first is to create or to encourage in ..

Legends of the Middle Ages

H. A. Guerber

The object of this work is to familiarize young students with the legends which form the staple of mediaeval literature. While they may owe more than is apparent at first sight to the classical writin..

Familiar Studies of Men and Books

Robert Louis Stevenson

Familiar Studies of Men and Books is a critic work by Robert Louis Stevenson, a Scottish novelist and travel writer remembered for his novels like Kidnapped, and Treasure Island.These studies are coll..

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 (of 4)

Cobham Brewer

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1, by The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, was the author of A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar, Brewe..

Jeannot et Colin

Voltaire

Jeannot et Colin is a French literary work written Voltaire, by a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity, especially the Roman C..

Die Geburt der Tragödie - Versuch einer Selbstkritik

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Die Geburt der Tragödie: Versuch einer Selbstkritik is the German origin of the translated English title "The Birth of Tragedy" from the Spirit of Music is an 1872 work of dramatic theory by the Germa..

On The Art of Reading

Arthur Quiller-Couch

The following twelve lectures have this much in common with a previous twelve published in 1916 under the title "On the Art of Writing"—they form no compact treatise but present their central idea as ..

The Author's Craft

Arnold Bennett

The Author's Craft is a collection of criticism on popular novels and short stories by Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fiel..