Criticism Books

De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The De Amicitia, inscribed, like the De Senectute, to Atticus, was probably written early in the year 44 B.C., during Cicero's retirement, after the death of Julius Caesar and before the conflict with..

Elizabethan Demonology

Thomas Alfred Spalding

Elizabethan Demonology is an Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Generally Held during the Period of the Reformation, and the Ti..

A History of English Literature

Robert Huntington Fletcher

This 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..

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman written by Margaret Fuller Ossoli...

Love to the Uttermost

F. B. Meyer

The former book on the first twelve chapters of this sublime Gospel was called, The Life and Light of Men. The title was naturally suggested by the subject-matter of those chapters. We had little diff..

About the Holy Bible

Robert Green Ingersoll

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains..

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S.

Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys FRS was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament who is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man...

Classic French Course in English

William Cleaver Wilkinson

The preparation of the present volume proposed to the author a task more difficult far than that undertaken in any one of the four preceding volumes of the group, The After-School Series, to which it ..