Literary 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 ..

An Old Man's Love

Anthony Trollope

An Old Man's Love was Trollope's last completed novel, and he may have acquired his sympathy for older lovers with age! A not-so-very-old man, Mr. Whittlestaff, dearly loves Mary Lawrie, the girl he p..

Look! We Have Come Through!

D. H. Lawrence

Look! We Have Come Through! is a poem collection by David Herbert Lawrence was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanisi..

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..

The Case of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A collection of three of Nietzsche's writings concerning the music of Wagner. In particular, he relates Wagner's music as degenerate, unrefined and unintelligent and relates it to a gradually degenera..

The Works of Henry Fielding, Vol. 12

Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the picaresque novel Tom Jones. this volume contains:The Author's Far..

Vie de Molière

Voltaire

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that ev..