Literary Books

Impressions and experiences

William Dean Howells

My earliest memories, or those which I can make sure are not the sort of early hearsay that we mistake for remembrance later in life, concern a country newspaper, or, rather, a country printing-office..

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume XII

Ambrose Bierce

Jack says one time a other sailor hired out as mate of a ship which the captain of had a pet kangaroon. One day fore the ship sailed the mate was lyin in his bunk, and the kang it come in and looked a..

That Marvel—The Movie

Edward S. Van Zile

To grasp the past progress, the present significance and the future possibilities of the motion picture; to express them with restraint and yet with clarity.The other arts are old. Music was born with..

Style and the Man

Meredith Nicholson

Few writers of the Victorian period wielded a more flexible English than Matthew Arnold, and few writers of any period have shown greater versatility. His power of direct statement was very great and ..

Illustrations of the Author of Waverley

Robert Chambers

The person who held the situation in the rebel army which in the novel has been assigned to the Baron, namely, the command of their few cavalry, was Alexander, fourth Lord Forbes of Pitsligo. This nob..

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 09

Ambrose Bierce

The conditions under which we live may so alter that the sense of smell may be again advantageous in the struggle for existence, and by the survival of those in whom it is keenest regain its pristine ..

Facts and fancies for the curious from the harvest-fields of literature

Charles C. Bombaugh

Literature, as an English writer remarks, is “not a matter of paper and ink, but a human voice speaking to human beings; a voice, or rather a collection of voices, from generation to generation, speak..

Shakespeare at the Globe, 1599-1609

Bernard Beckerman

Circumstances attendant on the building of the Globe playhouse were instrumental in developing the distinctiveness of this endeavor. The new playhouse itself was regarded as the last word in theaters...