Criticism Books

Common Sense

Thomas Paine

Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled mor..

The Antichrist

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The Antichrist is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1895. Although it was written in 1888, its controversial content made Franz Overbeck and Heinrich Köselitz dela..

Successful Methods of Public Speaking

Grenville Kleiser

As you carefully study the successful methods of public speakers, as briefly set forth in this book, you will observe that there is nothing that can be substituted for personal sincerity. Unless you t..

Jewish Literature and Other Essays

Gustav Karpeles

The following essays were delivered during the last ten years, in the form of addresses, before the largest associations in the great cities of Germany. Each one is a dear and precious possession to m..

Supplemental Nights to The Book of the Thousand and One Nights

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The subtitle for Sir Richard Francis Burton's Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, is "A plain and literal translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments," however, given the tendencies of its ..

Shakespearean Tragedy

A. C. Bradley

Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth. A.C. Bradley put Shakespeare on the map for generations of readers and students for whom the plays might not otherwise have..

Adventures in Criticism

Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Adventures in Criticism Author: Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch sfully. In a single sentence of admirable brevity he tells us that of Chaucer's poetical excellence "it is superfluous to speak; Lowell's es..

An Anarchist Woman

Hutchins Hapgood

An Anarchist Woman is a non-fiction work by Hutchins Hapgood who is also the author of "The Autobiography of a Thief," "The Spirit of Labor", etc. This book is not an attempt to justify any perso..