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Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)

Alexander Whyte

John Bunyan’s Holy War was first published in 1682, six years before its illustrious author’s death.  Bunyan wrote this great book when he was still in all the fulness of his intellectual power a..

Bunyan Characters (Ist Series)

Alexander Whyte

The word ‘character’ occurs only once in the New Testament, and that is in the passage in the prologue of the Epistle to the Hebrews, where the original word is translated ‘express image’ in our versi..

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (Essay 1 - Robespierre)

John Morley

A French writer has recently published a careful and interesting volume on the famous events which ended in the overthrow of Robespierre and the close of the Reign of Terror. These events are known in..

Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Anonymous

The identity of the "Anonymous" of Some Remarks on Hamlet Prince of Denmark has never been established. The tradition that Hanmer wrote the essay had its highly dubious origin in a single unsupported ..

The Craft of Fiction

Percy Lubbock

The Craft of Fiction is an important Criticism work by essayist, and literary critic Percy Lubbock. Lubbock's outlook in this publication is an obvious extension to that of Henry James and he works to..

We Philologists, Volume 8

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

To what a great extent men are ruled by pure hazard, and how little reason itself enters into the question, is sufficiently shown by observing how few people have any real capacity for their professio..

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (Essay 2 - Carlyle)

John Morley

The new library edition of Mr. Carlyle's works may be taken for the final presentation of all that the author has to say to his contemporaries, and to possess the settled form in which he wishes his w..

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (Essay 3 - Byron)

John Morley

It is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution. Nowhere is the antipathy to princip..