Literary Books
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama
E. Cobham BrewerCharacter Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama is a dictionary of romance literature written by E. Cobham Brewer. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, was the author of A Guide to the Scientific Kn..
Fashions in Literature
Charles Dudley WarnerFashions in Literature is a literary criticism book written by Charles Dudley Warner, an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: ..
The Lost Girl
D. H. LawrenceThe Lost Girl is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1920. It was awarded the 1920 James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the fiction category. Lawrence started it shortly after writing Women in..
Mr. Britling Sees It Through
H. G. WellsMr. Britling Sees It Through is H.G. Wells's "masterpiece of the wartime experience in England." The novel was published in September 1916. Mr. Britling Sees It Through tells the story of a renowned w..
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters - A Family Record
Richard ArthurSince 1870-1, when J. E. Austen Leigh published his Memoir of Jane Austen, considerable additions have been made to the stock of information available for her biographers. Of these fresh sources of kn..
A Life of William Shakespeare
Sir Sidney LeeShakespeare, William, A Life of, by Sidney Lee (1898). The motto of this book would appear to be that which was said (by one of them) to have animated the contributors to the English Dictionary of Nat..
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
Edith NesbitEdith Nesbit, the author of Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, felt passionately that young children should enjoy Shakespeare's great works. She set about to retell his plays in a language that child..
The Way We Live Now
Anthony TrollopeThe Way We Live Now is a satirical novel by Anthony Trollope, published in London in 1875 after first appearing in serialised form. It is one of the last significant Victorian novels to have been publ..