Literary Books

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama

E. Cobham Brewer

Character 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 Warner

Fashions 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. Lawrence

The 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. Wells

Mr. 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 Arthur

Since 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 Lee

Shakespeare, 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 Nesbit

Edith 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 Trollope

The 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..