Literary Collections : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Abraham Cowley is at his truest in these ESSAYS, written during the last seven years of his life. Their style is simple, and their thoughts are pure. They ha......

A major poet, writer, and painter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was seen as the dominating cultural presence in the second half of the nineteenth century. He found......

G. K. Chesterton's biographical essays provide unique portraits of 12 of Europe's most defining figures. Written by one of the world's master essayists, this......

Charmed. Very hot weather we've been having of late-I mean cold. Let me see, I did not quite catch your name just now. Thank you so much. Yes, it is...

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To equip so small a book with a preface is, I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But a preface is more than an author can resist, for it...

Oscar Wilde wrote this while in prison to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas. This love letter is a profound look into the personal life of Oscar. ...

Billy the Kid, Jesse James, John Dillinger, and Al Capone were all are criminals who robbed and killed, yet they were considered good outlaws, celebrated in ......

Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press probes the difficult relationship between the press and organized labor in the South from the past to t......

This collection of essays brilliantly reflects the amazing talents of Jerome K. Jerome. He satirizes and derides the attitudes and values of his times. The w......

First published in 1970, this selection of Fielding's criticism is an important contribution to our understanding of Fielding and his age. It directs conside......

Teaching U.S. History as Mystery, 2nd Edition offers a clear set of principles and methods teachers can use to promote and sustain problem-finding and proble......

The Changeling is a powerful psychological tragedy of the moral degeneration of a highborn Spanish girl through a crime prompted by obsessive love. Thomas Mi......

Recollected observations of England between World War I and II In this series of pen–portraits of England, commissioned by the Daily Mail in the 1......

As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders......

George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected--and illuminat......

The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russell's recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades......

Sampling works by the creator of Holmes and Watson, this collection features Doyle's detective stories, horror tales, journalism, historical stories, and the......

13 Christmas stories by Charles Dickens:A Christmas CarolA Christmas TreeWhat Christmas is as we Grow OlderThe Poor Relation's StoryThe Child's Story......

The classic tale of Adam and Eve as told by the Englis poet John Milton Author: Milton, john Publisher: callender press Illustration: N Language: ENG Title......