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Literary Criticism
Literary Taste: How to Form It
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 descri…
The Art of Fiction
Read by Julie VW
Henry James
A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…
Elizabethan Demonology
Read by Eva Davis
Thomas Alfred Spalding
Elizabethan Demonology: An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Gene…
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
“These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries o…
A Brief History of English and American Literature
Read by Kalynda
Henry A. Beers
Henry Augustin Beers, native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bi…
Deutsche Literaturgeschichte in einer Stunde
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Klabund
Von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur GegenwartEine Literaturgeschichte von einem Literaten!Der Stil ist modern (für die PD), persö…
The Legends of Genesis
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Hermann Gunkel
The Legends of Genesis is the English translation of the introduction to Gunkel’s massive commentary, Genesis. Gunkel uses form critical ana…
Bunyan Characters Volume I
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Alexander Whyte
This is the first volume of four which goes into the details of Characters from John Bunyan's books. This one is about characters of Pilgrim…
Through the Magic Door
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with i…
An Essay on Criticism
Read by Aringguth
Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism was the first major poem written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688-1744). However, despite the title, the poe…
Robert Browning
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
There is an old anecdote, probably apocryphal, which describes how a feminine admirer wrote to Browning asking him for the meaning of one of…
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences
Read by Gesine
Mark Twain
Fenimore Cooper - author of The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, etc - has often been praised, but just as often been criticised for hi…
The Birth of Tragedy
Read by Jim Locke
Friedrich Nietzsche
In this famous early work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he investigates the artistic characteristics of Apollonian (reason) and…
The American Language
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H. L. Mencken
"It was part of my daily work, for a good many years, to read the principal English newspapers and reviews; it has been part of my work…
Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series Two : XVIIIth to XIXth Dynas…
Read by Timothy Ferguson
William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Egyptian stories translated from ancient, often incomplete, documents. - Summary by Timothy Ferguson
The Raven and The Philosophy Of Composition
Read by David Wales
Edgar Allan Poe
Poe’s famous narrative poem and the author’s reflections on its composition. (David Wales)
Portraits of Russian Poets
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Ilya Ehrenburg
«Портреты русских поэтов»: Ахматова, Бальмонт, Балтрушайтис, Блок, Брюсов, Белый, Волошин, Есенин, Иванов, Мандельштам, Маяковск…
Fear and Trembling (selections)
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Soren Kierkegaard
"And God tempted Abraham and said unto him: take Isaac, thine only son, whom thou lovest and go to the land Moriah and sacrifice him th…
Essays and Literary Studies
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Stephen Leacock
A collection of wry looks at literature, education, and other social phenomena by Canadian humourist and economics professor, Stephen Leacoc…
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (Version 2)
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
This is Mark Twain's vicious and amusing review of Fenimore Cooper's literary art. It is still read widely in academic circles. Twain's essa…
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