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An Apology for Poetry
(Oxford University Press, 1595)In 16th century Europe, poetry had lost much of its cultural value. It became known as a narrow and frivolous activity, much like it is now, and it was under attack by religious authorities because it was seen as licentious ... -
An Essay Of Dramatick Poesie
(Read How You Want, 1668)A superb piece of literary criticism by Dryden written during the Plague of 1666 and first published in 1668. The essay is a discourse between 4 speakers including Dryden himself. They discuss the necessity of abiding by ... -
Wuthering Heights
(Planet PDF, 1801)Considered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its author, Emily Brontë, was asked to pay some of the publication costs. A somber tale ... -
Jane Eyre
(Planet PDF, 1848)Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1848 by Planet PDF. of London, England, under the pen name "Currer Bell." The ... -
David Copperfield
(Penguin Classics, 1850)Drawing on Charles Dickens's own, often difficult childhood, to create a compelling story of personal success, David Copperfield is edited with an introduction and notes by Jeremy Tambling in Penguin Classics. David ... -
The Pilgrim's Progress
(Grand Rapids, 1853)Often rated as important as the Bible as a Christian document, this famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most entertaining allegories of faith ever written. Set against ... -
A doll's house
(1879)A Doll's House is a three-act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. -
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
(James R. Osgood, McIlvaine, 1891)Tess of the D'Urbervilles is widely considered to be one of Thomas Hardy's most important and classic works which has endured time and contributed a considerable amount to literature.Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman ... -
The Poetics of Aristotle
(Macmillan and Co., 1902)Incorporating the best modern work on the Poetics, Halliwell's translation is aimed at those who want a reliable version of Aristotle's ideas along with concise and stimulating guidance. A running commentary explains the ... -
The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems of Alexander Pope: Edited With Notes and Introduction
(The Macmillan Company, 1905)Excerpt from The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems of Alexander Pope: Edited With Notes and Introduction By the beginning of the eighteenth century much had been accomplished by the poets of England: Chaucer had portrayed ... -
Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone
(An Electronic Classic Series Publication, 1912)Sophocles I contains the plays “Antigone,” translated by F. Storr; “Oedipus the King,” translated by David Grene; and “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated by Robert Fitzgerald.Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press ... -
Areopagitica
(Cambridge University Press, 1918)An edition based upon Sir Richard Jebb's lectures at Cambridge in 1872, with extensive notes and commentaries on this famous work. Milton's famous defence of freedom of speech. It was a protest against Parliament's ordinance ... -
Araby
(Calcutta, 1922)1. A young boy in love with his friend’s sister promises to bring her back a gift from the Araby bazaar when he learns she cannot go. It is only later that night that the boy is able to make it to the bazaar and by the ... -
To the lighthouse
(Hogarth Press, 1927)To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark of high modernism, the novel centres on the Ramsays and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. -
The stranger
(Vintage Books, 1942)The Outsider or The Stranger (French: L’Étranger) is a novel by Albert Camus published in 1942. The titular character is Meursault, an indifferent Algerian ("a citizen of France domiciled in North Africa, a man of the ... -
Death of a salesman
(Morosco Theatre, 1949)Death of a Salesman is a 1949 play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. It was the recipient of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. Willy Loman has spent his entire life believing he ... -
Collected poems
(Dent & Sons Ltd, 1952)Since its initial publication in 1953, this book has become the definitive edition of the poet’s work. Thomas wrote “Prologue” addressed to “my readers, the strangers” ― an introduction in verse that was the last poem he ... -
Desire Under the Elms
(Goodman Theatre, 1953)Desire Under the Elms - A Play in Three Parts by Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953). Desire Under the Elms is a play by Eugene O'Neill, published in 1924, and is now considered an American classic. Along with Mourning Becomes ... -
Tennyson: Selected Poems
(Penguin Books, 1953)As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age. The works in this volume trace nearly sixty years of his literary career and show the wide ... -
Lord of the flies
(Penguin, 1954)At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can ...
