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  • An Apology for Poetry 
    Sidney, Sir Philip (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 
    Dryden, John (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 
    Bronte, Emily (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 
    Bronte, Charlotte (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 
    Dickens, Charles (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 
    Bunyan, John (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 
    Ibsen, Henrik (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 
    Hardy, Thomas (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 
    Butcher, S. H. (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 
    King, Elizabeth M. (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 
    Sophocles (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 
    Milton, John (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 ...
  • To the lighthouse 
    Woolf, Virginia (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 
    Camus, Albert (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 ...
  • CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM AND DEMOCRACY 
    Schumpeter, Joseph; SWEDBERG, RICHARD (George Allen & Unwin, 1943)
    This is a book to be read not for the agreement or disagreement it provokes but for the thought it invokes
  • Death of a salesman 
    Miller, Arthur (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 ...
  • Desire Under the Elms 
    O’Neill, Eugene (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 
    Williams, W. E. (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 ...
  • A. C. Bradley as a Critic of Shakespearean Tragedy 
    Britton, John (Loyola University, 1960)
    A.C. Bradley put Shakespeare on the map for generations of readers and students for whom the plays might not otherwise have become 'real' at all" writes John Bayley in his foreword to this edition of Shakespearean Tragedy. ...
  • A Linguistic Theory of Translation: an essay in applied linguistics 
    Catford, J. C. (Oxford University Press, 1965)
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