Literary Collections

Virginibus Puerisque is a short story collection by Robert Louis Stevenson that includes the following titles: Virginibus Puerisque Crabbed Age and Youth An Apology For Idlers Ordered South Aes Triplex El Dorado The English Admirals Some Portraits by...

This English literature collection presents two classic Robert Louis Stevenson short stories, The Body-Snatcher and The Sea Fogs . "The Body Snatcher" is a short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). First published in the Pall...

"Bethink Yourselves" by Leo Tolstoy is a Tolstoy on war classic work that laments...Again war. Again sufferings, necessary to nobody, utterly uncalled for; again fraud; again the universal stupefaction and brutalization of men.Author: V...

DEDICATION TO A.E. TO THE SECRET ROSE THE CRUCIFIXION OF THE OUTCAST OUT OF THE ROSE THE WISDOM OF THE KING THE HEART OF THE SPRING THE CURSE OF THE FIRES AND OF THE SHADOWS THE OLD MEN OF THE TWILIGHT WHERE THERE IS NOTHING, THERE IS GOD OF COSTELLO THE...

Persons not much interested in, or cognisant of, "antiquarian old womanries," as Sir Walter Scott called them, may ask "what all the pother is about," in this little tractate. On my side it is "about" the veracity of Sir Walter Scott. He has been...

Kitchener's Mob is a classic English history text by James Norman Hall dealing with the life and times of Lord Kitchener. This brief narrative is by no means a complete record of life in a battalion of one of Lord Kitchener's first armies. It is, rather,...

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."-Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Over-Soul The Over-Soul (1841) is a treatise on transcendentalism. Emerson was one of the original authors of this philosophical system, and in his essay, he argues...

"...great men exist that there may be greater men. The destiny of organized nature is amelioration, and who can tell its limits."-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Use of Great Men (1850) Use of Great Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850) is one of seven essays about...

The Battle of Gettysburg is a gripping Civil War memoir from a man who witnessed the legendary Civil War battle in person, Frank Aretas Haskell. Writing of Gettysburg, which is herein so graphically depicted by Haskell, General Francis A. Walker, in his...

Celtic Literature is a classic literary study by Matthew Arnold. "The following remarks on the study of Celtic Literature formed the substance of four lectures given by me in the chair of poetry at Oxford. They were first published in the Cornhill...

The letters of Mark Twain are peculiarly of the revealing sort. He was a man of few restraints and of no affectations. In his correspondence, as in his talk, he spoke what was in his mind, untrammeled by literary conventions.Author: Mark TwainPublisher:...

Tolstoy on Shakespeare is a classic work of literary criticism on the subject of Shakespeare by Leo Tolstoy. "My disagreement with the established opinion about Shakespeare is not the result of an accidental frame of mind, nor of a light-minded attitude...

Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott is a classic American fiction work by the great novelist, Louisa May Alcott. Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and...

This classic collection by James Fenimore Cooper is "intended for the perusal of young women, at that tender age when the feelings of their nature begin to act on them most insidiously, and when their minds are least prepared by reason and experience to...

Set in a rural Russian house, the plot focuses on the romantic and artistic conflicts among an eclectic group of characters. Fading leading lady Irina Arkadina has come to visit her brother Sorin, a retired civil servant in ailing health, with her lover,...

This classic collection of stories from Jerome K. Jerome include ON BEING IDLE, ON BEING IN LOVE, ON BEING IN THE BLUES, ON BEING HARD UP and many others.Author: Jerome K. JeromePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct...

In Judaism, by Israel Abrahams, the writer has attempted in this Jewish history classic to take up a few of the most characteristic points in Jewish doctrine and Jewish practice, and to explain some of the various phases through which they have passed,...

Reincarnation is a classic Eastern religious studies text by Swami Abhedananda. The visible phenomena of the universe are bound by the universal law of cause and effect. The effect is visible or perceptible, while the cause is invisible or imperceptible...

Biographical Stories is a classic biography collection by the great American writer, Nathaniel Hawthorne that includes the following biographical sketches for young people: Benjamin West -- Sir Isaac Newton -- Samuel Johnson -- Oliver Cromwell --...

Though the particulars connected with the Gunpowder Treason may be perused in the general histories of the period, yet I am not aware, that any modern narrative of that dark design is to be found in a separate form. Many brief sketches have, indeed, been...

Kitchener, by Harold Begbie, is a classic English history biography about Lord Kitchener. SELDOM has any one man stood for a multitudinous and highly complex nation with so tremendous and complete an emphasis as Lord Kitchener stood at the beginning of...

Fifty Famous Fables is a classic fable collection by Lida Brown McMurry. The fifty fables in this book have been selected for second grade reading because they are easily comprehended by pupils of that grade, and because they teach lessons which every...

Song, so far as voice production is concerned, is the result of physiological action, and as voice-production is the basis of all song, it follows that a singing method, to be correct, must be based on the correct physiological use of the vocal organs...

Hymen is a classic American poem by the great American poet, Hilda Doolittle. As from a temple service, tall and dignified, with slow pace, each a queen, the sixteen matrons from the temple of Hera pass before the curtain--a dark purple hung between...

Profiles from China-Sketches in Free Verse of People and Things Seen in the Interior is a classic Chinese poetry collection by Eunice Tietjens. As you sit so, in the firelight, your hand is the color of new bronze. I cannot take my eyes from your hand;...

Christopher Columbus, by Mildred Stapley, is a definitive biography of the great Italian explorer. Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer. Born in the Republic of Genoa, under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain...

The Future of the Colored Race in America is an African American Studies text by William Aikman, (1824-1909) an American writer and pastor. According to his work The Future of the Colored Race in America, he was pastor of the Hanover Street Presbyterian...

"Thus are we put in training for a love which knows not sex, nor person, nor partiality, but which seeks virtue and wisdom everywhere, to the end of increasing virtue and wisdom."-Ralph Waldo Emerson, LoveLove (1841) is an essay in which Emerson attempts...

The Art of Writing and Other Essays is a classic essay collection by Robert Louis Stevenson on the subject of literary criticism. On some technical elements of style in literature -- The morality of the profession of letters -- Books which have...

The Loss of the S.S. Titanic is a classic Titanic biography and a fascinating and gripping actual account from a survivor of the R.M.S. Titanic, Laurence Beesley. His words bring you as close as you can possibly be to that great disaster at sea.Author:...