English and American

13 books

A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and MiscellaniesOscar Wilde · 1919A 1919 collection of Oscar Wilde's reviews and short essays, selected by E. V. Lucas, covering literature, art, and culture. Pieces include essays on Keats, Shakespeare, Russian novelists, Whitman, Yeats, and Swinburne.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

A Little English GalleryLouise Imogen Guiney · 1894An 1894 collection of biographical sketches by Louise Imogen Guiney profiling figures from English literary history, including Lady Danvers, Henry Vaughan, George Farquhar, and William Hazlitt, many of the essays first appearing in magazines.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and PoetsMarsden Hartley · 1921A 1921 collection of informal essays by painter Marsden Hartley, offering personal reflections on painters, vaudeville performers, and poets, including Whitman, Cezanne, Ryder, Emily Dickinson, and Ernest Dowson.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Familiar Studies of Men and BooksRobert Louis Stevenson · 1882A collection of literary essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1882, gathered from magazine pieces. It offers brief critical studies of writers including Hugo, Burns, Whitman, Thoreau, Knox, and Villon, with a preface on the art of short criticism.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Figures of Several CenturiesArthur Symons · 1916A 1916 collection of literary essays by Arthur Symons, examining writers from several centuries, including Saint Augustine, Villon, Donne, Emily Bronte, Poe, Flaubert, Ibsen, Baudelaire, and Pater, with reflections on their lives, works, and autobiographical writing.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Notes on Novelists, with Some Other NotesHenry James · 1914A 1914 collection of Henry James's critical essays and notes, offering his evaluations of novelists including Robert Louis Stevenson, Emile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Balzac, and George Sand, along with shorter pieces on figures such as Charles Eliot Norton and London life in the 1890s.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Partial PortraitsHenry James · 1888A collection of critical essays by Henry James, mostly first published in American and British periodicals, offering literary portraits of writers such as Emerson, George Eliot, Trollope, Stevenson, Turgenev, and Daudet, along with reflections on the art of fiction.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

ReviewsOscar Wilde · 1908A 1908 collection of book reviews and critical essays by Oscar Wilde, edited by Robert Ross for a uniform edition of Wilde's works. The reviews, written mostly for periodicals in the 1880s, cover contemporary literature and show Wilde's wit and critical opinions of his fellow writers.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Studies in Literature and HistoryAlfred C. Lyall · 1919A posthumous 1919 collection of essays by Sir Alfred C. Lyall, drawn mostly from his review contributions on literary, historical, and religious subjects, including studies of fiction, poetry, history, frontiers, and religion.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Common ReaderVirginia Woolf · 1925A 1925 collection of Virginia Woolf's essays on literature and reading, many first published in newspapers and journals. Written for the ordinary reader rather than the scholar, it offers reflections on authors from Chaucer and Montaigne to Jane Austen, Conrad, and George Eliot.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Merry-Go-RoundCarl Van Vechten · 1918A 1918 collection of essays by Carl Van Vechten on music, theater, and cultural taste, including pieces on bad taste in decorating, singers, composers, American music, and theatrical performances.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The women novelistsR. Brimley Johnson · 1918A 1918 work of literary criticism tracing the development of English women novelists from Fanny Burney through Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot, examining how women found their own voice in fiction across roughly a century.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

When Winter Comes to Main StreetGrant M. Overton · 1922A 1922 work of literary criticism and essays by Grant M. Overton, whose title borrows from two recent bestsellers, profiling contemporary novelists such as Hugh Walpole, Rebecca West, and Mary Roberts Rinehart and discussing their books.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية