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The Art of Fiction
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…
Chapter IV: The Critics. Part 2
In Victorian Literature
Victorian Literature by Clement Shorter is a brief work that gives a good introduction to many of the important writers, historians, and cri…
Preface
In A Cabinet of Gems
A Cabinet of Gems, cut and polished by Sir Philip Sidney; now, for the more radiance, presented without their setting by George MacDonald.&q…
English Prose Style
Read's book describes the basic elements of composition and rhetoric: narrative form, eloquence, rhythm, and other important elements of wha…
Curiosities of Literature
This is a collection of short essays on literature. Various subjects are discussed, such as libraries, critics, the classics, and all sorts …
Cuentos de las orillas del Rhin
Una colección de relatos que combinan elementos fantásticos, de crítica social y sobre las contradicciones de la natura…
THE PAPERS OF ANTHONY KAY-Part 1-Chapter 3
In Overlooked
At a summer resort, a blind man, who has never written a thing, is prodded to pen a novel by his friend who insists that there is one novel …
Selected works by Austin Dobson
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 12
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Chapter IV, The Second Assasination, Part 1
In Poems of American History, Volume 5, The Period of Expansion
The final section of Poems of American History covers The Reconstruction after the Civil War, the First Centennial, the continued expansion …
Fancy Free
In One-Act Play Collection 009
Ninth volume of one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members. A Dramatic Evening Narrator: April6090 Mr Thaddeu…
Art Criticism by Walter Savage Landor
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1)
The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, con…
Conclusion by H. P. McKnight
In Prison Poetry
A collection of poetry written in the late 1800's by inmates of the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio. - Summary by mleigh
Summary
In Birds, Vol. II, No 2, August 1897
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…
Chapter 6
In Poems of American History, The Period of Growth
This volume covers the age of expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War, including the creation of the Constitution, the Presidency of …
Book 2: Starting from Paumanok
In Leaves of Grass (version 2)
In honour of Walt Whitman's 200th birthday (31 May 2019) we bring you a solo recording of his seminal work Leaves of Grass.Originally publis…
Part 3
In The Cynical Miss Catherwaight
This is the story of Miss Catherwaight, collector of "dishonored honors" - medals of honor pawned by the persons they were awarded…
By Courier
In The Four Million (Version 3)
Considered one of his finest works, The Four Million (1906) is a collection of short stories by American writer O. Henry (1862-1910). Despit…
Decline of Drama
In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083
“Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.” “You can never know everything, my child, but you can learn many things from books.” Accordin…
The Benefit of the Doubt
In The Night-Born
Ten short stories on various themes and subjects, all more or less bizarre.The Night-Born is about a woman who draws inspiration to change h…
Misunderstood
In Balloons
Elizabeth, Princess Bibesco, was an English writer and socialite. The daughter of a British Prime Minister and the wife of a Romanian aristo…