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The Nursery Rhyme Book
The Nursery Rhyme Book – Andrew Lang The babes of former generations were certainly lucky, for they possessed quite the best book of nursery rhymes which has ever been published. „The Nursery Rhyme Book“ by Andrew Lang and illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke is a complete collection of the old nursery rhymes which have delighted […]
David Copperfield
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens „Of all my books,“ says Charles Dickens in his preface to this immortal novel, „I like this the best. . . . Like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child. And his name is David Copperfield.“ When „David Copperfield‘ appeared in 1850, after „Dombey […]
Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens Little Dorrit was published 1856-57, when the author’s popularity was at its height. The plot is a slight one on which to hang more than fifty characters. The author began with the intention of emphasizing the fact that individuals brought together by chance, if only for an instant, continue henceforth […]
Tess Of The D’Urbervilles
Tess Of The D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy This book has made Mr. Hardy one of the most prominent English novelist. The power and the movement of the story are so great that it is only when we read a review of it that we are conscious that its author had any purpose save that which […]
The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies
The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies – Andrew Lang Mr. Lang’s book is the most curious imaginable. Written in 1691 by a Scotch divine, it is nothing less than a calm assumption of the existence at that time of a commonwealth of elves, fauns, and fairies, whose government, habits, etc., are minutely described […]
The Ball and the Cross
The Ball and the Cross – Gilbert Keith Chesterton The story begins with a theological discussion in an airship, whose owner, Lucifer, nearly runs it against the ball and the cross which surmount St. Paul’s, London. Here he leaves the other occupant of the ship, an old hermit, who appears again at the end of […]
Tremendous Trifles
Tremendous Trifles – Gilbert Keith Chesterton Mr. Chesterton was unquestionably one of the most brilliant essayists of his days. He is startingly original, for his ideas are always in opposition to those commonly held; but no matter how unheard of and startling his hypotheses, he can back them up with subtle arguments, flashes of humor, […]
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw – Gilbert Keith Chesterton Mr. Chesterton says that „most people either say that they agree with Bernard Shaw or that they do not understand him. I am the only person who understands him, and I do not agree with him.“ This book gives the author’s critical opinion of Shaw’s work and also […]
All Things Considered
All Things Considered – Gilbert Keith Chesterton Mr. G. K. Chesterton, as all the world knows by this time, had the courage of his convictions. He would also, if he had his way, have everyone else possess a similar courage. In his collection of ephemeral papers (he admits their ephemerality) entitled „All Things Considered“, he […]
Orthodoxy
Orthodoxy – Gilbert Keith Chesterton Chesterton’s characteristics would probably meet with the literary surprise of his life, when, after reading the plain, simple introduction, he would proceed to peruse the pages of Orthodoxy and find himself at once dazzled, perplexed, delighted by this blaze of wit, paradox, epigram, sarcasm, Johnsonian common sense, original ways of […]