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canterbury tales
- Author: harriet lee
- Genre: Criticism & Theory
This story describes the adventures of 29 travelers who travel to Canterbury on a pilgrimage which happen in the 14th century. The company of the pilgrims consists of a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Their trip is quite dangerous and adventurous, often they lose their spirit and belief and have to support and entertain each other. Although Geoffrey Chaucer wrote his Canterbury Tales about five hundred years ago in the Middle-aged English, for those who want to read these stories and dive into their events there is a chance to find Canterbury Tales in the adaptation of Lee Harriet. Canterbury Tales are focused on such phenomena as love, sex, death, which are usual and interesting for all times and all people and which are described in a witty and entertaining way.
Andivius Hedulio
- Author: White Edward Lucas
- Genre: Criticism & Theory
Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire. By an American author and poet Edward Lucas White (1866 –1934).” When I look back on the beginning of my adventures, I can set the very day and hour when the tranquil course of my early life came to an end, when the comfortable commonplaces of my previous existence altered, when the placid current of my former life broke suddenly and without warning into the tumultuous rapids which hurried me from surprise to surprise and from peril to peril”.
fantastics and other fancies
- Author: Hearn Lafcadio
- Genre: Criticism & Theory
A posthumous collection of 36 early works by Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, also known as Koizumi Yakumo European-born American-Japanese author, orientalist and philosopher, who wrote novels and articles with exotic themes in highly precise and polished prose. Lyrical and passionate, these brief romantic sketches can be regarded as prose poems. The “Fantastics” proper and the “Other fancies” have been grouped indiscriminately in chronological order, though differing greatly in spirit and in excellence of style. But it is not alone the charm that clings about all that is weird and fanciful that gives value to this early work of Hearn’s. It sheds rich light upon one phase of his development and forms an essential part of his biography; and it helps to furnish proof, along with much else of varying form and excellence that he put forth a vast deal of literary effort in the years of his stay in New Orleans…
A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2
- Author: Various
- Genre: Criticism & Theory
This book contains 4 plays by unknown authors: ‘Dicke of Devonshire by Heywood’, ‘The Lady Mother by Glapthorne’, ‘Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt’, and ‘Captain Underwit’. All of the plays are amazing. Editor has given a detailed introduction to every play. There are 2 appendixes that contain a lot of info. Footnotes are given at the end of the book. The Old English language is quite easy to understand.
francis bacon wrote shakespeare
- Author: h crouch batchelor
- Genre: Criticism & Theory
H. Crouch Batcelor’s lecture concerning the authorship of Shakespeare’s works. In introduction the author notifies: I intend, in the following pages, to incorporate the text of that lecture, but to considerably amplify it, and I undertake that not one objection which has been raised within my knowledge shall be evaded or left unanswered. As a preliminary observation, I would ask attention to the fact that, in discussing this question, the whole bias of vested interests is on the side of the vulgar or “orthodox” belief.
new england bygones
- Author: e h arr
- Genre: Criticism & Theory
New England Bygones was published for the first time in 1883 and it is devoted to the life of the Victorian Era in New England. The main characters are well drawn, bright and vivid and belong to the working class. Moreover, in this book which is one in a series of five you will find some memories from the author's experience, her family and the world surrounding her. The novel definitely helps you understand better the life of that time and fills your own life with more sentiments.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9
- Author: Various
- Genre: Criticism & Theory
Now first chronologically arranged, revised and enlarged with the notes of all the commentators, and new notes. The book includes “How a Man May Choose a Good Wife from a Bad”, “The Return from Parnassus”, “Wily Beguiled”, “Lingua” and “The Miseries of Enforced Marriage”.
Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States,
- Author: Various
- Genre: Criticism & Theory
Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States is a collection of speeches given by five senators during the debates on the topic whether women should vote or not. One of the senators supports the idea that women have more rights to vote, another senator believes that women are not supposed to vote. Besides, the book includes some speeches of prominent women of that time in support of their rights. The book would be interesting for everyone who is fond of American history and the history of movement for women's right to vote.
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and
- Author: Various
- Genre: Criticism & Theory
To the world at large it has great value archaeologically. Here are preserved ancient laws, glint lights on past history, forgotten forms in the classic tongues, and pictures of old civilization. No one criticism can cover the whole work. It is so many-sided. It includes so many different standards of worth and value. If we take it as a whole, it is good, it is bad and indifferent; it is trash and it is treasure; it is dust and it is diamonds; it is potsherd and it is pearls; and in the hands of impartial scholars, it is one of the great monuments of mental achievement, one of the world's wonders.