Literature Books

The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton

The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton

by G.K. Chesterton

The is the second volume of Chesterton's novels in this series of his Collected Works. (Volume VI is the other book of novels.) Besides his well-known...

tags: literature, poetry, fiction

Notes from Underground & Other Stories

Notes from Underground & Other Stories

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.""Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness."With an...

tags: short stories, classics, literature, classic literature, russian literature, fiction

The Works of Jonathan Edwards

The Works of Jonathan Edwards

by Jonathan Edwards

Widely recognized as a great theologian, an influential preacher and a prolific writer, Jonathan Edwards played a prominent role in helping to spark the spirit...

tags: theology, american, reference, faith, christianity, classics, church, religion, church history, nonfiction, literature, christian

The Poems of Edward Taylor

The Poems of Edward Taylor

by Edward Taylor

Now considered America's foremost colonial poet, Edward Taylor was virtually unknown until some of his poems were discovered in the Yale library and published...

tags: literature, poetry, american

The Gambler and A Nasty Business

The Gambler and A Nasty Business

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

'40,000 francs, which lay before him in a heap of gold and banknotes.''40,000 francs, which lay before him in a heap of gold and banknotes.'Written in...

tags: classics, literature, russian literature, fiction

Lettere sulla creatività

Lettere sulla creatività

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dalla scelta di lettere raccolte nel libro, effettuata da Gianlorenzo Pacini sul vasto epistolario di Fedor Dostoevskij, emergono i capisaldi della...

tags: nonfiction, cultural, literature, russia, russian literature

A Writer's Diary, Volume Two, 1877-1881

A Writer's Diary, Volume Two, 1877-1881

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

This is the first paperback edition of the complete collection of writings that has been called Dostoevsky's boldest experiment with literary form; it is a...

tags: nonfiction, history, autobiography, cultural, biography, classics, literature, essays, writing, 19th century, russia, russian literature

Notes from a Dead House

Notes from a Dead House

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

A beautiful hardcover edition of the first great prison memoir, Fyodor Dostoevsky's fictionalized account of his life-changing penal servitude in Siberia....

tags: cultural, classics, literature, russia, russian literature, fiction

Grace Abounding: With Other Spiritual Autobiographies

Grace Abounding: With Other Spiritual Autobiographies

Grace AboundingGrace Abounding (1666) is a classic work of spiritual autobiography--a genre which flourished in Calvinist England as anxiety over the state or...

tags: theology, literature, christianity, religion, biography, nonfiction, autobiography

Spenser's Images of Life

Spenser's Images of Life

This 1967 book was compiled by Alastair Fowler from notes left by C. S. Lewis at his death. It is Lewis longest piece of literary criticism, as distinct from...

tags: nonfiction, literature, criticism, literary criticism

The Wild Knight

The Wild Knight

by G.K. Chesterton

Contents Include: By the Babe Unborn The World's Lover The Skeleton A Chord of Colour The Happy Man The Unpardonable Sin A Novelty Ultimate The Donkey The...

tags: literature, poetry

Selected Writings

Selected Writings

by Thomas Carlyle

As a prophet and preacher, Carlyle was an important and controversial figure in nineteenth-century thought. Carlyle is best known for his impressionistic...

tags: philosophy, essays, history, victorian, literature, politics, writing, 19th century, classics, memoir, autobiography, nonfiction, historical

The Heart of India

The Heart of India

by Alexander Campbell

tags: banned books, india, literature, history, cultural

by Anne Bradstreet

tags: literature, poetry, american, classics

Silence Dogood / The Busy-Body / Early Writings

Silence Dogood / The Busy-Body / Early Writings

by Benjamin Franklin

Note: When first issued, the Library of America edition of Franklin's WritingsWritings was collected in one large volume; later, it was published as two...

tags: literature, history, classics

The Mask of Midas

The Mask of Midas

by G.K. Chesterton

"Father Brown struggles with modern crime in this, the last in a row of 53 Father Brown stories. This volume completes all known stories about the little...

tags: literature, short stories, mystery

John Donne's Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels: With a Selection of Prayers and Meditations

John Donne's Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels: With a Selection of Prayers and Meditations

The glory of John Donne's prose at its best is very different from that of his verse, but is equal to it; and there can be no question that his best prose is...

tags: literature, poetry, religion, theology

George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Poets [Authoritative Texts, Criticism]

George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Poets [Authoritative Texts, Criticism]

by George Herbert

This volume presents the major works of five poetsâ��George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan, and Thomas Traherne. This volume...

tags: literature, european literature, christianity, religion, poetry, british literature

Morning Thoughts

Morning Thoughts

by Octavius Winslow

Large-type reprint of Octavius Winslow's morning devotions, titled Morning Thoughts. These thoughts were selected by Winslow himself from his writings. Unlike...

tags: literature, 19th century

The Selected Works of G.K. Chesterton

The Selected Works of G.K. Chesterton

by G.K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He went to St Paul's School and then on to the Slade School of Art. In 1900, he was asked to write a few magazine...

tags: 20th century, literature, fiction

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