The Library of Entertainment—Handbook

About this eBook

Author

Scammell, John Chilton

Title

The Library of Entertainment: Handbook

Credits

Produced by Juliet Sutherland, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Literature -- Collections

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 51248

Release Date

February 18, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Library of Entertainment — CONTENTS
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK
4. 4.PART I — SIDE-LIGHTS ON GREAT WRITERS
5. 5.'TO DRIVE DULL CARE AWAY'
6. 6.PART II — THE STUDY OF LITERATURE
7. 7.THE DECISIVE PERIODS IN LITERATURE
8. 8.NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS
9. 9.THE DIVISIONS OF LITERATURE — POETRY — FICTION — HISTORY — BIOGRAPHY — ESSAY — HUMOR — FOR THE CHILDREN — TRAVEL — DRAMA — ORATORY — PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE — RELIGION
10. 10.FROM SEVEN TO TWENTY-ONE
11. 11.THE INDEX AND THE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
12. 12.LITERARY CRITICISM
13. 13.PART III — STUDIES OF GREAT AUTHORS — ROBERT BURNS — SIR WALTER SCOTT — WILLIAM WORDSWORTH — SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
14. 14.GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON — PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY — JOHN KEATS — ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON — ROBERT BROWNING
15. 15.ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING — WASHINGTON IRVING — EDGAR ALLAN POE — NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE — WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
16. 16.HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW — JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER — JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL — OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES — HOMER
17. 17.VERGIL — DANTE ALIGHIERI — JOHN MILTON — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE — JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
18. 18.FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER — CHARLES DICKENS — WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY — SAMUEL JOHNSON — OLIVER GOLDSMITH
19. 19.THOMAS GRAY — EDMUND BURKE — DANIEL WEBSTER — PLATO — AURELIUS
20. 20.FRANCIS BACON — THOMAS CARLYLE — JOHN RUSKIN — RALPH WALDO EMERSON — HEINRICH HEINE
21. 21.PLINY — FOOTNOTES:

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