
Why We Should Read
by S. P. B. Mais
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About this eBook
- Author
- Mais, S. P. B. (Stuart Petre Brodie), 1885-1975
- Title
- Why we should read--
- Credits
- Produced by Jana Srna, Anna Hall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
- Subject
- Russian literature -- History and criticism
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 41285
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41285
- Release Date
- November 4, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.WHY WE SHOULD READ—— — BY THE SAME AUTHOR — Educational
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.INTRODUCTION
- 4.PART I SOME ENGLISH CLASSICS
- 5.I TOM JONES
- 6.II WUTHERING HEIGHTS
- 7.III CHARLES LAMB
- 8.IV JAMES BOSWELL
- 9.V WILLIAM HAZLITT
- 10.VI SAMUEL PEPYS
- 11.VII WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
- 12.VIII JOHN DONNE
- 13.IX SUCH A BOOK AS THE BEGGAR'S OPERA
- 14.PART II SOME CONTEMPORARIES
- 15.I GEORGE SANTAYANA
- 16.II THE POEMS OF FRANCIS BRETT-YOUNG
- 17.III THE POEMS OF IRIS TREE
- 18.IV THE POEMS OF ALDOUS HUXLEY
- 19.V THE POEMS OF ROBERT GRAVES
- 20.VI J. D. BERESFORD
- 21.VII NIGHT AND DAY
- 22.VIII E. C. BOOTH
- 23.IX FORD MADOX HUEFFER
- 24.X THE BALLAD OF THE WHITE HORSE
- 25.XI E. M. FORSTER
- 26.XII SHEILA KAYE-SMITH
- 27.PART III BOOKS ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
- 28.I A HISTORY OF MODERN COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH —BY H. C. WYLD
- 29.II THE ROMANCE OF WORDS —BY ERNEST WEEKLEY
- 30.III THE ROMANCE OF NAMES —BY ERNEST WEEKLEY
- 31.IV THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE —BY LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
- 32.PART IV CERTAIN FOREIGNERS
- 33.I MONTAIGNE
- 34.II NEKRASSOV (1821-1877)
- 35.III PUSHKIN (1799-1837)
- 36.IV LÈRMONTOV (1814-1841)
- 37.V GOGOL (1809-1852)
- 38.VI TURGENEV (1816-1883)
- 39.VII GONCHAROV (1812-1891)
- 40.VIII DOSTOIEVSKY (1821-1881)
- 41.IX TOLSTOY (1828-1910)
- 42.X TCHEHOV (1860-1904)
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