The Journalism, Media & Writing Collection traces the history and practice of writing for public audiences — from the early periodical press through the great Victorian reviews to the war correspondents and foreign reporters of the early twentieth century. Daniel Defoe’s journalism, William Hazlitt’s criticism, and the memoirs of editors and publishers who built the modern press are all available here as free EPUB downloads.
The shelf includes practical handbooks on the craft of writing alongside histories of newspapers and magazines, reflections on press freedom, and the autobiographies of reporters who covered the defining events of their age. It is equally useful as a history of media and as a resource for writers who want to learn from the masters of clear, forceful English prose.
- Washington ConfidentialJack Lait
- All in the Day's Work: An AutobiographyIda M. Tarbell
- The Elements of StyleWilliam Strunk
- The Building of a Book
- Newspaper Reporting and CorrespondenceGrant Milnor Hyde
- Campaigns of a Non-CombatantGeorge Alfred Townsend
- Impressions of a War CorrespondentGeorge Lynch
- Translations of German PoetryEdward Ziegler Davis
- Charles Carleton CoffinWilliam Elliot Griffis
- Aspects of the novelE. M. Forster
- Forty-Five Years of Digitizing EbooksGregory B. Newby
- Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles DickensG. K. Chesterton
- The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2
- The Civilization of IlliteracyMihai Nadin
- Public opinionWalter Lippmann
- Ireland in FictionStephen J. M. Brown
- American nights entertainmentGrant M. Overton
- Types of Prose NarrativesHarriott Ely Fansler
- Crystallizing Public OpinionEdward L. Bernays
- The whole truth and nothing butHedda Hopper
- The Great American FraudSamuel Hopkins Adams
- Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
- The Craft of FictionPercy Lubbock
- The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10
- Types of News WritingWillard Grosvenor Bleyer
- 100 New Yorkers of the 1970sMax Millard
- Essays in the Art of WritingRobert Louis Stevenson
- Ten Days in a Mad-HouseNellie Bly
- The Mirror of Taste, No. 1
- Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922H. P. Lovecraft
- News writingM. Lyle Spencer
- The Story of the SunFrank Michael O'Brien
- Newspaper Writing and EditingWillard Grosvenor Bleyer
- Essays on Modern NovelistsWilliam Lyon Phelps
- How To Write Special Feature ArticlesWillard Grosvenor Bleyer
- EntretiensMarie Lebert
- The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915Various
- The Brass CheckUpton Sinclair
- NetWorld!David H. Rothman
- How to Write a NovelAnonymous
- The Borzoi 1920Inc. Alfred A. Knopf
- The History of "Punch"M. H. Spielmann
- Curiosities of Street Literature
- The Ornithology of ShakespeareJames Edmund Harting
- U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1975 July – DecemberLibrary of Congress. Copyright Office
- The Southern Literary Messenger, Volume I., 1834-35Various
- Joel Chandler Harris’ Life of Henry W. Grady
- The Century Handbook of WritingGarland Greever
- The Author’s CraftArnold Bennett
- The World’s Best BooksFrank Parsons
- Eclectic Magazine of Foreign LiteratureVarious
- Materials and Methods of FictionClayton Meeker Hamilton
- Writing for VaudevilleBrett Page
- The So-called Human RaceBert Leston Taylor
- The Seven Lively ArtsGilbert Seldes
- Excursions in Victorian BibliographyMichael Sadleir
- The AssaultFrederic William Wile
- The Shame of the CitiesLincoln Steffens
- Fiction Writers on Fiction WritingArthur Sullivant Hoffman (editor)
- The American Quarterly Review, No. 17 (March 1831)Various
- Composition-RhetoricStratton D. Brooks
- A Novelist on NovelsW. L. George
- Technology and Books for AllMarie Lebert
- The Secret ServiceAlbert D. Richardson
- A Manual of the Art of FictionClayton Meeker Hamilton
- The Evening Post: A Century of JournalismAllan Nevins
- Talks on Writing EnglishArlo Bates
- Expository WritingMervin James Curl
- The Technique of Fiction WritingRobert Saunders Dowst
- The Profession of JournalismWillard Grosvenor Bleyer (editor)
- Surfing the Internet: An IntroductionJean Armour Polly
- Calamities and Quarrels of AuthorsIsaac Disraeli
- The Pictorial Press: Its Origin and ProgressMason Jackson
- Famous Reviews
- Elementary Guide to Literary CriticismF. V. N. Painter
- The Roving CriticCarl Van Doren
- Bohemian Days in Fleet StreetWilliam Mackay
- Methods of AuthorsHugo Erichsen
- The yellow book
- Library CataloguingJohn Henry Quinn
- The Art of FictionWalter Besant
- A Publisher and His FriendsSamuel Smiles
- Short Story WritingCharles Raymond Barrett
- A Survey of Modernist PoetryRobert Graves & Laura Riding
- The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2Various
- Barbarous Soviet RussiaIsaac McBride
- Notes of a War CorrespondentRichard Harding Davis
- Les mutations du livreMarie Lebert
- A Year of ProphesyingH. G. Wells
- The Fiction FactoryWilliam Wallace Cook
- Literary BlundersHenry B. Wheatley
- The Problem of ‘Edwin Drood’W. Robertson Nicoll
- The Stories Editors Buy and WhyJean Wick (editor)
- Essays in LittleAndrew Lang
- The Powder of SympathyChristopher Morley
- Adventures in JournalismPhilip Gibbs
- Passed by the CensorWythe Williams
- How to Make an IndexHenry B. Wheatley
- Literature in the MakingJoyce Kilmer
- The Adventure of LivingJohn St. Loe Strachey
- The Red ReignKellogg Durland
- On the Art of Writing FictionVarious
- Ephemera CriticaJohn Churton Collins
- A Dutch Boy Fifty Years AfterEdward Bok
- The NewspaperGeorge Binney Dibblee
- Questions at IssueEdmund Gosse
- The Principles of Success in LiteratureGeorge Henry Lewes
- The PhotodramaHenry Albert Phillips
- Editorial Wild OatsMark Twain
- The Young Man and JournalismChester S. Lord
- Inquiries and OpinionsBrander Matthews
- The American Newspaper Charles Dudley Warner
- Why Authors Go WrongGrant M. Overton
- An Adventure with a Genius Alleyne Ireland
- Selections from the ObservatorRoger L’Estrange
- Postal Riders and RaidersW. H. Gantz
- From Pillar to PostJohn Kendrick Bangs
- The Writing of NewsCharles G. Ross
- The Lure of the PenFlora Klickmann
- Editorials from the Hearst NewspapersArthur Brisbane
- Liberty and the NewsWalter Lippmann
- Readers and Writers (1917-1921)A. R. Orage
- Impressions and Experiences William Dean Howells
- A Journalist’s Note-BookFrank Frankfort Moore
- The Critic and the DramaGeorge Jean Nathan
- Journalism for WomenArnold Bennett
- The Film: Its Use in Popular EducationM. Jackson-Wrigley
- How to Fail in LiteratureAndrew Lang
- The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899The Harmsworth Magazine
- Washington Cover-UpClark R. Mollenhoff
- Negro JournalismGeorge William Gore
- English as She is TaughtCaroline B. Le Row
- Fundamentals of Fiction WritingArthur Sullivant Hoffman
- Kings, Queens and PawnsMary Roberts Rinehart
- PunchinelloVarious