The Literature — Other Collection is the shelf for the books about books: literary criticism and biography, histories of national literatures, studies of forms and movements, and the writers who wrote about writing. These are the works that sit alongside the novels and poems rather than among them — and all are available as free EPUB downloads.
You will find T. S. Eliot on tradition, Gide on Wilde and Ransome on Wilde again, the first English histories of Brazilian and Slavic writing, Sterling Brown on race in American fiction, Lafcadio Hearn lecturing on English poetry in Tokyo, and Isaac Disraeli rummaging through the curiosities of literary history.
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- English LiteratureWilliam J. Long
- Oscar Wilde: A Critical Study Arthur Ransome
- The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction Dorothy Scarborough
- Brazilian Tales Machado de Assis and others
- Kādambarī Bāṇa
- Woman’s Work in English FictionClara Helen Whitmore
- A History of English Literature Edward Albert
- A History of American LiteraturePercy Holmes Boynton
- The Sacred Wood T. S. Eliot
- The Beginnings of Poetry Francis Barton Gummere
- History of American LiteratureReuben Post Halleck
- Portuguese Literature Aubrey F. G. Bell
- Life and Literature of the Southwest J. Frank Dobie
- Hazlitt on English LiteratureWilliam Hazlitt
- Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan Murasaki Shikibu, Izumi Shikibu and Lady Sarashina
- Oscar Wilde: A Study André Gide
- English and American LiteratureHenry A. Beers
- Chinese Literature Epiphanius Wilson
- Handbook of Universal Literature Anne C. Lynch Botta
- Home Life of Great Authors Hattie Tyng Griswold
- The Emigrant Literature Georg Brandes
- English Romanticism in the Nineteenth CenturyHenry A. Beers
- Amenities of Literature Isaac Disraeli
- The Negro in American Fiction Sterling A. Brown
- August Strindberg, the Spirit of Revolt Lind-af-Hageby
- Literature of the Slavic Nations Talvj
- Brazilian Literature Isaac Goldberg
- Essays on the Greek Romances Elizabeth Hazelton Haight
- A History of Nineteenth Century Literature George Saintsbury
- Anglo-Saxon Literature John Earle
- The Tale of Terror Edith Birkhead
- The Salon and English Letters Chauncey Brewster Tinker
- Books and Habits Lafcadio Hearn
- The Great Masters of Russian Literature Ernest Dupuy
- The Vagabond in Literature Arthur Compton-Rickett
- Twelve Types G. K. Chesterton
- Japanese Literature Epiphanius Wilson
- A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman
- Shakespeare and Precious Stones George Frederick Kunz
- H. G. Wells J. D. Beresford
- Dialogues of the Dead George Lyttelton
- Initial Studies in American Letters Henry A. Beers
- Renaissance Literary Theory and Practice Charles Sears Baldwin
- Persian Literature, Ancient and Modern Elizabeth A. Reed
- Forgotten Books of the American Nursery Rosalie V. Halsey
- Scott as a Critic of Literature Margaret Ball
- Moral Poison in Modern Fiction R. Brimley Johnson
- Such Is Life Joseph Furphy
- The Book of the Duke of True Lovers Christine de Pisan
- Critical Studies Ouida
- Idling in Italy Joseph Collins
- Chapters on Jewish Literature Israel Abrahams
- Tirant lo Blanch: A Study Joseph A. Vaeth
- The Visions of the Sleeping Bard Ellis Wynne
- So Runs the World Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Ioläus Edward Carpenter
- Books Fatal to Their Authors P. H. Ditchfield
- Victorian Literature Clement K. Shorter
- The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser Aubrey Beardsley
- Roumanian Stories Lucy Byng
- La Gaviota Fernán Caballero
- Aspects of Literature John Middleton Murry
- The Story of Flamenca Anonymous
- Rudyard Kipling John Palmer
- The Miracles of Antichrist Selma Lagerlöf
- Studies of Contemporary Poets Mary C. Sturgeon
- Literary Celebrities of the English Lake-District Frederick Sessions
- Elizabethan Demonology Thomas Alfred Spalding
- Legends: Autobiographical Sketches August Strindberg
- Shelburne Essays, Third Series Paul Elmer More
- Childhood in Literature and Art Horace E. Scudder