British Literature 3-CD Set

<b>British Literature 3-CD Set</b> <i>updated 7/3/2007</i>
British Literature 3-CD Set updated 7/3/2007
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Table of Contents

CD #1 -- British Literature Before 1800


Anthologies, History, and Criticism


  • Authors and Friends by Annie Fields
  • Chaucer to Tennyson by Henry Beers
  • Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles, edited by Martha Crow
  • English Dialects by Walter Skeat
  • English Literature by William Long
  • English Literature: Modern by G. H. Mair
  • English Literary Criticism edited by C.E. Vaughan
    • An Apology for Poetry by Sir Philip Sydney
    • Preface to the Fables by John Dryden
    • On the Metaphysical Poets by Samuel Johnson
    • On Poetic Genius and Poetic Diction by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    • On Poetry in General by William Hazlitt
    • On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century by Charles Lamb
    • On Webster's _Duchess of Malfi by Charles Lamb
    • On Ford's _Broken Heart by Charles Lamb
    • A Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley
    • Goethe by Thomas Carlyle
    • Sandro Botticelli by Walter Pater
  • English Past and Present by Richard Chenevix Trench
  • English Satires by Oliphant Smeaton
  • Epic and Romance, Essays on Medieval Literature by W.P. Ker
  • The Evolution of English Lexicography by Jay James Murray, 1900
  • The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory by George Saintsbury (1841-1933)
  • Great English Short Story Writers, volume 1
  • Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Halleck
  • A History of English Literature by Robert Fletcher
  • A History of English Prose Fiction by Bayard Tuckerman
  • A History of English Romanticism in the 18th Century
  • Humorous Poetry of the English Language,Edited by Hames Parton
  • Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems by W.E. Aytoun
  • The Lives of the Poets by Samuel Johnson
    • Joseph Addison, Richard Savage, Jonathan Swift
    • Gay, Gray, Thomson, Young, and others
    • Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, and Pope
    • Waller, Milton, Cowley
  • Legend Land, being a collection of some of the old tales told of the western parts of Britain
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
  • The Lives of English Poets from Johnson to Kirke White, designed as a continuation of Johnson's Lives by Henry Cary (1846)
  • Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) by Theophilus Cibber
    • Volume 1
    • Volume 2
    • Volume 3
    • Volume 4
    • Volume 5
  • The Old English Physiologus [Bestiary] translated by Albert Cook and James Pitman
  • Outlines of English and American Literature by William J. Long
  • Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama by Walter W. Greg
  • The Poet's Poet by Elizabeth Atkins
  • Popular Ballads of the Olden Time, selected and edited by Frank Sidgwick
  • Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance by Donald Clark (1922)
  • Seeing Europe with Famous Authors edited by Francis Halsey
  • Selections from Five English Poets (Dryden, Gray, Soldsmith, Burns, Coleridge edited by Mary Litchfield
  • A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin
  • Specimens with Memoris of the Less-Known British Poets by George Gilfillan
  • Stories by English Authors: the Sea
    • The Extraodinary Adventure of a Chief Mate by W. Clark Russell
    • Quarantine Island by Sir Walter Besant
    • The Rock Scorpions by Anonymous
    • The Master of the "Chrysolite by G.B. O'Halloran
    • "Petrel" and "The Black Swan" by Anonymous
    • Melissa's Tour by Grant Allen
    • Anderdecken's Message Home by Anonymous
  • Stories by English Authors: Ireland
    • The Gridiron by Samuel Lover
    • The Emergency Men by George Jessop
    • A Lost Recruit by Jane Barlow
    • The Rival Dreamers by John Banim
    • Neal Malone by William Carleton
    • The Banshee by Anonymous
  • A Study of Poetry by Bliss Perry
  • Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John Farmer
  • Welsh Folklore, collected by Elias Owen
  • World's Greatest Books
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
    • volume 3
    • volume 4
    • volume 5
    • volume 6
    • volume 7
    • volume 8
    • volume 9
    • volume 10
    • volume 11
    • volume 12

British Literature before 1300

  • Andreas: the Legend of St. Andrew
  • The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge, translated by Joseph Dunn
  • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, translated by James Ingram
  • Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle
  • Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Wave, translated by Eugene Mason
  • Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere
  • Beowulf, translated by Leslie Hall
  • The Tale of Beowulf translated by William Morris and A.J. Wyatt
  • The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge, Irish prose epic translated by L. Winifred Garaday
  • A Celtic Psaltery edited by Alfred Percival Graves
  • Codex Junius This file contains translations from the Anglo-Saxon of the following works: "Genesis A", "Genesis B", "Exodus", "Daniel", and "Christ and Satan".  All are works found in the manuscript of Anglo-Saxon verse known as "Junius 11." These works were originally written in Anglo-Saxon, sometime between the 7th and 10th Centuries A.D.  Although sometimes ascribed to the poet Caedmon (fl. late 7th Century), it is generally thought that these poems do not represent the work of one single poet.
  • The Coming of Cuculain
  • The Departing Soul's Address to the Body, a fragment of a semi-Saxon poem, discovered among the archives of Worcester Cathedral
  • Description of Wales by Geraldus Cambrensis
  • Early Bardic Literature of Ireland by Stanish O'Grady
  • The Elene of Cynewulf, translated by Lucius Hudson Holt
  • The Forest of Vazon, a Guernsy Legend of the Eighth Century
  • Heroic Romances of Ireland by A.H. Leahy
  • High Deeds of Finn and Other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by T.W. Rolleston
  • The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales by Geraldus Cambrensis
  • Latin and Irish Lives of Ciaran by R.A. Stewart-Macalister
  • The Life of St. Declan, translated from the Irish by P. Power
  • Mabinogion translated by Charlotte Guest
  • Mabinogion translated by Charlotte Guest (a different edition)
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
    • volume 3
  • Morien Arthurian Romances edited by Jessie Weston
  • The Old English Physiologus [Bestiary] translated by Albert Cook and James Pitman
  • The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf by Oscar Ludwig Olson
  • Y Gododin (in Welsh) by Aneirin

British Literature from the 14th Century


Reference Books and Collections

  • A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from 1150 to 1580 by A.L. Mayhew and Walter Skeat
  • England's Antiphon (British religious poetry)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight


Richard de Bury (1287-1345) bio in Wikipedia

  • Philobiblion, the Love of Books

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) bio at Wikipedia

  • Canterbury Tales and Other Poems
    • The Canterbury Tales
    • The Court of Love
    • The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
    • The Assembly of Fowls
    • The Flower and the Leaf
    • The House of Fame
    • Troilus and Cressida
    • Chaucer's Dream
    • The Prologue to the Legend of Good Women
    • Chaucer's A.B.C.
    • Miscellaneous Poems
  • About Chaucer
    • Chaucer's Official Life by Jame Root Hulbert
    • Life of Chaucer by Adolphus William Ward

John Gower (1330-1408) bio at Wikipedia

  • Confessio Amantis or Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins

Sir John Mandeville bio at Wikipedia

  • Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1366)

British Literature from the 15th Century


  • The Book of the Quinte Essence or Fifth Being (c. 1460-1470)
  • Arthur, a short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteeth Century from Marquis of Batt's mss. edited by Frederick Furnivall

William Caxton (as translator) (1422-1491) bio at Wikipedia

  • Caxton's Book of Curtesye, 1477
  •  The Curial. (original by Alain Chartier, in French)
  • The Game and Playe of the Chesse, 1474


John Lydgate (1370-1451) bio at Wikipedia

  • The Assemble of Goddes
  • The Disguising at Hertford


Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1399-1471) bio at Wikipedia

  • Le Morte D'Arthur
  • volume 1
  • volume 2

  • English Literature: Poetry and Prose, 16th Century


    Collections and Criticism

    • Collection of Old English Plays edited by A.H. Bullen (1882-1889)
      • Volume 1 of 4 (as a single document)
        • The Tragedy of Nero
        • The Mayde's Metamorphosis
        • The Martyr'd Souldier
        • The Noble Souldier
      • Volume 2 of 4 (as a single document)
        • Dick of Devonshire
        • The Lady Mother
        • The Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt
        • Captian Underwit
      • Volume 3 of 4 (as a single document)
        • Sir Gyles Goosecappe
        • The Wisdome of Dr. Dodypoll
        • The Distracted Emperor
        • The Tyall of Chevalry
      • Volume 4 of 4 (as a single document)
        • Two Tragedies in One by Robert Yarrington
        • The Captives by Thomas Heywood
        • The Costlie Whore
        • Everie Woman in her Humor
      • Select Colleciton of Old EnglishPlays, originally published by Robert Dodsley 1744, edited by W. Carew Hazlitt (1874-76)
        • Volume 1 (as a single document)
          • Interlude of the Four Elements
          • Calisto and Melibaa
          • Everyman: a Moral Play
          • Hickscorner
          • The Parndoner and the Friar
          • The World and the Child
          • God's Promises
          • The Four P.P.
          • A New Interlude called Thersites
        • Volume 2 (as a single document)
          • The Interlude of Youth
          • Lusty Juventus
          • Jack Juggler
          • A Pretty Interlude called Nice Wanton
          • The History of Jacob and Esau
          • The Disobedient Child
          • The Marriage of Wit and Science
        • Volume 6 (as a single document)
          • The Conflict of Conscience
          • The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune
          • The Three Ladies of London
          • The Three Ladies and Three Lords of London
          • A Knack to Know a Knave
        • Volume 7 (as a single document)
          • Tancred and Gismunda
          • The Wounds of Civil War
          • Mucedorus
          • The Two Angry Women of ABinton
          • Look About You
        • Volume 8 (as a single document)
          • The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington
          • The Death of Robert Eal of Huntington
          • Contention between Liberality and Prodigality
          • Grim the Collier of Croydon
        • Volume 9 (as a single document)
          • How a Man May Choose a Good Wife from a Bad
          • The Return from Parnassus
          • Wily Beguiled
          • Lingua
          • The Miseries of Enforced Marriage
    • An English Garner: Critical Essays and Literary Fragments (1903)
    • Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance by Donald Clark (1922)


    Anonymous

    • The Art of English Poesie, 1589
    • Everyman
    • Everyman and Other Interludes, including 8 Miracle Plays
    • Interlude of Wealth and Health, 1557
    • Spare Your Good
    • The Third and Last Part of Conny Catching, 1592)

    Roger Ascham (1515-1568) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Scholemaster

    Richard Barnfield (1574-1627) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Affectionate Shepherd, poem, 1594


    Thomas Betson

    • A Ryght Profytable Treatyse, 1500

    Richard Carew (1555-1620) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Survey of Cornwall


    Henrie Chettle 1564?-1607?) bio at Wikipedia

    • Kind-Hart's Dream

    Thomas Cockaine

    • A Short Treatise of Hunting

    Henry Constable (1562-1613) bio at Wikipedia

    • Diana
    • Diana by Constable and Delia by Samuel Daniel

    Michael Drayton (1563-1631) bio at Wikpedia

    • Endimion and Phoebe
    • Idea by Drayton and Fidessa by Griffin
    • Minor Poems of Michael Drayton edited by Cyril Brett

    Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1531-1588) bio at Wikipedia

    • Lawes and Ordinances Militarie

    Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) bio at Wikipedia

    • Speech to Her Last Parliament (the Golden Speech)

    Sir Thomas Elyot (1490-1546) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Boke named The Governour

    George Gascoigne (1525-1577) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Steele Glas

    Bartholomew Griffin (?-1602) bio at Wikipedia

    • Fidessa by Griffin and Idea by Drayton


    Everard Guilpin

    • Skialetheia. 1598.

    Robert Greene (1558-1592) bio at Wikipedia

    • Greene's Groat's Worth of Wit

    Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554) bio at Wikipedia

    • Proclamation Of Lady Jane Grey as Queen of England, 1553 (short)

    Sir Thomas Hoby (1530-1566) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Book of the Courtier by Count Baldessar Castilio, translated to English by Sir Thomas Hoby

    Raphael Holinshed (d. 1580) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Historie of England, from the time that it was first inhabited until the time that it was last conquered
      • book one
      • book two
      • book three
      • book four
      • book five
      • book six
      • book seven
      • book eight
    • Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, volume 2 = England, beginning at Duke William of Normandy (the Conqueror)
      • part 1 of 12
      • part 2 of 12
      • part 3 of 12
      • part 4 of 12
      • part 5 of 12
      • part 6A of 12


    William Kemp bio at Wikipedia

    • Nine Daies Wonder (short)

    Thomas Kyd (1558-1594) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Spanish Tragedie (play)


    Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) bio at Wikipedia

    • Edward the Second (play)
    • Dr. Faustus (play)
    • Hero and Leander (poem)
    • Hero and Leander and Other Poems
    • The Jew of Malta (play)
    • Massacre at Paris (play)
    • Tamburlaine the Great, part 1 (play)
    • Tamburlaine the Great, part 2 (play)
    • The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage (play), with Thomas Nash, 1594
    • Works of Christopher Marlowe, volume 3
      • Hero and Leander
      • Ovid's Elegies
      • Epigrams
      • First Book of Lucan
      • Passionate Shepherd


    Thomas More (1478-1535) bio at Wikipedia

    • Complete Poems
    • Dialogue of Comfort Against Tributaion, 1557
    • Richard III
    • Utopia

    Thomas Nashe (1567-1600?) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Choise of Valentines
    • Pierce Pennilesse
    • The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage (play), with Christopher Marlowe, 1594

    John Norden (1548-1625) bio at Wikipedia

    • Vicisstiduo Rerum

    William Painter (1540?-1594) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Palace of Pleasure. Elizabethan versions of Italian and French novels done into English by William Painter


    William Percy

    • Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia (short)


    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) bio at Wikipedia

    • plays -- the Mobey electronic edition
      • All's Well that Ends Well
      • Antony and Cleopatra
      • As You Like It
      • Comedy of Errors
      • Coriolanus
      • Cymbeline
      • Hamlet
      • Henry IV Part 1
      • Henry IV Part 2
      • Henry V
      • Henry VI Part 1
      • Henry VI Part 2
      • Henry VI Part 3
      • Henry VIII
      • Julius Caesar
      • King John
      • King Lear
      • Love's Labor Lost
      • Macbeth
      • Measure for Measure
      • Merchant of Venice
      • Merry Wives of Windsor
      • Midsummer Night's Dream
      • Much Ado About Nothing
      • Othello
      • Pericles Prince of Tyre
      • Richard II
      • Richard III
      • Romeo and Juliet
      • Taming of the Shrew
      • Tempest
      • Timon of Athens
      • Titus Andronicus
      • Troilus and Cressida
      • Twelfth Night
      • Two Gentlemen of Verona
      • Winter's Tale
    • plays -- the first folio (35 plays in a single document)
    • plays attritubuted in part to Shakespeare
      • Comedy of Mucedorus
      • Faire Em
      • King Edward III
      • Life and Death of Lord Cromwell
      • The London Prodigal
      • The Merry Devill
      • The Puritaine Widdow
      • Two Noble Kinsmen
      • Sir Thomas More
      • Tragedy of Locrine
      • A Yorkshire Tragedy
    • poetry
      • Lover's Complaint
      • Passionate Pilgrim
      • Rape of Lucrece
      • Sonnets
      • Venus and Adonis
    • Shakespeare in German translation
      • Coriolanus, translated by Dorothea Tieck
        • with accents
        • without accents
      • Hamlet, Prinz von Dannemark, translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
        • with accents
        • without accents
      • Die Irrungen (Comedy of Errors), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
        • with accents
        • without accents
      • Julius Caesar, translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
      • Der Kaufman von Venedig (Merchant of Venice), translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
        • with accents
        • without accents
      • Koenig Heinrich dem Vierten, Der Erste Theil translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
      • Koenig Heinrich dem Vierten, Der Zeyte Theil translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
      • Koenig Johann (King John), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
        • with accents
        • without accents
      • Koenig Lear (King Lear), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
        • with accents
        • without accents
      • Maass fuer Maass (Measure for Measure), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
        • with accents
        • without accents
      • Macbeth, translated by Dorothea Tieck
        • with accents
        • without accents
      • Othello, translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
        • with accents
        • without accents
      • Richard II, translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
        • with accents
        • without accents
      • Richard III, translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
        • with accents
        • without accents
      • Romeo und Julia (Romeo and Juliet), translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
        • with accents
        • without accents
      • Romeo und Juliette, translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
        • with accents
        • without accents
      • Sommernachtstraum (Mid-Summer Night's Dream), translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
        • with accents
        • without accents
      • Ein Johannis Nachts-Traum (Mid-Summer Night's Dream), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
        • with accents
        • without accents
      • Der Sturm (The Tempest), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
        • with accents
        • without accents
      • Timon von Athen, translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
        • with accents
        • without accents
      • Was ihr wollt (As You Like It), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
        • with accents
        • without accents
      • Wie es euch gefaellt (As You Like It), translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
        • with accents
        • without accents
    • Shakespeare in French, translated by M. Guizot
      • Antoine et Cleopatre
      • Beaucoup de Bruit Pour Rien (Much Ado About Nothing)
      • Comedie des Meprises (Comedy of Errors)
      • Comme Il Vous Plaira (As You Like It)
      • Le Conte d'Hiver (A Winter's Tale)
      • Coriolan
      • Deux Gentilhommes de Verone (Two Gentlemen of Verona)
      • Jour des Rois
      • Jules Cesar
      • Macbeth
      • Mesure pour Mesure (Measure for Measure)
      • Othello
      • Le Songe d'une Nuit d'Ete (Midsummer Night's Dream)
      • Timon d'Athenes
      • Troilus et Cresside
    • related materials
      • The Age of Shakespeare by Algernon Swinburne
      • Bacon is Shake-speare by Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
      • Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbit
      • Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt
      • An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway by Martin Brown Rudd
      • Etude sur Shakespeare by M. Guizot (in French)
      • glossary
      • Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain
      • The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story by Frank Harris
      • Notes to Shakespeare, Volume 1, Comedies by Samuel Johnson
      • The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote by Charles Dudley Warner
      • The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare by Delia Bacon
      • Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson
      • Preface to the Works of Shakespeare by Lewis Theobald, 1734
      • Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown by Andrew Lang
      • Shakespeare und die Bacon-Mythen (in German) by Kuno Fischer
      • Shakespeare and Music by Edward Naylor
      • Shakespeare and the Modern Stage by Sidney Lee
      • Shakespeare's Bones by C.M. Ingleby
      • Shakespeare's Insomnia and the Case Thereof
      • Shakspere and Montaigne by Jacob Feis
      • Shakespeare and Precious Stones by George Kunz
      • Shakespeare Study Programs: the Comedies by Charlotte Porter and Helen Clarke
      • Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Character, volume 1, by Rev. H.N. Hudson
      • Shakespeare's Christmas Gift to Queen Bess in the Yar 1596 by Anna Benneson McMahan
      • Shakespere, Personal Recollections by Colonel John Joyce
      • Shakespearean Tragedy by A.C. Bradley
      • Some Account of the Life of William Shakespear, 1709 by Nicolas Rowe
      • Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, anonymous, 1736
      • Sources and Analogues of A Midsummer-Night's Dream, compiled by Frank Sidgwick
      • A Study of Shakespeare
      • The Tragedie of Hamlet: a Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 by George MacDonald
      • Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb


    Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621) bio at Wikipedia

    • Tragedie of Antonie by Robert Garnier, translated by Mary Sidney


    Philip Sidney (1554-1586) bio at Wikipedia

    • Astrophel and Stella
    • Defence of Poesie
    • Lady of May (short poem)


    Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) bio at Wikipedia

    • Amoretti and Epithalamion
    • Astrophel and Stella
    • Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
    • Complaints
    • Daphnaïda
    • The Faerie Queene
      • Letter to Raleigh
      • Mutabilitie Cantos
    • Hymnes
    • Letters to Gabriel Harvey
    • Mother Hubberd's Tale
    • Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, volume 5 (1860)
    • Prothalamion
    • The Ruines of Time
    • The Shephearde's Calender
    • Sonnets
    • Teares of the Muses
    • View of the Present State of Ireland
    • Virgil's Gnat
    • About Edmund Spenser
      • A Biograpy of Edmund Spenser by John Hales

    Nicholas Udall (1504-1556) brief bio at Wikipedia

    • Roister Doister, play (first comedy written in the English language)


    Thomas Wilson

    • The Arte of Rhetorique


    English Literature: Poetry and Prose, 17th Century


    Collections and Criticism

    • Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century, edited by Henry Morley
    • England's Antiphon (British religious poetry) (1868) by George MacDonald
    • An English Garner: Critical Essays and Literary Fragments (1903)
    • Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair and Falconer by George Gilfillan
    • Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance by Donald Clark (1922)


    Anonymous

    • The King and Queenes Entertainement at Richmond
    • The History of Tom Thumb and Other Stories

    Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Advancement of Learning
    • Essays
      • Of Truth
      • Of Death
      • Of Unity in Religion
      • Of Revenge
      • Of Adversity
      • Of Simulation and Dissimulation
      • Of Parents and Children
      • Of Marriage and Single Life
      • Of Envy
      • Of Love
      • Of Great Place
      • Of Boldness
      • Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
      • Of Nobility
      • Of Seditions and Troubles
      • Of Atheism
      • Of Superstition
      • Of Travel
      • Of Empire
      • Of Counsel
      • Of Delays
      • Of Cunning
      • Of Wisdom for a Man's Self
      • Of Innovations
      • Of Dispatch
      • Of Seeming Wise
      • Of Friendship
      • Of Expense
      • Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates
      • Of Regiment of Health
      • Of Suspicion
      • Of Discourse
      • Of Plantations
      • Of Riches
      • Of Prophecies
      • Of Ambition
      • Of Mosques and Triumphs
      • Of Nature in Men
      • Of Custom and Education
      • Of Fortune
      • Of Usury
      • Of Youth and Age
      • Of Beauty
      • Of Deformity
      • Of Building
      • Of Gardens
      • Of Negotiating
      • Of Followers and Friends
      • Of Suitors
      • Of Studies
      • Of Faction
      • Of Ceremonies and Respects
      • Of Praise
      • Of Vain-glory
      • Of Honor and Reputation
      • Of Judicature
      • Of Anger
      • Of Vicissitude of Things
      • Of Fame
    • The New Atlantis
    • Valerius Terminus: of the Interpretation of Nature
    • about Bacon
      • Bacon by R. W. Church


    Thomas Barker

    •  Barker's Delight: or, The Art of Angling (2nd ed., 1659)

    Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) bio at Wikipedia and John Fletcher (1579-1625) bio at Wikipedia

    •  Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
    • Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
      • Volume 1 of 10, introductory matter
      • The Beggar's Bush
      • The Custom of the Country
      • The Elder Brother
      • The Faithful Shepherdess
      • The False One
      • The Humorous Lieutenant
      • A King and No King
      • The Laws of Candy
      • The Maid's Tragedy
      • Philaster
      • Rule a Wife and Have a Wife
      • The Scornful Lady
      • The Spanish Curate
      • Wit Without Money

    John Beaumont (1583-1627) bio at Wikipedia

    • Theatre of Apollo


    Aphra Behn (1640-1689) bio at Wikipedia

    • Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
    • The Ten Pleasures of Marriage
    • Works
      • volume 1 (plays)
        • Rover parts 1 and 2
        • The Dutch Lover
        • The Roundheads
      • volume 2 (plays)
        • Abdelazer
        • The Young King
        • The City Heiress
        • The Feign'd Curtezan
      • volume 3 (plays)
        • The Town-Fop
        • The False Count
        • The Lucky Chance
        • The Emperor of the Moon


    Edward Bennett

    •  A treatise divided into three parts, touching the inconveniences, that  the Importation of Tobacco out of Spain, hath brought into this land.


    Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) bio at Wikipedia

    • Religio Medici, Hydrotaphia, and The Letter to a Friend
    • Sir Thomas Browne and His Religio Medici arranged by Alexander Whyte


    John Bunyan (1628-1688) bio at Wikipedia

    • Works of John Bunyan
    • Exhortation to Peace and Unity, (article mistakenly attributed to Bunyan)
    • Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
    • The Holy War
    • The Jerusalem Sinner Saved
    • The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
    • Miscellaneous Pieces (articles)
      • Of the Trinity and a Christian
      • Of the Law and a Christian
      • Bunyan's Last Sermon
      • Bunyan's Dying Sayings
    • The Pharisee and Pilgrim
    • Pilgrim's Progress
    • about John Bunyan
      • Life of Bunyan by James Hamilton
      • Life of John Bunyan by Venables
      • The Riches of Bunyan by Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin

    Robert Burton (1576-1640) bio at Wikipedia

    • Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621)

    Samuel Butler (1613-1680) bio at Wikipedia

    • Hudibras

    Thomas Campion (1567-1620) bio at Wikipedia

    • Observations in the Art of English Poesie

    George Chapman (1559-1634) bio at Wikipedia

    • Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois


    Francesco Colonna (1433-1527) bio at Wikipedia

    • Hypnerotomachia


    William Combe (1742-1823) bio at Wikipedia

    • The First of April


    Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) bio at Wikipedia

    • Essays


    Samuel Daniel (1562-1619) bio at Wikipedia

    • A Defence of Ryme
    • Delia
    • Delia by Daniel and Diana by Henry Constable

    Thomas Dekker (1570-1632) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Noble Spanish Soldier
    •  The Wonderfull yeare

    Sir John Denham (1615-1669) bio at Wikipedia

    • Poetical Works of Waller and Denham


    John Dryden (1631-1700) bio at Wikipedia

    • All For Love
    • Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry
    • Dramatic Works of Dryden edited by George Saintsbury volume 1
    • His Majesties Declaration Defended, 1681
    • Macflecknoe
    • Palamon and Arcite
    • Poetical Works of Dryden
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
    • Works of John Dryden edited by Walter Scott (1808)
      • volume 2
      • volume 4
      • volume 5
      • volume 6
      • volume 7
      • volume 16 Life of St. Francis Xavier
    about John Dryden
    • Anti-Achitophel, three verse replies to Absalom and Achitopehl by John Dryden, 1682
    • Dryden's Exemplary Drama by Richard Seltzer

    John Evelyn (1620-1706) bio at Wikipedia

    • Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets
    • An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659) and a Panegyric to Charles II  (1661)
    • Sylva, volume 1


    George Farquhar (1678-1707) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Beaux-Stratagem


    John Fletcher (1579-1625) bio at Wikipedia

    • Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
      • Volume 1 of 10, introductory matter
      • The Beggar's Bush
      • The Custom of the Country
      • The Elder Brother
      • The Faithful Shepherdess
      • The Humorous Lieutenant
      • A King and No King
      • The Maid's Tragedy
      • Philaster
      • The Scornful Lady
      • The Spanish Curate


    George Fox (1624-1691) bio at Wikipedia

    • Selected Epistles

    William Goddard

    • Neaste of Waspes

    Stephen Gosson (1554-1624) bio at Wikipedia

    • Schoole of Abuse


    Joseph Hall, Bishop of Exeter (1574-1656) bio at Wikipedia

    • Characters of Virtues and Vices


    Anthony Hamilton

    • Memoirs of Count Gramont (edited by Sir Walter Scott)

    Robert Herrick (1591-1674) bio at Wikipedia

    • Lyrical Poems
    • The Web of Life

    Thomas Heywood (c. 1575-c. 1641) bio at Wikipedia

    •  A funerall elegie upon the death of Henry, prince of Wales. 1613. (short poem)


    Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) bio at Wikipedia

    • Leviathan


    Robert Howlett

    • The School of Recreation or a Guide to the Most Ingenious Exercises by R.H., 1696


    Ben Jonson (1572-1637) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Alchemist
    • Cynthia's Revels
    • Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter
    • Epicoene, or the Silent Woman
    • Every Man in His Humor
    • Every Man out of His Humor
    • The Masque of Beauty (short)
    • The Masque of Blacknesse (short)
    • The Poetaster
    • Sejanus: His Fall
    • Volpone or the Fox

    John Locke (1632-1704) bio at Wikipedia

    • Two Treatises of Government
    • Second Treatise of Government
    • An Essay Concenring Humane Understanding
      • volume 1
      • volume 2


    Thomas Lodge (1558-1625) bio at Wikipedia

    • Phillis by Thomas Lodge and Licia by Giles Fletcher
    • A Reply to Stephen Gosson's Schoole of Abuse in Defence of Poetry,  Musick, and Stage Plays.
    • Rosalynde


    Richard Lovelace (1618-1659) bio at Wikipedia

    • Lucasta


    Charles Mackay, editor (1814-1889), bio at Wikipedia

    • Cavalier Songs 1642-1684


    Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) bio at Wikipedia

    • Andrew Marvell by Augustine Birrell


    John Milton (1608-1674) bio at Wikipedia

    • Areopagitica
    • Comus
    • Four Poems
      • L'Allegro
      • Comus
      • Il Penseroso
      • Lycidas
    • Of Education
    • Poemata (Latin, Greek, and Italian poems) translated to English by William Cowper
    • Poetical Works(four books in one document)
      • Miscellaneous Poems
      • Paradise Lost
      • Paradise Regained
      • Samson Agonistes
    • about Milton
      • Life of Milton by David Nasson
        • Volume 3
        • Volume 5
      • Milton by Mark Pattison
      • Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett, 1890
      • Mary Powell and Deborah's Diary (two books about Milton's wife) by Anne Manning (1806-1879)


    Richard Niccols

    • The Beggars Ape


    Thomas Otway (1652-1685) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Tragedy of Venice Preserved


    William Pemble

    • A Brief Introduction to Geography, 1630


    Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) bio at Wikipedia

    • Diary of Samuel Pepys


    Thomas Scott

    •  Certaine reasons and arguments of policie, why the king of England should enter into warre with the Spaniard. 1624

    Ester Sowernam

    • Ester Hath Hanged Haman

    Rachel Speght (1597-?) bio at Wikipedia

    • Mortalities Memorandum
    •  A Mouzell for Melastomus

    Edmund Waller (1606-1687) bio at Wikipedia

    • Poetical Works of Waller and Denham


    Isaak Walton ( 1593- 1683) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Compleat Angler (1653)
    • Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert et al. volume 2, 1675
    • Waltoniana: previously unpublished verse and prose by Isaak Walton (1878)
    about Isaak Walton
    • Introduction to the Compleat Angler by Andrew Lang


    John Webster (1580?-1635?) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Duchess of Malfi
    • The Monumental Column
    • The White Devil


    English Literature: Poetry and Prose, 18th Century


    Collections and Anthologies

    • Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair and Falconer by George Gilfillan
    • An English Garner: Critical Essays and Literary Fragments (1903)
    • English Literature and Society in the 18th Century by Leslie Stephen
    • English Poets of the Eighteenth Century edited by Ernest Bernbaum
    • Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett

    Literary Periodicals

    • The Spectator, volumes 1, 2 and 3
    • The Tatler, volume 1, edited by George Aitken


    Anonymous

    • The Magazine or Animadversions on English Spelling by G.W., 1703
    • The Representation of Impiety and Immortality of the English Stage, 1704
    • The Theater by Sir John Falstaff, (pen name), 1720
    • A Voyage to Cacklogallinia by Captain Samuel Brunt, (pen name), 1727


    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) (alone) bio at Wikipedia

    • Essays and Tales
      • Public Credit
      • Household Superstitions
      • Opera Lions
      • Women and Wives
      • The Italian Opera
      • Lampoons
      • True and False Humour
      • Sa Ga Yean Qua Rash Tow's Impressions of London
      • The Vision of Marraton
      • Six Papers on Wit
      • Friendship
      • Chevy-Chase (Two Papers)
      • A Dream of the Painters
      • Spare Time (Two Papers)
      • Censure
      • The English Language
      • The Vision of Mirza
      • Genius
      • Theodosius and Constantia
      • Good Nature
      • A Grinning Match
      • Trust in God
    • Poetical Works of Addision, Gay's Fables, and Somerville's Chase

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) bio at Wikipedia and Richard Steele (1672-1729) bio at Wikipedia

    • Days with Roger de Coverley (Papers from the Spectator)
      • Sir Roger's Family
      • Mr. Will Wimble
      • The Picture Gallery
      • A Country Sunday
      • The Widow
      • The Chase
      • The County Assizes
      • The Spectator's Return to Town
    • The Spectator, volumes 1, 2, and 3


    Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) (Scottish)  bio at Wikipedia

    • Poems, Etc., 1790


    Thomas Baker (1680-1749) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Fine Lady's Airs, 1709


    William Benson (1682-1754)

    • Letters Concerning Poetical Translation


    George Berkeley (1685-1753) bio at Wikipedia

    • An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
    • Principles of Human Knowledge
    • Three Dialogues


    William Blake (1757-1827) bio at Wikipedia

    • Book of Thel (a poem)
    • Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience


    Lord Bolingbroke

    • Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope


    James Boswell (1740-1795) bio at Wikipedia

    • Boswell's Correspondence wtih the Honourable Andrew Erskine and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica
    • Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, wirtten by David Malloch (with Andrew Erskine and George Dempster)
    • Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson
    • Life of Johnson (abridged)
    • Life of Johnson (unabridged)
      • Volume 1
      • Volume 2
      • Volume 3
      • Volume 4
      • Volume 5
      • Volume 6 (of 6)
    • No Abolition of Slavery or the Universal Empire of Love (poem)

    Edmund Burke (1729-1797) bio at Wikipedia

    • Selections from Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke
    • Thoughts on the Present Discontents and Speeches
    • The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Buirke
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
      • volume 3
      • volume 4
      • volume 5
      • volume 6
      • volume 7
      • volume 9
    • about Burke
      • Burke by John Morley


    Frances Burney [d'Arblay] (1752-1840) bio at Wikipedia

    • Cecilia
      • Volume 1
      • Volume 2
    • Volume 3
    • Evelina
    • Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay
      • volume 1, 1778-1787
      • volume 2, 1787-1792
      • volume 3, 1791-1840


    Robert Burns (1759-1796) [Scottish] bio at Wikipedia

      • The Complete Works of Robert Burns
      • Letters of Robert Burns, edited by J. Jogie Robertson
      • Poems and Songs
      • about Burns
        • Robert Burns, how to know him by William Allan Neilson
        • Robert Burns by Principal Shairp


    Susanna Centlivre (1669-1723) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Busie Body, 1709


    Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) bio at Wikipedia

    • Rowley Poems


    Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) bio at Wikipedia

    • Letters to His Son

    Theophilus Cibber (1703-1758) bio at Wikipedia

    • Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753)
      • Volume 1
      • Volume 3
      • Volume 4
      • Volume 5


    Catherine Clive (1711-1785) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Case of Mrs. Clive


    Samuel Cobb (1675-1713)

    • Discourse on Criticism and Poetry


    William Collins (1721-1759) bio at Wikipedia

    • Odes

    George Colman (1762-1836) bio at Wikipedia

    • John Bull (play)


    William Congreve (1670-1729) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Double-Dealer
    • Incognita
    • The Judgment of Paris
    • Love for Love
    • The Old Bachelor
    • Semele
    • The Way of the World


    Ebenezer Cooke (1667-1732) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Sot-Weed Factor
    • The Sot-Weed Factor (another edition)

    William Cowper (1731-1768) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Diverting History of John Gilpin (short)
    • The Iliad, translated by William Cowper
    • The Task and Other Poems
    • about Cowper
      • Cowper by Godwin Smith

    George Crabbe (1754-1832) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Borough
    • Inebriety and the Candidate
    • The Library
    • Miscellaneous Poems
    • The Parish Register
    • Tales
    • The Village and The Newspaper
    • about Crabbe
      • Crabbe by Alfred Ainger

    Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) bio at Wikipedia

    • Captain Singleton
    • The Complete English Transman, 1726
    • The Consolidator
    • Dickory Cronke (story)
    • An Essay upon Projects
    • Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business (article)
    • From London to Land's End
    • Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
    • History of the Plague in London
    • Journal of the Plague Year
    • Moll Flanders
    • Of Captain Mission
    • Robinson Crusoe
    • Robinson Crusoe (edition of 1808, with related stories)
      • The Solitary of Juan Fernandez or the Real Robinson Crusoe by Joseph Xavier Saintera, translated from the French by Anne. T. Wilbur
    • Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England
    • about Daniel Defoe
      • Daniel Defoe by William Minto

    Elizabeth Elstob (1683-1756) bio at Wikipedia

    • An Apology for hte Study of Northern Antiquities, 1715


    Henry Fielding (1707-1754) bio at Wikipedia

    • Amelia
    • From this World to the Next
    • Jonathan Wild
    • Joseph Andrews
      • Volume 1
      • Volume 2
    • Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
    • The Life and Death of Tom Thumb and Miscellaneous
    • Tom Jones
    • about Fielding
      • Fielding by Austin Dobson
      • Henry Fielding a Memoir by G.M. Gooden

    Richard Flecknoe (1600-1678?) bio at Wikipedia

    • Essay on Wit, 1748


    Henry Gally

    • A Critical Essay on Characteristic Writings, 1725


    John Gay (1685-1732) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Beggar's Opera
    • Poetical Works of Addision, Gay's Fables, and Somerville's Chase (as a single file)
    • The Present State of Wit, 1711


    Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Fall of the Roman Empire
  • volume 1
  • volume 2
  • volume 3
  • volume 4
  • volume 5
  • volume 6
  • about Gibbon
    • Gibbon by James Cotter Morison


    William Godwin (husband of Mary Wollstonecraft, father of Mary Shelley) (1756-1836) bio at Wikipedia

    • Caleb Williams
    • Damon and Delia
    • Four Early Pamphlets
    • Imogen, a pastoral romance
    • Italian Letters of the History of the Count de Julian
    • Memoirs of the Author of 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'
    • Thoughts on Man

    Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) [Irish] bio at Wikipedia

    • Complete Poetical Works
    • The Deserted Village (short poem)
    • She Stoops to Conquer
    • The Vicar of Wakefield
    • about Oliver Goldsmith
      • Oliver Goldsmith, a biography by Washington Irving
      • Goldsmith by William Black


    Thomas Gray (1716-1771) bio at Wikipedia

    • Elegie Wrote in a Country Church Yard (short poem)

    Susannah Gunning (1740?-1800)

    • Barford Abbey


    John Hawkesworth (1715-1773) bio at Wikipedia

    • Almoran and Hamet, 1761


    David Hume (1711-1776) bio at Wikipedia

    • Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
    • An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    • The History of England
      • The Early Britons to King John
      • Henry III to Richard III
      • Henry VII to Mary
    • Principles of Morals
    • Treatise of Human Nature


    Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) bio at Wikipedia

    • Nature and Art


    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) bio at Wikipedia

    • From the Rambler and the Adventurer (Volume 4 of the 16-volume works of Johnson)
    • The Grammar of the English Language (originally included with the Dictionary)
    • Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
    • The Lives of the Poets
      • Joseph Addison, Richard Savage, Jonathan Swift
      • Gay, Gray, Thomson, Young, and others
      • Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, and Pope
      • Waller, Milton, Cowley
    • The Merry-Thought
      • Part 1
      • Parts 2, 3, and 4
    • Notes to Shakespeare
      • volume 1 -- Comedies
    • Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language (short)
    • Preface to Shakespeare
    • Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
    • The Vanity of Human Wishes, 1749
    • Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Jerome Lobo, translated by Samuel Johnson
    • Works of Samuel Johnson
      • Volume 1 -- Life Poems and Tales
      • Volume 2 -- The Rambler
      • Volume 4 -- the Adventurer and Idler
      • Volume 5 -- miscellaneous pieces
      • Volume 6 -- reviews, political tracts and lives of eminent persons
      • Volume 7 -- Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
      • Volume 10 -- parliamentary debates
      • Volume 11 -- parliamentary debates
    about Samuel Johnson
    • Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
    • Life of Johnson (abridged) by James Boswell
    • Life of Johnson (unabridged) by James Boswell
      • Volume 1
      • Volume 2
      • Volume 3
      • Volume 4
      • Volume 5
      • Volume 6 (of 6)
    • Samuel Johnson by Leslie Stephen


    Matthew Lewis (1775-1818) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Monk

    Lord Lyttelton (1709-1773)

    • Dialogues of the Dead


    Charles Macklin (1699-1797) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Man of the World, 1792


    James MacPearson [Scottish]

    • Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland  (includes "Ossian")


    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) bio at Wikipedia

    • Selected Prose and Poetry

    Thomas Morton (1764-1838) bio at Wikipedia

    • Speed the Plough (play)


    Robert Paltock (1697-1767)

    • The Life of Peter Wilkins (volume 1 of 2)


    Alexander Pope (1688-1744) bio at Wikipedia

    • Essay on Criticism
    • Essay on Man
    • The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Pope
    • Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
    • The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems
    • about Pope
      • Alexander Pope by Leslie Stephen

    Thomas Purney

    • A Full Enquiry into the True Nature of Pastoral, 1717


    Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Mysteries of Udolpho
    • A Sicilian Romance

    Frances Reynolds

    • An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, 1785)


    Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) bio at Wikipedia

    • Clarissa Harlowe
      • volume 1 (of 9)
      • volume 2
      • volume 3
      • volume 4
      • volume 5
      • volume 6
      • volume 7
      • volume 8
      • volume 9
    • The History of Charles Grandison
      • volume 4
    • Pamela
      • volume 1
      • volume 2

    George Selwyn (1719-1791) bio at Wikipedia

    • George Selwyn: His letters and His Life edited by E.S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue


    Richard Sheridan (1751-1816) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Duenna
    • Saint Patrick's Day
    • School for Scandal
    • A Trip to Scarborough
    • about Sheridan
      • Memoirs of Richard Sheridan by Thomas Moore
        • volume 1
        • volume 2

    Christopher Smart (1722-1771) bio at Wikipedia

    • Song to David (short poem)

    Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
    • The Adventures of Roderick Random
    • Count Fathom
    • The History of England, William and Mary to George II
    • Humphry Clinker
    • Sir Launcelot Greaves
    • Travels through France and Italy


    Richard Steele (1672-1729) bio at Wikipedia

    • Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer (Papers from the "Tatler")
    • with Joseph Addison
      • Days with Roger de Coverley (Papers from the Spectator)
        • Sir Roger's Family
        • Mr. Will Wimble
        • The Picture Gallery
        • A Country Sunday
        • The Widow
        • The Chase
        • The County Assizes
        • The Spectator's Return to Town
      • The Spectator
        • volume 1 of 3 volumes

    Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) bio at Wikipedia

    • A Pollitical Romance
    • A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
    • Tristram Shandy
    • about Sterne
      • Sterne by H. D. Traill


    Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) [Irish] bio at Wikipedia

    • The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
      • The Battle of the Books
      • A Meditation upon a Broomstick
      • Predictions for the Year 1708
      • The Accomplishment of the First Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions
      • Baucis and Philemon
      • The Logicians Refuted
      • The Puppet Show
      • Cadenus and Vanessa
      • Stella's Birthdays
      • To Stella
      • The First He Wrote Oct. 17, 1727
      • The Second Prayer Ws Written Nov. 6, 1727
      • The Beasts' Confession (1732)
      • Abolishing Christianity
      • Hints Toward an Essay on Converation
      • Thoughts on Various Subjects
    • The Bickerstaff Partridge Papers (article)
    • Gulliver's Travels
    • Gulliver's Travels, edited for schools by Thomas Balliet, parts 1 and 2
    • The Journal to Stella
    • A Modest Proposal (article)
    • Poems of Jonathan Swift
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
    • Prose Works of Jonathan Swift
      • volume 3
      • volume 4
      • volume 6
      • volume 7
      • volume 9
      • volume 10
    • A Tale of a Tub
      • Three Sermons, Three Prayers (short)


    James Thomson (1700-1748) bio at Wikipedia

    • Winter (poem)


    Horace Walpole (1717-1797) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Castle of Otranto
    • Hieroglyphic Tales
    • Historic Doubts of the Life and Reign of Richard III
    • Letters
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
      • volume 3
      • volume 4

    Samuel Wesley (1766-1837) bio at Wikipedia

    • Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry, 1700


    Gilbert White (1720-1793) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Natural History of Selborne
      • volume 1
      • volume 2


    Mary Wollstonecraft (wife of William Godwin, mother of Mary Shelley) (1759-1797) bio at Wikipedia

    • Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
    • Maria, of the Wrongs of Woman
    • Mary, a Fiction, 1788
    • A Vindication of the Rights of Women

    Elis Wyn (1671-1734) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Sleeping Bard, 1720, translated by George Borrow

    CD #2 -- British Literature after 1800, Authors A to L


    Literary Periodicals

    • The Argosy, edited by Charles Wood
      • Jan. 1891
      • Feb. 1891
      • March 1891
      • April 1891
      • May 1891
      • June 1891
    • Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
      • January 1843
      • Febuary 1843
      • March 1843
      • April 1843
      • May 1843
      • June 1843
      • July 1843
      • September 1843
      • November 1843
      • January 1844
      • February 1844
      • March 1844
      • April 1844
      • July 1844
      • August 1844
      • Feb. 1847
    • Chamber's Edinburgh Journal
      • January 3, 1852
      • January 10, 1852
      • January 17, 1852
      • January 24, 1852
      • January 31, 1852
      • February 7, 1852
      • February 14, 1852
      • February 28, 1852
      • March 6, 1852
      • March 13, 1852
      • March 20, 1852
      • March 27, 1852
      • April 3, 1852
      • April 17, 1852
      • April 24, 1852
      • May 1, 1852
      • May 8, 1852
      • May 15, 1852
      • May 22, 1852
      • May 29, 1852
      • June 5, 1852
      • June 19, 1852
      • June 26, 1852
      • July 3, 1852
      • July 10, 1852
      • July 17, 1852
      • July 24, 1852
      • July 31, 1852
      • Aug. 7, 1852
    • The Germ, thoughts towards nature in poetry, literature and art edited by Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Jan., Feb., and March 1850
    • The Idler, Feb. 1893 (edited by Jerome K. Jerome)
    • Mirror of Literature Amusement and Instruction
      • July 7, 1827
      • July 14, 1827
      • July 21, 1827
      • July 28, 1827
      • August 4, 1827
      • August 11, 1827
      • August 18, 1827
      • August 25, 1827
      • September 1, 1827
      • September 8, 1827
      • September 15, 1827
      • September 22, 1827
      • September 29, 1827
      • October 6, 1827
      • October 13, 1827
      • October 20, 1827
      • October 27, 1827
      • November 3, 1827
      • November 10, 1827
      • November 17, 1827
      • November 24, 1827
      • December 1, 1827
      • December 8, 1827
      • December 15, 1827
      • December 22, 1827
      • December 29, 1827
      • July 5, 1828
      • July 12, 1828
      • July 19, 1828
      • July 26, 1828
      • August 2, 1828
      • August 9, 1828
      • August 16, 1828
      • August 23, 1828
      • August 30, 1828
      • September 6, 1828
      • September 20, 1828
      • September 27, 1828
      • October 4, 1828
      • October 11, 1828
      • October 18, 1828
      • October 25, 1828
      • November 1, 1828
      • November 8, 1828
      • November 15, 1828
      • November 22, 1828
      • November 29, 1828
      • December 6, 1828
      • December 13, 1828
      • December 20, 1828
      • December 27, 1828
      • January 3, 1829
      • January 10, 1829
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    Criticism and Collections

    • The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by William Phelps
    • Authors and Friends by Annie Fields
    • The Best Ghost Stories
    • Best Nonsense Verses chosen by Josephine Dodge Daskam
    • Best of the World's Classics
      • volume 3, Great Britain and Ireland Part 1
      • volume 4, Great Britain and Ireland Part 2
    • The Book of Ballads edited by Bon Gaultier
    • A Book of English Prose by Percy Lubbock, part 2
    • Brief History of English and American Literature by Henry Beers
    • Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama by Rev. E. Cobham Brewer
    • Chaucer to Tennyson by Henry Beers
    • The Dog's Book of Verse, collected by J. Earl Clauson
    • Early Reviews of English Poets edited by John Louis Haney
    • English Literature by William Long
    • English Literature: Modern by G. H. Mair
    • English Literary Criticism edited by C.E. Vaughan
      • An Apology for Poetry by Sir Philip Sydney
      • Preface to the Fables by John Dryden
      • On the Metaphysical Poets by Samuel Johnson
      • On Poetic Genius and Poetic Diction by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      • On Poetry in General by William Hazlitt
      • On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century by Charles Lamb
      • On Webster's _Duchess of Malfi by Charles Lamb
      • On Ford's _Broken Heart by Charles Lamb
      • A Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley
      • Goethe by Thomas Carlyle
      • Sandro Botticelli by Walter Pater
    • The English Novel by George Saintsbury
    • England's Antiphon [English Religious Poetry] by George MacDonald
    • An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times by Fred Newton Scott
    • The Evolution of English Lexicography by Jay James Murray, 1900
    • Georgian Poetry
      • 1911-12
      • 1913-15
      • 1916-17
      • 1918-19
      • 1920-22
    • Figures of Several Centuries by Arthur Symons
    • Folk Lore or Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland by James Napier
    • Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland by W.W. Gibbings
    • The Glory of English Prose by Stephen Coleridge
    • The Golden Treasury, selected by Francis Palgrave
    • Great English Short Story Writers, volume 1
    • The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne
    • Gwaith Alun (in Welsh)
    • Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Halleck
    • History of English Humor by Rev. E.G. L'Estrange
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
    • A History of English Literature by Robert Fletcher
    • Hours in a Library, volume 1, by Leslie Stephen (1832-1904)
    • Humorous Poetry of the English Language,Edited by Hames Parton
    • The Hundred Best English Poems, selected by Adam Gowans, 1904
    • Irish Plays and Playwrights by Cornelius Weygandt
    • Irish Wit and Humor
    • Irish Wonders by D.R. McAnally
    • The Irish Race Past and present by the Reverend Augustus J. Thebaud
    • The Jest Book by mark Lemon
    • The Lives of English Poets from Johnson to Kirke White, designed as a continuation of Johnson's Lives by Henry Cary (1846)
    • Masters of the English Novel
    • Modern English Books of Power by George Hamilton Fitch
    • The Modern Scottish Minstrel by Charles Rogers
      • volume 2
      • volume 3
      • volume 4
    • Mysticism in English Literature by Caroline Spurgeon
    • Occasional Papers Selected from The Guardian, The Times, and The Saturday Review 1846-1890 by R.W. Church, volume 2 of 2
    • The Ontario Readers, The High School Reader
    • Our Stage and Its Critics by E.F.S.
    • Outlines of English and American Literature by William J. Long
    • Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama by Walter W. Greg
    • Poems Teachers Ask For
    • Poems Teachers Ask For, Book 2
    • The Poet's Poet by Elizabeth Atkins
    • The Poetry of Wales edited by John Jenkins
    • Popular Ballads of the Olden Time selected and edited by Frank Sidgwick
    • Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books (from the Harvard Classics)
    • Prefaces to Fiction
    • Primavera, poems by four authors
    • Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists
    • Real Ghost Stories, ed. by William Stead
    • Scandinavian Influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
    • Selections from Five English Poets (Dryden, Gray, Goldsmith, Burns, Coleridge edited by Mary Litchfield
    • A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin
    • Short Stories of Various Types by Laura Freck
    • The Sleep Book, collected by Leolyn Louise Everett
    • Specimens with Memoris of the Less-Known British Poets by George Gilfillan
    • Standard Selections edited by Robert Fulton
    • Stories by English Authors: the Sea
      • The Extraodinary Adventure of a Chief Mate by W. Clark Russell
      • Quarantine Island by Sir Walter Besant
      • The Rock Scorpions by Anonymous
      • The Master of the "Chrysolite by G.B. O'Halloran
      • "Petrel" and "The Black Swan" by Anonymous
      • Melissa's Tour by Grant Allen
      • Anderdecken's Message Home by Anonymous
    • Stories of the Border Marches by John and Jean Lang
    • Stories of Comedy, edited by Rossiter Johnson
    • A Study of Poetry by Bliss Perry
    • Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John Farmer
    • True Irish Ghost Stories compiled by St. John Seymour
    • Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship
    • Welsh Lyrics of the 19th Century, first series, translated by Edmund Jones, 1896
    • Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland
      • volume 23
      • volume 24
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    Anonymous

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    • Contemptible by Casualty
    • An Englishwoman's Love-Letters
    • The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman, 1839
    • Old Castle and Other Stories
    • On the Heels of De Wet by the Intelligence Officer
    • Recollections of Old Liverpool


    Authors, alphabetical


    Lucy Aiken (1781-1864) bio at Wikipedia

    • Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth


    William Ainsworth (1805-1882) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Lancashire Witches


    Grant Allen (1848-1899) bio at Wikipedia

    • Falling in Love, with Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
    • Post-Prandial Philosophy


    Edwin Arnold (1832-1904) bio at Wikipedia

    • Gulliver of Mars

    Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) [Welsh] bio at Wikipedia

    • Celtic Literature
    • Culture and Anarchy
    • Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold
    • Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems
    • about Matthew Arnold
      • Matthew Arnold by G.W.E. Russell
      • Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury


    Frank Howard Atkins (AKA F. St. Mars) (1882-1921)

    • The Way of the Wild


    Jane Austen (1775-1817) bio at Wikipedia

    • Emma
    • Lady Susan
    • Love and Friendship
    • Mansfield Park
    • Northanger Abbey
    • Persuasion
    • Pride and Prejudice
    • Sense and Sensibility
    • about Jane Austen
      • Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edawrd Austen-Leigh (1798-1874)

    Retta Babcock

    • Clemence


    Alexander Bain (1818-1903) [Scottish] bio at Wikipedia

    • Moral Science
    • Practical Essays


    Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825-1894) [Scottish] bio at Wikipedia

    • Away in the Wilderness
    • The Battery and the Boiler
    • Battles with the Sea
    • Big Otter
    • Black Ivory
    • Blue Lights
    • Butterfly's Ball
    • Charlie to the Rescue
    • The Coral Island: a Tale of the Pacific Ocean
    • The Coxswain's Bride
    • Crew of the Water Wagtail
    • Deep Down
    • The Dog Crusoe and His Master
    • Fighting the Whales
    • Gascoyne the Sandal-Wood Trader
    • Snow Flakes and Sunbeams


    E. Katharine Bates

    • Seen and Unseen


    Edward Harold Begbie (1871-1929) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Story of Baden-Powell


    Robert Barr (1850-1912) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Sword Maker
    • The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont


    H. Louisa Bedford

    • The Village by the River


    Robert Bell (1800-1867) [Irish] bio at Wikipedia

    • Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England


    Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Author's Craft
    • Books and Persons
    • Buried Alive
    • The Card, a story of Adventure in the Five Towns
    • Clayhanger
    • The Feast of St. Friend, a Christmas Book
    • The Ghost
    • The Grand Babylon Hotel
    • The Great Adventure (play)
    • The Grim Smile of the Five Towns
    • Hilda Lessways (1911)
    • How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
    • Helen with the High Hand
    • The Human Machine (1908)
    • Judith
    • Leonora
    • Lion's Share
    • Literary Taste: How to Form It
    • The Matador of the Five Towns
    • The Price of Love
    • Mr. Prohack
    • The Old Wives' Tale
    • Over There
    • The Plain Man and His Wife
    • The Pretty Lady
    • The Regent
    • Roll-Call
    • Sacred and Profane Love
    • The Title
    • Your United States


    Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Isles of Sunset
    • Joyous Gard


    Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) bio at Wikipedia

    • By What Authority?
    • The Necromancers
    • None Other Gods
    • Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories


    Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901) bio at Wikipedia

    • As We Are and As We May Be


    Mrs. M.E. Bewsher

    • Catharine's Peril


    G.A. Birmingham

    • The Simpkins Plot


    Mrs. Blackford [Scottish]

    • Eskdale Herd-Boy, a Scottish Tale by Mrs. Blackford


    Richard Dodge Blackmore (1825-1900) bio at Wikipedia

    • Erema
    • Lorna Doone
    • Mary Anerley
    • Springhaven

    Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Banks of the Wye (1811)
    • The Farmer's Boy, a Rural Poem (1800)
    • Mayday with the Muses (1822)
    • Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs (1802)


    Guy Boothby (1867-1905) bio at Wikipedia

    • A Bid for Fortune


    George Borrow (1803-1881) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Bible in Spain
    • The Death of Balder by Johannes Ewald (1773) translated by Borrow
    • Isopel Berners
    • Lavengro
    • Letters
    • The Pocket George Borrow
    • Romano Lavo-Lil: Word-Book of the Romany or English Gypsy Language with speciments of Gypsy Poetry and an Account of Certain Gypsyries or Places Inhabited by Them, and of Various Things Relating to Gypsy Life in England
    • Romantic Ballads
    • Romany Rye
    • The Sleeping Bard, 1720, translated by George Borrow
    • Targum
    • Wild Wales
    • Zincali
    About George Borrow
    • The Life of George Borrow by Herbert Jenkins
    • George Borrow, the Man and His Books by Edward Thomas
    • George Borrow and His Circle by Clement King Shorter
    • Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration in 1913 by James Hooper

    William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles


    E.W. Bowling

    • Sagittulae, random verses


    Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837-1915) bio at Wikipedia

    • Milly Darrell and Other Stories


    Charlotte Braeme (1836-1884)

    • Marion Arleigh's Penance
    • My Mother's Rival
    • The Tragedy fo the Chain Pier


    Major-General Sir Isaac Brock (1769-1812) bio at Wikipedia

    • Life and Correspondence


    Patrick Bronte (father of the Bronte Sisters) (1777-1861) bio at Wikipedia

    • Cottage Poems


    The Bronte Sisters (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne) together

    • Poems (published under the pen names Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell)


    Anne Bronte (1820-1849) bio at Wikipedia

    • Agnes Grey
    • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) bio at Wikipedia

    • Jane Eyre
    • The Professor
    • Villette
    • about Charlotte Bronte
      • Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell by Charlotte Bronte
      • Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle by Clement Shorter
      • Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell
        • volume 1
        • volume 2

    Emily Bronte (1818-1848) bio at Wikipedia

    • Wuthering Heights

    Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) bio at Wikipedia

    • Collected Poems
    • Letters from America

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) bio at Wikipedia

    • Sonnets from the Portuguese
    • Letters of Elizarbeth Barrett Browning edited by Frederic Kenyon
      • volume 1
      • volume 2

    Robert Browning (1812-1889) bio at Wikipedia

    • Blot in the Scutcheon (poem)
    • Browning's Shorter Poems, editd by Franklin Baker
    • Christmas Eve
    • Dramatic Lyrics
    • Dramatic Romances
    • Men and Women
    • The Pied Piper of Hamelin
    about Robert Browning
    • Browning s a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Henry Jones
    • Browning's Heroines by Ethel colburn Mayne
    • A Handbook to the Works of Robert Browning by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
    • Introduction to Browning by Hiram Corson
    • An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Arhtur Symons
    • Life and Letters of Robert Browing by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
    • Life of Robert Browning by William Sharp
    • Robert Browning by Edward Dowden
    • Robert Browning by C.H. Hereford
    • Robert Browning: How to Know Him by William Phelps


    Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) bio at Wikipedia

    • Alice or the Mysteries
    • Calderon the Courtier
    • The Caxtons
    • The Coming Race
    • Devereux
    • The Disowned
    • Ernest Maltravers
    • Eugene Aram
    • Falkland
    • Godolphins
    • Harold
    • The Haunted and the Haunters (short story)
    • The Incantation (short story)
    • Kenelm Chillingly
    • The Lady of Lyons (short story)
    • The Last Days of Pompeii
    • Last of the Barons
    • Leila or the Siege of Granada
    • Lucretia
    • My Novel
    • Night and Morning
    • The Parisians
    • Pelham
    • The Pilgrims of the Rhine
    • Rienzi
    • A Strange Story
    • Tomlinsoniana
    • What Will He Do with It?
    • Zanon
    • The Zicci

    Samuel Butler (1835-1902) bio at Wikipedia

    • Alps and Sanctuaries
    • Cambridge Pieces
    • Canterbury Pieces
    • Erewhon
    • Erewhon Revisited
    • Essays on Life
    • Ex Voto
    • The Fair Haven
    • First Year in Canterbury Settlement
    • God the Known and God the Unknown
    • The Humor of Homer
    • Life and Habit
    • Luck or Cunning
    • Notebooks
    • Selections from Previous Works
    • The Way of All Flesh
    • Unconscious Memory
    • Translations by Samuel Butler
      • The Iliad by Homer
    • About Samuel Butler
      • Samuel Butler: a Sketch by Henry Festing Jones

    Lord Byron (1788-1824) bio at Wikipedia

    • Childe Harolde's Pilgrimage
    • Fugitive Pieces
    • Letters and Journals
      • Volume 1
      • Volume 2
    • Poetry, Volume 1
    • Works of Lord Byron,
      • volume 4
      • volume 6
    • about Byron
      • Byron by John Nichol
      • Life of Lord Byron by John Galt
      • Critical Miscellanies by John Morley, Volume 1 Essay 3 -- Byron
      • Life of Lord Byron by Thomas Moore, in 6 volumes
        • volume 1
        • volume 2
        • volume 3
        • volume 4
        • volume 5
        • volume 6
      • Lady Byron Vindicated by Harriet Beecher Stowe


    Hall Caine (1853-1931) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Eternal City


    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) [Scottish] bio at Wikipedia

    • Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson 1834-1872
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
    • Early Kings of Norway
    • The French Revolution
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
      • volume 3
    • Heroes and Hero Worship
    • History of Friedrich II of Prussia
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
      • volume 3
      • volume 4
      • volume 5
      • volume 6
      • volume 7
      • volume 8
      • volume 9
      • volume 10
      • volume 11
      • volume 12
      • volume 13
      • volume 14
      • volume 15
      • volume 16
      • volume 17
      • volume 18
      • volume 19
      • volume 20
      • volume 21
      • appendix
    • Latter-Day Phamplets
    • Life of John Sterling
    • On the Choice of Books
    • Past and Present
    • Sartor Resartus
    • About Thomas Carlyle
      • Thomas Carlyle by John Nichol (1904)
      • Critical Miscellanies by John Morley, Volume 1 Essay 2 -- Carlyle


    William Carleton (1794-1869) [Irish] bio at Wikipedia

    • The Black Baronet
    • The Black Prophet: a Tale of the Irish Famine
    • The Dead Boxer
    • Ellen Duncan and the Proctor's Daughter
    • The Emigrants of Ahadana
    • The Evil Eye
    • Fardorougha the Miser
    • Jane Sinclair
    • Lha Dhu
    • The Tithe Proctor
    • Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry
      • Phelim O'Tole's Courthsip and Other Stories
      • The Station and Other Stories
      • Ned M'Keown and Other Stories
      • The Hedge School and Other Stories
      • Phil Purcel and Other Stories
      • Going to Maynooth and Other Stories
      • The Poor Scholar and Other Stories
    • Valentine M'Clutchy
    • Will Reilly


    Harriet S. Caswell

    • Stories and Sketches


    George Calvert (1803-1889)

    • Essays Aesthetical


    E. Donald Carr (? - 1900)

    • Night in the Snow


    John Carr (1772-1832)

    • The Stranger in Paris or a Tour from Devonshire to Paris


    Gilbert Keith (G.K.) Chesterton (1874 - 1936) brief bio at Wikipedia

    • Aesop's Fables (Chesterton wrote the introduction
    • Alarms and Discursions
    • All Things Considered
    • The Appetite of Tyranny
    • The Ball and the Cross
    • The Ballad of the White Horse
    • The Barbarism of Berlin
    • The Club of Queer Tales
    • The Crimes of England
    • The Defendant
    • George Bernard Shaw
    • Greybeards at Play
    • Heretics
    • The Innocence of Father Brown
    • Magic, a Fantastic Comedy
    • The Man Who Knew Too Much
    • The Man Who Was Thursday
    • Manalive
    • A Miscellany of Men
    • Napoleon of Notting Hill
    • The New Jerusalem
    • Orthodoxy
    • Robert Browning
    • A Short History of England
    • Trees of Pride
    • Tremendous Trifles
    • Twelve Types
    • Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays
    • Varied Types
    • The Victorian Age in Literature
    • What's Wrong With the World
    • The Wild Knight and Other Poems
    • The Wisdom of Father Brown


    Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Danvers Jewels and Sir Charles Danvers


    W.A. Clouston

    • The Book of Noodles, 1888


    Thomas Cobb

    • Enter Bridget


    Bithia Mary Coker

    • The Road to Mandalay


    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) bio at Wikipedia

    • Biographia Epistolaris, volume 1
    • Biographia Literaria
    • Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit
    • The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by Henry Coleridge
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
      • volume 3
      • volume 4
    • Lyrical Ballads (with Wordsworth)
    • Poems edited by Arthur Symons
    • Rime of the Ancient Mariner (poem)
    • Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Select Poems
    • Specimens of the Table Talk of Coleridge
    • About Coleridge
      • Coleridge by H.D. Traill
      • The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by James Gillman (1838)


    Harry Collingwood

    • The Congo Rovers
    • The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer
    • The Cruise of the Thetis
    • Dick Maitland
    • For Treasure Bound
    • Harry Escombe
    • Log of a Privateeersman
    • Log of the Flying Fish
    • Middy in Command
    • Middy of the Slave Squadron
    • Missing Merchantman
    • Overdue
    • Pirate Island
    • Pirate of the Caribbees
    • The Rover's Secret
    • The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn
    • Under the Chilean Flag
    • Under the Meteor Flag


    Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) bio at Wikipedia

    • After Dark
    • Antonina, or the Fall of Rome
    • Armadale
    • Basil
    • The Black Robe
    • Blind Love
    • The Captain and the Nymph
    • The Dead Alive
    • Dream Woman
    • Evil Genius
    • Fair Penitent (a short story)
    • The Fallen Leaves
    • The Frozen Deep
    • The Guilty River
    • The Haunted Hotel
    • Heart and Science
    • Hide and Seek
    • I Say No
    • Jezebel's Daughter
    • The Law and the Lady
    • The Legacy of Cain
    • Man and Wife
    • Miss Bertha and the Yankee (a short story)
    • Miss Dulane and My Lord
    • Miss Mina and the Groom (a short story)
    • Miss and Mrs.
    • Mr. Lepel and the Housekeeper (a short story)
    • Mr. Medhurst and the Princess
    • Mr. Percy and the Prophet
    • Mrs. Zant and the Ghost
    • The Moonstone
    • My Lady's Money
    • The New Magdalen
    • No Name
    • No Thoroughfare (co-author with Charles Dickens)
    • Poor Miss Finch
    • The Queen of Hearts
    • A Rogue's Life
    • The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed
    • Two Destinies
    • Woman in White

    Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) bio at Wikipedia

    • Almayer's Folly
    • Amy Foster (short story)
    • Arrow of Gold
    • Chance
    • End of the Tether
    • Falk
    • Gaspar Ruiz
    • The Heart of Darkness
    • The Inheritors (with Ford Hueffer)
    • Lord Jim
    • The Mirror of the Sea
    • The Nigger of the Narcissus
    • Nostromo
    • Notes on Life and Letters
    • Notes on My Books
    • One Day More (play)
    • Outcast of the Islands
    • A Personal Record
    • The Point of Honor
    • The Rescue
    • Romance
    • The Secret Agent
    • The Secret Sharer (short story)
    • Set of Six
    • The Shadow Line
    • Some Reminiscences
    • Tales of Hearsay
    • Tales of Unrest
    • Tomorrow (short story)
    • Twixt Land and Sea
    • Typhoon
    • Under Western Eyes
    • Victory
    • Within the Tides
    • Youth (short story)

    Marie Corelli (1855-1924) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Treasure of heaven


    Abner Cosens

    • War Rhymes


    A.D. Crake

    • Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune
    • Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune
    • The House of Walderne
    • The Rival Heirs or the Third Chronicle of Aescendune


    Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1860-1914) [Scottish] bio at Wikipedia

    • The Black Douglas
    • Bog-Myrtle and Peat: Tales Chiefly of Galloway, gathered 1889-1895 by S.R. Crockett


    Thomas Davis (1814-1845) bio at Wikipedia

    • Thoms Davis, a selection from his prose nad poetry


    Humphrey Davy (1778-1829) bio at Wikipedia

    • Consolations in Travel


    W.J. Dawson

    • The Quest of the Simple Life


    Dr. John Dee

    • The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee


    Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Avenger
    • Biographical Essays
    • Confessions of an English Opium Eater
    • The English Coach and Joan of Arc
    • Memorials and Other Papers, volume 1
    • Miscellaneous Essays
    • Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers, volume 1
    • Notebook of an English Opium Eater
    • Revolt of the Tartars
    • Theological Essays and other Papers, volume 1
    • The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey
      • volume 1
      • volume 2

    Charles Dickens (1812-1870) bio at Wikipedia

    • American Notes
    • Barnaby Rudge
    • The Battle of Life
    • Bleak House
    • A Child's History of England
    • The Chimes
    • A Christmas Carol
    • Contributions to All the Year Round
    • The Cricket on the Hearth
    • David Copperfield
    • Domby and Son
    • Dr. Marigold (short story)
    • George Silverman's Explanation (short story)
    • Going into Society
    • Great Expectations
    • Hard Times
    • The Haunted Man
    • Holiday Romance (short story)
    • The Holly-Tree (short story)
    • House to Let
    • Hunted Down (short story)
    • The Lamplighter (short story)
    • The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
    • Little Dorrit
    • Martin Chuzzlewit
    • Master Humphrey's Clock
    • Message from the Sea (short story)
    • Miscellaneous Papers
    • Mrs. Liripper's Legacy (short story)
    • Mrs. Liripper's Lodgings (short story)
    • Mudfog
    • Mugby Junction
    • The Mystery of Edwin Drood
    • Nicholas Nickleby
    • No Thoroughfare (co-author with Wilkie Collins)
    • The Old Curiosity Shop
    • Oliver Twist
    • Our Mutual Friend
    • The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
    • Pickwick Papers
    • Pictures from Italy
    • Reprinted Pieces
    • Seven Poor Travellers (short story)
    • Sketches by Boz
    • Sketches of Young Couples
    • Sketches of Young Gentlemen
    • Some Short Christmas Stories
    • Somebody's Luggage
    • Speeches
    • Sunday Under Three Heads (short story)
    • A Tale of Two Cities
    • Three Ghost Stories
      • The Signal-Man
      • The Haunted-House
      • The Trial For Murder
    • To Be Read at Dusk (short story)
    • Tom Tiddler's Ground (short story)
    • The Uncommercial Traveller
    • The Wreck of the Golden Mary (short story)
    About Dickens
    • Charles Dickens and Music by James Lightwood
    • Charles Dickens as a Reader by Charles Kent
    • Inns and Taverns of Pickwick by B.M. Matz
    • The Law and Lawyers of Pickwick by Frank Lockwood
    • Life of Charles Dickens by Frank Marzials, 1887
    • The Puzzle of Dickens' Last Plot by Andrew Lang
    • Ten Boys from Dickens by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
    • Ten Girls from Dickens by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
    • Yesterdays with Authors by James Fields

    Rev. Thomas Dibdin (1776-1847) bio at Wikipedia

    • A Bibliographical, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, 1829
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
      • volume 3

    L. Lowes Dickinson

    • The Meaning of Good


    Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), prime minister of England, bio at Wikipedia

    • Alroy of The Prince of the Captivity
    • Coningsby
    • Count Alarcos
    • Endymion
    • Henrietta Temple
    • Infernal Marriage
    • Ixion in Heaven
    • Lord George Bentwick
    • Lothair
    • The Rise of Iskander
    • Sketches
    • Sybil
    • Tancred
    • Venetia
    • The Voyage of Captain Popanille
    • Young Duke

    Isaac Disraeli (1766-1848), father of Benjamin Disraeli, bio at Wikipedia

    • Curiosities of Literature volume 1
    • Literary Character of Men of Genius


    L. Dougall

    • A Dozen Ways of Love
    • The Zeit-Geist


    Ernst Dowson and Arthur Moore

    • A Comedy of Masks


    Sir Arthur Conan  Doyle (1859-1930) bio at Wikipedia

    • Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (short story)
    • Adventure of the Cardboard Box (short story)
    • Adventure of the Devil's Foot (short story)
    • Adventure of the Dying Detective (short story)
    • Adventures of Gerard
    • The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (short story)
    • The Adventure of the Red Circle (short story)
    • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    • Beyond the City
    • The Cabman's Story
    • The Captain of the Polestar
    • The Doings of Raffles Haw
    • A Duet
    • The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
    • The Firm of Girdlestone
    • The Great Boer War
    • The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonnic Tales
    • The Green Flag
    • His Last Bow (short story)
    • The Hound of the Baskervilles
    • The Last Galley Impressions and Tales
    • The Lost World
    • Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
    • Micah Clarke
    • The Mystery of Cloomber
    • Mystery of Sassa Valley (short story)
    • The New Revelation
    • The Poison Belt
    • The Parasite
    • The Refugees
    • Rodney Stone
    • Round the Red Lamp
    • The Sign of the Four
    • Sir Nigel
    • Songs of Action
    • The Stark Munro Letters
    • Study in Scarlet
    • Tales of Terror and Mystery
    • The Tragedy of Korosko
    • Through the Magic Door
    • Uncle Bernac
    • The Valley of Fear
    • A Visit to Three Fronts
    • The Vital Message
    • The White Company


    Henry Drummond (1851-1897) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Greatest Thing in the World and other Addresses


    T.F. Thiselton Dyer

    • Strange Pages from Family Papers


    Edward Dyson (1865-1931) bio at Wikipedia

    • In the Roaring Fifties, 1906


    Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Absentee
    • The Bracelets
    • Castle Rackrent
    • Murad the Unlucky and Other Tales
    • The Parent's Assistant
    • Tales and Novels
      • Volume 1
      • Volume 2
      • Volume 3
      • Volume 4
      • Volume 5
      • Volume 6
      • Volume 7
      • Volume 8
      • Volume 9
      • Volume 10
    • about Maria Edgeworth
      • Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth edited by Augustus Hare (1834-1903)
        • Volume 1
        • Volume 2

    E. Edwards (1815-1891)

    • Personal Recollections of Birmingham


    Sir Owen Morgan Edwards Edwards (1858-1920) bio at Wikipedia

    • Cartrefi Cymru (in Welsh)
    • Gwaith Twm o'r Nant. Cyfrol II (in Welsh)
    • A Short History of Wales
    • Yr Hwiangerddi (in Welsh)


    Pierce Egan (1772-1849) bio at Widipedia

    • Real Life in London


    Beatrice Egerton

    • Lippa


    George Eliot (1819-1880) bio at Wikipedia

    • Adam Bede
    • Brother Jacob
    • Daniel Deronda
    • How Lisa Loved the King
    • Impressions of Theophrastus Such
    • The Lifted Veil
    • Middlemarch
    • The Mill on the Floss
    • O May I Join the Choir Invisible
    • Scenes of Clerical Life
    • Silas Marner
    • about George Eliot
      • Critical Miscellanies: The Life of George Eliot by John Morley
      • The Ethics of George Eliot's Works by John Crombie Brown
      • George Eliot: a Critical Study by George Willis Cooke

    Alfred Elwes (1819?-1888) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Adventures of a Dog, 1857


    P.H. Emerson

    • Welsh Fairy Tales and Other Stories edited by P.H. Emerson

    Evelyn Everett-Green (1856-1932) bio at Wikipedia

    • For the Faith
    • The Lord of Dynevor, a Tale of the Times of Edward the First
    • The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn
    • The Sign of the Cross
    • Tom Tufton's Travels


    Juliana Horatia Ewing (1842-1885) bio at Wikipedia

    • A Flat Iron for a Farthing
    • A Great Emergency and Other Tales
    • Mary's Meadow and Other Tales
    • Melchior's Dream and Other Tales
    • Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances


    E. Farr and E.H. Nolan

    • The History of England, George III to Victoria


    Michael Fairless (= pseudonym of Margaret Fairless Barber)

    • The Gathering of Brother Hilarius
    • The Grey Brethern
    • The Roadmender


    J. Meade Falkner (1858-1932) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Lost Stradivarius


    George Manville Fenn (1831-1909)

    • The Adventures of Don Lavington
    • Begumbah
    • The Black Bar
    • The Black Tor
    • Blue Jackets
    • Brave and True Short Stories
    • Brownsmith's Boy
    • Bunyip Land
    • Burr Junior
    • Charge!
    • Cormorant Crag
    • Cutlass and Cudgel
    • A Dash from Diamond City
    • The Devon Boys
    • Dick o' the Fens
    • Fire Island
    • First in the Field
    • Fitz the Fillibuster
    • Gil the Gunner
    • Glyn Severn's Schooldays
    • King o' the Beach
    • The King's Sons
    • A Life's Eclipse
    • The Little Skipper
    • The Lost Middy
    • Marcus the Centurion
    • Mass' George
    • Menhardoc
    • Middy and Ensign
    • Mother Carey's Children
    • Nat the Naturalist
    • Nic Revel
    • The Ocean Cat's Paw
    • Off to the Wilds
    • Old Gold
    • Patience Wins
    • The Powder Monkey
    • Quicksilver
    • The Rajah of Dah
    • Rob Harlow's Adventures
    • Sail Ho!
    • Sappers and Miners
    • The Silver Canyon
    • Son Phillip
    • Steve Young
    • Syd Belton
    • !Tention
    • A Terrrible Coward
    • Three Boys
    • To the West
    • To Win or Die
    • Trapped by Malays
    • Weathercock
    • Will of the Mill
    • A Young Hero
    • Young Robin Hood
    • Yussuf the Guide


    Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883) bio at Wikipedia

    • Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Fitzgerald
    • Edward Fitzgerald and Posh Herring Merchants by James Blyth
    • Letters of Edward Fitzgerald
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
    • Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble 1871-1883


    George Forbes

    • Adventures in the Southern Seas


    Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (1860-1929) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Farringdons


    W.A. Fraser (1859-1933)

    • Caste


    Caroline Augusta Frazer

    • Atma


    Lizzie Freeth

    • The Legend of Moulin Huet


    William Frost

    • Fairies and Folk of Ireland


    James Anthony Froude (1849-1894) bio at Wikipedia

    • about Froude
      • The Life of Froude by Herbert Paul


    John Galsworthy (1867-1933), winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932, bio at Wikipedia

    • Essays
      • Censorship and Art (1911)
      • Concerning Letters (1910)
      • The Inn of Tranquility and Other Essays (1912)
      • Quality and Other Essays (1912)
    • Novels
      • Awakening and To Let (= volume 3 of Forsyte Saga)
      • The Burning Spear
      • Beyond
      • The Country House
      • The Dark Flower
      • The Freelands
      • Fraternity
      • The Forsyte Saga (as a single file)
        • volume 1: A Man of Property (1906)
        • volume 2: The Indian Summer of a Forsyte; In Chancery (1920)
        • volume 3: Awakening; To Let (1921)
      • The Indian Summer of a Forsyte (from volume 2 of Forsyte Saga)
      • The Island Pharisees (1904)
      • A Man of Property (1906) (= volume 1 of Forsyte Saga)
      • The Patrician
      • Saint's Progress
    • Plays
      • A Bit 'O Love
      • The Eldest Son
      • A Family Man
      • The First and Last
      • The Foundations
      • The Fugitive
      • Joy
      • Justice (1910)
      • The Little Dream
      • The Little Man
      • Loyalties
      • The Mob (1914)
      • The Pigeon
      • The Silver Box (1906)
      • Six Short Plays (as a single document)
        • The First and Last
        • The Little Man
        • Hall-Marked
        • Defeat
        • The Sun
        • Punch and Go
      • The Skin Game (1920)
      • Strife (1909)
      • Windows
    • Short Stories
      • Five Tales (1919) (as a single file)
        • The First and Last
        • A Store
        • The Apple Tree
        • The Juryman
        • Indian Summer of a Forsyte
      • Villa Rubein and Other Stories


    Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (1789-1849) [Irish] bio at Wikipedia

    • The Idler in France


    Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) bio at Wikipedia

    • Accused Race
    • Cousin Phillis
    • Cranford
    • A Dark Night's Work
    • Doom of the Griffiths
    • Half a Life-Time Ago
    • Half-Brothers
    • Life of Charlotte Bronte
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
    • Lizzie Leigh
    • Mary Barton
    • The Moorland Cottage
    • My Lady Ludlow
    • North and South
    • The Poor Clare
    • Round the Sofa
    • Ruth
    • Sylvia's Lovers
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
      • volume 3
    • Wives and Daughters

    Thomas Gent (1780-?) bio at Wikipedia

    • Poetic Sketches, 1828


    Perceval Gibbon (1879-1926) bio at Wikipedia

    • The Second Class Passenger, Stories
    • Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases


    William S. Gilbert, alone (1836-1911) bio at Wikipedia

    • Bab Ballads
    • 50 Bab Ballads
    • More Bab Ballads
    • Song of a Savoyard


    William S. Gilbert (1836-1911) bio at Wikipedia and Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) bio at Wikipedia

    • Complete plays

    George Gissing (1857-1903) bio at Wikipedia

    • Born in Exile (1892)
    • By the Ionian Sea (1901)
    • The Crown of Life (1899)
    • Demos (1886)
    • Denzil Quarrier (1892)
    • The Emancipated (1890)
    • Eve's Ransom (1895)
    • The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
    • In the Year of the Jubilee (1894)
    • Life's Morning (1888)
    • The Nether World (1889)
    • New Grub St. (1891)
    • The Odd Women (1893)
    • Our Friend the Charlatan (1901)
    • The Paying Guest (1895)
    • Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903)
    • Thyrza (1887)
    • The Town Traveller (1898)
    • The Unclassed (1884)
    • Veranilda (1904)
    • The Whirlpool (1897)
    • Will Warburton (1906)


    Montague Glass

    • Potash and Perlmutter


    A.D. Godley

    • L:yra Frivola


    Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) bio at Wikipedia

    • Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
    • The Unfortunate Traveller or the Life of Jack Wilton


    John Gray

    • Silverpoints


    Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory (1859-1932) [Irish] bio at Wikipedia

    • The Kilkartan Poetry Book, prose translation from the Irish by Lady Gregory
    • New Irish Comedies
    • Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations from the Irish
    • Three Wonder Plays


    George Griffith (1857-1906) bio at Wikipedia

    • A Honeymoon in Space
    • The Mummy and Miss Nitocris
    • Romance of the Gold Star


    Arthur Griffiths (1838-1908)

    • The Thin Red Line


    Francis Hindes Groome (1851-1902 bio at Wikipedia

    • Two Suffolk Friends


    H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) bio at Wikipedia

    • Allan Quatermain
    • Allan's Wife
    • The Ancient Allan
    • Ayesha
    • Beatrice
    • Benita
    • Black Heart and White Heart
    • The Brethern
    • Cetywayo and His White Neighbors
    • Child of Storm
    • Cleopatra
    • Colonel Quartch
    • Dawn
    • Dr. Therne
    • Elissa
    • Eric Brighteyes
    • Fair Margaret
    • Finished
    • The Ghost Kings
    • Hunter Quatermain's Story
    • The Ivory Child
    • Jess
    • King Solomon's Mine
    • Long Odds (short story)
    • Lysbeth
    • The Mahatma and the Hare
    • Maiwa's Revenge
    • Marie
    • Montezuma's Daughter
    • Moon of Israel
    • Morning Star
    • Mr. Meeson's Will
    • Nada the Lily
    • Pearl-Maiden
    • People of the Mist
    • The Queen of Sheba's Ring
    • Red Eve
    • Regeneration [about the Salvation Army]
    • She
    • She and Allan
    • Smith and the Pharoahs and Other Tales
    • Stella Fregeliius
    • Swallow
    • A Tale of Three Lions
    • Virgin of the Sun
    • The Wanderer's Necklace
    • When the World Shook
    • The Wizard
    • The World's Desire
    • The Yellow God

    Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) bio at Wikipedia

    • A Changed Man and Other Tales
    • Desperate Remedies
    • The Dynasts
    • Far From the Madding Crowd
    • A Group of Noble Dames
    • The Hand of Ethelberta
    • Jude the Obscure
    • The Laodician
    • Life's Little Ironies, a set of tale
    • The Mayor of Casterbridge
    • Moments of Vision (poetry)
    • A Pair of Blue Eyes
    • Poems of the Past and the Present (poetry)
    • The Return of the Native
    • Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid
    • Satires of Circumstance (poetry)
    • Tess of the d'Urbervilles
    • Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses (poetry)
    • The Trumpet-Major
    • Two on a Tower
    • Under the Greenwood Tree
    • The Well-Beloved
    • Wessex Poems
    • Wessex Tales
    • The Woodlanders


    Christopher Hare

    • Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach


    John Hartley (1839-1915) bio at Wikipedia

    • Yorksher Puddin'
    • Yorkshire Ditties, second series
    • Yorkshire Lyrics
    • Yorkshire Tales, third series


    William Hazlitt (1778-1830) bio at Wikipedia

    • Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
    • Lectures on the English Poets
    • Liber Amoris
    • The Spirit of the Age
    • Table-Talk

    G.A. Henty (1832-1902) bio at Wikipedia

    • Among Malay Pirates
    • At Agincourt
    • At the Point of the Bayonet
    • Beric the Briton
    • Bonnie Prince Charlie
    • Both Sides of the Border, a Tale of Hotspur and Glendower
    • The Boy Knight, a Tale of the Crusades
    • The Bravest of the Brave
    • By England's Aid or The Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604)
    • By Pike and Dyke, a Tale fo theRise of the Dutch Republic
    • By Right of Conquest, or With Cortez in Mexico
    • By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War
    • Colonel Thorndyke's Secret
    • The Cornet of the Horse, a Tale of Marlborough's Wars
    • The Dragon and the Raven
    • Final Reckoning
    • For the Temple
    • Forest and Frontiers
    • In Freedom's Cause
    • In the Irish Brigade, a Tale of War in Flanders and Spain
    • Friends Though Divided, a tale of the Civil War
    • The Golden Canyon
    • In the Heart of the Rockies
    • Jack Archer: a Tale of the Crimea
    • A Jacobite Exile
    • The Knight of the White Cross
    • In the Reign of Terror
    • In Times of Peril
    • Lion of the North (30 Years War) (see also the sequel With Fire and Sword)
    • The Lion of St. Mark, a story of Venice inthe fourteenth century
    • A March on London
    • No Surrender
    • On the Irrawaddy
    • On the Pampas
    • One of the 28th, a Tale of Waterloo
    • Orange and Green, a Tole of the Boyne and Limerick
    • The Queen's Cup
    • Rujub the Juggler
    • Saint Bartholemew's Eve
    • Saint George for England
    • Tales of Daring and Danger
    • Through the Fray
    • Through Three Campaigns
    • The Tiger of Mysore, a Story of the War with Tipoo Saib
    • The Treasure of the Incas<