Best Literary Criticism Books

Best Free Literary Criticism Books of 2024

How to Write a New York Times Bestseller in Ten Easy Steps Book Reviews
Jason Mulgrew
A hilarious essay by New York Times bestselling author Jason Mulgrew, plus get a sneak peek from his new book, 236 Pounds of Class Vice President, available February 12, 2013. For ...
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Book Reviews
1048-1122 Omar Khayyám
The Rubáiyát is one of the most popular poems of all time. A collection of quatrains composed in the eleventh century by Persian poet and philosopher Omar Khayyám.
Una ciudad flotante Book Reviews
Jules Verne
Llegué a Liverpool el 18 marzo de 1867. El GreatEastern debía zarpar a los pocos días para Nueva York, y acababa de tomar pasaje a su bordo. Viaje de aficionado, ni más ni menos. M...
King Lear Book Reviews
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try ...
The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Book Reviews
Geoffrey Chaucer & Walter W. Skeat
Reverend Walter W. Skeat’s second volume on Chaucer, from 1899, focuses on the poet’s translation of “The Consolation of Philosophy” by Boethius, in addition to his poem “Troilus a...
The Magic Skin Book Reviews
Honoré de Balzac
Raphael, a failed writer, finds himself deep in debt and unrequited in love, so he decides to take a suicidal plunge into the Seine River. Before he can, however, he discovers a ma...
An Essay on Criticism Book Reviews
Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688–1744). It is written in a type of rhyming verse called heroic couplets. The...
THE GIVER Book Reviews
Monique Villen
The book is an analysis of Lois Lowry’s work, The Giver, and Phillip Noyce’s movie (2014).  The novel recounts, in third person, the life of a boy named Jonas, who lives i...
The Victorian Age in Literature Book Reviews
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In this engaging and extremely personal account G K Chesterton expounds his views on Victorian literature. Many of his opinions reflect the conventions of the age; however of the V...
Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Book Reviews
Henry David Thoreau
Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that indiv...
Lyric Orientations Book Reviews
Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge
In Lyric Orientations , Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge explores the power of lyric poetry to stir the social and emotional lives of human beings in the face of the ineffable nature of ...
Babylonian and Assyrian Literature Book Reviews
Anonymous
The main work in this book is the 4,000yearold Assyrian poem Epic of Izdubar, which tells the adventures of Izdubar as he travels around the land. He battles other men as well as d...
Rocket Fuel Book Reviews
Bridget McGovern & Chris Lough
A collection of some of the best feature articles from Tor.com’s 10 year history as an online scifi/fantasy literature magazine. Read: An intimate moment under the covers that blo...
Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature Book Reviews
Matthias Klestil
This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenthcentury African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, an...
Edipo Rey Book Reviews
Sófocles
Edipo rey fue una tragedia griega de Sófocles, de fecha desconocida. Algunos indicios sugieren que pudo ser escrita en los años posteriores a 430 a. C. La tetralogía de la que form...
The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics Book Reviews
Laozi
LaoTze's Tao Teh King illuminates The Tao: a guiding principle of the universe and all within it. By exploring the nature of dualities and complements, LaoTze dissects strengt...
Why We Read Fiction Book Reviews
Lisa Zunshine
Why We Read Fiction offers a lucid overview of the most exciting area of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as "Theory of Mind" and discusses its implica...
The Marvelous Land of Oz Book Reviews
L. Frank Baum
The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, commonly shortened to The Land of Oz, [1] published on July 5, 1904[citat...
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley Book Reviews
Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley is broken into two parts, and the second is sort of a poetic response to the first. In part one, Pound writes about the "Life and Contacts" of good ...
Ulysses Book Reviews
James Joyce
Ulysses is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in i...
Versos Sencillos Book Reviews
José Martí
A Manuel Mercado, de México. A Enrique Estrázulas, del Uruguay. Mis amigos saben cómo se me salieron estos versos del corazón. Fue aquel invierno de angustia, en que por la ignoran...
My Reminiscences Book Reviews
Rabindranath Tagore
We are taken into his very bosom, and are permitted to watch the processes of the development of his mental spiritual natures, and thus acquire such understanding and ability to ap...
Crime and Punishment Book Reviews
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during...
Aristotle on the art of poetry Book Reviews
Ingram Bywater
This 1920 volume is an English translation of Poetics, the great treatise on literary theory by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, translated by English classicist Ingram Byw...
The Man Book Reviews
Bram Stoker
The story begins with Squire Stephen Norman, who was the Lord of the manor who presided over the feudal society of Normanstand. Squire Norman marries Margaret Rowly, the younger si...
El Conde de Montecristo Book Reviews
Alejandro Dumas
El 24 de febrero de 1815, el vigía de Nuestra Señora de la Guarda dio la señal de que se hallaba a la vista el bergantín El Faraón procedente de Esmirna, Trieste y Nápoles. Como su...
Carmen Book Reviews
Prosper Mérimée
J'avais toujours soupçonné les géographes de ne savoir ce qu'ils disent lorsqu'ils placent le champ de bataille de Munda dans le pays des BastuliPoeni, près de la mo...
The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Book Reviews
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
To those unacquainted with Tennyson's conscientious methods, it may seem strange that a volume of 160 pages is necessary to contain those poems written and published by him du...
Danse Russe Book Reviews
William Carlos Williams
This particular poem was written in just such a spontaneous way, after seeing the Russian Ballet perform in Manhattan.
A Critic in Pall Mall Book Reviews
Oscar Wilde
Based on the pall mall gazette where Wilde used to write reviews.
Following the Equator Book Reviews
Mark Twain
Bound on a lecturing trip around the world, Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to far lands in "Following the Equator." The first of two volumes, this vivid record of ...
Los miserables Book Reviews
Monique Villen
El libro contiene un análisis personal de la obra de Victor Hugo, Los miserables .
El Castillo Book Reviews
Franz Kafka
Cuando K llegó era noche cerrada. El pueblo estaba cubierto por una espesa capa de nieve. Del castillo2 no se podía ver nada, la niebla y la oscuridad lo rodeaban, ni siquiera el m...
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Book Reviews
Cicero
The Fourteen Orations Against Marcus Antonius; To which are appended The Treatise on Rhetorical Invention; The Orator; Topics; On Rhetorical Partitions, etc.
Utopia Book Reviews
Tomás Moro
Todo el mundo tiene referencias y habla de este librito, pero son poquisimos los que lo han leído. Yo mismo lo desconocía hasta hace poco. Vino a mis manos una edición española del...
Machado de Assis Book Reviews
Machado de Assis
Esta edição inaugura a sequência de livros digitais que trará a obra completa de Machado de Assis para o formato digital. As crônicas aqui reunidas foram escritas entre 1861 e 1864...
Only in Reruns Book Reviews
Sarah Young
Selected insights into Stephen King’s novel The Running Man. The essays here are meant to offer insights into both the book and themes surrounding it. From the faculty of Trine Uni...
Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Book Reviews
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
These are primarily criticisms written by Lovecraft of other writers submissions and while interesting do not ever delve into his own works or mythos. From a literary standpoint it...
The Conjure Woman Book Reviews
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Chesnutt was an early pioneer is writing about African American folklore and racial identity. The stories in The Conjure Woman are written in a frame narrative. The outer frame is ...
The Code of Hammurabi Book Reviews
Hammurabi
The Code of Hammurabi (Codex Hammurabi) is a wellpreserved ancient law code, created ca. 1790 BC (middle chronology) in ancient Babylon. It was enacted by the sixth Babylonian king...
Oral Literature in Africa Book Reviews
Ruth Finnegan
Ruth Finnegan’s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fie...
Noches Blancas Book Reviews
Fedor Dostoiewski
Era una noche maravillosa, una de esas noches, amable lector, que quizá sólo existen en nuestros años mozos. El cielo estaba tan estrellado, tan luminoso, que mirándolo no podía un...
Yerma Book Reviews
Federico García Lorca
Yerma tiene un único proyecto en el que se entremezclan el deseo personal y el mandato social de ser madre, es la tragedia en la que Lorca desarrolló con mayor amplitud y relieve u...
Interpreting Greek Tragedy Book Reviews
Charles Segal
This generous selection of published essays by the distinguished classicist Charles Segal represents over twenty years of critical inquiry into the questions of what Greek tragedy ...
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War Book Reviews
Herman Melville
It is a collection of poems about the Civil War. A handful of trips Melville took before, during, and after the war provide additional angles of vision into the battles, the person...
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Book Reviews
Karl Marx
"The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" is one of Karl Marx' most profound and most brilliant monographs. It may be considered the best work extant on the philo...
Sentido y Sensibilidad Book Reviews
Jane Austen
La familia Dashwood llevaba largo tiempo afincada en Sussex. Su propiedad era de buen tamaño, y en el centro de ella se encontraba la residencia, Norland Park, donde la manera tan ...
Orgullo y Prejuicio Book Reviews
Jane Austen
Es una verdad mundialmente reconocida que un hombre soltero, poseedor de una gran fortuna, necesita una esposa.
Biographia Literaria Book Reviews
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly in...
Inside Game of Thrones Book Reviews
Christopher Pruitt, Tyler Hayden & Joshua M. Patton
Don't hide your obsession about HBO's flagship fantasy series, Game of Thronesown it. You're in good company. If you can't wait until season three for your West...
El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha Book Reviews
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Yo, Juan Gallo de Andrada, escribano de Cámara del Rey nuestro señor, de los que residen en su Consejo, certifico y doy fe que, habiendo visto por los señores dél un libro intitula...
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Book Reviews
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is nearly fifteen years since I was, for the first time, enabled to become a frequent and attentive visitor in Mr. Coleridge's domestic society. His exhibition of intellect...
Books We Enjoyed Reading in Fourth Grade Book Reviews
McLean School Learning Commons Library
During our weekly library classes, 4th grade students read, explored literature, and shared information about books they enjoyed reading. Students created their own booklets entitl...
On Liberty Book Reviews
John Stuart Mill
On Liberty is a philosophical work by 19th century English philosopher John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859. To the Victorian readers of the time it was a radical work, advoca...
Books We Enjoyed Reading in Third Grade Book Reviews
McLean School Learning Commons Library
During our weekly library classes, third graders loved reading books. Using the Book Creator app on their iPads, they kept a record of books they read by creating mini reviewsusing...
Japanese Literature Book Reviews
Various Authors
Early works of Japanese literature were heavily influenced by cultural contact with China and Chinese literature, often written in Classical Chinese. Indian literature also had an ...
Fishing with a Worm Book Reviews
Bliss Perry
This book catches the poignant and philosophical observations of a fly fisherman lured by the worm.
Middlemarch Book Reviews
George Eliot
Making masterful use of a counter pointed plot, Eliot presents the stories of a number of denizens of a small English town on the eve of the Reform Bill of 1832. The main character...
Rilla of Ingleside Book Reviews
L.M. Montgomery
Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the eighth of nine books in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth "Anne" novel in publication order. Thi...
The Secret Garden Book Reviews
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial format starting in the autumn of 1910, and was first published in its entirety in 1911...

Best Paid Literary Criticism Books of 2024

How to Write a New York Times Bestseller in Ten Easy Steps Book Reviews
Jason Mulgrew
A hilarious essay by New York Times bestselling author Jason Mulgrew, plus get a sneak peek from his new book, 236 Pounds of Class Vice President, available February 12, 2013. For ...
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Book Reviews
1048-1122 Omar Khayyám
The Rubáiyát is one of the most popular poems of all time. A collection of quatrains composed in the eleventh century by Persian poet and philosopher Omar Khayyám.
Una ciudad flotante Book Reviews
Jules Verne
Llegué a Liverpool el 18 marzo de 1867. El GreatEastern debía zarpar a los pocos días para Nueva York, y acababa de tomar pasaje a su bordo. Viaje de aficionado, ni más ni menos. M...
King Lear Book Reviews
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try ...
The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Book Reviews
Geoffrey Chaucer & Walter W. Skeat
Reverend Walter W. Skeat’s second volume on Chaucer, from 1899, focuses on the poet’s translation of “The Consolation of Philosophy” by Boethius, in addition to his poem “Troilus a...
The Magic Skin Book Reviews
Honoré de Balzac
Raphael, a failed writer, finds himself deep in debt and unrequited in love, so he decides to take a suicidal plunge into the Seine River. Before he can, however, he discovers a ma...
An Essay on Criticism Book Reviews
Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688–1744). It is written in a type of rhyming verse called heroic couplets. The...
THE GIVER Book Reviews
Monique Villen
The book is an analysis of Lois Lowry’s work, The Giver, and Phillip Noyce’s movie (2014).  The novel recounts, in third person, the life of a boy named Jonas, who lives i...
The Victorian Age in Literature Book Reviews
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In this engaging and extremely personal account G K Chesterton expounds his views on Victorian literature. Many of his opinions reflect the conventions of the age; however of the V...
Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Book Reviews
Henry David Thoreau
Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that indiv...
Lyric Orientations Book Reviews
Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge
In Lyric Orientations , Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge explores the power of lyric poetry to stir the social and emotional lives of human beings in the face of the ineffable nature of ...
Babylonian and Assyrian Literature Book Reviews
Anonymous
The main work in this book is the 4,000yearold Assyrian poem Epic of Izdubar, which tells the adventures of Izdubar as he travels around the land. He battles other men as well as d...
Rocket Fuel Book Reviews
Bridget McGovern & Chris Lough
A collection of some of the best feature articles from Tor.com’s 10 year history as an online scifi/fantasy literature magazine. Read: An intimate moment under the covers that blo...
Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature Book Reviews
Matthias Klestil
This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenthcentury African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, an...
Edipo Rey Book Reviews
Sófocles
Edipo rey fue una tragedia griega de Sófocles, de fecha desconocida. Algunos indicios sugieren que pudo ser escrita en los años posteriores a 430 a. C. La tetralogía de la que form...
The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics Book Reviews
Laozi
LaoTze's Tao Teh King illuminates The Tao: a guiding principle of the universe and all within it. By exploring the nature of dualities and complements, LaoTze dissects strengt...
Why We Read Fiction Book Reviews
Lisa Zunshine
Why We Read Fiction offers a lucid overview of the most exciting area of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as "Theory of Mind" and discusses its implica...
The Marvelous Land of Oz Book Reviews
L. Frank Baum
The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, commonly shortened to The Land of Oz, [1] published on July 5, 1904[citat...
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley Book Reviews
Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley is broken into two parts, and the second is sort of a poetic response to the first. In part one, Pound writes about the "Life and Contacts" of good ...
Ulysses Book Reviews
James Joyce
Ulysses is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in i...
Versos Sencillos Book Reviews
José Martí
A Manuel Mercado, de México. A Enrique Estrázulas, del Uruguay. Mis amigos saben cómo se me salieron estos versos del corazón. Fue aquel invierno de angustia, en que por la ignoran...
My Reminiscences Book Reviews
Rabindranath Tagore
We are taken into his very bosom, and are permitted to watch the processes of the development of his mental spiritual natures, and thus acquire such understanding and ability to ap...
Crime and Punishment Book Reviews
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during...
Aristotle on the art of poetry Book Reviews
Ingram Bywater
This 1920 volume is an English translation of Poetics, the great treatise on literary theory by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, translated by English classicist Ingram Byw...
The Man Book Reviews
Bram Stoker
The story begins with Squire Stephen Norman, who was the Lord of the manor who presided over the feudal society of Normanstand. Squire Norman marries Margaret Rowly, the younger si...
El Conde de Montecristo Book Reviews
Alejandro Dumas
El 24 de febrero de 1815, el vigía de Nuestra Señora de la Guarda dio la señal de que se hallaba a la vista el bergantín El Faraón procedente de Esmirna, Trieste y Nápoles. Como su...
Carmen Book Reviews
Prosper Mérimée
J'avais toujours soupçonné les géographes de ne savoir ce qu'ils disent lorsqu'ils placent le champ de bataille de Munda dans le pays des BastuliPoeni, près de la mo...
The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Book Reviews
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
To those unacquainted with Tennyson's conscientious methods, it may seem strange that a volume of 160 pages is necessary to contain those poems written and published by him du...
Danse Russe Book Reviews
William Carlos Williams
This particular poem was written in just such a spontaneous way, after seeing the Russian Ballet perform in Manhattan.
A Critic in Pall Mall Book Reviews
Oscar Wilde
Based on the pall mall gazette where Wilde used to write reviews.
Following the Equator Book Reviews
Mark Twain
Bound on a lecturing trip around the world, Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to far lands in "Following the Equator." The first of two volumes, this vivid record of ...
Los miserables Book Reviews
Monique Villen
El libro contiene un análisis personal de la obra de Victor Hugo, Los miserables .
El Castillo Book Reviews
Franz Kafka
Cuando K llegó era noche cerrada. El pueblo estaba cubierto por una espesa capa de nieve. Del castillo2 no se podía ver nada, la niebla y la oscuridad lo rodeaban, ni siquiera el m...
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Book Reviews
Cicero
The Fourteen Orations Against Marcus Antonius; To which are appended The Treatise on Rhetorical Invention; The Orator; Topics; On Rhetorical Partitions, etc.
Utopia Book Reviews
Tomás Moro
Todo el mundo tiene referencias y habla de este librito, pero son poquisimos los que lo han leído. Yo mismo lo desconocía hasta hace poco. Vino a mis manos una edición española del...
Machado de Assis Book Reviews
Machado de Assis
Esta edição inaugura a sequência de livros digitais que trará a obra completa de Machado de Assis para o formato digital. As crônicas aqui reunidas foram escritas entre 1861 e 1864...
Only in Reruns Book Reviews
Sarah Young
Selected insights into Stephen King’s novel The Running Man. The essays here are meant to offer insights into both the book and themes surrounding it. From the faculty of Trine Uni...
Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Book Reviews
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
These are primarily criticisms written by Lovecraft of other writers submissions and while interesting do not ever delve into his own works or mythos. From a literary standpoint it...
The Conjure Woman Book Reviews
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Chesnutt was an early pioneer is writing about African American folklore and racial identity. The stories in The Conjure Woman are written in a frame narrative. The outer frame is ...
The Code of Hammurabi Book Reviews
Hammurabi
The Code of Hammurabi (Codex Hammurabi) is a wellpreserved ancient law code, created ca. 1790 BC (middle chronology) in ancient Babylon. It was enacted by the sixth Babylonian king...
Oral Literature in Africa Book Reviews
Ruth Finnegan
Ruth Finnegan’s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fie...
Noches Blancas Book Reviews
Fedor Dostoiewski
Era una noche maravillosa, una de esas noches, amable lector, que quizá sólo existen en nuestros años mozos. El cielo estaba tan estrellado, tan luminoso, que mirándolo no podía un...
Yerma Book Reviews
Federico García Lorca
Yerma tiene un único proyecto en el que se entremezclan el deseo personal y el mandato social de ser madre, es la tragedia en la que Lorca desarrolló con mayor amplitud y relieve u...
Interpreting Greek Tragedy Book Reviews
Charles Segal
This generous selection of published essays by the distinguished classicist Charles Segal represents over twenty years of critical inquiry into the questions of what Greek tragedy ...
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War Book Reviews
Herman Melville
It is a collection of poems about the Civil War. A handful of trips Melville took before, during, and after the war provide additional angles of vision into the battles, the person...
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Book Reviews
Karl Marx
"The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" is one of Karl Marx' most profound and most brilliant monographs. It may be considered the best work extant on the philo...
Sentido y Sensibilidad Book Reviews
Jane Austen
La familia Dashwood llevaba largo tiempo afincada en Sussex. Su propiedad era de buen tamaño, y en el centro de ella se encontraba la residencia, Norland Park, donde la manera tan ...
Orgullo y Prejuicio Book Reviews
Jane Austen
Es una verdad mundialmente reconocida que un hombre soltero, poseedor de una gran fortuna, necesita una esposa.
Biographia Literaria Book Reviews
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly in...
Inside Game of Thrones Book Reviews
Christopher Pruitt, Tyler Hayden & Joshua M. Patton
Don't hide your obsession about HBO's flagship fantasy series, Game of Thronesown it. You're in good company. If you can't wait until season three for your West...
El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha Book Reviews
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Yo, Juan Gallo de Andrada, escribano de Cámara del Rey nuestro señor, de los que residen en su Consejo, certifico y doy fe que, habiendo visto por los señores dél un libro intitula...
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Book Reviews
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is nearly fifteen years since I was, for the first time, enabled to become a frequent and attentive visitor in Mr. Coleridge's domestic society. His exhibition of intellect...
Books We Enjoyed Reading in Fourth Grade Book Reviews
McLean School Learning Commons Library
During our weekly library classes, 4th grade students read, explored literature, and shared information about books they enjoyed reading. Students created their own booklets entitl...
On Liberty Book Reviews
John Stuart Mill
On Liberty is a philosophical work by 19th century English philosopher John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859. To the Victorian readers of the time it was a radical work, advoca...
Books We Enjoyed Reading in Third Grade Book Reviews
McLean School Learning Commons Library
During our weekly library classes, third graders loved reading books. Using the Book Creator app on their iPads, they kept a record of books they read by creating mini reviewsusing...
Japanese Literature Book Reviews
Various Authors
Early works of Japanese literature were heavily influenced by cultural contact with China and Chinese literature, often written in Classical Chinese. Indian literature also had an ...
Fishing with a Worm Book Reviews
Bliss Perry
This book catches the poignant and philosophical observations of a fly fisherman lured by the worm.
Middlemarch Book Reviews
George Eliot
Making masterful use of a counter pointed plot, Eliot presents the stories of a number of denizens of a small English town on the eve of the Reform Bill of 1832. The main character...
Rilla of Ingleside Book Reviews
L.M. Montgomery
Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the eighth of nine books in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth "Anne" novel in publication order. Thi...
The Secret Garden Book Reviews
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial format starting in the autumn of 1910, and was first published in its entirety in 1911...

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