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Shooting an Elephant and other essays George Orwell · 1950 · ★ 4.0 · 206p · ≈ 6h · Moderate 'Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd 'solely to avoid looking a fool'. The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as 'My Country Right or Left', 'How the Poor Die' and 'Such, Such were the Joys', his memoir of the horrors of public… Shares English essays, British and irish fiction, Essays, Nonfiction

Heretics Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1905 · ★ 4.2 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere rollicking journalist, he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature. A man of strong opinions and enormously talented at defending them, his exuberant personality nevertheless allowed him to maintain warm friendships with people - such as George… Shares English essays, English Authors, Essays, English literature

Changing my mind Zadie Smith · 2009 · ★ 3.8 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A sparkling collection of Zadie Smith's nonfiction over the past decade.Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary.Split into four sections—"Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling"—Changing My Mind invites readers to witness… Shares English essays, Essays, English literature, Literature

Kant; a collection of critical essays Robert Paul Wolff · 1967 · ★ 3.5 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares Essays, Philosophy with this book.

Imaginary portraits Walter Pater · 1887 · 173p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Walter Pater is best known for his Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873) and for his first novel Marius the Epicurean (1885). His short fiction deserves a much wider audience. This edition includes the four intricate and influential narratives he published as Imaginary Portraits in 1887 together with five of his other portraits, published only in periodical form. Fully annotated and… Shares English essays, Essays, English literature, Philosophy

The Essays of Elia Charles Lamb · 1823 · ★ 3.7 · 337p · ≈ 11h · Challenging good book Shares English essays, English Authors, Essays, History

Room of Ones Own Three Guineas Virginia Woolf · 1984 · ★ 4.0 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity. Three Guineas was published almost a decade later and breaks new ground in its discussion of… Shares British and irish fiction, Essays, English literature, Literature

Works of Thomas de Quincey

Works of Thomas de Quincey Grevel Lindop · 2001 · 3024p · ≈ 100h · Moderate Shares English essays, English Authors, English literature with this book.

The uncommercial traveller Charles Dickens · 1776 · ★ 3.5 · 419p · ≈ 13h · Challenging A collection of seventeen sketches which grew out of Dickens' insomnia. He took long walks through London at night and his observations resulted in these sketches. Shares British and irish fiction, English literature, History

Essays, first series Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1876 · ★ 5.0 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, "was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own." His celebrated essays--the twelve published in Essays: First Series (1841) and eight in Essays: Second Series (1844)--are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial… Shares Essays, Philosophy, Nonfiction

Short studies on great subjects James Anthony Froude · 1867 · 398p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Shares Essays, English literature, Philosophy, History with this book.

Arcadia Sir Philip Sidney · 1598 · ★ 3.7 · 561p · ≈ 18h · Challenging Basilus, a foolish old duke, consults an oracle as he imperiously wishes to know the future, but he is less than pleased with what he learns. To escape the oracle's horrific prophecies about his family and kingdom he withdraws into pastoral retreat with his wife and two daughters. When a pair of wandering princes fall in love with the princesses and adopt disguises to gain access to them, all… Shares British and irish fiction, English literature, Literature

A coat of many colours Herbert Edward Read · 1945 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares English essays, Essays with this book.

Law of the Desert Born Louis L'Amour · 1983 · ★ 4.0 · 245p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This first-rate collection of short stories by the incomparable Louis L’Amour showcases the legendary writer at his very spinning a fascinating and wholly authentic set of unforgettable tales. In these extraordinary stories, we meet a man who is forced to defend himself by taking another’s life—and must pay for his actions in a most punishing manner; a young thrill-seeker who finally finds a… Shares American Short stories, History

Prose works John Milton · 1809 · 462p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares English essays, Essays, English literature with this book.

The Coming Race Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · 1871 · ★ 3.2 · 58p · ≈ 1h · Challenging The Coming Race, an early science-fiction work, with its superman race the Vril-ya descended from the same ancestors as the great Aryan family, from which in varied streams has flowed the dominant civilization of the world spawned a occult secret society known as the Vril Society or Luminous Lodge - its philosphy and swastika symbol profoundly influenced the Nazis. Please Note: This book has… Shares British and irish fiction, Philosophy, Nonfiction

Cathedral Raymond Carver · 1983 · ★ 4.3 · 238p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Twelve stories deal with loneliness, loss, the tragic banality of everyday life, and redemption. Shares American Short stories, English literature

The Author's Craft Arnold Bennett · 1914 · 121p · ≈ 4h · Moderate The author of The Grand Babylon Hotel, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, The Old Wives' Tale and much more, English writer Arnold Bennett's fictional and non-fictional works have stood the test of time. Bennett also wrote for stage and screen. The Author's Craft, contains some of Bennett's essays on the art of writing, with his thoughts on applying the craft to both novel and play writing. Shares Essays, Literature, Nonfiction

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