William Lyon Phelps: 28 books

Essays on Russian Novelists William Lyon Phelps, american author, critic and scholar (1865-1943) This ebook presents «Essays on Russian Novelists», from William Lyon Phelps. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this...

Robert Browning - How to Know Him William Lyon Phelps, american author, critic and scholar (1865-1943) This ebook presents «Robert Browning - How to Know Him», from William Lyon Phelps. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01-...

Human Nature In The Bible by William Lyon Phelps Everyone who has a thorough knowledge of the Bible may truly be called educated; and no other learning or culture, no matter how extensive or elegant, can, among Europeans and Americans, form a proper substitute. Western civilization is founded...

HUMAN NATURE IN THE BIBLE WILLIAM LYON PHELPS Originally published in 1922. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

Human Nature in the Bible is a look at the Bible from a different perspective than based simply on dogma or religion. It was written by noted critic and scholar William Phelps.

This 1910 collection of scholarly articles discusses Thomas Hardy, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Henryk Sienkiewicz, William De Morgan, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alfred Ollivant, and Richard Doddridge Blackmoore’s romance Lorna Doone. Also...

WILLIAM DE MORGAN "How can you know whether you are successful or not at forty-one? How do you know you won't have a tremendous success, all of a sudden? Yes--after another ten years, perhaps--but some time! And then twenty years of real, happy work. It has all been before, this sort of thing. Why not...

A scholarly review of the beginning, development, and current status of fiction, this conversational 1916 book spans two centuries of literary development. Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, the eighteenth century, and the Romantic Revival are all discussed here, as well as the Victorians—with...

This 1893 study of eighteenth-century English literature was the first major study of the early origins of the Romantic movement from 1700 to 1765. The author defines Romanticism, considers the literature and spirit of the age, and examines the revival of things past: the Gothic, chivalry, ballads, Northern mythology, Welsh poetry, as well as the works of Spenser and Milton.

Gathered in 1914 from The Yale Review and other periodicals, this collection of critical essays considers Richardson, Dickens, Austen, and Marlowe; it also includes the articles “Notes on Mark Twain,” “Realism and Reality in Fiction,” “Carlyle’s Love-Letters,” “Schiller’s Personality and Influence,” “Schopenhauer and Omar,” “Lessing as a Creative Critic,” and more.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

I have done: and if any blames me, Thinking that merely to touch in brevity The topics I dwell on, were unlawful-- Or worse, that I trench, with undue levity, On the bounds of the holy and the awful-- I praise the heart, and pity the head of him, And refer myself to THEE, instead of him, Who head...