Literary essays

'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself'Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius.

In Orthodoxy, Gilbert K.

'The sight of suffering does one good, the infliction of suffering does one more good - this is a hard maxim, but none the less a fundamental maxim, old, powerful, and "e;human, all-too-human"e;.

Walden is one of the best-known non-fiction books ever written by an American.

'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.

The definitive sketch of one of Americas greatest writers.

'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.

'Cements her reputation as one of the most fierce and elegant chroniclers of how we live now.

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Mark Twain was one of America's great writers.

Aristotle's 'Poetics' is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.

'Do I wish to keep up with the times?

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus is one of the most important books of meditations and maxims ever written.