item: #1 of 6 id: 12914 author: Powys, John Cowper title: One Hundred Best Books With Commentary and an Essay on Books and Reading date: None words: 19685 flesch: 65 summary: The following pages contain an alphabetical list by author of the One Hundred Best Books, also the titles of other books recommended in the text by Mr. Powys. G. ARNOLD SHAW, PUBLISHER GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL, NEW YORK INDEX WITH PRICES OF RECOMMENDED EDITIONS OF JOHN COWPER POWYS' LIST OF ONE HUNDRED BEST BOOKS And Other Books Mentioned In the Text Binding and price Author Title Leather Cloth Artzibasheff ........ keywords: achievement; alice; america; anatole; ancient; appeal; arnold; art; artistic; artzibasheff; association; author; background; balzac; beautiful; beauty; bennett; best; best books; better; books; cannan; central; certain; characters; charles; charm; charming; chesterton; children; choice; christ; clear; common; compiler; complete; conrad; conscious; courage; cowper; creative; criticism; days; deep; degree; delicate; dickens; different; distinction; dostoievsky; dramatic; edition; england; english; epicurean; essays; essential; eternal; existence; expression; extraordinary; fact; feeling; fiction; finest; following; fool; force; france; french; garnett; genius; george; gilbert; girl; god; goethe; golden; good; grand; great; greatest; ground; hardy; heart; heine; henry; high; holborn; human; humor; imagination; insight; intellectual; interest; interesting; irony; james; john; joseph; kind; lamb; language; large; lecturers; library; life; like; list; literary; literature; little; long; love; lovely; lovers; macmillan; magic; manner; massive; masters; matter; mean; measure; men; mere; milton; mind; modern; moral; natural; nature; necessary; need; net; new; nietzsche; noble; novel; old; oliver; onions; original; oxford; pages; particular; passion; passionate; pater; peculiar; people; personal; persons; philosophical; philosophy; place; pleasure; poems; poetry; point; power; powerful; powys; present; pride; prose; psychological; publisher; purpose; quality; rabelais; rare; reaction; reader; reading; real; remarkable; right; romance; russian; scott; sea; second; secret; sense; sentiment; series; shakespeare; shameless; shaw; sheer; sir; sort; soul; spirit; spiritual; stendhal; stories; story; style; taste; temple; terminal; terrible; thackeray; things; thomas; time; tragic; translation; true; truth; turgeniev; university; value; view; visions; vols; volume; walter; way; wilde; wisdom; wise; wit; women; words; work; world; writers; york; young; youth cache: 12914.txt plain text: 12914.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 13852 author: Bennett, Arnold title: Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature date: None words: 25007 flesch: 72 summary: If a classic is a classic because it gives _pleasure_ to succeeding generations of the people who are most keenly interested in literature, and if Lamb frequently strikes you as dull, then evidently there is something wrong. The right things are the right things solely because the passionate few _like_ reading them. keywords: accomplishment; aim; alive; answer; approach; artist; attitude; author; average; aware; bad; beautiful; beauty; beginning; best; better; book; branches; browne; business; canterbury; capable; carlyle; case; century; certain; chapter; character; charles; chaucer; children; classical; classics; coleridge; common; complete; convinced; course; criticism; day; dead; demeanour; dream; edition; effect; effort; elizabeth; emotion; english; english library; english literature; enterprise; enthusiasm; essay; everyman; example; exercise; experience; expression; fact; faith; faithful; feelings; fine; finest; form; friend; general; genius; george; girl; globe; good; great; greatest; half; hand; hazlitt; henry; high; history; hours; human; idea; iii; imaginative; important; inferior; interest; james; john; kind; knowledge; lamb; leigh; letters; library; life; light; lines; literary; literature; little; living; long; look; lord; majority; man; matter; means; men; mental; mere; mind; miracle; modern; moment; moral; muses; narrative; nature; necessary; need; new; novel; order; oxford; particular; passionate; people; period; place; pleasure; poems; poetical; poetry; point; present; pretty; principles; prose; qualities; quality; question; rate; read; reader; reading; real; reason; regular; reputation; richard; ridiculous; robert; routledge; said; samuel; scheme; scott; scott library; second; sensations; sense; series; shakespeare; short; single; sir; sound; spirit; stage; student; study; style; success; supreme; taste; temple; things; thomas; time; true; truth; universal; universal library; university; vast; verse; vols; volumes; walter; way; wide; william; wish; wordsworth; works; world; writers; wrong; year cache: 13852.txt plain text: 13852.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 21869 author: Shorter, Clement King title: Immortal Memories date: None words: 57095 flesch: 73 summary: In the opening pages of Boswell's _Johnson_ Does any one suppose that Pope in his _Essay on Man_, that Johnson in his _London_ or that Goldsmith in his _Deserted Village_ had any idea other than the production of splendid phrases. keywords: able; account; acton; admirers; affair; age; aldeburgh; alexander; alive; america; ancestry; ancient; anglian; anna; appeal; appreciation; arnold; asleep; associated; augustine; austin; author; autobiography; beautiful; bell; beloved; berlin; best; better; bible; biography; birkbeck; birrell; birth; bishop; bohn; books; borrow; boswell; boy; breslau; brilliant; bronte; brother; browne; burke; burns; byron; cambridge; canon; cardinal; carlyle; case; century; certain; character; charles; charlotte; cheap; children; church; city; claim; clarendon; classics; clear; club; co.; coleridge; collected; college; common; complete; concerned; confessions; connexion; considerable; cornelius; correspondence; countess; country; cousin; cowper; crabbe; critic; criticism; dante; daughter; david; day; days; dead; dean; dear; death; delight; delightful; dent; der; dereham; des; desire; devoted; diary; dickens; die; distinguished; divine; doctor; donniges; doubt; dryden; earlier; early; east; edition; edmund; edward; 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longer; lord; louis; love; macaulay; macmillan; madame; main; man; manner; margaret; marriage; married; martineau; mary; matter; means; meditations; memorial; memory; men; mendelssohn; mere; michael; michael johnson; milton; mind; miss; mistress; modern; moment; money; months; mother; mrs; munich; murray; napoleon; native; natural; nature; near; neighbourhood; new; newman; newton; nineteenth; noble; norfolk; norwich; note; novelist; novels; number; occasion; old; olney; order; origin; oxford; pages; paper; paris; particular; paston; pathetic; patron; people; period; personality; phillips; philosophie; picture; place; pleasant; pleasure; pocket; poems; poet; poetry; point; political; poor; pope; popular; position; possible; pounds; power; praise; present; press; principal; professor; prose; protestant; proud; public; publication; publicist; publisher; quality; question; racowitza; rank; read; readers; reading; real; reference; reign; remarkable; request; revolution; richard; right; robert; romany; rome; rousseau; rustow; rye; samuel; sanity; sarah; scenery; school; scotland; scott; second; secure; self; sense; series; seward; shakspere; shelley; shilling; sir; sister; small; smith; society; sons; southey; spain; speaking; spirit; spite; stands; state; statesman; stephen; stories; student; study; style; subject; suffolk; sum; sur; tales; talk; taste; taylor; tennyson; theodore; theologian; theology; things; thomas; thought; time; title; town; translation; true; type; uncle; united; university; verse; vicar; view; village; volumes; von; walpole; walter; way; wife; william; wish; woman; wonderful; wordsworth; works; world; worthy; writer; writing; yanko; years; young; youth cache: 21869.txt plain text: 21869.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 30419 author: Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) title: How to Form a Library, 2nd ed date: None words: 43366 flesch: 71 summary: It contains classified lists of library books, but these are not now of much value, except for the notes which accompany the titles, and make this work eminently readable. When we come to consider libraries of printed books in place of manuscripts, we naturally find a greater variety of subjects collected by the famous men who have formed collections. keywords: ---a; ---an; ---the; 4to; 8vo; account; additions; advantage; alphabet; american; ancient; annual; antiquities; appendix; architecture; art; articles; arts; association; authors; ballads; best; bible; bibliographies; bibliography; bibliotheca; bibliothèque; biographical; biography; bohn; books; bookseller; botany; boy; britain; british; buyer; cambridge; camden; carlyle; case; catalogue; caxton; celebrated; century; chapter; character; charles; chaucer; cheap; chemistry; chief; chiefly; children; choice; church; civil; clarendon; class; classes; classical; classics; classified; club; collection; collectors; college; common; complete; comte; concordance; considerable; copies; cost; countries; country; course; curious; date; day; days; death; des; descriptive; devoted; dibdin; dictionaries; dictionary; 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reformed; religious; remains; report; rev; richard; robert; robinson; roman; room; roxburghe; royal; royal 8vo; sale; samuel; school; science; scientific; scotland; scott; scriptures; second; selection; series; set; shakespeare; short; sir; small; smith; societies; society; sources; southey; spanish; special; specimens; standard; states; stevens; students; study; subject; subscription; sufficient; supplement; supply; system; tastes; text; theology; thomas; thought; time; titles; tom; topographical; topography; town; trade; transactions; translation; travels; treatise; true; united; universal; universelle; university; useful; valuable; value; van; view; virgil; vols; voltaire; volumes; voyages; want; way; william; wish; working; works; world; writers; writings; years; york; young cache: 30419.txt plain text: 30419.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 37795 author: Parsons, Frank title: The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature date: None words: 55022 flesch: 79 summary: | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ TABLE I. contains a list of authors whose books, on principle and authority, have the strongest claims on the attention of the average reader of English. +-------------------------------------+-----+----------+---------------+ | | keywords: -------------------------------+------+----------------+-------------------+ |; -------------------------------------+-----+----------+---------------+ |; 17th; 18th; 19th cent; adams |; adhem |; american |; ancient; attention; aurelius |; author; bacon; beautiful; beauty |; bell |; bellamy |; best; best books; better; bible; books; boy; boys; breadth; bronté |; burke |; carthage |; century; character; child; children; church; cid |; claims; class; clear; comedy |; committee; common; completeness |; cooper |; country; course; critics |; dante; day; days |; dead |; development; dickens |; disraeli |; dodge |; drama; dream |; e. |; early; edition; education; eliot |; emerson; empire |; england |; english; epic |; essays; fairy; famous; fathers |; fiction; finest; fire |; force; form; fox |; fragments |; franklin; french; galileo |; general; geography; george; gilman |; girls; glorious |; god; goethe; golden |; good; grammar; grant |; great; greatest; greek; grimm |; heart; higginson |; high; highest; history; hobbes |; holley |; hooker |; hughes |; human; humor; i. |; idea; iii; imagery |; imagination; immortality |; importance; india |; interesting; irving; jay |; jewett |; john |; juvenal |; king; kingsley |; knowledge; landor |; language; latin; lee |; lessons; library; life; light; lines |; list; literary; little |; locke |; love; lucretius |; madison |; magnificent |; making |; man |; mariner |; mary |; matter; means; melancholy |; memoriam |; memory; merit; mind; modern; moral; mountains |; mrs; music; natural; nature; new; noble; north |; note; old; order; ovid |; p. |; pages; papers |; passage |; people; perfect; philosophy; place; plato; poetic; poetry; political; power; primary; princess |; principles; prose; pure; pushkin |; raven |; reader; religion |; remarks; revised; revolution |; ride |; ruskin; sackville |; sad |; school; science; second; selections; sense; series; set; shelf; short; skylark |; socrates |; soul; spirit; star |; states; stories; strong; student; studies; study; style; subject; table |; taine |; tales; text; things; thought; thy |; time; tourgée |; toussaint |; tragedy |; true; truth; united; use; value; wallace |; war |; waterloo |; way; wind |; wit; wonderful |; works; world; worthy; writers; xenophon |; years; young; | +; | addison; | advice; | alexander; | andersen; | arabian; | ariosto; | aristophanes; | army; | arnold; | autocrat; | balzac; | bashkirtseff; | battle; | beginning; | berkeley; | biglow; | breakfast; | bridge; | bright; | brother; | browning; | bryant; | bunyan; | burns; | butler; | byron; | c.; | calendar; | campbell; | carey; | carleton; | carlyle; | chapman; | charlemagne; | charming; | chaucer; | chivalry; | choice; | chorus; | christianity; | civil; | classics; | clearness; | coleridge; | collins; | commit; | comus; | coriolanus; | corneille; | curtis; | d.; | dana; | darwin; | david; | divine; | drake; | dryden; | dumas; | edwards; | elegy; | elizabeth; | end; | epictetus; | euripides; | farm; | faust; | fiske; | fitzgerald; | flaxman; | fletcher; | freedom; | gettysburg; | gifts; | glance; | goldsmith; | grasp; | gray; | greece; | guizot; | hafiz; | hale; | halleck; | hamlet; | harvard; | hegel; | henry; | hesiod; | historic; | holmes; | homer; | hood; | hugo; | hunt; | hymn; | ingelow; | ingersoll; | italy; | j.; | jackson; | james; | jean; | jerusalem; | jonson; | kant; | keats; | kempis; | kepler; | l'ouverture; | lady; | lang; | lermontoff; | liberty; | literature; | longfellow; | lord; | lowell; | lubbock; | lyly; | m.; | macaulay; | malory; | manner; | marco; | marcus; | marlowe; | merchant; | mill; | milton; | molière; | monroe; | montaigne; | moore; | munchausen; | n.; | napoleon; | nations; | ode; | omar; | opening; | oration; | original; | palgrave; | pathos; | petrarch; | phillips; | pickwick; | pindar; | plays; | plutarch; | poems; | pope; | proctor; | progress; | prometheus; | r.; | r.c; | r.d; | r.d.c.g; | racine; | rank; | rape; | reading; | republic; | richard; | rienzi; | robert; | rome; | rousseau; | russia; | s.; | saint; | satan; | scene; | schiller; | scott; | shakspeare; | shelley; | sheridan; | sienkiewicz; | simple; | smith; | snow; | soldier; | song; | sonnets; | spain; | speeches; | spenser; | steele; | story; | stowe; | stream; | tacitus; | tasso; | tennyson; | thanatopsis; | thomas; | thomson; | translation; | treasury; | twain; | virgil; | virginia; | voltaire; | wars; | west; | white; | whittier; | william; | wordsworth; | ye; | |; | |france; | |persia; | æsop; |germany |; à |; æschylus cache: 37795.txt plain text: 37795.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 42877 author: Grolier Club title: One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature With Facsimiles of the Title-Pages date: None words: 23223 flesch: 74 summary: BEATTIE THE LIFE AND STRANGE SURPRIZING ADVENTURES OF _ROBINSON CRUSOE_, Of _YORK_, MARINER: George_ in _Fleetstreet_, near St. _Dunstan_'s Church. keywords: academic; account; action; adam; age; ages; anatomy; anno; art; arthur; artistic; author; beginning; best; bible; blood; books; boston; breath; broad; burke; butler; carlyle; cast; centuries; century; character; charles; chaucer; chronicles; church; civilization; co.; collins; comedies; common; continuity; country; cowper; criticism; culture; darwin; day; days; dcc; death; deep; discovery; divine; drama; dryden; early; earth; education; element; emerson; empire; end; england; english; english books; english genius; english literature; epic; esq; essay; europe; example; eye; fact; fame; famous; fielding; fields; find; finer; fleet; folio; forces; form; freedom; french; fyrst; gain; general; genius; george; god; good; government; gray; great; greater; greatest; greatness; greek; half; hand; hath; head; heart; henry; herbert; heroic; higher; highest; historic; history; holy; homer; human; ideas; illustration; imagination; inches; individual; influence; intellectual; iohn; italian; james; john; johnson; keats; kind; king; knowledge; kyng; l o; lands; language; large; later; latin; lay; leaf; learning; letters; liberty; lies; life; light; like; literary; literature; 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vision; volumes; wars; way; wealth; whome; wide; william; wit; wordsworth; works; world; writers; writings; yard; year; york; young; youth cache: 42877.txt plain text: 42877.txt