        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: art; books; dostoievsky; edition; english; great; hardy; henry; imagination; james; john; life; list; literature; man; nature; new; people; power; powys; reading; sense; sort; style; translation; walter; work; world; writers
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        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: author; beauty; book; chapter; charles; classics; edition; english; everyman; john; lamb; library; life; literature; man; matter; mind; pleasure; poems; poetry; prose; read; reading; sir; style; taste; thomas; universal; verse; vols; wordsworth; works; world
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        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: age; anglian; author; berlin; biography; books; borrow; boswell; brother; century; charles; city; countess; cowper; crabbe; day; death; der; des; east; edition; england; english; fact; family; father; fine; french; friend; george; good; great; helen; history; introduction; johnson; lassalle; letters; library; lichfield; life; list; literature; london; lord; love; man; men; miss; mother; mrs; new; norwich; place; poet; poetry; present; professor; read; scott; sir; thomas; time; translation; volumes; von; william; wordsworth; works; world; writer; years
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        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: 4to; 8vo; account; authors; bibliographies; bibliography; bibliotheca; books; british; catalogue; chapter; charles; children; club; collection; complete; des; dictionary; edition; england; english; following; form; general; good; henry; historical; history; index; james; john; language; late; librarian; libraries; library; life; list; literature; london; man; men; new; notes; number; oxford; paris; place; present; printing; public; publication; reading; reference; rev; royal; second; series; sir; society; special; subject; thomas; time; united; use; value; vols; volumes; william; works; years
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        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: -------------------------------+------+----------------+-------------------+ |; 19th; american |; beauty |; books; cent; e. |; empire |; england |; english; fox |; good; history; i. |; imagery |; life; lines |; poetry; power; reader; revolution |; school; stories; table |; thought; time; war |; waterloo |; world; | +; | autocrat; | battle; | breakfast; | bryant; | byron; | c.; | carlyle; | chaucer; | coleridge; | d.; | dryden; | greece; | henry; | holmes; | homer; | hymn; | italy; | keats; | literature; | longfellow; | lowell; | m.; | macaulay; | manner; | milton; | molière; | monroe; | ode; | plays; | poems; | pope; | r.; | r.d; | r.d.c.g; | reading; | rome; | s.; | schiller; | scott; | shakspeare; | shelley; | spenser; | tennyson; | translation; | whittier; | |; |germany |
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        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: age; art; author; books; character; church; civilization; england; english; english literature; folio; form; genius; greatness; history; illustration; inches; john; knowledge; leaf; life; light; literature; london; man; men; milton; mind; nation; nature; new; noble; o n; past; people; poets; power; race; read; shakespeare; shelley; soul; spirit; street; thought; time; truth; volumes; william; works; world
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