Category Archives: Writing & Linguistics
Stories That Words Tell Us
Author(s): Elizabeth O’Neill A history of English words, written for younger readers. Parental advisory: the...
The Writing of Fiction
Author(s): Edith Wharton Edith Wharton, a successful author of fiction herself, gives us some in-depth...
The Sailor’s Word-book, A – C
Author(s): William Henry Smyth An encyclopaedia (a digest, the author calls it) of nautical terms...
Stops, or How to Punctuate
Author(s): Paul Allardyce Throughout the ages, languages continue to adapt and change. English, being a...
The Awful German Language (version 2)
Author(s): Mark Twain This long essay is a work of mock philology, one of several...
The American Language
Author(s): H. L. Mencken “It was part of my daily work, for a good many...
The Ordeal of Mark Twain (Version 2)
Author(s): Van Wyck Brooks The Ordeal of Mark Twain analyzes the literary progression of Samuel...
Secret Doctrine, Volume I. Cosmogenesis. Part I, Cosmic Evolution
Author(s): Helena Petrovna Blavatsky A vast, sweeping survey on the origin of creation, its expansion,...
The Philosophy of Style
Author(s): Herbert Spencer “The Philosophy of Style,” explored a growing trend of formalist approaches to...
Cratylus
Author(s): Plato (Πλάτων) Cratylus (ΚΡΑΤΥΛΟΣ) discusses whether things have names by mere convention or have...
The Columbian Orator
Author(s): Caleb Bingham The Columbian Orator, a collection of political essays, poems, and dialogues first...
The Verbalist
Author(s): Alfred AyresThomas Embly Osmun Osmun arranges usage problems alphabetically and treats certain areas in...
Write it Right
Author(s): Ambrose Bierce Witty, opinionated alphabetical examples of what Bierce considered poor (American) English and...
Europe and Elsewhere
Author(s): Mark Twain This collection of articles came from Mark Twain’s travels and experiences abroad....
Dictionary of English Synonymes, Vol. 01
Author(s): Richard Soule A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions, Designed as...
The English Language
Author(s): Logan Pearsall Smith A description and history of the development of the English Language...
Literature in the Making, by Some of its Makers
Author(s): VariousJoyce Kilmer This is a collection of 23 essays based on interviews conducted by...
Mark Twain: A Biography – Volume 1
Author(s): Albert Bigelow Paine Until recently, this work has been considered the “go-to” bio of...
English as She is Wrote
Author(s): Anonymous “…Showing Curious ways in which the English Language may be made to convey...
Books and Reading
Author(s): Noah Porter [The author] hopes that the effect of these discussions may lead to...
Dedications
Author(s): Mary Elizabeth Brown Dedications is an anthology of the forms used from the earliest...
In the Path of the Alphabet
Author(s): Frances Jermain Language: we all use it and few of us think about the...
English as She is Spoke
Author(s): Pedro Carolino English as She is Spoke is a 19th century Portuguese-to-English phrasebook that...
Enemies of Books
Author(s): William Blades The author, an avid book collector, calls for the better protection of...
Cursory History of Swearing
Author(s): Julian Sharman This is a very readable scientific account of Swearing and Cursing in...
Confessions of a Book-Lover
Author(s): E. Walter Walters “I am of the company of book men who read simply...
Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book III
Author(s): John Locke This is the third book of John Locke’s Essay on Human Understanding....
How to Write a Novel
Author(s): Anonymous I address myself to the man or woman of talent—those people who have...
Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book IV
Author(s): John Locke This is the fourth book of John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding....
Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, Volume I
Author(s): George Lillie Craik The History of English Literature and Language may be recommended to...
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