PDF Books in Children's Literary Criticism & Collections
The Prince and the Pauper
by Mark TwainThe Prince and the Pauper is the Mark twain’s first historic fiction work. The story is set in London, about two boys with identical appearance, named Tom Canty and Edward. While Edward is the son of King Henry VIII and Tom Canty, a Pauper who lives with his abusive father. In an event Tom and Edward meet together and swap their dresses. Edward ..
Letters to His Son
by Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope ChesterfieldLetters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman comprises of over 400 letters written by Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, a British statesman known as Lord Stanhope. This letters were published by his daughter-in-law after the death of his son. These collections are mostly instructive letters brilliantly ..
Shakespearean Tragedy
by Andrew Cecil BradleyShakespearean Tragedy is a series of lectures on the Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. Written by the English literary scholar, Andrew Cecil Bradley whose lectures have made generations of readers to feel the Shakespeare’s work as if real life characters?. Bradley specifies in the introductory n..
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
by William ShakespeareBeautiful Stories from Shakespeare is a collection of most popular plays of William Shakespeare narrated for the young minds in an easy to understand simple English. Any English speaking parents would definitely want their children to enjoy the literary world and who else can make the kids to enjoy it other than Shakespeare with him timeless plays ..
Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
by Charles DickensDickens non-fiction work Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People resembles the young Dickens' views on the then Victorian Society. His 56 pieces of sketches has been largely divided into four sections as Our Parish, Scenes, Characters and Tales. While the Tales contains fictional stories rest of the sections are n..
The Game of Logic
by Lewis CarrollThe Game of Logic is a book written by Lewis Carroll, published in 1886. In addition to his well-known children's literature, Carroll was an academic mathematician who worked in mathematical logic. The book describes, in an informal and playful style, the use of a board game to represent logical propositions and inferences. Carroll incorporated the..
The Hunting of the Snark - An Agony in Eight Fits
by Lewis CarrollThe Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is a poem written by English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorized as a nonsense poem. Written from 1874 to 1876, the poem borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" in his children's novel Through the Looking-Glass (1871). As f..
Phantasmagoria and Other Poems
by Lewis CarrollPhantasmagoria is a poem written by Lewis Carroll and first published in 1869 as the opening poem of a collection of verse by Carroll entitled Phantasmagoria and Other Poems. The collection was also published under the name Rhyme? And Reason? It is Lewis Carroll's longest poem. Both the poem and the collection were illustrated by A. B. Frost...