Showing posts with label High School Literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label High School Literature. Show all posts

Saturday, October 22, 2011

A Kipling Primer/Google Books

This little book has been written in the hope that it may minister to an intelligent appreciation of Mr. Kipling's prose and poetry. The world has never before witnessed the spectacle of a collected edition of an author's works issued within a dozen years of the date on his earliest title-page. A body of criticism is bound to grow up around the writings of a genius so commanding and brilliant. If the Primer serve as an unpretentious forerunner of this literature, it asks nothing more...
Appended to the abstracts of stories and ballads, in Chapter Three, will be found, in many cases, brief criticisms from well-known authorities. These are included for their suggestiveness rather than for any value as final estimates. Indeed, the editor has been at no pains to add them to all or even to most of the outlines, nor has he in any case endeavored to harmonize them with one another. While in the main they are astute, and doubtless trustworthy, in many instances they will be found chiefly to illustrate the fact that opinions even of high authorities are merely personal estimates and frequently prove to be very wide of the mark.

Title A Kipling Primer
Author Frederic Lawrence Knowles
Publisher Brown and company, 1899
Length 219 pages
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Monday, July 18, 2011

The Keepers of the Trail: A Story of the Great Woods/Google Books

Title The Keepers of the Trail: A Story of the Great Woods
Author Joseph Alexander Altsheler
Publisher Appleton, 1916
Length 323 pages

Click here.

Part of The Young Trailers Series

* The Young Trailers, a story of early Kentucky (1907)
* The Forest Runners, a story of the great war trail in early Kentucky (1908)
* The Keepers of the Trail, a story of the great woods (1916)
* The Eyes of the Woods, a story of the ancient wilderness (1917)
* The Free Rangers, a story of the early days along the Mississippi (1909)
* The Riflemen of the Ohio, a story of early days along "the beautiful river" (1910)
* The Scouts of the Valley, a story of Wyoming and the Chemung (1911)
* The Border Watch, a story of the great chief’s last stand (1912)

Historical children's fiction about frontier life in Kentucky.

I'll fill in links to the other books soon.

Friday, July 15, 2011

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern/Project Gutenberg

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Hamilton Wright Mabie, 1846-1916.

"The plan of this Work is simple, and yet it is novel. In its distinctive features it differs from any compilation that has yet been made. Its main purpose is to present to American households a mass of good reading. But it goes much beyond this. For in selecting this reading it draws upon all literatures of all time and of every race, and thus becomes a conspectus of the thought and intellectual evolution of man from the beginning. Another and scarcely less important purpose is the interpretation of this literature in essays by scholars and authors competent to speak with authority."

Click here.

Remaining volumes here.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave(Audiobook)/Other

The male narrator has a great voice - very clear, and the sound quality is excellent.

Click here to FreeAudio.org. This link includes background history for students. Audio comes in three parts and a zip file with all is available. At the link, Click on audio in order to listen online and/or right click, and "save file as" to download.

Friday, January 14, 2011

Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion(1357-1900)/Google Books

Title Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion (1357-1900)
Chaucer Society publications
Editor Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon
Publisher Pub. for the Chaucer society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd and by H. Frowde, 1908
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More books on Chaucer:Chaucer Society Publications

Monday, December 6, 2010

Monday, November 1, 2010

Irish Fairy Tales/Google Books

Title Irish Fairy Tales
Author James Stephens
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Publisher The Macmillan company, 1920
Length 314 pages
Overview

Friday, October 22, 2010

Myths of Northern Lands: Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art

Title Myths of Northern Lands: Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art
Author Hélène Adeline Guerber
Publisher American Book Company, 1895
Length 319 pages
Overview

Friday, June 25, 2010

The Golden Galleon/Google Books

The golden galleon
Author Robert Leighton
Publisher Blackie, 1898
Overview

"This is a story of Queen Elizabeth's time(1591), just after the defeat of the
Spanish Armada. Mr. Leighton introduces in his work the great sea-
fighters of Plymouth town Hawkins, Drake, Raleigh, and Richard
Grenville." Source here.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Mosaic Essays : Friendship, Love, Happiness, Nature & Success(Emerson)/Internet Archives

Mosaic essays : friendship, love, happiness, nature & success ([c1906])
Author: Elder, Paul, 1872-1948
Subject: Happiness; Friendship; Nature in literature
Publisher: San Francisco ; New York : P. Elder and Company
Overview

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Life of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary: Duchess of Thuringia/Google Books

Life of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary: duchess of Thuringia
Author Charles Forbes Montalembert (comte de)
Publisher Longmans, Green, 1904
Length 493 pages
Overview

Friday, December 18, 2009

The Trees and Plants Mentioned in the Bible/Google Books


The trees and plants mentioned in the Bible
Publisher Religious Tract Society, 1895
Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison
Length 235 pages
Overview

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Introduction to Fiction/MIT OpenCourseWare

A college level class from MIT.

21L.003 Introduction to Fiction


Also see:

21L.003 Reading Fiction


21L.420 Literary Studies: The Legacy of England

21L.471 Major English Novels

More here.

I have not reviewed these materials, so I'm not sure of the content. Please let me know what you think if you use these classes for high school students.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009