English Literature

A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift’s first major and his most masterly work. It presents a satire of religious excess. When it was written, politics a...

A History of English Criticism, which was originally the English Chapter of Saintsbury’s monumental three volume A History of Criticism and Literar...

Novel is arguably the most important genre of English literature. According to Jane Austen, the greatest powers of the mind are displayed in the no...

Scrooge, an old miser, hates Christmas, calling it "humbug". On a Christmas eve, he refuses his nephew Fred's dinner invitation, and rudely turns a...