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The art of writing & speaking the English language

Chapter 21: SUPPLEMENTARY LIST
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The book provides practical guidance for everyday readers on how to choose and study literature so reading yields both pleasure and practical benefit. It sets out criteria for judging poems, essays, short stories, and novels, contrasts major modes such as romantic and realistic fiction, and offers methods for approaching poetry and Shakespeare. The text includes curated recommendations and advice on skimming, close reading, and assembling a compact personal library, encouraging selection of the most inspiring and accessible passages rather than attempting to read every work in full.

SUPPLEMENTARY LIST

Of titles suggested partly by Mr. Fred H. Hild, of the Chicago Public Library, and partly by Mr. W. I. Fletcher, editor of the American Library Association’s Index to General Literature and Librarian of Amherst College.

Books for young people are marked “juv.”

  • Aldrich, T. B.
  • Story of a Bad Boy (juv.)
  • Barrie, J. M.
  • Margaret Ogilvie.
  • Bellamy, Edward
  • Looking Backward.
  • Besant, Walter
  • All Sorts and Conditions of Men.
  • Bjornson
  • Arne; and The Fisher Lassie.
  • Black
  • The Princess of Thule.
  • Bowker, R. R.
  • The Arts of Life.
  • Brace, C. L.
  • Gesta Christi.
  • Brown, John
  • Rab and his friends, and Other Dogs and Men (juv.)
  • Bullfinch, Thos.
  • The Age of Chivalry (juv.)
  • The Age of Fable (juv.)
  • Bulwer-Lytton
  • My Novel.
  • Rienzi.
  • Eugene Aram.
  • The Caxtons.
  • Burroughs, John
  • Fresh Fields (juv.)
  • Locusts and Wild Honey.
  • Carlyle
  • Sartor Resartus.
  • Heroes and Hero-Worship.
  • Clemens (Mark Twain)
  • The Prince and the Pauper.
  • Tom Sawyer (juv.)
  • Collins, Wilkie
  • The Moonstone.
  • Emerson, R. W.
  • Representative Men.
  • Creasy, Edward S., Sir
  • Fifteen Decisive Battles.
  • Curtis, George W.
  • Prue and I.
  • Daudet
  • Tartarin of Tarascon.
  • Doyle
  • The White Company.
  • Dumas
  • The Queen’s Necklace.
  • Eggleston, Edward
  • The Hoosier School-Master (juv.)
  • Field, Eugene
  • A Little Book of Profitable Tales.
  • A Little Book Western Verse.