Are Shakespeare’s Commas Really That Important?
Daniel Hahn on Different Translations of Shakespeare
https://lithub.com/are-shakespeares-commas-really-that-important/
Shakespeare at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65
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“There’s no conflict in Death Comes for the Archbishop, except for the grinding of tectonic plates, the breaking of treaties, the murder of nations.”
by Patricia Lockwood
Death Comes for the Archbishop at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69730
Edited 167d ago
The Loneliness of A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf put forward an enduring vision of women with the space and financial stability to write. But it’s also a sad vision—of isolated writers, cut off from peers or mentors.
by Joanna Scutts
https://newrepublic.com/article/206731/loneliness-room-one-virginia-woolf-hold-up
Virginia Wooldf at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89
Can Bad People Write Good Books?
Can we still appreciate great novels when we know their author behaved despicably?
By Gina Dalfonzo
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/literature/can-bad-people-write-good-books
Little Dorit at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/963
Zena Hitz: Gulliver's Travels and the Failures of Human Understanding
by Henry Oliver
https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/zena-hitz-gullivers-travels-and-the
Gulliver's Travels at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Gulliver%27s+Travels
Ivy Compton-Burnett’s forgotten genius
by Nigel Andrew
The unique novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett have slipped out of the canon, but this true one-off deserves a place alongside contemporaries such as Evelyn Waugh.
https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/ivy-compton-burnetts-forgotten-genius/
About Ivy Compton-Burnett:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Compton-Burnett
The unlikely pen pal who shaped Tolkien’s later years
When deaf fan Eileen Elgar wrote to the author with notes for improvement, they began a remarkable friendship based on a shared interest in language, revealed in a set of letters now up for auction
by Lily Isaacs
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-unlikely-pen-pal-who-shaped-tolkiens-later-years
A forgotten young poet gives us a rare glimpse below stairs at the 1995 Pride and Prejudice’s Netherfield Hall
by Catherine Clarke
More information about Mary Leapor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Leapor
Kafka's Screwball Tragedy: Investigations of a Philosophical Dog
"Investigations of a Dog" is a funny and deeply philosophical tale of a lone, maladjusted dog who defies scientific dogma and pioneers an original research program in pursuit of the mysteries of his self and his world.
By: Aaron Schuster (from the archives)
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/kafkas-screwball-tragedy-investigations-of-a-philosophical-dog/
Books by Kafka at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735
Who was Homer, author of the Odyssey?
by Tom Hercules Davies
https://theconversation.com/who-was-homer-author-of-the-odyssey-287969
The Odyssey by Homer at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1727
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/348
Homer Haunted, by Henry Power
Splendid literary criticism, dull politics
by Henry Oliver
https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/homer-haunted-by-henry-power
The Iliad by Homer at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6130
Christopher Marlowe: alienated skeptic, government spy, counterfeiter, dead at 29. Shakespeare's debt to the man was simply inestimable.
By Brooke Allen
https://hudsonreview.com/2026/07/renaissance-men/
Books by Christopher Marlowe at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/410
Nothing is Boring. Arnold Bennett's Self Help
And reading advice from John Stuart Mill
by Henry Oliver
https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/nothing-is-boring-arnold-bennetts
Books by Arnold Bennett (including How to Live on 24 Hours a Day) at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/859
Brian Dillon on What Virginia Woolf’s The Waves Means to Him
“It is the first novel he has ever read that makes him consider seriously the form of a human life.”
Books by Virginia Woolf at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89
