Journalism/Media/Writing

Washington Confidential

Lait, Jack; Mortimer, Lee

Washington Confidential is a hard‑boiled exposé that treats the nation’s capital as a crime‑infested…

The Elements of Style

William Strunk

The work is a concise manual on English composition, presented as a series of numbered rules that address the…

All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography

Ida M. Tarbell

All in the Day’s Work is an autobiographical memoir by Ida M.

Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War

George Alfred Townsend

George Alfred Townsend’s work is a hybrid of travelogue, personal memoir and war reportage, assembled from…

The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing

The work is a practical guide to the whole enterprise of producing a book, assembled from a series of…

Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing

Grant Milnor Hyde

Grant Milnor Hyde’s manual is a straightforward instructional text aimed at budding newspaper reporters and…

Impressions of a War Correspondent

George Lynch

George Lynch’s Impressions of a War Correspondent is a first‑hand chronicle of two of the late‑Victorian…

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

G. K. Chesterton

The work is a collection of essays by G. K. Chesterton that originally appeared as prefaces to individual…

The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000

The Jargon File is a curated collection of hacker slang, jargon, and tech‑speak that has been maintained by…

Charles Carleton Coffin: War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman

William Elliot Griffis

This work is a biographical tribute to Charles Carleton Coffin, the 19th‑century war correspondent, traveler,…

Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810

Edward Ziegler Davis

Edward Z. Davis’s work is a scholarly bibliography that gathers every German‑language poem that appeared in…

The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly

Various

The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 presents a vivid, first‑person account of a woman’s confinement in…

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852

Various

Types of Prose Narratives: A Text-Book for the Story Writer

Harriott Ely Fansler

Fansler’s Types of Prose Narratives is a textbook‑style guide for anyone who wants to understand and practice…

The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly

Various

The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893, is an illustrated monthly that offers a vivid snapshot of…

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I.

Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October 1850, Volume I, is a nineteenth‑century periodical that opens…

Aspects of the novel

E. M. Forster

These pages collect the Clark lectures delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the spring of 1927.

The Story of the Sun: New York, 1833-1918

Frank Michael O'Brien

Frank Michael O’Brien’s “The Story of the Sun” is a corporate biography that treats the New York Sun as a…

Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances, and Folk-lore

Stephen J. M. Brown

Stephen J. M. Brown’s Ireland in Fiction is a scholarly reference that catalogues every novel, tale, romance…

Types of News Writing

Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

This work is a practical guide for journalism students and novice reporters, assembled as a textbook‑style…

Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School

Edwin L. Miller

Practical English Composition Book II is a textbook for second‑year high‑school students that concentrates on…

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics

Various

The October 1866 issue of The Atlantic Monthly is a nineteenth‑century periodical that gathers a variety of…

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844

Various

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56 (September 1844), is a Victorian‑era periodical anthology that…

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844

Various

The volume you are opening is a single issue of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine from May 1844, the 55th year…