British Non-fiction


From Charles Darwin's theories to Shakespearian criticism, the following collection includes the best of non-fiction works written by and about British authors.
Titles

 An Essay On Man: To H. St. John, L. Bolingbroke (Alexander Pope)

 Areopagitica; a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England (John Milton)

 Autobiography and Selected Essays (Thomas Henry Huxley)

 Biographical Notes on the Pseudonymous Bells (Charlotte Brontë)

 Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Thomas De Quincey)

 Cowley’s Essays (Abraham Cowley)

 Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879 (Samuel White Baker)

 Days with Sir Roger De Coverley (Joseph Addison)

 Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry (John Dryden)

 Essays (Charles Lamb)

 Essays And Sketches (Charles Lamb)

 Essays on Life, Art and Science (Samuel Butler)

 From Characters Of Shakespear’S Plays (William Hazlitt)

 From Review Of Hazlitt’S ’Characters Of Shakespear’S Plays’ (Francis Jeffrey)

 From Table Talk (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

 How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day (Arnold Bennett)

 Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (Jerome K. Jerome)

 Ismailia (Samuel White Baker)

 Latter-Day Pamphlets (Thomas Carlyle)

 Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1746—47 (Philip Dormer Stanhope)

 Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1748 (Philip Dormer Stanhope)

 Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1749 (Philip Dormer Stanhope)

 Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1750 (Philip Dormer Stanhope)

 Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1751 (Philip Dormer Stanhope)

 Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752 (Philip Dormer Stanhope)

 Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1753—54 (Philip Dormer Stanhope)

 Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1756—58 (Philip Dormer Stanhope)

 Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1759—65 (Philip Dormer Stanhope)

 Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1766—71 (Philip Dormer Stanhope)

 Life of Charlotte Bronte—Volume 1 (Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell)

 Life of Charlotte Bronte—Volume 2 (Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell)

 Myth, Ritual and Religion—Volume 1 (Andrew Lang)

 New Atlantis (Francis Bacon)

 On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History (Thomas Carlyle)

 Reflections on the Decline of Science in England (Charles Babbage)

 Samuel Butler: a Sketch (Henry Festing Jones)

 Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (Jerome K. Jerome)

 Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke (Edmund Burke)

 Table Talk (William Hazlitt)

 The Bible in Spain; the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula (George Henry Borrow)

 The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (Jacob Burckhardt)

 The Devil’s Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)

 The Essays Of Elia (Charles Lamb)

 The French Revolution (Thomas Carlyle)

 The Idea of Progress: An Inguiry Into Its Origin and Growth (John Bagnell Bury)

 The Last Essays Of Elia (Charles Lamb)

 The Life Of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D. (James Boswell)

 The Specific Symptoms Of Poetic Power Elucidated In A Critical: Analysis Of Shakspeare’S ’Venus And Adonis’, And ’Lucrece’ (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

 The Story of My Heart (Richard Jefferies)

 The Works of Max Beerbohm (Max Beerbohm)

 The Works of Samuel Johnson (Samuel Johnson)

 Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, Etc. (Edmund Burke)

 Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance (Richard Francis Burton)

 Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America—Volume 1 (Samuel White Baker)

 The Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)