Most Read This Week In British Literature

English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was born in Poland, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad, and Vladimir Nabokov was Russian, but all are considered important writers in the history of English literature. In other words, English literature is as diverse as the varieties and dialects of English spoken around the world. In academia, the term often labels ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "British Literature"

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4
The Name Game
In Her Defense
The Violin Maker's Secret
When the Wolves Are Silent (Sebastian St. Cyr, #21)
Slags
How to Get Away with Murder
Our Dream Home
The New Neighbours
Don't Believe Her
And Then There Was You
We Live Here Now
I'm Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home
The Waitress
Love by the Book
One of Us
Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
The Shock of the Light
Murder in the New Forest (DI Callum MacLean #1)
Trust No One
The Lines (DS Liam Kilshaw, #1)
The Death of Us
Always You and Me
The Armor of Light (Kingsbridge, #4)
The Hidden Girl
What Happened That Night (Maud O'Connor Mysteries #3)
Fire
The Beheading Game
The Seventh Girl (Detective Kat Ballantyne, #1)
The Road Trip
The Woman Who Lied
What a Way to Go
A Much Maligned Miss (Victorian Reversal of Fortune, #2)
The Book of Last Letters
Earth
The Secrets We Buried
Consider Yourself Kissed
Look What You Made Me Do
The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts (The Marlow Murder Club, #5)
What If I Never Get Over You
The Killer Question
Amazing Grace Adams
First Wife's Shadow
The Keeper of Stories
The Predicament
Gabriel's Moon
Royal Spin
How to Lose a Lord in Ten Days
The Engine House (DCI Evan Warlow, #1)
Gunk
Other People's Houses (DC Morgan, #3)
The Murder After the Night Before
Lord Salisbury's Ledgers on How to Woo a Wife (Love from London #2)
Bitter Sweet
Kingfisher
A Slowly Dying Cause (Inspector Lynley, #22)
Maybe Next Time
The Good Part
Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love
A Day of Judgment (Inspector Ian Rutledge #25)
Prima Facie
The Replacement (DS Liam Kilshaw, #2)
The Sea Child
A Novel Disguise (A Lady Librarian Mystery #1)
The Surf House
Murder in York (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries #12)
The Murders at Fleat House
A Deadly Episode (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #6)
End Game (William Warwick, #8)
Nonesuch
Dandelion Is Dead
The Book of Kindness
In the Blink of an Eye (Kat and Lock, #1)
Silent Bones (Karen Pirie, #8)
The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11)
The Suspect (Adam Green #2)
The Forgetting
The Good Liar
The Final Vow (Washington Poe, #7)
The Killing Time (Ali Dawson #2)
The Corfe Castle Murders (Dorset Crime #1)
Killing Me Softly
The Break-In
You, Me, Her
The Book of Guilt
Charming Artemis (The Lancaster Family, #5)
The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton
Numéro deux
The White Octopus Hotel
I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin (Kitty Collins, #2)
An Eye for an Eye (William Warwick, #7)
The Monk (DS Cross Mysteries, #5)
Universality
The Last Days of Kira Mullan (Maud O'Connor Mysteries #2)
The Party
A Particularly Nasty Case
Every Hour until Then (Timeless, #5)
Hope (The Shackleford Sisters, #4)
The Rose Arbor
The Friendship Fling

John  Adams
We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet how far are we from these exalted privileges in fact. There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny, or to doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, from Genesis to Revelations. In most countries of Europe it is punished by f ...more
John Adams, The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson & Abigail & John Adams

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