Literature (186 pages found in this category)


Ballet Shoes (novel)

One of the first career novels, written by the English author Noel Streatfeild and published in 1936.

Beware the Cat

First English novel, an anti-Catholic satire published in 1570.

C. S. Lewis bibliography

List of the works written by C. S. Lewis (1898–1963), best-known for his Chronicles of Narnia series of books.

Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book

Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1895, about a demon depicted in a picture coming to life.

Casting the Runes

Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1911, about the revenge of an author on the reviewer who rejects his paper on alchemy.

Certain Personal Matters

Collection of 39 mainly humorous essays and articles by H. G. Wells, first published in 1897.

Cheshire cat

Fictional character that appears in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).

Compton Mackenzie bibliography

Books written by Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972) listed in order of their date of first publication.

Count Magnus

Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1904, about the death of a travelogue writer who inadvertently releases two demons from the sarcophagus of Count Magnus.

Curate’s egg

English language idiom used in reference to something that is partly good and partly bad.