Literature (186 pages found in this category)


Doggerel

Clumsy and awkward verse often employed for comic effect.

Epistolatory novel

Novel written in the form of a series of letters.

Filmer

Short story by H. G. Wells published in 1901, a fictional account of the suicide of the inventor of the first successful flying machine, just before its maiden flight.

Flannan Isle

Ballad by the English poet Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, an imaginative account of the unexplained disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in December 1900.

Frederic W. H. Myers

English poet, classics scholar, and founder member of the Society for Psychical Research.

Galehaut

Perhaps the most overlooked of King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table, who makes his appearance in the series of anonymous 13th-century French romances known as the Lancelot-Grail, or the Vulgate Cycle, in which he is portrayed as a rival to Queen Guinevere for the love of Sir Lancelot.

Gas Light

Gas Light is a 1938 play by Patrick Hamilton which has given rise to the term "gaslighting", in which a victim is presented with false information making them doubt their own memory and perception.

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Collection of eight short stories by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1904.

Guy Fawkes (novel)

First of Ainsworth's seven Lancashire novels, first published in serialised form in 1840 and then as a three-volume set in 1841, based in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

H. G. Wells bibliography

List of publications written by H. G. Wells during the more than fifty years of his literary career.