Literary Criticism
These titles contain literary criticism written by Arthur Ransome. In addition to these volumes, Ransome edited The World’s Story-Tellers series in the period 1907-9 (see our Contibutions List for details).
The date shown is that of first UK publication. Titles in bold are currently in print in the UK.
Literary criticism books published during Arthur Ransome’s life:
- A History of Story-Telling (1909)
- Edgar Allan Poe (1910)
- Oscar Wilde (1912)
- Portraits and Speculations (1913) (Also listed under Essay Collections)
- Before a Peak in Darien (2008) (Also listed under Essay Collections)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (2011) (Boydell & Brewer)
Good books, I suppose, need no prefaces. But honest authors realise their books are never as good as they had planned them.