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A literary criticism of the book The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford is presented. It examines in particular the character of John Dowell, the narrator in the story, and the possibility that he was the murderer of his wife in the story. It details Dowell's impressionism based on how he presents himself to people differently from who he really is.

The article presents an analysis of the book "Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph" by T. E. Lawrence. Topics discussed include the reasons the book is a good candidate for the straddling of epic, the irony of its subtitle, and the most compelling reading of the book in relation to epic and modernity.

The author says "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," is saturated with concerns closely related to tourism-the power of imagination over landscape, distinction between authentic and inauthentic history and dangers posed by appealing cultural fictions. He says the novel marks an important turning point in its author's literary career because Conan Doyle killed off Holmes to much public outcry in 1893 to undertake what he called a higher work of British historical fiction.

The author says G.K. Chesterton's goal in "The Man Who Was Thursday: The Dialogic Sensibility," is to marshal the cacophony of authorial voices that affected Chesterton's youth into an internal forum within which to argue his way out of the ontological crisis he experienced at the end of the century. He says to this end, the novel assimilates the influences of Lewis Carroll, Andrew Lang, Oscar Wilde and Rudyard Kipling, and mediates these voices through a series of intertextual parodic games.

An essay is presented exploring the cultural history and literary depiction of the pianola player piano in early 20th-century British literature. Topics addressed include a brief history of the instrument's manufacture and popularity between 1900 and 1934, aesthetics of listening to music during the period, and several metaphorical interpretations of the instrument in literature. Authors cited include E. M. Forster, H. G. Wells, and George Bernard Shaw.