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Step into a shelf where ideas are weapons, wit is sharpened to a blade, and private letters open hidden doors into history. Here, revolutionaries, skeptics, statesmen, and artists argue over liberty, faith, society, and the self—through thunderous speeches, intimate correspondence, and essays that still spark debate. It’s a collection alive with conviction, controversy, and the electrifying sense that words can change the world.
361 Audiobooks
Abolition Fanaticism in New York Speech of a Runaway Slave from Baltimore, at an Abolition Meeting in New York, Held May 11, 1847
by Frederick Douglass
Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs
by Robert Green Ingersoll
English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators, with Lists of Their Books
by R. E. D. (Rose Esther Dorothea) Sketchley
Fame usurpate
by Vittorio Imbriani
Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians
by J. C. (John Charles) Ryle
Great Mysteries and Little Plagues
by John Neal
A Verdade a Passo Lento ou Guerra do Escaravelho contra a Borboleta Constitucional do Porto
by Unknown
Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
by Washington Irving
Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England
by John Milton
Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations
by J. Frank (James Frank) Dobie
Letters From Rome on the Council
by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger
Literary Blunders: A Chapter in the "History of Human Error"
by Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) Wheatley
The Human Drift
by Jack London
Lettres intimes
by Hector Berlioz
Shakespeare: A Lecture
by Robert Green Ingersoll
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
by T. (Tobias) Smollett
The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
De Profundis
by Oscar Wilde
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Love and Freindship [sic]
by Jane Austen
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters
by Charles Darwin
Anarchism and Other Essays
by Emma Goldman
The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Common Sense
by Thomas Paine
The Poetics of Aristotle
by Aristotle
The Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison
Letters of Pliny
by the Younger Pliny
Mosses from an old manse
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
by Thomas Carlyle
What's Wrong with the World
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
by Thomas Jefferson
Intentions
by Oscar Wilde
The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
by Francis Bacon
What Is Man? and Other Essays
by Mark Twain
Walking
by Henry David Thoreau
Heretics
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
A Defence of Poesie and Poems
by Philip Sidney
The Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4
by Edgar Allan Poe
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
by Walter Pater
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
by Sir Thomas Browne
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5
by Edgar Allan Poe
Sesame and Lilies
by John Ruskin
Acres of Diamonds: Our Every-day Opportunities
by Russell H. Conwell
Thoughts Out of Season, Part II
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The Battle of the Books, and other Short Pieces
by Jonathan Swift
United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches: From Washington to George W. Bush
by United States. Presidents
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Letters of Henry James (Vol. I)
by Henry James
The Roman Poets of the Republic, 3rd edition
by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
by Charles Darwin
The Uncommercial Traveller
by Charles Dickens
The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852
by Various Authors
The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment
by David Grayson
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862
by Abraham Lincoln
Speeches: Literary and Social
by Charles Dickens
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865
by Abraham Lincoln
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863
by Abraham Lincoln
Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900
by Mary King Waddington
Darwin and Modern Science
by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters
by Charles Darwin
Roundabout Papers
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Essays and Lectures
by Oscar Wilde
Familiar Studies of Men and Books
by Robert Louis Stevenson
In Defense of Women
by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
The Land of Little Rain
by Mary Austin
The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Unicorns
by James Huneker
The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation
by Charles A. Eastman
Letters on England
by Voltaire
Myths and Myth-Makers Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
by John Fiske
The Mirror of the Sea
by Joseph Conrad
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Given November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
by Abraham Lincoln
Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde
by Oscar Wilde
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
by Various Authors
The Soul of Man under Socialism
by Oscar Wilde
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
Autobiography and Selected Essays
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Essays in the Art of Writing
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Steep Trails
by John Muir
Medical Essays, 1842-1882
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems.
by Margaret Fuller
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851
by Various Authors
The Path of the Law
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Valet's Tragedy, and Other Studies
by Andrew Lang
Cicero's Orations
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850
by Various Authors
The Book of Snobs
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation
by Upton Sinclair
The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring
by Bernard Shaw
Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
by Abraham Lincoln