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Essays, Letters & Speeches
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.
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The Lay of the Land
by Dallas Lore Sharp
Letters from an American Farmer
by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
Verso la cuna del mondo: Lettere dall'India
by Guido Gozzano
Some Reflections Upon Marriage. With additions.
by Mary Astell
The Indolence of the Filipino
by José Rizal
Criticism and Fiction
by William Dean Howells
Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 1 of 3
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hopes and Fears for Art
by William Morris
Essays of Schopenhauer
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman
by Sarah Grimké
Ars magna
by O. V. de L. (Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz) Milosz
Letters and social aims
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
English Traits
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
London Lectures of 1907
by Annie Besant
Italian Hours
by Henry James
Experiments and Observations on Electricity Made at Philadelphia in America
by Benjamin Franklin
The Tatler, Volume 1
by Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison
The Path of the Law
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards
by Jonathan Edwards
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
by Virginia Woolf
Mere literature, and other essays
by Woodrow Wilson
Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 1 (of 3)
by Theodore Parker
Jane Talbot
by Charles Brockden Brown
Presidential Problems
by Grover Cleveland
Poetic diction: A study of eighteenth century verse
by Thomas Quayle
Summer
by Dallas Lore Sharp
Addresses: by John A. Martin. Delivered in Kansas.
by John Alexander Martin
Yankee Gypsies
by John Greenleaf Whittier
The Arte of English Poesie
by George Puttenham
The Spirit of Japan
by Rabindranath Tagore
The Fantasy Fan, September 1933 The Fan's Own Magazine
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 359, March 7, 1829
by Various Authors
Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources
by Emperor of the French Napoleon I
The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series
by Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827
by Various Authors
Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?
by Immanuel Kant
The Conservation of Races The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 2
by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
A Defence of Poesie and Poems
by Philip Sidney
American Indian Stories
by Zitkala-Sa
A Voice from the South By a Black Woman of the South
by Anna J. (Anna Julia) Cooper
The Future in America: A Search After Realities
by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Vies des dames galantes
by Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme
Books and Bookmen
by Andrew Lang
The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series
by Lafcadio Hearn
The Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison
Kootut teokset 4: Kertomuksia ja kirjoitelmia
by J. H. Erkko
Puhe runoilija Archiaan puolustukseksi
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass
The Scientific Spirit of the Age, and Other Pleas and Discussions
by Frances Power Cobbe
Reize door Frankrijk In gemeenzame brieven, door Adriaan van der Willigen aan den uitgever
by Adriaan van der Willigen
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
by T. (Tobias) Smollett
Common Sense
by Thomas Paine
Custom and Myth
by Andrew Lang
Opere, Volume Secondo : scritti critici e letterari
by Giovanni Berchet
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Love and Freindship [sic]
by Jane Austen
Irish Books and Irish People
by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete
by da Vinci Leonardo
Essays in the Art of Writing
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Yesterdays with Authors
by James Thomas Fields
Correspondance: Lettres de jeunesse
by Émile Zola
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 565, September 8, 1832
by Various Authors
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
by Thomas Carlyle
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde": An Essay on the Wagnerian Drama
by George Ainslie Hight
L'Impeccable Théophile Gautier et les sacrilèges romantiques
by Louis Nicolardot
The philosophy of Elbert Hubbard
by Elbert Hubbard
Projet d'une loi portant défense d'apprendre à lire aux femmes
by Sylvain Maréchal
Our Sabbaths in Danger A Sermon, deprecating the contemplated opening of the Crystal Palace on the Lord's-Day
by Daniel Moore
Shorter Prose Pieces
by Oscar Wilde
Chinese Sketches
by Herbert Allen Giles
Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure; and Other Essays
by Edward Carpenter
A vuela pluma: colección de artículos literarios y políticos
by Juan Valera
A Bundle of Letters
by Henry James
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 393, October 10, 1829
by Various Authors
La mirabile visione: Abbozzo d'una storia della Divina Comedia
by Giovanni Pascoli
Briefe aus dem hohen Norden Eine Fahrt nach Spitzbergen mit dem HAPAG-Dampfer "Auguste Viktoria" im Juli
by Elias Haffter
Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1
by Thomas De Quincey
Considerações sobre a Philosophia da Historia Litteraria Portugueza (a proposito d'alguns livros recentes)
by Antero de Quental
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes
by Edgar Allan Poe
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20)
by Thomas Jefferson
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
by Walter Pater
The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII, Complete The Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life, and Criticism
by John Greenleaf Whittier
The Fiend's Delight
by Ambrose Bierce
Intentions
by Oscar Wilde
The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science Essay #6 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
by Thomas Henry Huxley
State of the Union Addresses of John Quincy Adams
by John Quincy Adams
Il Comento alla Divina Commedia, e gli altri scritti intorno a Dante, vol. 3
by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 403, December 5, 1829
by Various Authors
Ismerősök (feljegyzések, krónikák)
by Ferenc Molnár