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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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Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne
by Jane Austen
Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England
by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg
Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature
by Isaac Disraeli
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 02 (of 20)
by Charles Sumner
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
by William Hazlitt
Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series)
by Henry James
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 01
by Voltaire
Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 1 Essays on the Science of Religion
by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
Memories and Portraits
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Complete Works of Artemus Ward (HTML edition)
by Artemus Ward
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
by Samuel Johnson
Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words
by Ludwig van Beethoven
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 08 Negligible Tales, On With the Dance, Epigrams
by Ambrose Bierce
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors
by Elbert Hubbard
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 05
by Voltaire
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals
by Thomas Moore
The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism
by Clayton Meeker Hamilton
Mémoires de Miss Coote: Exploits d'une fouetteuse britannique racontés par elle-même
by Rosa Belinda Coote
Character Building Being Addresses Delivered on Sunday Evenings to the Students of Tuskegee Institute
by Booker T. Washington
Essays Before a Sonata
by Charles Ives
Varied Types
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
by Horace Walpole
And Even Now
by Sir Max Beerbohm
Essais de Montaigne (self-édition) - Volume III
by Michel de Montaigne
Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Studies in Early Victorian Literature
by Frederic Harrison
The Jews
by Hilaire Belloc
Revolution, and Other Essays
by Jack London
Where the forest murmurs : Nature essays
by William Sharp
The works of Alexander Hamilton (vol. 1 of 7) : comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military.
by Alexander Hamilton
Bramble-Bees and Others
by Jean-Henri Fabre
The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits
by William Hazlitt
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Bits about Home Matters
by Helen Hunt Jackson
The Cross of Berny; Or, Irene's Lovers
by Mme Emile de Girardin, Théophile Gautier, Joseph Méry, Jules Sandeau
Analytical Studies
by Honoré de Balzac
Coaches and Coaching
by Leigh Hunt
More Jonathan Papers
by Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
by Thomas De Quincey
The Old Manse (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Der Dichter und das Phantasieren
by Sigmund Freud
True Manliness From the Writings of Thomas Hughes
by Thomas Hughes
Three addresses on the relations subsisting between the white and colored people of the United States
by Frederick Douglass
The Angel and the Author, and Others
by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Stage-Land
by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Gesammelte Abhandlungen III Vorträge, Reden und Schriften sozialpolitischen und verwandten Inhalts
by Ernst Abbe
State of the Union Addresses
by Calvin Coolidge
The Jubilee of the Constitution Delivered at New York, April 30, 1839, Before the New York Historical Society
by John Quincy Adams
Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
by Various Authors
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844
by Various Authors
Cartas de Inglaterra
by Eça de Queirós
A Cynic Looks at Life
by Ambrose Bierce
Drei Meister: Balzac, Dickens, Dostojewski
by Stefan Zweig
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
by Various Authors
The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature Essay #4 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
by Thomas Henry Huxley
A Little Book for Christmas
by Cyrus Townsend Brady
State of the Union Addresses
by Benjamin Harrison
Lectures and Essays
by Goldwin Smith
Advice to young men and boys A series of addresses delivered by B. B. Comegys to the pupils of Girard College
by B. B. (Benjamin Bartis) Comegys
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 544, April 28, 1832
by Various Authors
Essays in Idleness
by Agnes Repplier
Sketches from Concord and Appledore Concord thirty years ago; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Louisa M. Alcott; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Matthew Arnold; David A. Wasson; Wendell Phillips; Appledore and its visitors; John Greenleaf Whittier
by Frank Preston Stearns
Address of President Roosevelt on the Occasion of the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Pilgrim Memorial Monument, Provincetown, Massachusetts, August 20, 1907
by Theodore Roosevelt
The Relations of the Federal Government to Slavery Delivered at Fort Wayne, Ind., October 30th 1860
by Joseph K. (Joseph Ketchum) Edgerton
A Lecture on Physical Development, and its Relations to Mental and Spiritual Development, delivered before the American Institute of Instruction, at their Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting, in Norwich, Conn., August 20, 1858
by S. R. (Samuel Robert) Calthrop
State of the Union Addresses
by Martin Van Buren
My dear Cornelia
by Stuart Pratt Sherman
State of the Union Addresses
by Chester Alan Arthur
Wise or Otherwise
by Lydia Leavitt, Thad. W. H. (Thaddeus William Henry) Leavitt
Ménagerie intime
by Théophile Gautier
Philosophes et Écrivains Religieux
by J. (Jules) Barbey d'Aurevilly
The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 3, 1836-1870
by Charles Dickens
Letters of Pliny
by the Younger Pliny
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
by Various Authors
Tremendous Trifles
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Arena, Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891
by Various Authors
![Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 2 of 2] With his Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical, Selected with Care from All His Published Productions, and Comprising Whatever Is Most Entertaining and Valuable to the General Reader](/api/img/6638be00972dc5c80ef60fc0/cover.jpg)
The Madman: His Parables and Poems
by Kahlil Gibran
Brieven uit en over Amerika
by C. V. (Carel Victor) Gerritsen, Aletta H. (Aletta Henriette) Jacobs
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 16
by Robert Louis Stevenson
南腔北調集
by Xun Lu
Letters on England
by Voltaire
The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring
by Bernard Shaw
Adventures Among Books
by Andrew Lang
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 70: December 1668
by Samuel Pepys
