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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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Medical Essays, 1842-1882
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 3 With a Memoir and Index
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
Miscellanies : embracing Nature, addresses, and lectures
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews
by Clayton Meeker Hamilton
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 06
by Voltaire
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 08 The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
by Samuel Johnson
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 09
by Voltaire
Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886)
by contessa Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington Martinengo-Cesaresco
Per Amica Silentia Lunae
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Cakes & Ale A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes, More or Less Original, and anecdotes, mainly veracious
by Edward Spencer
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 2 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private
by Thomas Jefferson
The love letters of Abelard and Heloise
by Peter Abelard, Héloïse
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863
by Abraham Lincoln
Miscellaneous Essays
by Thomas De Quincey
Lectures on the English Poets; Delivered at the Surrey Institution
by William Hazlitt
William Morris to Whistler Papers and addresses on art and craft and the commonweal.
by Walter Crane
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 01
by William Cowper Brann
Celtic Literature
by Matthew Arnold
Shakespeare and the Modern Stage; with Other Essays
by Sir Sidney Lee
Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860
by George Saintsbury
A Plea for Captain John Brown Read to the citizens of Concord, Massachusetts on Sunday evening, October thirtieth, eighteen fifty-nine
by Henry David Thoreau
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig
by Charles Lamb
Letters and Literary Memorials of Samuel J. Tilden, v. 1
by Samuel J. (Samuel Jones) Tilden
Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
by Walter Pater
Sophisms of the Protectionists
by Frédéric Bastiat
Confessions of a Book-Lover
by Maurice Francis Egan
Fishing and Shooting Sketches
by Grover Cleveland
Stufen: Eine Entwickelung in Aphorismen und Tagebuch-Notizen
by Christian Morgenstern
Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents
by William Beckford
State of the Union Addresses
by George Bush
Marriage and Love
by Emma Goldman
Suburban Sketches
by William Dean Howells
Hearts of Controversy
by Alice Meynell
On English poetry : being an irregular approach to the psychology of this art, from evidence mainly subjective
by Robert Graves
韓詩外傳, Complete
by active 150 B.C. Ying Han
Belcaro; Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions
by Vernon Lee
The Truth About an Author
by Arnold Bennett
Dante Alighieri, Apostle of Freedom: War-time and Peace-time Essays
by Lonsdale Ragg
The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion
by Walt Whitman
Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis
by Various Authors
Evergreens
by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, An Essay on Slavery
by A. Woodward
A Discourse on the Life, Character and Writings of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck Delivered before the New-York Historical Society, May 17th, 1870
by William Cullen Bryant
Fire Worship (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
October Vagabonds
by Richard Le Gallienne
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
The Old Apple Dealer (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
That Gospel Sermon on the Blessed Hope
by Dwight Lyman Moody
Slavery: What it was, what it has done, what it intends to do Speech of Hon. Cydnor B. Tompkins, of Ohio
by Cydnor Bailey Tompkins
Les Contemporains, 5ème Série Études et Portraits Littéraires,
by Jules Lemaître
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 2, 1891
by Various Authors
Fashionable Philosophy, and Other Sketches
by Laurence Oliphant
State of the Union Addresses
by Andrew Johnson
Journal et fragments : Publiés avec l'assentiment de sa famille par G. S. Trébutien
by Eugénie de Guérin
Gesammelte Schulhumoresken
by Ernst Eckstein
Des soirs, des gens, des choses... (1909-1911)
by Ernest La Jeunesse
Sketches New and Old, Part 3.
by Mark Twain
Roundabout to Boston (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
by William Dean Howells
A Sermon Preached at the Quaker's Meeting House, in Gracechurch-Street, London, Eighth Month 12th, 1694.
by William Penn
The Emblems of Fidelity: A Comedy in Letters
by James Lane Allen
Von der Seele
by Carl Ludwig Schleich
A Christmas greeting
by Marie Corelli
Unhappy Far-Off Things
by Lord Dunsany
In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers
by Agnes Repplier
Molière et Shakespeare
by Paul Stapfer
A reply to "The affectionate and Christian address of many thousands of women of Great Britain and Ireland, to their sisters, the women of the United States of America."
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sketches New and Old, Part 7.
by Mark Twain
Runouden kuvastimessa : Kirjoja ja kirjailijoita neljäs sarja
by Veikko Antero Koskenniemi
In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts
by Desiderius Erasmus
The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1
by Alexander Pope
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
by John Ruskin
The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
by James Russell Lowell
Society and solitude: Twelve chapters
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Die Theorie des Romans : Ein geschichtsphilosophischer Versuch über die Formen der großen Epik
by György Lukács
The Soul of Man under Socialism
by Oscar Wilde
The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance
by Edith Birkhead
Unto This Last, and Other Essays on Political Economy
by John Ruskin
Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude
by John Dewey, Boyd Henry Bode, Harold Chapman Brown, Horace Meyer Kallen, George H. Mead, Addison Webster Moore, Henry Waldgrave Stuart, James Hayden Tufts
Alarms and Discursions
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804
by Thomas Paine
Leaves of life, for daily inspiration
by Margaret Bird Steinmetz
Letters of a Javanese Princess
by Raden Adjeng Kartini
The Humour of Homer and Other Essays
by Samuel Butler
African and European Addresses
by Theodore Roosevelt
Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers
by W. A. (William Alexander) Clouston
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 18
by Michel de Montaigne
A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-slavery and reform papers.
by Henry David Thoreau
The Tatler, Volume 4
by Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison
