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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 Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2
by Jonathan Swift
A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Le rêve et la vie - Les filles du feu - La bohème galante
by Gérard de Nerval
Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
by Richard Le Gallienne
Impressions and Comments
by Havelock Ellis
Leaves in the Wind
by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner
Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century
by Duke of Arthur Wellesley Wellington
Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 2 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions.
by Herbert Spencer
Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02
by Thomas Henry Huxley
My Path to Atheism
by Annie Besant
Historical Miniatures
by August Strindberg
The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 3
by Samuel Adams
Style
by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
The works of the Rev. John Wesley, Vol. 04 (of 32)
by John Wesley
The cynic's breviary: Maxims and anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort
by Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort
Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof
by Franklin H. (Franklin Harvey) Head
Wake-Robin
by John Burroughs
State of the Union Addresses
by Bill Clinton
Sydney Smith
by George William Erskine Russell
Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody
by Andrew Lang
The Girl of the Period, and Other Social Essays, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846
by Various Authors
State of the Union Addresses
by George Washington
Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life
by Vernon Lee
Essays on Life, Art and Science
by Samuel Butler
Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Jacques Casanova
by Giacomo Casanova
Concerning Cats: My Own and Some Others
by Helen M. (Helen Maria) Winslow
Ginger-Snaps
by Fanny Fern
Cobb's Anatomy
by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Hey Rub-a-dub-dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life
by Theodore Dreiser
The Heart of the Wild: Nature Studies from Near and Far
by S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan
Œuvres Complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, tome 6 mises en ordre, revues et annotées d'après les manuscrits de l'auteur
by Frédéric Bastiat
A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope
by Colley Cibber
Ancient Rome in the English novel: a study in English historical fiction
by Randolph Faries
Practicable Socialism, New Series
by S. A. (Samuel Augustus) Barnett, Mrs. S. A. Barnett
Sketch-Book of the North
by George Eyre-Todd
Η Λύρα Ανδρέου Κάλβου και Ανέκδοτος Ύμνος Αντωνίου Μαρτελάου
by Andreas Kalvos, Antonios Martelaos
International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science — Volume 1, No. 3, July 15, 1850
by Various Authors
Abhandlungen über die Fabel
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Regrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre Ou, avis à ceux qui ont plus de goût que de fortune
by Denis Diderot
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 19
by Michel de Montaigne
The Morality of Woman, and Other Essays
by Ellen Key
Observations on the new constitution, and on the Federal and State conventions, by a Columbian patriot
by Mercy Otis Warren
Antimachus of Colophon and the Position of Women in Greek Poetry A fragment printed for the use of scholars
by E. F. M. (Edward Felix Mendelssohn) Benecke
Briefe an Ludwig Tieck (4/4) Vierter Band
by Ludwig Tieck
A Letter to Grover Cleveland On His False Inaugural Address, The Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude Of The People
by Lysander Spooner
Journal des Goncourt (Troisième série, premier volume) Mémoires de la vie littéraire
by Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829
by Various Authors
The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Appendix to Volume XII: Tales, Sketches, and other Papers by Nathaniel Hawthorne with a Biographical Sketch by George Parsons Lathrop Biographical Sketch of Nathaniel Hawthorne
by George Parsons Lathrop
Studies and Essays: The Inn of Tranquility, and Others
by John Galsworthy
The Kernel and the Husk: Letters on Spiritual Christianity
by Edwin Abbott Abbott
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832
by Various Authors
The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 02, July 11, 1840
by Various Authors
Lo que dice la historia Cartas al señor Ministro de Ultramar
by Salvador Brau
Letters to his mother, Ann Borrow, and other correspondents
by George Borrow
No Refuge but in Truth
by Goldwin Smith
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 12
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Dissociations
by Remy de Gourmont
Socialism and the family
by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Introduction à la méthode de Léonard de Vinci
by Paul Valéry
A Letter to Sir Richard Ford and the Other Police Magistrates Upon the Prevalancy of Gaming, and the Infamous Practices of Common Informers
by active 1771-1808 Robert Holloway
Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay
by Immanuel Kant
My Contemporaries In Fiction
by David Christie Murray
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences
by Mark Twain
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
by Washington Irving
Old and New Masters
by Robert Lynd
At the Deathbed of Darwinism: A Series of Papers
by Eberhard Dennert
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
William Blake: A Critical Essay
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
豆棚閒話
by Ainajushi
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)
by Edmund Burke
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
by Samuel Johnson
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2
by Ludwig van Beethoven
Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
by Lafcadio Hearn
The Compleat Angler
by Izaak Walton
Life and Letters of Robert Browning
by Mrs. Sutherland Orr, Robert Browning
The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers
by Joseph Addison, Eustace Budgell, Sir Richard Steele
Letters of Madam Guyon
by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
Mark Twain's Letters — Complete (1853-1910)
by Mark Twain
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Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough
by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner
Hints for Lovers
by Arnold Haultain
The Hills and the Vale
by Richard Jefferies
Actes et Paroles, Volume 2: Pendant l'exil 1852-1870
by Victor Hugo
Ways of wood folk
by William J. (William Joseph) Long
Essays on Political Economy
by Frédéric Bastiat
Thoughts I Met on the Highway: Words of Friendly Cheer From "The Life Books"
by Ralph Waldo Trine
Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
by Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
Letters to His Friends
by Forbes Robinson
Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Meditaciones del Quijote
by José Ortega y Gasset
Dealings with the Dead, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Lucius M. (Lucius Manlius) Sargent