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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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Moral Poison in Modern Fiction
by R. Brimley (Reginald Brimley) Johnson
Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature
by Arnold Bennett
The Girl of the Period, and Other Social Essays, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
A History of Story-telling: Studies in the development of narrative
by Arthur Ransome
Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series
by Frederick William Robertson
The Principles of Success in Literature
by George Henry Lewes
Friends in Council — First Series
by Sir Arthur Helps
Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects
by John Aubrey
Actes et Paroles, Volume 3
by Victor Hugo
Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
by Samuel Johnson
Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings
by Josh Billings
The Preface to the Aeneis of Virgil (1718)
by Joseph Trapp
Among the Forces
by Henry White Warren
Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries
by J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone
"I Believe" and other essays
by Guy Thorne
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Daedalus : or, Science and the future
by J. B. S. (John Burdon Sanderson) Haldane
The Praise of a Godly Woman
by Hannibal Gamon
Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal
by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 04 (of 20)
by Charles Sumner
Quotes and Images From The Works of Gilbert Parker
by Gilbert Parker
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
Letters to Dead Authors
by Andrew Lang
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 287, December 15, 1827
by Various Authors
American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Notes and Queries, Number 207, October 15, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 12
by Michel de Montaigne
From the Easy Chair, Volume 1
by George William Curtis
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
by Various Authors
The Wrack of the Storm
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Ceres' Runaway, and Other Essays
by Alice Meynell
Hell: Warm Words on the Cheerful and Comforting Doctrine of Eternal Damnation
by Robert Green Ingersoll
Henry Gally : A critical essay on characteristic-writings from his translation of The moral characters of Theophrastus (1725)
by Henry Gally
The Children
by Alice Meynell
Notes and Queries, Number 81, May 17, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
Wilde v Whistler Being an Acrimonious Correspondence on Art Between Oscar Wilde and James A McNeill Whistler
by Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler
Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Collected Works of George Meredith
by George Meredith
Letters to Children
by E. C. (Elijah Coleman) Bridgman
The Smart Set: Correspondence & Conversations
by Clyde Fitch
Those Other Animals
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Search-Light Letters
by Robert Grant
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 325, August 2, 1828
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 358, February 28, 1829
by Various Authors
Letters That Have Helped Me
by William Quan Judge, Julia Wharton Lewis Campbell Ver Planck Keightley
The old English dramatists
by James Russell Lowell
Take It from Dad
by George Griswold Livermore
My Miscellanies, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by Wilkie Collins
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Studies and Essays: Quality, and Others
by John Galsworthy
Variété I
by Paul Valéry
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 574, November 3, 1832 Title
by Various Authors
The Stuff of Manhood: Some Needed Notes in American Character
by Robert E. (Robert Elliott) Speer
An essay in defence of the female sex In which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. in a letter to a lady.
by active 1696-1707 Judith Drake, Mary Astell
Les contemporains, première série Études et portraits littéraires
by Jules Lemaître
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 483, April 2, 1831
by Various Authors
La terre du passé
by Anatole Le Braz
Anti-slavery catechism
by Lydia Maria Child
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 291 - Supplement to Vol 10
by Various Authors
Religio Journalistici
by Christopher Morley
The Cornhill Magazine (vol. XLI, no. 242 new series, August 1916)
by Various Authors
Trois Stations de psychothérapie
by Maurice Barrès
In the Christmas Woods Being the introductory essay of a series on observations of nature through the year
by Adeline Knapp
Scritti politici
by conte Terenzio Mamiani della Rovere
Nature
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The World I Live In
by Helen Keller
The Philippines a Century Hence
by José Rizal
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Figures of Several Centuries
by Arthur Symons
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
by Marsden Hartley
Ariel
by José Enrique Rodó
朝花夕拾
by Xun Lu
Miscellanies
by Oscar Wilde
Manifesto of the Communist Party
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Vision and Design
by Roger Fry
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
by Various Authors
The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism
by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 2
by Elizabeth Bisland
Charles Dickens and other Victorians
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
First Oration of Cicero Against Catiline with Notices, Notes and Complete Vocabulary
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Miss Eden's Letters
by Emily Eden
A vindication of the rights of men, in a letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; occasioned by his Reflections on the Revolution in France
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
by Sir Thomas Browne
The Forerunners
by Romain Rolland
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
by Various Authors
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Common Sense
by Thomas Paine