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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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Birds and Poets : with Other Papers

by John Burroughs

The Book of Snobs

by William Makepeace Thackeray

The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation

by Charles A. Eastman

Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 2 With a Memoir and Index

by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay

Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1

by John Wilson

Fragments of Earth Lore: Sketches & Addresses Geological and Geographical

by James Geikie

Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays

by Thomas Henry Huxley

Pirke Avot: The Sayings of the Jewish Fathers

Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851

by Various Authors

An Essay on Colophons, with Specimens and Translations

by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard

Science and Culture, and Other Essays

by Thomas Henry Huxley

Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author

by William Godwin

Eighteenth Century Vignettes

by Austin Dobson

On the Choice of Books

by Thomas Carlyle

Certain Personal Matters

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Interpretations of Poetry and Religion

by George Santayana

A Study of Shakespeare

by Algernon Charles Swinburne

English Hours

by Henry James

鬼谷子

by active 4th century B.C. Guiguzi

Acres of Diamonds

by Russell H. Conwell

Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science

by Simon Newcomb

Is Polite Society Polite? and Other Essays

by Julia Ward Howe

Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry

by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Table traits, with something on them

by Dr. (John) Doran

Aphorisms and Reflections from the works of T. H. Huxley

by Thomas Henry Huxley

The Crimes of England

by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Outspoken Essays

by William Ralph Inge

Discourses: Biological & Geological Essays

by Thomas Henry Huxley

My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome.

by Various Authors

Adventures in Contentment

by David Grayson

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 403, May, 1849

by Various Authors

Feeding the Mind

by Lewis Carroll

Aspects of Literature

by John Middleton Murry

I and My Chimney

by Herman Melville

The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 2

by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

The Harbours of England

by John Ruskin

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, Number 371, September 1846

by Various Authors

The Journal to Eliza and Various letters by Laurence Sterne and Elizabeth Draper

by Laurence Sterne

Dictionnaire des idées reçues

by Gustave Flaubert

Actes et Paroles, Volume 4: Depuis l'Exil 1876-1885

by Victor Hugo

Obiter Dicta: Second Series

by Augustine Birrell

Concerning Animals and Other Matters

by Edward Hamilton Aitken

Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1

by John Bright

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 10 The Opinionator

by Ambrose Bierce

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848

by Various Authors

Right Above Race

by Otto H. Kahn

A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 1, part 2: John Adams

The Blight of Respectability An Anatomy of the Disease and a Theory of Curative Treatment

by Geoffrey Mortimer

The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. 01

Quotes and Images From The Works of Charles Dudley Warner

by Charles Dudley Warner

Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century

by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland

by James Fenimore Cooper

Études sur la Littérature française au XIXe siècle - Tome 1 Madame de Staël, Chateaubriand

by Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet

Critiques and Addresses

by Thomas Henry Huxley

State of the Union Addresses

by Jimmy Carter

From a Girl's Point of View

by Lilian Bell

Modern American Prose Selections

The Little Cryptogram A Literal Application to the Play of Hamlet of the Cipher System of Mr. Ignatius Donnelly.

by Joseph Gilpin Pyle

The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, January 1876 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad

by Various Authors

Letters from a Son to His Self-Made Father Being the Replies to Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

by Charles Eustace Merriman

Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

by Various Authors

On reading in relation to literature

by Lafcadio Hearn

The Book of Months

by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Serpent-Worship, and Other Essays, with a Chapter on Totemism

by C. Staniland (Charles Staniland) Wake

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part I. 1792 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners

by Charlotte Biggs

Quotes and Images From The Novels of Georg Ebers

by Georg Ebers

Remarks on Clarissa (1749)

by Sarah Fielding

Inaugural Presidential Address

by Barack Obama

Janus in Modern Life

by W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie

Das Motiv der Kästchenwahl

by Sigmund Freud

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 3), Essay 4: Macaulay

by John Morley

Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters

by George Milligan, Walter F. (Walter Frederic) Adeney, J. Morgan (James Morgan) Gibbon, J. G. (John Gershom) Greenhough, H. Elvet (Howell Elvet) Lewis, Alfred Rowland, David Rowlands, W. J. (William John) Townsend