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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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Letters on the Moral and Religious State of South America Written during a residence of nearly seven years in Buenos Aires, Chile, Peru and Colombia
by D.D. James Thomson
A Confession of Evangelical Principles in a letter to a friend
by J. (John) Church
The Speedy Appearance of Christ Desired by the Church Being the Substance of a Sermon, Preached on the Death of a Friend, August 27, 1815
by J. (John) Church
Der Weg ohne Heimkehr: Ein Martyrium in Briefen
by Armin T. Wegner
Me
by Jalmari Finne
Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients
by Francis Bacon
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Thomas Davis, selections from his prose and poetry
by Thomas Davis
Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 5 Miscellaneous Later Essays
by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
What's Wrong with the World
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew
by Edward Berens
Petrarch's Letters to Classical Authors
by Francesco Petrarca
The Essays of Adam Smith
by Adam Smith
Mussolini as revealed in his political speeches (November 1914-August 1923)
by Benito Mussolini
Eureka: A Prose Poem
by Edgar Allan Poe
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1
by Ludwig van Beethoven
William Shakespeare
by Victor Hugo
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Given November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
by Abraham Lincoln
Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations
by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant, Mrs. Alexander, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton, Edna Lyall, Katharine S. (Katharine Sarah) Macquoid, Emma Marshall, Louisa Parr, Adeline Sergeant, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
Excursions, and Poems The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 05 (of 20)
by Henry David Thoreau
Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 — Notes to the Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Studies in Classic American Literature
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Maxims for Revolutionists
by Bernard Shaw
From Sea to Sea; Letters of Travel
by Rudyard Kipling
Among Famous Books
by John Kelman
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2)
by John Addington Symonds
Essays and soliloquies
by Miguel de Unamuno
Memoirs of My Life and Writings
by Edward Gibbon
Happiness: Essays on the meaning of life
by Karl Hilty
The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 12 (of 12)
by William Hazlitt
The Book of Masks
by Remy de Gourmont
Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography
by Mark Twain
Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. II.
by Plutarch
Charles Dickens: A critical study
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Prejudices, fourth series
by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 08
by Voltaire
Philosophical Letters: or, modest Reflections upon some Opinions in Natural Philosophy
by Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
The story of my house
by George H. (George Herman) Ellwanger
Myth-Land
by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme
Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland
by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales
by François duc de La Rochefoucauld
顔氏家訓
by Zhitui Yan
Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East
by Lafcadio Hearn
Lay Morals, and Other Papers
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Essays in War-Time: Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene
by Havelock Ellis
The Victorian Age in Literature
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1
by Samuel Johnson
Fancies Versus Fads
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 4 With a Memoir and Index
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)
by Alexander Whyte
Studies of Christianity; Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers
by James Martineau
Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing
by Lewis Carroll
Wolfert's Roost, and Miscellanies
by Washington Irving
Hodge and His Masters
by Richard Jefferies
The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1
by Daniel Webster
A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects
by Arthur E. (Arthur Elmore) Bostwick
韓詩外傳
by active 150 B.C. Ying Han
Nineteenth Century Questions
by James Freeman Clarke
Letters of a Soldier, 1914-1915
by Eugène Emmanuel Lemercier
The Joys of Being a Woman, and Other Papers
by Winifred Margaretta Kirkland
Hospital Sketches
by Robert Swain Peabody
Around the Tea-Table
by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
Pot-Boilers
by Clive Bell
Robert Louis Stevenson
by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
Some Reminiscences
by Joseph Conrad
Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 2: Carlyle
by John Morley
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
by Various Authors
Liberalism and the Social Problem
by Winston Churchill
Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature
by Arnold Bennett
A Rambler's lease
by Bradford Torrey
Shadows of the Stage
by William Winter
顔氏家訓
by Zhitui Yan
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Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series]
by Henry Seidel Canby
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards
by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley
The works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A., Vol. 2 (of 6) : Containing all his sermons and tracts, etc.
by George Whitefield
Cobwebs of Thought
by Arachne
Friends on the Shelf
by Bradford Torrey
Americans and Others
by Agnes Repplier
Aspects of Modern Oxford, by a Mere Don
by A. D. (Alfred Denis) Godley
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Opúsculos por Alexandre Herculano - Tomo 04
by Alexandre Herculano
International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850
by Various Authors
State of the Union Addresses
by Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) Johnson
The Hall of Fantasy (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 402, April, 1849
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 555, Supplementary Number
by Various Authors
The Hills of Hingham
by Dallas Lore Sharp
The Water of Life, and Other Sermons
by Charles Kingsley
Avril: Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance
by Hilaire Belloc
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 424, February 1851
by Various Authors
Les Précurseurs
by Romain Rolland