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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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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
by Various Authors
Lectures Delivered in America in 1874
by Charles Kingsley
Christianity and Problems of To-day: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the Foundation of the Late William Bross
by John H. (John Huston) Finley, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, Charles Foster Kent, Paul Elmer More, Robert Bruce Taylor
Why is the Negro Lynched?
by Frederick Douglass
Studies and Essays: Censorship and Art
by John Galsworthy
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832
by Various Authors
Addresses by Henry Drummond
by Henry Drummond
Addresses in America, 1919
by John Galsworthy
A View of Society and Manners in Italy, Volume 1 (of 2) With Anecdotes Relating to some Eminent Characters
by John Moore
Vie de Benjamin Franklin, écrite par lui-même - Tome 2 suivie de ses œuvres morales, politiques et littéraires
by Benjamin Franklin
La vie littéraire. Quatrième série
by Anatole France
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829
by Various Authors
My "Little Bit"
by Marie Corelli
Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct
by Marie Corelli
The Theater (1720)
by Sir John Falstaffe
Antología portorriqueña: Prosa y verso
by Manuel Fernández Juncos
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 480, March 12, 1831
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 348, December 27, 1828
by Various Authors
Men, Women, and Books
by Augustine Birrell
American problems
by Theodore Roosevelt
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 09
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 79, No. 484, February, 1856
by Various Authors
Address of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, delivered at Boston, Mass., Saturday, April 27, 1912
by Theodore Roosevelt
Bill's School and Mine: A Collection of Essays on Education
by William S. (William Suddards) Franklin
Sancti Hilarii: Epistola Ad Abram Filiam Suam (Circa Finem Anni 558 Missa.) Patrologiae Cursus Completus; Tomus X
by Bishop of Poitiers Saint Hilary
Hunting Indians in a Taxi-Cab
by Kate Sanborn
Letters to his wife Mary Borrow
by George Borrow
Criticism Part 4 from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII
by John Greenleaf Whittier
Thoughts Suggested by Mr. Froude's "Progress"
by Charles Dudley Warner
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 16
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Les sentiers dans la montagne
by Maurice Maeterlinck
International Thought
by John Galsworthy
Il colore del tempo
by Federico De Roberto
The Philistine : a periodical of protest (Vol. III, No. 3, August 1896)
by Various Authors
Oeuvres de Marcel Schwob. Volume 1 of 2, Spicilège
by Marcel Schwob
Remarks on the speeches of William Paul Clerk, and John Hall of Otterburn, Esq : Executed at Tyburn for rebellion, the 13th of July, 1716
by Daniel Defoe
The Ritual Movement Three plain sermons preached at St. John the Evangelist's, Hammersmith
by James Galloway Cowan
Our Union and Its Defenders An Oration, Delivered Before the Citizens of Burlington, N.J., on the Occasion of Their Celebration of the Eighty-Sixth Anniversary of Independence Day, July 4th, 1862
by J. Howard (John Howard) Pugh
The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 3, 1854-1861 : A selection from Her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861.
by Queen of Great Britain Victoria
When Winter Comes to Main Street
by Grant M. (Grant Martin) Overton
I manifesti del futurismo
by F. T. Marinetti
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
by John Ruskin
Maxims and Reflections
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845
by Various Authors
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)
by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
Philip Hale's Boston Symphony Programme Notes
by Philip Hale
Without Prejudice
by Israel Zangwill
Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne Written in the years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the original manuscripts
by John Keats
Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde
by Oscar Wilde
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The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics and Morals of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 2 [of 3]
by Benjamin Franklin
Iconoclasts: A Book of Dramatists Ibsen, Strindberg, Becque, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Hervieu, Gorky, Duse and D'Annunzio, Maeterlinck and Bernard Shaw
by James Huneker
Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince.
by Fürst von Hermann Pückler-Muskau
Mysticism in English Literature
by Caroline F. E. (Caroline Frances Eleanor) Spurgeon
Toleration and other essays
by Voltaire
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10
by Voltaire
Discourses in America
by Matthew Arnold
The Art of Letters
by Robert Lynd
Emerson and Other Essays
by John Jay Chapman
The journal, with other writings of John Woolman
by John Woolman
Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-time Editorials
by Theodore Roosevelt
An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters
by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 5 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private
by Thomas Jefferson
Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis
by Richard Harding Davis
Science & Education: Essays
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Aesthetical and philosophical essays : introducing the dissertation on the "connection between the animal and spiritual man"
by Friedrich Schiller
The Tatler, Volume 2
by Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 17 (of 20)
by Charles Sumner
On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Visionaries
by James Huneker
Above the Battle
by Romain Rolland
Decadence, and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas
by Remy de Gourmont
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
by Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir James Marchant
Memories of a Hostess: A Chronicle of Eminent Friendships Drawn Chiefly from the Diaries of Mrs. James T. Fields
by M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe) Howe, Annie Fields
The Feasts of Autolycus: The Diary of a Greedy Woman
by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843
by Various Authors
Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Books and authors
by Robert Lynd
Views and Opinions
by Ouida
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature
by Various Authors
Chopin and Other Musical Essays
by Henry T. Finck
The Tatler, Volume 3
by Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison
Essays in Little
by Andrew Lang
Through the Magic Door
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Mezzotints in modern music Brahms, Tschaïkowsky, Chopin, Richard Strauss, Liszt and Wagner
by James Huneker
Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Spinster Book
by Myrtle Reed
Pieces of Hate; And Other Enthusiasms
by Heywood Broun
夢溪筆談, Volume 22-26
by Kuo Shen
The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical : in prose and verse, with his remains in four volumes compleat; vol. II
by Thomas Brown
Arrows of Freethought
by G. W. (George William) Foote
