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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 letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
by Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Azul... Obras Completas Vol. IV
by Rubén Darío
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
by Hugh Binning
The History of Freedom, and Other Essays
by Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton
The Letters of Henry James (Vol. I)
by Henry James
Aspects and Impressions
by Edmund Gosse
A Minor War History Compiled from a Soldier Boy's Letters to "the Girl I Left Behind Me": 1861-1864
by Martin A. (Martin Alonzo) Haynes
Italian Fantasies
by Israel Zangwill
Essays on Russian Novelists
by William Lyon Phelps
Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 2 of 3
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885)
by Mark Twain
The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career
by Amerigo Vespucci, Bartolomé de las Casas, Christopher Columbus
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 1
by Sir Thomas Browne
The Natural History of Selborne
by Gilbert White
The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 04 (of 12)
by William Hazlitt
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy: Five Essays
by George Santayana
A serious proposal to the Ladies, for the advancement of their true and greatest interest (In Two Parts)
by Mary Astell
The works of the Rev. John Wesley, Vol. 01 (of 32)
by John Wesley
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 479, March 5, 1831
by Various Authors
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Of Walks and Walking Tours: An Attempt to find a Philosophy and a Creed
by Arnold Haultain
The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Twice round the clock; or, The hours of the day and night in London
by George Augustus Sala
"Pennsylvania Dutch," and other essays
by Phebe Earle Gibbons
Essays of Travel
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Not that it Matters
by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
Lectures and Essays
by Thomas Henry Huxley
The Evolution of Culture, and Other Essays
by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature
by Various Authors
Letters from China and Japan
by John Dewey, Alice Chipman Dewey
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
by Horace Walpole
Nuggets of the New Thought: Several Things That Have Helped People
by William Walker Atkinson
Correspondance inédite de Hector Berlioz, 1819-1868
by Hector Berlioz
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.
by Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Escritos políticos, económicos y literarios
by Florencio Varela
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
by Samuel Johnson
The Booklover and His Books
by Harry Lyman Koopman
Leading Articles on Various Subjects
by Hugh Miller
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 06 (of 20)
by Charles Sumner
Essays on Art
by A. (Arthur) Clutton-Brock
Yet Again
by Sir Max Beerbohm
Religious Studies, Sketches and Poems
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1
by Demosthenes
The Gentle Reader
by Samuel McChord Crothers
The Book of Delight, and other papers
by Israel Abrahams
History of a literary radical, and other essays
by Randolph Silliman Bourne
State of the Union Addresses
by Dwight D. (Dwight David) Eisenhower
Under the Hill, and Other Essays in Prose and Verse
by Aubrey Beardsley
Pages from a Journal with Other Papers
by William Hale White
The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 02 (of 12)
by William Hazlitt
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
by Robert Green Ingersoll
Horace Walpole and His World: Select Passages from His Letters
by Horace Walpole
Letters to "The Times" upon War and Neutrality (1881-1920)
by Thomas Erskine Holland
Lines in Pleasant Places: Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
by William Senior
Les guêpes — séries 1 & 2
by Alphonse Karr
An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages
by Martin Farquhar Tupper
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 24
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Ten Girls from Dickens
by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 10 (of 20)
by Charles Sumner
As We Were Saying
by Charles Dudley Warner
Letters on an Elk Hunt
by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
The Superstition of Divorce
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Coverley Papers, From 'The Spectator'
by Joseph Addison, Eustace Budgell, Sir Richard Steele
Miei Pensieri di varia Umanità
by Giovanni Pascoli
The circus, and other essays and fugitive pieces
by Joyce Kilmer
Palmetto-Leaves
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Ma confession
by graf Leo Tolstoy
Essays on things
by William Lyon Phelps
"'Tis Sixty Years Since" Address of Charles Francis Adams; Founders' Day, January 16, 1913
by Charles Francis Adams
Joyous Gard
by Arthur Christopher Benson
A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl
by Helen Rowland
Slavery Ordained of God
by F. A. (Frederick Augustus) Ross
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
On the Method of Zadig Essay #1 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Days with Sir Roger De Coverley
by Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele
How to Do It
by Edward Everett Hale
Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope
by Viscount Henry St. John Bolingbroke
In our first year of war : messages and addresses to the Congress and the people, March 5, 1917, to January 8, 1918
by Woodrow Wilson
Mythology in Marble
by Louie M. Bell
Les guêpes — séries 3 & 4
by Alphonse Karr
Watson Refuted Being an Answer to the Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters to the Bishop Of Llandaff
by Samuel W. (Samuel Ward) Francis
Behind the Bungalow
by Edward Hamilton Aitken
Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5: Emerson
by John Morley
Letters to the Clergy on the Lord's Prayer and the Church
by John Ruskin
Gedenkrede auf Wolfgang Amade Mozart
by Richard Beer-Hofmann
Talkers: With Illustrations
by John Bate
Moorland Idylls
by Grant Allen
Correspondance, 1812-1876 — Tome 5
by George Sand
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 582, December 22, 1832
by Various Authors
A Florida Sketch-Book
by Bradford Torrey
