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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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Notes and Queries, Number 80, May 10, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
Herr Adam und Frau Eva
by Alexander Engel
Letters to His Son, 1749 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
by Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The Allied Countries and the Jews
by H. G. (Hyman Gerson) Enelow
French Ways and Their Meaning
by Edith Wharton
Essays on Work and Culture
by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Washington and the Riddle of Peace
by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The Law and Lawyers of Pickwick A Lecture
by Sir Frank Lockwood
Plain Words from America: A Letter to a German Professor (1917)
by Douglas Wilson Johnson
The Heart's Domain
by Georges Duhamel
The American Newspaper
by Charles Dudley Warner
Portraits et souvenirs
by Camille Saint-Saëns
Tracts and Handbills of the Religious Tract Society, March 1st, 1843
by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
State of the Union Addresses
by James Monroe
The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator
by Abraham Lincoln
Echos de Pariz
by Eça de Queirós
The Pilgrim, and the American of Today—(1892)
by Charles Dudley Warner
Vignettes: A Miniature Journal of Whim and Sentiment
by Hubert Crackanthorpe
An Appeal to Honour and Justice, Though It Be of His Worst Enemies. Being A True Account of His Conduct in Public Affairs.
by Daniel Defoe
Letters to His Son, 1766-71 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
by Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Better Than Men
by Rush C. (Rush Christopher) Hawkins
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 20
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Opúsculos por Alexandre Herculano - Tomo 06
by Alexandre Herculano
La vita Italiana nel Risorgimento (1815-1831), parte 3 Conferenze fiorentine - Lettere, scienze e arti
by Various Authors
A letter addressed to the Right Honourable Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P. explanatory of the object and design of the Chester Cambrian Society
by active 1832 Evan Evans
Mitä meidän siis on tekeminen?
by graf Leo Tolstoy
Katajainen kansani
by Juhani Aho
The modern writer
by Sherwood Anderson
Bouquiniana: notes et notules d'un bibliologue
by Bernard Henri Gausseron
The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 2, 1857-1870
by Charles Dickens
The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism
by Arthur Schopenhauer
The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Montaigne and Shakspere
by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
The Key to the Brontë Works The Key to Charlotte Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights,' 'Jane Eyre,' and her other works.
by John Malham-Dembleby
The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant
by Francis Asbury Smith
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
by Various Authors
The Law
by Frédéric Bastiat
The Mirror of the Sea
by Joseph Conrad
The Story of My Life, volumes 4-6
by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare
What Shall We Do?
by graf Leo Tolstoy
The Prose Works of William Wordsworth For the First Time Collected, With Additions from Unpublished Manuscripts. In Three Volumes.
by William Wordsworth
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 01
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Essays in Zen Buddhism : First series
by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Myths and Myth-Makers Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
by John Fiske
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
by James McNeill Whistler
The Celtic Twilight
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
by Various Authors
Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Her Life and Letters (1689-1762)
by Lewis Melville, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The taste of honey : The note book of a linguist
by Edna Worthley Underwood
At Home and Abroad; Or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe
by Margaret Fuller
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 6 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private
by Thomas Jefferson
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
by John Wilson
El Payador, Vol. I Hijo de la Pampa
by Leopoldo Lugones
The Romance of the Milky Way, and Other Studies & Stories
by Lafcadio Hearn
Ways of Nature
by John Burroughs
Genius in Sunshine and Shadow
by Maturin M. (Maturin Murray) Ballou
東坡志林
by Shi Su
Bom-senso e bom-gosto carta ao excelentissimo senhor Antonio Feliciano de Castilho
by Antero de Quental
A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism
by Joel Elias Spingarn
The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other Essays
by Roswell Park
One Hundred Best Books With Commentary and an Essay on Books and Reading
by John Cowper Powys
Books and Persons; Being Comments on a Past Epoch, 1908-1911
by Arnold Bennett
The Works of Max Beerbohm
by Sir Max Beerbohm
Portraits littéraires, Tome II
by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
The Call of the Wildflower
by Henry S. Salt
Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, on the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890
by John P. (John Percival) Jones
Letters from America
by Rupert Brooke
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 10
by Michel de Montaigne
Dramatis Personæ
by Arthur Symons
Prejudices, fifth series
by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
In good company : Some personal recollections of Swinburne, Lord Roberts, Watts-Dunton, Oscar Wilde Edward Whymper, S. J. Stone, Stephen Phillips
by Coulson Kernahan
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
by Gilbert White
On Compromise
by John Morley
Heart of Man
by George Edward Woodberry
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
by Ben Hecht
Birds in the Bush
by Bradford Torrey
The Arena, Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897
by Various Authors
The Footlights, Fore and Aft
by Channing Pollock
Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to his father and his youngest sister, 1857-78
by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant
幽夢影 — Part 1
by Chao Zhang
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I.
by Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Essays; Political, Economical, and Philosophical — Volume 1
by Graf von Benjamin Rumford
Les Contemporains, 2ème Série Etudes et Portraits Littéraires
by Jules Lemaître
At Large
by Arthur Christopher Benson
The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol. I. With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters
by Viscount Horatio Nelson Nelson
Education and life : papers and addresses
by James H. (James Hutchins) Baker
Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)
by William Dean Howells
Études: Baudelaire, Paul Claudel, André Gide, Rameau, Bach, Franck, Wagner, Moussorgsky, Debussy, Ingres, Cézanne, Gauguin
by Jacques Rivière
An Essay on the Trial By Jury
by Lysander Spooner
Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
The attaché at Peking
by Baron Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale
The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy
by John Galsworthy
Pagan Papers
by Kenneth Grahame