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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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Chinese literature : Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the Sayings of Mencius, the Shi-King, the Travels of Fâ-Hien, and the Sorrows of Han
by Confucius, Faxian, Mencius
All Saints' Day and Other Sermons
by Charles Kingsley
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 17
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, 1817-1845
by Daniel Webster
The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821
by Hester Lynch Piozzi, Penelope Pennington
The Art of Poetry: an Epistle to the Pisos Q. Horatii Flacci Epistola Ad Pisones, De Arte Poetica.
by Horace
A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco
by King of England James I
The Case of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller
by Friedrich Schiller
The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc
by Thomas De Quincey
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
by Gilbert White
Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith
by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith
The Land of Little Rain
by Mary Austin
Impressions of Theophrastus Such
by George Eliot
Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings
by Hester Lynch Piozzi
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 15
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Obiter Dicta
by Augustine Birrell
Footprints on the Sea-Shore (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Cartas de mi molino
by Alphonse Daudet
Sämmtliche Werke 7: Briefwechsel I
by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
As a man thinketh
by James Allen
To the Person Sitting in Darkness
by Mark Twain
The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays
by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt
La maison de Claudine
by Colette
The Fitz-Boodle Papers
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Les Rêveries du Promeneur Solitaire Ouvrage faisant suite aux Confessions
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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[Einleitung zu:] Thomas Carlyle, Leben Schillers
by Thomas Carlyle, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 399, Supplementary Number
by Various Authors
Vasárnapi Könyv. 1914. Első félév 12. füzet
by Various Authors
Noites de insomnia, offerecidas a quem não póde dormir. Nº 08 (de 12)
by Camilo Castelo Branco
Ihmisestä ja elämästä: Kirjoitelmia
by Volter Kilpi
The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
by William James
The Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison
The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston
by John Ruskin
Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
by Samuel Johnson
An old master, and other political essays
by Woodrow Wilson
A Bell's Biography
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Propos de peintre, première série: de David à Degas Ingres, David, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Whistler, Fantin-Latour, Ricard, Conder, Beardsley, etc. Préface par Marcel Proust
by Jacques-Émile Blanche
Old Portraits and Modern Sketches Part 1 from Volume VI of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
by John Greenleaf Whittier
Természet, ember, társadalom: Válogatott tanulmányok
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pascal's Pensées
by Blaise Pascal
India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge
by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
Discours de la méthode
by René Descartes
Speeches: Literary and Social
by Charles Dickens
Literature and Life (Complete)
by William Dean Howells
Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
Hamburgische Dramaturgie
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Literary and Social Essays
by George William Curtis
A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker
by Agnes Giberne
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
by Various Authors
Algo de todo
by Juan Valera
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Aspects of the novel
by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature
by Arthur Schopenhauer
An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females
by Catharine Esther Beecher
The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution, February 4th and 11th, 1884
by John Ruskin
An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit
by George Meredith
Wake-Robin
by John Burroughs
Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 380, July 11, 1829
by Various Authors
Les Contemporains, Quatrième Série Etudes et Portraits Littéraires
by Jules Lemaître
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
by Bertrand Russell
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865
by Abraham Lincoln
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Bible Studies: Essays on Phallic Worship and Other Curious Rites and Customs
by J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) Wheeler
Literary and General Lectures and Essays
by Charles Kingsley
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
by Various Authors
Œuvres Complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, tome 1 mises en ordre, revues et annotées d'après les manuscrits de l'auteur
by Frédéric Bastiat
Personal Reminiscences in Book Making, and Some Short Stories
by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Notes and Queries, Number 171, February 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
Eine Kindheitserinnerung aus »Dichtung und Wahrheit«
by Sigmund Freud
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 398, November 14, 1829
by Various Authors
Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2
by Thomas De Quincey
Biographia Literaria
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
by Thomas Jefferson
Amours d'Extrême-Orient Illustrations d'après nature par Amédée Vignola
by Olivier Diraison-Seylor
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
Studies in Occultism; A Series of Reprints from the Writings of H. P. Blavatsky No. 1: Practical Occultism—Occultism versus the Occult Arts—The Blessings of Publicity
by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
Reprinted Pieces
by Charles Dickens
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists
by Washington Irving
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Study of Hawthorne
by George Parsons Lathrop
Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association
by Intercollegiate Peace Association
The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
by Arthur Brisbane
The Inner Life Part 3 from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII
by John Greenleaf Whittier
Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
by William Dean Howells
Dernières lettres d'un bon jeune homme à sa cousine Madeleine
by Edmond About
Buds and Bird Voices (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 27, 1890
by Various Authors
Les Femmes qui tuent et les Femmes qui votent
by Alexandre Dumas
