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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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Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 6 December, 1897
by Various Authors
Curiosités Historiques et Littéraires
by Eugène Muller
Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922
by Various Authors
Briefe aus dem Gefängnis
by Rosa Luxemburg
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot
Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat
by Caspar Whitney, George Bird Grinnell, Owen Wister
In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making
by George Palmer Putnam
Some Impressions of My Elders
by St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine
Œuvres Complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, tome 2 mises en ordre, revues et annotées d'après les manuscrits de l'auteur
by Frédéric Bastiat
Discours Civiques de Danton
by Georges Jacques Danton
Biographical Sketches (From: "Fanshawe and Other Pieces")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Parish Papers
by Norman Macleod
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846
by Various Authors
Wondrous Love, and other Gospel addresses
by Dwight Lyman Moody
Oratory Sacred and Secular; Or, The Extemporaneous Speaker With Sketches of the Most Eminent Speakers of All Ages
by William Pittenger
Widger's Quotes and Images from A Romance of Youth by François Coppée The French Immortals: Quotes And Images
by François Coppée
State of the Union Addresses
by James Buchanan
Mad Shepherds, and Other Human Studies
by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks
Caprices d'un Bibliophile
by Octave Uzanne
Consolations in Travel; or, the Last Days of a Philosopher
by Sir Humphry Davy
Bric-à-brac
by Alexandre Dumas
A Hilltop on the Marne Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914
by Mildred Aldrich
State of the Union Addresses
by James K. (James Knox) Polk
On Handling the Data
by M. I. Mayfield
The Complete Cynic Being Bunches of Wisdom Culled from the Calendars of Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford, Addison Mizner
by Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner
Essays from the Chap-Book Being a Miscellany of Curious and interesting Tales, Histories, &c; newly composed by Many Celebrated Writers and very delightful to read.
by Various Authors
The Arena, Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897
by Various Authors
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 14
by Alphonse de Lamartine
The Casual Ward: Academic and Other Oddments
by A. D. (Alfred Denis) Godley
Adventures of Working Men. From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon
by George Manville Fenn
Here and There in London
by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
Observations of a Retired Veteran
by Henry C. Tinsley
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 376, June 20, 1829
by Various Authors
The Clerk of the Woods
by Bradford Torrey
If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact
by Edward Everett Hale
Lettre à Louis XIV
by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
Is There a Santa Claus?
by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
Grosser Lärm
by Franz Kafka
Letters to Eugenia; Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices
by baron d' Paul Henri Thiry Holbach
The elements of character
by Mary G. (Mary Greene) Ware
State of the Union Addresses
by Franklin Pierce
Thoughts on Life and Religion An Aftermath from the Writings of The Right Honourable Professor Max Müller
by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829
by Various Authors
Ploughshare and Pruning-Hook: Ten Lectures on Social Subjects
by Laurence Housman
The works of Richard Hurd, volume 3 (of 8)
by Richard Hurd
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 331, September 13, 1828
by Various Authors
Tantalus : or, The future of Man
by F. C. S. (Ferdinand Canning Scott) Schiller
Flaubert und die Herkunft des modernen Romans
by Heinrich Mann
Noites de insomnia, offerecidas a quem não póde dormir. Nº 01 (de 12)
by Camilo Castelo Branco
The Color of a Great City
by Theodore Dreiser
Doctors An Address delivered to the Students of the Medical School of the Middlesex Hospital, 1st October, 1908
by Rudyard Kipling
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 370, May 16, 1829
by Various Authors
A happy half-century, and other essays
by Agnes Repplier
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Being a Boy
by Charles Dudley Warner
A String of Amber Beads
by Martha Everts Holden
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 279, October 20, 1827
by Various Authors
Muistelmia ja matkakuvia
by Juhani Aho
Quotations from Georg Ebers
by Georg Ebers
Personal Recollections Abridged, Chiefly in Parts Pertaining to Political and Other Controversies Prevalent at the Time in Great Britain
by Charlotte Elizabeth
Giant Hours with Poet Preachers
by William L. (William Le Roy) Stidger
Deportation, its meaning and menace Last message to the people of America by Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman
by Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman
Opúsculos por Alexandre Herculano - Tomo 08
by Alexandre Herculano
Tales and Sketches Part 3 from Volume V of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
by John Greenleaf Whittier
Discoveries and Inventions: A lecture by Abraham Lincoln delivered in 1860
by Abraham Lincoln
Individualisme en socialisme
by Oscar Wilde
Vertheidigung des Herrn Wieland gegen die Wolken, von dem Verfasser der Wolken Deutsche Litteraturdenkmale des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, No. 121, Dritte Folge No. 1
by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
Juutalaisten puolustukseksi
by Émile Zola
Pikku haltijoita
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols.
by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes
by Charles Madison Curry, Erle Elsworth Clippinger
Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection
by Walter Savage Landor
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
by Various Authors
Milton
by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
The Bibliotaph, and Other People
by Leon H. (Leon Henry) Vincent
隨園詩話
by Mei Yuan
The Advancement of Learning
by Francis Bacon
Franklin's Way to Wealth; or, "Poor Richard Improved"
by Benjamin Franklin
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)
by Edmund Burke
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War
by Finley Peter Dunne
Heretics
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Letters of William James, Vol. 2
by William James
Familiar Letters The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 06 (of 20)
by Henry David Thoreau
Modern women and what is said of them : a reprint of a series of articles in the Saturday Review (1868)
by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
Reviews
by Oscar Wilde
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
A Book of Burlesques
by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn
by R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers
The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 (of 10) Poetry - Volume 2
by Alexander Pope
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 09
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851
by Various Authors