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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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Remarks
by Bill Nye
The Journal to Stella
by Jonathan Swift
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)
by Edmund Burke
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 23
by Robert Louis Stevenson
National Epics
by Kate Milner Rabb
Prejudices, first series
by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
Fact and Fable in Psychology
by Joseph Jastrow
The Raven, and The Philosophy of Composition
by Edgar Allan Poe
We Women and Our Authors
by Laura Marholm
Letters from Egypt
by Lady Lucie Duff Gordon
Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846
by Honoré de Balzac
The Letters of a Post-Impressionist Being the Familiar Correspondence of Vincent Van Gogh
by Vincent van Gogh
Old Christmas: from the Sketch Book of Washington Irving
by Washington Irving
荀子集解
by Xianqian Wang
Letters to His Children
by Theodore Roosevelt
Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes
by Charles Babbage
Human Intercourse
by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Principles of Freedom
by Terence J. (Terence Joseph) MacSwiney
The Cynic's Word Book
by Ambrose Bierce
Russian literature
by kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 02
by Michel de Montaigne
Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors
by Bernard Shaw
The Sea (La Mer)
by Jules Michelet
The Vitality of Mormonism: Brief Essays on Distinctive Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
by James E. (James Edward) Talmage
Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe
by Nathaniel Parker Willis
Dreamthorp : A book of essays written in the country
by Alexander Smith
Alone
by Norman Douglas
The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 2
by Samuel Adams
The Philosophy of Style
by Herbert Spencer
Collections and Recollections
by George William Erskine Russell
Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics
by Bernard Shaw
Eighteenth Century Waifs
by John Ashton
Practical Essays
by Alexander Bain
On the Decay of the Art of Lying
by Mark Twain
The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54
by Dorothy Osborne
State of the Union Addresses
by George W. (George Walker) Bush
Portraits littéraires, Tome I
by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Time and Change
by John Burroughs
The journal of Montaigne's travels in Italy by way of Switzerland and Germany in 1580 and 1581, Volume 1 (of 3)
by Michel de Montaigne
Of Gardens: An essay
by Francis Bacon
A Confession of St. Augustine
by William Dean Howells
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 09
by Michel de Montaigne
Wings and the Child; Or, The Building of Magic Cities
by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The Sacred Beetle, and Others
by Jean-Henri Fabre
Slavery: letters and speeches
by Horace Mann
Correspondance de Voltaire avec le roi de Prusse
by Voltaire, King of Prussia Frederick II
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843
by Various Authors
Shakespeare's treatment of love & marriage, and other essays
by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
From a Cornish Window A New Edition
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Les soirées de l'orchestre
by Hector Berlioz
A Book of Gems, or, Choice selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
Every Man His Own University
by Russell H. Conwell
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 3: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
by Abraham Lincoln
First and Last
by Hilaire Belloc
In and About Drury Lane, and Other Papers Vol. 1 (of 2) Reprinted from the pages of the 'Temple Bar' Magazine
by Dr. (John) Doran
Portraits of places
by Henry James
An essay on the American contribution and the democratic idea
by Winston Churchill
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 05 (of 20)
by Charles Sumner
Études Littéraires; dix-huitième siècle
by Émile Faguet
Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1)
by Frances Milton Trollope
Dialogue
by Anthony Hope
An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance
by John Foster
Los Raros Obras Completas Vol. VI
by Rubén Darío
A travers chants: études musicales, adorations, boutades et critiques
by Hector Berlioz
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 11 Antepenultimata
by Ambrose Bierce
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845
by Various Authors
Sermons on National Subjects
by Charles Kingsley
Sunday at Home (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744)
by Corbyn Morris
An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
by Angelina Emily Grimké
The Crown of Thorns: A Token for the Sorrowing
by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin
Post-Impressions: An Irresponsible Chronicle
by Simeon Strunsky
Tomlinsoniana
by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
The Faith of the Millions (2nd series)
by George Tyrrell
The steps of life: further essays on happiness
by Karl Hilty
Letters to Helen: Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front
by Keith Henderson
By-paths in Hebraic bookland
by Israel Abrahams
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
by Samuel Johnson
Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis
by John A. J. (John Angel James) Creswell
A Tramp's Sketches
by Stephen Graham
Biographical Essays
by Thomas De Quincey
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846
by Various Authors
Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850
by Various Authors
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Set Down in Malice: A Book of Reminiscences
by Gerald Cumberland
The Thread of Gold
by Arthur Christopher Benson
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828
by Various Authors
The Bible, King James version, Book 63: 2 John
by Anonymous
What Is Your Culture to Me?
by Charles Dudley Warner