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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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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118
by Various Authors
Paris Nights, and Other Impressions of Places and People
by Arnold Bennett
On The Art of Reading
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 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
Open That Door!
by R. Sturgis (Robert Sturgis) Ingersoll
A Fantasy of Far Japan; Or, Summer Dream Dialogues
by Kencho Suematsu
Opuscula: Essays chiefly Philological and Ethnographical
by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
Les femmes et les livres
by Albert Cim
Individuality From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'
by Robert Green Ingersoll
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
by Edmund Burke
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 3, September 1852
by Various Authors
Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France
by Edmund Gosse
The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VI. (Of VII) Old Portraits and Modern Sketches, Plus Personal Sketches and Tributes and Historical Papers
by John Greenleaf Whittier
The librarian at play
by Edmund Lester Pearson
Ariosto, Shakespeare and Corneille
by Benedetto Croce
The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912
by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
Frondes Agrestes: Readings in 'Modern Painters'
by John Ruskin
A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade Addressed to the freeholders and other inhabitants of Yorkshire
by William Wilberforce
Damn! A Book of Calumny
by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Fifteen discourses
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 427, May, 1851
by Various Authors
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Les Romanciers d'Aujourd'hui
by Charles Le Goffic
Daily Thoughts: selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife
by Charles Kingsley
Medieval English Literature
by W. P. (William Paton) Ker
Side Lights
by James Runciman
The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers
by John Burroughs
Learning and Other Essays
by John Jay Chapman
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 4, April, 1886
by Various Authors
The Book of This and That
by Robert Lynd
Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness
by Henry Van Dyke
The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2
by Demosthenes
Cambridge Sketches
by Frank Preston Stearns
"Swingin round the cirkle" : His ideas of men, politics, and things, as set forth in his letters to the public press, during the year 1866.
by David Ross Locke
Arthur Machen: A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin With Two Uncollected Poems by Arthur Machen
by Vincent Starrett
Rede, gehalten bei der Eröffnung der Versammlung deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte in Berlin, am 18. September 1828
by Alexander von Humboldt
Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8)
by John Henry Newman
Les droits de la femme
by Olympe de Gouges
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
The Altruist in Politics
by Benjamin N. (Benjamin Nathan) Cardozo
Les historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux, tome quatrième Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du XVIIe siècle
by Tallemant des Réaux
An Appeal to the British Nation on the Humanity and Policy of Forming a National Institution for the Preservation of Lives and Property from Shipwreck (1825)
by Sir William Hillary
Unity of Good
by Mary Baker Eddy
The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 2 (of 3)
by Henry Fuseli
George Cruikshank
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Legends: Autobiographical Sketches
by August Strindberg
The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 1, July 1837
by Various Authors
Untimely papers
by Randolph Silliman Bourne
Women and Politics
by Charles Kingsley
Practical Talks by an Astronomer
by Harold Jacoby
In the Track of the Bookworm
by Irving Browne
Letters of the Motor Girl
by Ethellyn Gardner
The Unknown Guest
by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome
by Jesse Benedict Carter
The Spirit of Place, and Other Essays
by Alice Meynell
Der Dichter Lenz und Friedericke von Sesenheim Aus Briefen und gleichzeitigen Quellen; nebst Gedichten und Anderm von Lenz und Göthe
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, James Macpherson
Note Book of an English Opium-Eater
by Thomas De Quincey
Henry Clay's Remarks in House and Senate
by Henry Clay
The Three Days' Tournament: A Study in Romance and Folk-Lore Being an Appendix to the Author's 'Legend of Sir Lancelot'
by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886
by Various Authors
Journal des Goncourt (Deuxième série, premier volume) Mémoires de la vie littéraire
by Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 12, 1891
by Various Authors
Modern Fiction
by Charles Dudley Warner
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 05
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Œuvres de jeunesse inédites. II: 1839-1842. Œuvres diverses.—Novembre.
by Gustave Flaubert
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 407, September, 1849
by Various Authors
Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
L'élite: écrivains, orateurs sacrés, peintres, sculpteurs
by Georges Rodenbach
Life on the Mississippi, Part 11.
by Mark Twain
Address to the Non-Slaveholders of the South on the Social and Political Evils of Slavery
by Lewis Tappan
A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England
by Eliza Allen Southall
Vojaĝo interne de mia ĉambro
by Xavier de Maistre
Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 131, May 1, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 470, January 8, 1831
by Various Authors
Practical recitations Selections for literary exercises appropriate for reception-days, holidays, poets' birthdays, etc.
by Caroline B. (Caroline Bigelow) Le Row
In Answer to Prayer
by William Boyd Carpenter, Theodore L. (Theodore Ledyard) Cuyler, W. J. (William John) Knox-Little, Ian Maclaren, William Quarrier
Vingt années de Paris
by André Gill
Second Edition of A Discovery Concerning Ghosts With a Rap at the "Spirit-Rappers"
by George Cruikshank
Goethe und Werther: Briefe Goethe's, meistens aus seiner Jugendzeit
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A Vindication of the Press
by Daniel Defoe
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXI, No. 3, September 1842
by Various Authors
La guerre
by Camille Mauclair
The Impossibilities of Anarchism
by Bernard Shaw
Address by Honorable Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior at Conference of Regional Chairmen of the Highways Transport Committee Council of National Defense
by United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee
Dostoïevsky (Articles et Causeries)
by André Gide
A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)
by Thomas Purney
Briefe an Ludwig Tieck (2/4) Zweiter Band
by Ludwig Tieck