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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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The Little Review, October 1915 (Vol. 2, No. 7)
by Various Authors
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
A Book About the Theater
by Brander Matthews
The Mysteries of Modern London
by George R. (George Robert) Sims
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
The American Type of Isthmian Canal Speech by Hon. John Fairfield Dryden in the Senate of the United States, June 14, 1906
by John F. (John Fairfield) Dryden
Journeys to Bagdad
by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
Riverby
by John Burroughs
Joyce Kilmer : poems, essays and letters in two volumes. Volume 1, memoirs and poems
by Joyce Kilmer
A Sheaf
by John Galsworthy
Myth and Science An Essay
by Tito Vignoli
Poetry
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
La vie littéraire. Deuxième série
by Anatole France
Selections from Erasmus: Principally from his Epistles
by Desiderius Erasmus
Prose Idylls, New and Old
by Charles Kingsley
Light Science for Leisure Hours A series of familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c.
by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor
The Confessions of a Daddy
by Ellis Parker Butler
Quotes and Images From the Works of John Galsworthy
by John Galsworthy
AE in the Irish Theosophist
by George William Russell
Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. A Collection of Speeches and Messages
by Calvin Coolidge
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1
by Various Authors
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 03
by Alphonse de Lamartine
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 418 Volume 17, New Series, January 3, 1852
by Various Authors
Lettres sur l'histoire de France
by Augustin Thierry
A Candid Examination of Theism
by George John Romanes
Goose-Quill Papers
by Louise Imogen Guiney
The Orations of Lysias
by Lysias
The Lyric: An Essay
by John Drinkwater
The Recreations of a Country Parson
by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
Education and living
by Randolph Silliman Bourne
Reflections of a Bachelor Girl
by Helen Rowland
Opinions
by Claude C. (Claude Carlos) Washburn
Mountain Paths
by Maurice Maeterlinck
My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19
by Théophile Gautier
The Book of Christmas
by Various Authors
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845
by Various Authors
Foscolo, Manzoni, Leopardi: saggi Aggiuntovi preraffaelliti, simbolisti ed esteti e letteratura dell'avvenire
by Arturo Graf
De l'Allemagne; t. 2
by Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël
Revisiting the Earth
by James Langdon Hill
Letters to Judd, an American Workingman
by Upton Sinclair
Intercession: A Sermon Preached by the Rev. B. N. Michelson, B.A.
by B. N. Michelson
Histoire littéraire d'Italie (2/9)
by Pierre Louis Ginguené
There's Pippins and Cheese to Come
by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
Thoughts on South Africa
by Olive Schreiner
Companionable Books
by Henry Van Dyke
How Members of Congress Are Bribed
by J. Hampton (Joseph Hampton) Moore
Correspondance, 1812-1876 — Tome 1
by George Sand
Last Days in a Dutch Hotel (from Literature and Life)
by William Dean Howells
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 290, December 29, 1827
by Various Authors
The first essay on the political rights of women
by marquis de Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet
State of the Union Addresses
by John Tyler
Les Contemporains, 7ème Série Études et Portraits Littéraires
by Jules Lemaître
On Everything
by Hilaire Belloc
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 351, January 10, 1829
by Various Authors
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Section 2 (of 2) of Supplemental Volume: Theodore Roosevelt, Supplement
by Theodore Roosevelt
Gemälde und ihre Meister
by Arnold Reimann
La culture des idées
by Remy de Gourmont
Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America
by Joseph Rocchietti
Down at Caxton's
by William A. McDermott
Essays in Rationalism
by Charles Robert Newman
An Exhortation to Peace and Unity
by John Bunyan
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, Index, 1880
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 400, November 21, 1829
by Various Authors
Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch
by James Boswell, George Dempster, Andrew Erskine
Manhãs de Cascaes
by Alberto Pimentel
Le livre des masques: Portraits symbolistes
by Remy de Gourmont
Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies
by Charlotte (Charlotte Endymion) Porter, Helen A. (Helen Archibald) Clarke
The Law's Lumber Room (Second Series)
by Francis Watt
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 338, November 1, 1828
by Various Authors
Adventures in indigence, and other essays
by Laura Spencer Portor
The works of Richard Hurd, volume 8 (of 8)
by Richard Hurd
De Sobremesa; crónicas, Primera Parte (de 5)
by Jacinto Benavente
Post-scriptum de ma vie
by Victor Hugo
The Aftermath; Or, Gleanings from a Busy Life Called upon the outer cover, for purposes of sale, Caliban's Guide to Letters
by Hilaire Belloc
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 492, June 4, 1831
by Various Authors
An Open Letter to the Right Honorable David Lloyd George Prime Minister of Great Britain
by Lala Lajpat Rai
Les veillées du chauffeur : Contes, essais, récits de voyage
by Tristan Bernard
Address of President Roosevelt at Canton, Ohio, September 30, 1907
by Theodore Roosevelt
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 07
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Fifty Years of Freedom with matters of vital importance to both the white and colored people of the United States
by Francis J. (Francis James) Grimké
Encomium Artis Medicae: De Lof Der Geneeskunde
by Desiderius Erasmus
Le flâneur des deux rives
by Guillaume Apollinaire
Mere mortals : Medico-historical essays
by C. (Charles) MacLaurin
A lecture by Victoria Claflin Woodhull ...: The review of a century; or, the fruit of five thousand years
by Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin) Woodhull
On the Eve of Redemption
by S. M. Melamed
The Court of the King, and Other Studies
by Margaret Benson
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 717, September 22, 1877
by Various Authors
Walking essays
by Arthur Sidgwick
De profundis
by Oscar Wilde
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1022, July 29, 1899
by Various Authors