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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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Lincoln, the American
by Frank O. (Frank Orren) Lowden
Lehtisiä mietekirjastani
by Zacharias Topelius
The Christian serving his own generation A sermon occasioned by the lamented death of Joseph John Gurney, Esq.
by John Alexander
Gli 'ismi' contemporanei : (Verismo, Simbolismo, Idealismo, Cosmopolitanismo) ed altri saggi di critica letteraria ed artistica
by Luigi Capuana
Kirjoja ja kirjailijoita III
by Veikko Antero Koskenniemi
Kirkkopuheet
by Arvid Järnefelt
Kirjoja ja kirjailijoita II
by Veikko Antero Koskenniemi
Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre
by Voltairine De Cleyre
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters
by Charles Darwin
The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 1, 1833-1856
by Charles Dickens
Eugenics and Other Evils
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
閱微草堂筆記
by Yun Ji
Historical Essays
by James Ford Rhodes
John Lyly
by John Dover Wilson
On the Sublime
by active 1st century Longinus
Unicorns
by James Huneker
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 02 The Rambler, Volume I
by Samuel Johnson
Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners
by William Hazlitt
Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
by Edmund Burke
French Classics
by William Cleaver Wilkinson
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
by Samuel Butler
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 7 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private
by Thomas Jefferson
The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915
by Various Authors
Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Montaigne et François Bacon
by Pierre Villey
The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870
by Various Authors
Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2)
by Edward Gibbon
The Friendships of Women
by William Rounseville Alger
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 01 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Lectures
by Robert Green Ingersoll
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3
by Sir Thomas Browne
Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882
by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck
Bacon and Shakspere
by William Henry Burr
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 03 (of 20)
by Charles Sumner
Philosophical Studies
by G. E. (George Edward) Moore
Windfalls
by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner
On Translating Homer
by Matthew Arnold, Francis William Newman
Gods of Modern Grub Street: Impressions of Contemporary Authors
by Arthur St. John Adcock
Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness
by Henry Van Dyke
Essais de Montaigne (self-édition) - Volume IV
by Michel de Montaigne
A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York
by E. A. (Elias Avery) Lowe, Edward Kennard Rand
Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II
by Horace Walpole
The Letters of a Portuguese Nun
by vicomte de Gabriel Joseph de Lavergne Guilleragues
Picture and Text 1893
by Henry James
Essais de Montaigne (self-édition) - Volume II
by Michel de Montaigne
Readers and Writers (1917-1921)
by A. R. (Alfred Richard) Orage
The Olivia Letters Being Some History of Washington City for Forty Years as Told by the Letters of a Newspaper Correspondent
by Emily Edson Briggs
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844
by Various Authors
The Alhambra
by Washington Irving
State of the Union Addresses
by Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) Roosevelt
An Englishwoman in the Philippines
by Mrs. Campbell Dauncey
Bible Romances, First Series
by G. W. (George William) Foote
The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville.
by Nathaniel Armstrong Wells
The Beautiful Necessity Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture
by Claude Fayette Bragdon
Carlyle's laugh, and other surprises
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla
by Leigh Hunt
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 67, No. 416, June 1850
by Various Authors
野草
by Xun Lu
The Function of the Poet, and Other Essays
by James Russell Lowell
Letters of Catherine Benincasa
by Saint of Siena Catherine
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 13 (of 20)
by Charles Sumner
Third class in Indian railways
by Mahatma Gandhi
McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 6, October, 1908
by Various Authors
Essays Æsthetical
by George Henry Calvert
Hints to Pilgrims
by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Montaigne
by Michel de Montaigne
Musical Studies
by Ernest Newman
Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment
by Thomson Willing
Studies in Literature
by John Morley
A Book of Exposition
by Homer Heath Nugent
Bill Nye's Cordwood
by Bill Nye
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66 No.406, August 1849
by Various Authors
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 07 (of 20)
by Charles Sumner
The Pageant of Summer
by Richard Jefferies
A Letter to the Hon. Samuel A. Eliot, Representative in Congress From the City of Boston, In Reply to His Apology For Voting For the Fugitive Slave Bill.
by Franklin Dexter
By-gone Tourist Days: Letters of Travel
by Laura G. Case Collins
Observations By Mr. Dooley
by Finley Peter Dunne
Lettres de Mmes. de Villars, de Coulanges et de La Fayette, de Ninon de L'Enclos et de Mademoiselle Aïssé accompagnées de notices bibliographiques, de notes explicatives par Louis-Simon Auger
by marquise de Marie Gigault de Bellefonds Villars, C. E. (Charlotte Elisabeth) Aïssé, Marie-Angélique Du Gué Bagnoles Coulanges, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) La Fayette, Ninon de Lenclos
夢溪筆談, Volume 17-21
by Kuo Shen
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Tirant lo Blanch; a study of its authorship, principal sources and historical setting
by Joseph Anthony Vaeth
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 410, December 1849
by Various Authors
The works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A., Vol. 3 (of 6) : Containing all his sermons and tracts, etc.
by George Whitefield
Three Prayers and Sermons
by Jonathan Swift
Rough Ways Made Smooth: A series of familiar essays on scientific subjects
by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, No. 411, January 1850
by Various Authors
Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885
by Various Authors
Canterbury Pieces
by Samuel Butler
Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)
by Alexander Whyte