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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 Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Homer's Odyssey A Commentary
by Denton Jaques Snider
Happy Days
by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, December 1878
by Various Authors
Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 3 Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities
by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Aufsätze
by Robert Walser
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348
by Various Authors
Essays in Radical Empiricism
by William James
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 02
by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays
by Willa Cather
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 8 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private
by Thomas Jefferson
A Letter to a Hindu
by graf Leo Tolstoy
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 1, December, 1850
by Various Authors
Essays
by David Hume
The Correspondence of Madame, Princess Palatine, Mother of the Regent; of Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne; and of Madame de Maintenon, in Relation to Saint-Cyr
by Madame de Maintenon, Duchess of Burgundy of Savoy Marie Adelaide, duchesse d' Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
by Various Authors
The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 06 (of 12)
by William Hazlitt
Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 2 of 2)
by John Addington Symonds
The Letters of Henry James (Vol. II)
by Henry James
The Complete Essays of Charles Dudley Warner
by Charles Dudley Warner
Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., in Nine Volumes
by Samuel Johnson
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906
by Various Authors
Essays on the Greek Romances
by Elizabeth Hazelton Haight
Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming
by Henry Ward Beecher
Country Rambles, and Manchester Walks and Wild Flowers Being Rural Wanderings in Cheshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and Yorkshire
by Leo H. (Leo Hartley) Grindon
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 22 Juvenilia and Other Papers
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rustic Sounds, and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History
by Sir Francis Darwin
Seeing Things at Night
by Heywood Broun
Proverbs of All Nations, Compared, Explained, and Illustrated
by Walter K. (Walter Keating) Kelly
The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 11 (of 12)
by William Hazlitt
English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators, with Lists of Their Books
by R. E. D. (Rose Esther Dorothea) Sketchley
The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906
by Various Authors
Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe
by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Talks to Farmers
by C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
Auld lang syne. Second series : My Indian friends
by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
Simon Magus An Essay on the Founder of Simonianism Based on the Ancient Sources With a Re-Evaluation of His Philosophy and Teachings
by G. R. S. (George Robert Stow) Mead
Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions
by George S. (George Sewall) Boutwell
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings, Volumes 1 and 2 : Her correspondence from 1720 to 1761
by Mrs. (Elizabeth) Montagu
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 01
by Ambrose Bierce
Critical Miscellanies, (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 2: The Death of Mr Mill; Essay 3: Mr Mill's Autobiography
by John Morley
The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906
by Various Authors
An Englishwoman's Love-Letters
by Laurence Housman
Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities
by Saint Edmund Campion
Interpreters
by Carl Van Vechten
Lectures and Essays
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877.
by Various Authors
The Little Review, November 1914 (Vol. 1, No. 8)
by Various Authors
Fame usurpate
by Vittorio Imbriani
Speculations from Political Economy
by Charles Baron Clarke
The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750)
by Samuel Johnson
Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Lord Chesterfield
by Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic
by Sir William Petty
Of Vulgarity
by John Ruskin
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 16 (of 20)
by Charles Sumner
Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions
by Thomas Henry Huxley
The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906
by Various Authors
夢溪筆談, Volume 01-06
by Kuo Shen
The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 3 (of 3)
by Henry Fuseli
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2
by Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt
The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends
by Anonymous
Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, June 1885
by Various Authors
Beethoven's Symphonies Critically Discussed
by Alexander Teetgen
Old Junk
by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1
by Various Authors
Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
by Mark Twain
The Little Review, April 1916 (Vol. 3, No. 2)
by Various Authors
Filipinas Dentro De Cien Años (Estudio Politico-Social)
by José Rizal
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Briefwechsel zwischen Abaelard und Heloise, mit der Leidensgeschichte Abaelards
by Peter Abelard, Héloïse
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846
by Various Authors
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays
by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Prose (1880-1890)
by Cesare Pascarella
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
by Various Authors
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
El poema de la Pampa: "Martín Fierro" y el criollismo español
by José María Salaverría
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
by Various Authors
Common Sense About Women
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Mr. Dooley Says
by Finley Peter Dunne
Reveries of a Bachelor; or, A Book of the Heart
by Donald Grant Mitchell
Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning
by William Wagstaffe, George Canning
Goethes Briefe an Leipziger Freunde
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Little Review, January 1915 (Vol. 1, No. 10)
by Various Authors
Defenders of Democracy Contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy
by Militia of Mercy (U.S.). Gift Book Committee
Littérature et Philosophie mêlées
by Victor Hugo