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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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Great Mysteries and Little Plagues
by John Neal
Nuts and Nutcrackers
by Charles Lever
Some Eccentrics & a Woman
by Lewis Melville
Discours par Maximilien Robespierre — 21 octobre 1789-1er juillet 1794
by Maximilien Robespierre
Notes and Queries, Number 73, March 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
Le livre de l'émeraude: en Bretagne
by André Suarès
Worrying Won't Win
by Montague Glass
In and About Drury Lane, and Other Papers, Vol. 2 (of 2) Reprinted from the pages of the 'Temple Bar' Magazine
by Dr. (John) Doran
Correspondance de Chateaubriand avec la marquise de V... Un dernier amour de René
by vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand, Marquise de Louisa Phillipa Rioufol d'Hautevill Vichet
The Feast of St. Friend
by Arnold Bennett
Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850
by Various Authors
Avant et Après Avec les vingt-sept dessins du manuscrit original
by Paul Gauguin
Poetry for Poetry's Sake An Inaugural Lecture Delivered on June 5, 1901
by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 19 (of 20)
by Charles Sumner
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832
by Various Authors
Lettres à un ami, 1865-1872
by Georges Bizet
Reflections on the Operation of the Present System of Education, 1853
by C. C. (Christopher Columbus) Andrews
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 538, March 17, 1832
by Various Authors
Miniature essays: Igor Stravinsky
by Anonymous
Oeuvres complètes de Charles Péguy (tome 1)
by Charles Péguy
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829
by Various Authors
Brani inediti dei Promessi Sposi, vol. 2 Opere di Alessando Manzoni vol. 2 parte 2
by Alessandro Manzoni
Birds and All Nature, Vol. 6, No. 2, September 1899 Illustrated by Color Photography
by Various Authors
The works of the Rev. John Wesley, Vol. 08 (of 32)
by John Wesley
Préfaces et manifestes littéraires
by Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 571 (Supplementary Number)
by Various Authors
Spirit of Chambers's Journal : Original tales, essays, and sketches, selected from that work
by William Chambers, Robert Chambers
The Novel and the Common School
by Charles Dudley Warner
Essay upon Wit
by Sir Richard Blackmore
Finding themselves : the letters of an American army chief nurse in a British hospital in France
by Julia C. (Julia Catherine) Stimson
The Egregious English
by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland
The British Association's Visit to Montreal, 1884 : Letters
by Lady Clara Rayleigh
Tierras Solares Obras Completas Vol. III
by Rubén Darío
A Sack of Shakings
by Frank Thomas Bullen
The Tricks of the Town: or, Ways and Means of getting Money
by active 1732 John Thomson
Cervantes e Portugal : curiosidade literaria
by Carlos Barroso
Bob Taylor's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 1, April 1905
by Various Authors
Goethes Briefe an Auguste zu Stolberg
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gräfin zu Augusta Louise Stolberg-Stolberg
Les femmes au gouvernail
by Hubertine Auclert
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832
by Various Authors
The Declaration of Independence: An Address
by Winslow Warren
Sentiments
by Auguste Gilbert de Voisins
The Magical Chance
by Dallas Lore Sharp
Roma beata; letters from the Eternal city
by Maud Howe Elliott
Aesthetic Poetry
by Walter Pater
The Philistine : a periodical of protest (Vol. I, No. 1, June 1895)
by Various Authors
Le Naturalisme
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
Milton's Tercentenary An address delivered before the Modern Language Club of Yale University on Milton's Three Hundredth Birthday.
by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Plain Sermons, preached at Archbishop Tenison's Chapel, Regent Street. Second Series
by James Galloway Cowan
From an Easy Chair
by Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
Un libro para las damas: Estudios acerca de la educación de la mujer
by María del Pilar Sinués de Marco
My Two Countries
by Viscountess Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor Astor
The Storm. An Essay.
by Daniel Defoe
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 26
by Alphonse de Lamartine
The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 7: Miscellaneous
by Artemus Ward
Briefe an Ludwig Tieck (1/4) Erster Band
by Ludwig Tieck
Prejudices
by Charles Macomb Flandrau
Shakespeare (Volume 2 of 2) Dargestellt im Vorträgen
by Gustav Landauer
The Philistine: a periodical of protest (Vol. III, No. 2, July 1896)
by Various Authors
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 11
by Alphonse de Lamartine
A Woman and the War
by Countess of Frances Evelyn Maynard Greville Warwick
Pensieri, Discorsi, Illustrazioni
by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi
Studii sulla letteratura contemporanea : Seconda serie
by Luigi Capuana
Il Comento alla Divina Commedia, e gli altri scritti intorno a Dante, vol. 2
by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Philistine : A periodical of protest (Vol. II, No. 5, April 1896)
by Various Authors
A funeral sermon for the Rev. Joseph Kinghorn preached in St. Mary's Meeting-house, Norwich, on Sunday afternoon, September 9th, 1832
by John Alexander
A Letter to the Viscount Palmerston, M.P. &c. &c. &c. on the Monitorial System of Harrow School
by C. J. (Charles John) Vaughan
Open Letter to President McKinley by Colored People of Massachusetts
by Colored National League
A Second Letter on the late Post Office Agitation
by C. J. (Charles John) Vaughan
The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Das Bücher-Dekameron Eine Zehn-Nächte-Tour durch die europäische Gesellschaft und Literatur
by Kasimir Edschmid
The Authoress of the Odyssey Where and when she wrote, who she was, the use she made of the Iliad, and how the poem grew under her hands
by Samuel Butler
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5
by Edgar Allan Poe
State of the Union Addresses (1790-2008)
by United States. Presidents
Essais de Montaigne (self-édition) - Volume I
by Michel de Montaigne
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
by Various Authors
The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, a Dialogue, Etc.
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
by Various Authors
The Praise of Folly
by Desiderius Erasmus
Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays
by Charles S. (Charles Sanders) Peirce
Culture and Anarchy
by Matthew Arnold
The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day
by William Jackson
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2
by Thomas Jefferson
Appreciations, with an Essay on Style
by Walter Pater
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)
by Edmund Burke