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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 Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Miscellany
by Robert Green Ingersoll
Laocoon : An essay upon the limits of painting and poetry. With remarks illustrative of various points in the history of ancient art.
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Prejudices, second series
by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
Roman Mosaics; Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
by Hugh Macmillan
The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation
by Upton Sinclair
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXIX., October, 1852
by Various Authors
Essays on Scandinavian Literature
by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
On the Margin: Notes and Essays
by Aldous Huxley
Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913
by Earl of Evelyn Baring Cromer
The Appetite of Tyranny: Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Faces in the Fire, and Other Fancies
by Frank Boreham
The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2
by Maria Edgeworth
Exotics and Retrospectives
by Lafcadio Hearn
Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823
by David Ricardo
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850
by Various Authors
Some Private Views
by James Payn
The Spirit of America
by Henry Van Dyke
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2
by Fanny Burney
The doctor, &c., vol. 7 (of 7)
by Robert Southey
Interpreters
by Carl Van Vechten
Женское международное движение: Сборник статей
by Various Authors
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
by I. Giberne (Isabel Giberne) Sieveking
Facts and Fictions of Life
by Helen H. (Helen Hamilton) Gardener
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The works of Richard Hurd, volume 6 (of 8)
by Richard Hurd
The Arena, Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891
by Various Authors
Prose Fancies (Second Series)
by Richard Le Gallienne
The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 4
by Samuel Adams
Five Minute Sermons, Volume II. For Low Masses on All Sundays of the Year by Priests of the Congregation of St. Paul
by Paulist Fathers
A Christmas Garland
by Sir Max Beerbohm
Gossip in a Library
by Edmund Gosse
Reden an die deutsche Nation
by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Society, Manners and Politics in the United States Being a Series of Letters on North America
by Michel Chevalier
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3), Essay 3: Condorcet
by John Morley
Love—Marriage—Birth Control Being a Speech delivered at the Church Congress at Birmingham, October, 1921
by Viscount Bertrand Edward Dawson Dawson
Trivia
by Logan Pearsall Smith
When Africa awakes The "inside story" of the stirrings and strivings of the new Negro in the Western world
by Hubert H. Harrison
The Young Maiden
by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews
by Robert Green Ingersoll
A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy
by William Spalding
For the Story Teller: Story Telling and Stories to Tell
by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Of the Injustice of Counterfeiting Books From: Essays and Treaties on Moral, Political and various Philosophical Subjects
by Immanuel Kant
Satires and Profanities
by James Thomson, G. W. (George William) Foote
Letters from the Cape
by Lady Lucie Duff Gordon
History of English Literature Volume 3 (of 3)
by Hippolyte Taine
Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890, Vol. 2
by R. W. (Richard William) Church
The Letters of the Duke of Wellington to Miss J., 1834-1851 Edited, with Extracts from the Diary of the Latter
by Duke of Arthur Wellesley Wellington
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1
by Charles Dudley Warner
Vrouwenbelangen Drie vraagstukken van actueelen aard
by Aletta H. (Aletta Henriette) Jacobs
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 6 (of 8) Ideas of Good and Evil
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3)
by Theodore Parker
Post-Prandial Philosophy
by Grant Allen
Principle in Art, Etc.
by Coventry Patmore
Res Judicatæ: Papers and Essays
by Augustine Birrell
Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699)
by Thomas D'Urfey
Papers from Lilliput
by J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley
Vignettes of San Francisco
by Almira Morey
Letters Exhibiting the Most Prominent Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
by Orson Spencer
Widger's Quotes and Images from The Ink Stain by René Bazin The French Immortals: Quotes and Images
by René Bazin
Within the Rim, and Other Essays, 1914-15
by Henry James
The Spell of the Rockies
by Enos A. Mills
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 3: Byron
by John Morley
Letters Concerning Poetical Translations And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c.
by William Benson
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics
by Various Authors
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 391, May, 1848
by Various Authors
Fuochi di bivacco
by Alfredo Oriani
Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Abraham Lincoln
by Abraham Lincoln
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845
by Various Authors
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852
by Various Authors
Notes and Queries, Number 239, May 27, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
Four Minute Essays, Volume X
by Frank Crane
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
A Book Without a Title
by George Jean Nathan
Letters to Catherine E. Beecher, in reply to an essay on slavery and abolitionism, addressed to A. E. Grimké
by Angelina Emily Grimké
Goat-Feathers
by Ellis Parker Butler
The English Secretary; or, Methode of Writing Epistles and Letters (1599) With, a Declaration of Such Tropes, Figures, and Schemes, as Either Usually or for Ornament Sake Are Therein Required
by active 1575-1595 Angel Day
Love's Coming-of-Age: A series of papers on the relations of the sexes
by Edward Carpenter
Letters from Palestine Written during a residence there in the years 1836, 7 and 8
by J. D. (John D.) Paxton
The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1
by Various Authors
Putting the Most Into Life
by Booker T. Washington
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 564, September 1, 1832
by Various Authors
Pickwickian Studies
by Percy Fitzgerald
The Legacy of Ignorantism
by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera
Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 02
by Guy de Maupassant
Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850
by Various Authors
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841
by Various Authors