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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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Old lamps for new
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
La vie littéraire. Troisième série
by Anatole France
The Logic of Vegetarianism: Essays and Dialogues
by Henry S. Salt
Enfranchisement of women : Reprinted from the Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review, for July 1851
by Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill
Why Authors Go Wrong, and Other Explanations
by Grant M. (Grant Martin) Overton
Count the Cost An Address to the People of Connecticut, On Sundry Political Subjects, and Particularly on the Proposition for a New Constitution
by David Daggett
Old Wine and New: Occasional Discourses
by Joseph Cross
Browning and Dogma Seven Lectures on Browning's Attitude Towards Dogmatic Religion
by Ethel M. Naish
Rambles of a Naturalist
by John D. (John Davidson) Godman
Rogers-isms, the Cowboy Philosopher on the Peace Conference
by Will Rogers
Judgments in Vacation
by Sir Edward Abbott Parry
The Physiology of Marriage, Part 2
by Honoré de Balzac
Counter-currents
by Agnes Repplier
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 704 June 23, 1877
by Various Authors
Rede zum Schuljahresabschluß am 29. September 1809
by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Luthers Glaube: Briefe an einen Freund
by Ricarda Huch
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 283, November 17, 1827
by Various Authors
Pagine sparse
by Edmondo De Amicis
Your Affectionate Godmother
by Elinor Glyn
Canada for Gentlemen
by James Seton Cockburn
Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 130, April 24, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
Estampas de viaje: España en los días de la guerra
by Luis G. (Luis Gonzaga) Urbina
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 732 January 5, 1878
by Various Authors
State of the Union Addresses
by Zachary Taylor
Neither Here Nor There
by Oliver Herford
Proof-reading : A series of essays for readers and their employers, and for authors and editors
by F. Horace (Francis Horace) Teall
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 397, November 7, 1829
by Various Authors
Rêverie de Nouvel An
by Colette
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 472, January 22, 1831
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827
by Various Authors
Über den Expressionismus in der Literatur und die neue Dichtung
by Kasimir Edschmid
The Autobiography of a Play Papers on Play-Making, II
by Bronson Howard
Modern French Masters
by Marie Van Vorst
La vie littéraire. Première série
by Anatole France
Essays in American history
by Henry Ferguson
Sotto il velame: Saggio di un'interpretazione generale del poema sacro
by Giovanni Pascoli
Opinions sociales
by Anatole France
The Trials of a Country Parson
by Augustus Jessopp
Leabhráin an Irisleabhair—III Seanaid na nGaedheal
by Chonán Maol, Beirt Fhear, Patrick S. (Patrick Stephen) Dinneen, Gruagach an Tobair
London
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Past and the Present Condition, and the Destiny, of the Colored Race: A Discourse Delivered at the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Female Benevolent Society of Troy, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1848
by Henry Highland Garnet
Brief for the higher education of the negro
by Kelly Miller
Bom-senso e bom-gosto Folhetim a proposito da carta que o senhor Anthero do Quental dirigiu ao senhor Antonio Feliciano de Castilho
by Manuel Pinheiro Chagas
The Fly Leaf, No. 5, Vol. 1, April 1896
by Various Authors
My Literary Zoo
by Kate Sanborn
Deklaracio
by Takeo Arishima
An Edinburgh Eleven: Pencil Portraits from College Life
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Lukinverkkoja: Pieniä tomupiiloja jotka kotionneamme haittaavat
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Camion cartoons
by Kirkland Hart Day
Lettres d'un innocent
by Alfred Dreyfus
Ludwig Tiecks Genoveva, als romantische Dichtung betrachtet
by Johann Ranftl
Briefe einer Deutsch-Französin
by Annette Kolb
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 3, No. 25, October, 1921 America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy
by Various Authors
Briefe an Ludwig Tieck (3/4) Dritter Band
by Ludwig Tieck
Ljocht en Skaed: In mennich biskôgings
by Douwe Kalma
Irások irókról: Kritikák
by Frigyes Karinthy
A Letter on the Late Post Office Agitation
by C. J. (Charles John) Vaughan
Feljegyzések
by Ignotus
A Farewell Sermon delivered on Sunday, October 23, A.D. 1842, at the Parish Church of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington
by Joseph Holden Pott
She hath done what she could : A discourse addressed to the ratepayers of St. Marylebone, urging the adoption of the Public Libraries Act, 1855
by Matthew Feilde
Puhe kunniaseppeleestä
by Demosthenes
A sajtó
by Lajos Biró
Plutarch's Morals
by Plutarch
The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 2, 1844-1853 : A selection from Her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861.
by Queen of Great Britain Victoria
Penguin Persons & Peppermints
by Walter Prichard Eaton
The Wit of Women Fourth Edition
by Kate Sanborn
In Nesting Time
by Olive Thorne Miller
Alguns homens do meu tempo: impressões litterarias
by Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia
by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
淮南子
by An Liu
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, August 1847
by Various Authors
Ivory, Apes and Peacocks
by James Huneker
Egoists, A Book of Supermen Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Anatole France, Huysmans, Barrès, Nietzsche, Blake, Ibsen, Stirner, and Ernest Hello
by James Huneker
Ideas of Good and Evil
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The Works of George Berkeley. Vol. 1 of 4: Philosophical Works, 1705-21
by George Berkeley
張載集
by Zai Zhang
The writing of fiction
by Edith Wharton
The Secret Life: Being the Book of a Heretic
by Elizabeth Bisland
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 03
by Voltaire
Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, 1885 to 1895
by Rabindranath Tagore
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 02
by Voltaire
Dreams
by Henri Bergson
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 08 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Interviews
by Robert Green Ingersoll
The Social Significance of the Modern Drama
by Emma Goldman
The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852
by Various Authors
The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style
by Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple
The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831
by Various Authors