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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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A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 04
by Voltaire
The Uses of Diversity: A book of essays
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Prejudices, third series
by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
Studies of Contemporary Poets
by Mary Sturgeon
The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 08 (of 12)
by William Hazlitt
Twelve Types
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Dealings with the Dead, Volume 1 (of 2)
by Lucius M. (Lucius Manlius) Sargent
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 05 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Discussions
by Robert Green Ingersoll
Mince Pie
by Christopher Morley
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 03
by Michel de Montaigne
Modern English Books of Power
by George Hamlin Fitch
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
by A. G. (Alfred Greenwood) Hales
Talks on the study of literature.
by Arlo Bates
Turns about Town
by Robert Cortes Holliday
The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
by Richard de Bury
'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!'
by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1
by Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt
The Powder of Sympathy
by Christopher Morley
Papers of the American Negro Academy. (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 18-19.)
by Archibald Henry Grimké, John Wesley Cromwell, Lafayette M. Hershaw, William Pickens, Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward
Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 1 (of 2)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Letters of Peregrine Pickle
by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness
by Albert-Henri de Sallengre
The Upton Letters
by Arthur Christopher Benson
New York Sketches
by Jesse Lynch Williams
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851
by Various Authors
Historical Mysteries
by Andrew Lang
Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, Vol. 1 (of 3) With Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected
by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
Under the Maples
by John Burroughs
Rambles of an archæologist among old books and in old places : Being papers on art, in relation to archæology, painting, art-decoration, and art-manufacture
by F. W. (Frederick William) Fairholt
Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
by George Horace Lorimer
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 2 being The Biographical Supplement of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Carry On: Letters in War-Time
by Coningsby Dawson
Symbolistes et Décadents
by Gustave Kahn
Notas d'arte
by António de Lemos
Wit, humor, reason, rhetoric, prose, poetry and story woven into eight popular lectures
by George W. Bain
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 15
by Michel de Montaigne
Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 2 (of 3)
by Theodore Parker
As We Are and As We May Be
by Walter Besant
The Works of Thomas Hood; Vol. 01 (of 11) Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, With All the Original Illustrations
by Thomas Hood
Diptyque de Flandre, triptyque de France le peintre aux billets, le pasteur de cygnes, le broyeur de fleurs, l'inextricable graveur, la porte ouverte au jardin fermé du roi
by comte de Robert Montesquiou-Fézensac
The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906.
by Various Authors
The Seven Ages of Man
by Ralph Bergengren
Miscellanies
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde
by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, Douglas Hyde, George Sigerson
True Words for Brave Men: A Book for Soldiers' and Sailors' Libraries
by Charles Kingsley
Since Cézanne
by Clive Bell
Boswell the Biographer
by George Mallory
Ars Recte Vivendi; Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair"
by George William Curtis
Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Varnhagen von Ense. From 1827 to 1858. With extracts from Varnhagen's diaries, and letters of Varnhagen and others to Humboldt
by Alexander von Humboldt
The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886
by Various Authors
Arrows of the Chace, vol. 1/2 being a collection of scattered letters published chiefly in the daily newspapers 1840-1880
by John Ruskin
State of the Union Addresses
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Three Days in the Village, and Other Sketches. Written from September 1909 to July 1910.
by graf Leo Tolstoy
The Peak in Darien, With Some Other Inquiries Touching Concerns of the Soul and the Body An Octave of Essays
by Frances Power Cobbe
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XL, No. 4, April 1852
by Various Authors
Letters from France
by Isaac Alexander Mack
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864
by Various Authors
Ideals in Art: Papers Theoretical, Practical, Critical
by Walter Crane
The Man of Letters as a Man of Business
by William Dean Howells
Leaves from St. John Chrysostom
by Saint John Chrysostom
Gleanings from Maeterlinck
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Introducing the American Spirit
by Edward Alfred Steiner
Oldport Days
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Lettres d'un bon jeune homme à sa cousine Madeleine
by Edmond About
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846
by Various Authors
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2
by Thomas De Quincey
The Commercial Restraints of Ireland
by John Hely-Hutchinson
The sunny side
by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
Crankisms
by Lisle de Vaux Matthewman
Landscape in History, and Other Essays
by Archibald Geikie
Tea-Table Talk
by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Attraverso il Cinquecento
by Arturo Graf
Œuvres complètes de lord Byron, Tome 11 comprenant ses mémoires publiés par Thomas Moore
by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron
A Plea for Old Cap Collier
by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
The Great Discovery
by Norman Maclean
Como e porque sou romancista
by José Martiniano de Alencar
Histoire littéraire d'Italie (5/9)
by Pierre Louis Ginguené
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 542, April 14, 1832
by Various Authors
Indian speeches (1907-1909)
by John Morley
Correspondance, 1812-1876 — Tome 4
by George Sand
The Incarnate Purpose: Essays on the Spiritual Unity of Life
by G. H. Percival
The works of Richard Hurd, volume 2 (of 8)
by Richard Hurd
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Emerson on Sound Money A Speech, 1896
by Willis George Emerson
State of the Union Addresses
by Herbert Hoover
The Silver Domino; Or, Side Whispers, Social and Literary
by Marie Corelli
Small Talk at Wreyland. First Series
by Cecil Torr