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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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Trapped in 'Black Russia': Letters June-November 1915
by Ruth Pierce
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 269, August 18, 1827
by Various Authors
Library Essays; Papers Related to the Work of Public Libraries
by Arthur E. (Arthur Elmore) Bostwick
An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad
by Walter Harte
Letters of Felix Mendelssohn to Ignaz and Charlotte Moscheles
by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Lettres à Mademoiselle de Volland
by Denis Diderot
The awful Australian
by Montague Grover
Chiose alla cantica dell'Inferno di Dante Alighieri pubblicate per la prima volta in corretta lezione con riscontri e fac-simili di codici, e precedute da una indagine critica
by Jacopo Alighieri
Saturday Night Thoughts A Series of Dissertations on Spiritual, Historical, and Philosophic Themes
by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 10: Auguste Comte
by John Morley
The Most Bitter Foe of Nations, and the Way to Its Permanent Overthrow
by Andrew Dickson White
Vogels van diverse pluimage
by Carel Vosmaer
Heretics And Heresies From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'
by Robert Green Ingersoll
Two Suffolk Friends
by Francis Hindes Groome
Thoughts upon slavery
by John Wesley
Pastiches et mélanges
by Marcel Proust
Eating in Two or Three Languages
by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850
by Various Authors
Filosofía Americana: Ensayos
by Enrique Molina
Romance: Two Lectures
by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
Another Sheaf
by John Galsworthy
Widger's Quotes and Images from Gerfaut by Charles de Bernard The French Immortals: Quotes And Images
by Charles de Bernard
Briefe von Goethe an Lavater aus den Jahren 1774 bis 1783
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Australian Essays
by Francis Adams
Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 117, January 24, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
Proza
by Jacobus van Looy
Jungle night
by William Beebe
Social Pictorial Satire
by George Du Maurier
Widger's Quotes and Images from Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti The French Immortals: Quotes and Images
by Pierre Loti
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832.
by Various Authors
Questions at Issue in Our English Speech
by Edwin W. (Edwin Winfield) Bowen
Opúsculos por Alexandre Herculano - Tomo 01
by Alexandre Herculano
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 478, February 26, 1831
by Various Authors
Studies and Essays: Concerning Letters
by John Galsworthy
Trois hommes: Pascal, Ibsen, Dostoïevski
by André Suarès
The Ingenious and Diverting Letters of the Lady ---- Travels into Spain Describing the Devotions, Nunneries, Humours, Customs, Laws, Militia, Trade, Diet and Recreations of That People
by Madame d' (Marie-Catherine) Aulnoy
A Statement: On the Future of This Church
by John Haynes Holmes
O Centenario de José Estevão: Homenagem da Maçonaria Portugueza
by S. de Magalhães (Sebastião de Magalhães) Lima
Original letters and biographic epitomes
by J. Atwood (John Atwood) Slater
Hypatia : or, Woman and knowledge
by Dora Russell
Lettres à un indifférent
by Adolphe Retté
Maximes
by François duc de La Rochefoucauld
Divorce versus Democracy
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Chronicas de Viagem
by Alberto Pimentel
Sämtliche Werke 13 : Politische Schriften
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Historical Papers Part 3 from Volume VI of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
by John Greenleaf Whittier
Harper's Round Table, January 19, 1897
by Various Authors
This Then is Upland Pastures Being some out-door essays dealing with the beautiful things that the spring and summer bring
by Adeline Knapp
Von Wundern und Tieren: Neue naturwissenschaftliche Plaudereien
by Wilhelm Bölsche
Nine O'Clock Talks
by Frederic B. Kellogg
Address of President Roosevelt at Keokuk, Iowa, October 1, 1907
by Theodore Roosevelt
Consecrated Womanhood A Sermon Preached in the First Congregational Church, Portland, Oregon
by Frederic Rowland Marvin
The Literary Discipline
by John Erskine
Petit bréviaire de la Gourmandise
by Laurent Tailhade
Our Women in the War
by Francis Warrington Dawson
A Second Letter to the Rev. William Maskell, M.A. Some thoughts on the position of the Church of England, as to her dogmatic teaching
by Mayow Wynell Mayow
Inaŭgura parolado de Barack Obama 20-a de januaro, 2009
by Barack Obama
Trotwood's Monthly, Vol. I, No. 3, December 1905
by Various Authors
Why I Am a Vegetarian An Address Delivered Before the Chicago Vegetarian Society
by J. Howard (John Howard) Moore
Valitut teokset 1910-1922
by Eino Kaila
Les voyous au théâtre (Histoire de deux pièces)
by Oscar Méténier
Correspondance diplomatique de Bertrand de Salignac de La Mothe Fénélon, Tome Second Ambassadeur de France en Angleterre de 1568 à 1575
by active 16th century seigneur de La Mothe-Fénelon Bertrand de Salignac
The Philistine : a periodical of protest (Vol. III, No. 6, November 1896)
by Various Authors
Erämaan matkaajille : Saarnoja
by Arvi Järventaus
Luonnon ihmeitä
by O. A. (Otto Aleksanteri) Joutsen
Kuninkaitten aarteet
by John Ruskin
The Foot-path Way
by Bradford Torrey
The Merry-Go-Round
by Carl Van Vechten
Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908
by Various Authors
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
More Trivia
by Logan Pearsall Smith
The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life
by Brother of the Resurrection Lawrence
Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams
by John Adams, Abigail Adams
The Strenuous Life The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Volume 12 (of 14)
by Theodore Roosevelt
Her Royal Highness Woman
by Max O'Rell
Library Work with Children
by Alice Isabel Hazeltine
Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson Selected and Edited With an Introduction and Notes by William Lyon Phelps
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Adventures and Enthusiasms
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900
by Mary King Waddington
The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875
by Various Authors
Free Thought and Official Propaganda
by Bertrand Russell
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)
by Edmund Burke
The Physiology of Marriage, Complete
by Honoré de Balzac
Curiosities of Civilization
by Andrew Wynter
The Letters of S. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan
by Bishop of Milan Saint Ambrose
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 03 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Lectures
by Robert Green Ingersoll
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Whitman: A Study
by John Burroughs
August Strindberg, the Spirit of Revolt: Studies and Impressions
by L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby