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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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Twentieth Century French Writers: Reviews and Reminiscences
by A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson
Essays and Dialogues
by Giacomo Leopardi
The Ethics of George Eliot's Works
by John Crombie Brown
Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2)
by Edward Gibbon
Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 14
by Michel de Montaigne
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842
by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
The Patient Observer and His Friends
by Simeon Strunsky
Modernities
by Horace Barnett Samuel
The lost Atlantis, and other ethnographic studies
by Sir Daniel Wilson
Speeches against Catilina
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers
by John Burroughs
Bygone Beliefs: Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Thought
by H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley) Redgrove
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 4 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private
by Thomas Jefferson
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 4: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
by Abraham Lincoln
Vesper Talks to Girls
by Laura A. (Laura Anna) Knott
Love Conquers All
by Robert Benchley
Locusts and Wild Honey
by John Burroughs
The Catholic World, Vol. 06, October, 1867 to March, 1868.
by Various Authors
The Quest of the Simple Life
by W. J. (William James) Dawson
Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature
by Margaret Ball
Literary Blunders: A Chapter in the "History of Human Error"
by Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) Wheatley
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXVII, August 1852, Vol. V
by Various Authors
Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady
by Mrs. (Hester) Chapone
Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica
by James Boswell
The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2
by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq
The Works of Thomas Hood; Vol. 02 (of 11) Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, With All the Original Illustrations
by Thomas Hood
Letters and Literary Memorials of Samuel J. Tilden, v. 2
by Samuel J. (Samuel Jones) Tilden
The Little Review, December 1914 (Vol. 1, No. 9)
by Various Authors
The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 10 (of 12)
by William Hazlitt
Cabos sueltos: Literatura y lingüística
by Julio Cejador y Frauca
Ponkapog Papers
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
An Artist's Letters from Japan
by John La Farge
Talks About Flowers.
by Mrs. M. D. Wellcome
Wild Apples
by Henry David Thoreau
The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford
by John Ruskin
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone
by Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton
A Few Words About the Devil, and Other Biographical Sketches and Essays
by Charles Bradlaugh
Springtime and Other Essays
by Sir Francis Darwin
The Romance of the Commonplace
by Gelett Burgess
Compensation : Being an essay as written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sermons on the Card, and Other Discourses
by Hugh Latimer
Letters of Asa Gray; Vol. 1
by Asa Gray
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 68, No 422, December 1850
by Various Authors
Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734)
by Mr. (Lewis) Theobald
The Pleasures of Ignorance
by Robert Lynd
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 15 (of 20)
by Charles Sumner
Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer
by Sir Richard Steele
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896
by Various Authors
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, May 1885
by Various Authors
The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky, and Other Kentucky Articles
by James Lane Allen
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Noites de insomnia, offerecidas a quem não póde dormir. Nº 04 (de 12)
by Camilo Castelo Branco
The works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A., Vol. 4 (of 6) : Containing all his sermons and tracts, etc.
by George Whitefield
Jungle Folk: Indian Natural History Sketches
by Douglas Dewar
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
by Various Authors
Men in the Making
by Ambrose Shepherd
Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy
by Andrew Lang
Michelangelo Gedichte und Briefe In Auswahl herausgegeben von R. A. Guardini
by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Le Naturalisme au théâtre, les théories et les exemples
by Émile Zola
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 720, October 13, 1877
by Various Authors
The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3
by Various Authors
Out and About London
by Thomas Burke
La rana viajera
by Julio Camba
Clocks
by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848
by Various Authors
With Rimington
by L. March (Lisle March) Phillipps
Portraits littéraires, Tome III
by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Italian Backgrounds
by Edith Wharton
Lettres à Madame Viardot
by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 404, December 12, 1829
by Various Authors
Lettres de Marie Bashkirtseff Préface de François Coppée
by Marie Bashkirtseff
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 12 (of 20)
by Charles Sumner
Parts of Speech: Essays on English
by Brander Matthews
A Year in a Lancashire Garden Second Edition
by Henry Arthur Bright
Legenden en Romances van Spanje
by Lewis Spence
The Assembly of God. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. III
by Charles Henry Mackintosh
State of the Union Addresses
by Thomas Jefferson
Australian Writers
by Desmond Byrne
Peter Plymley's Letters, and Selected Essays
by Sydney Smith
Rebel women
by Evelyn Sharp
Unfinished Rainbows, and Other Essays
by George Wood Anderson
Books and Culture
by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Problems of Expansion As Considered in Papers and Addresses
by Whitelaw Reid