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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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Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln Delivered at the request of both Houses of Congress of America
by George Bancroft
Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion
by Bernard Shaw
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827
by Various Authors
Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916 From Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years
by Robert Stafford Arthur Palmer
El Superhombre y otras novedades
by Juan Valera
The Mentor: Famous English Poets, Vol. 1, Num. 44, Serial No. 44
by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Pearls & Parasites
by Sir A. E. (Arthur Everett) Shipley
Notes and Queries, Number 178, March 26, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 07, May, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
A View of Society and Manners in Italy, Volume 2 (of 2) With Anecdotes Relating to some Eminent Characters
by John Moore
The Woman and the Right to Vote
by Rafael Palma
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 11
by Michel de Montaigne
Wit and Wisdom of Lord Tredegar
by Godfrey Charles Morgan
Flowers and fruit from the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Life's Enthusiasms
by David Starr Jordan
The Amazing City
by John Frederick Macdonald
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832
by Various Authors
Raw Material
by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery
by George H. (George Henry) Danton
Nervosos, Lymphaticos e Sanguineos
by Alberto Pimentel
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832
by Various Authors
Civilization the Primal Need of the Race, and The Attitude of the American Mind Toward the Negro Intellect The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3
by Alexander Crummell
The Philistine : a periodical of protest (Vol. I, No. 4, September 1895)
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 568, September 29, 1832
by Various Authors
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. December, 1877
by Various Authors
On the Vice of Novel Reading. Being a brief in appeal, pointing out errors of the lower tribunal.
by Young Ewing Allison
This Misery of Boots
by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Notes and Queries, Number 85, June 14, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
Sämtliche Werke 12 : Literarische Schriften
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 282, November 10, 1827
by Various Authors
Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses
by Horace Smith
Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 134, May 22, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
A Discourse for the Time, delivered January 4, 1852 in the First Congregational Unitarian Church
by William Henry Furness
Theóphilo Braga e a lenda do Crisfal
by Delfim de Brito Guimarães
New Brooms
by Robert J. (Robert James) Shores
Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850
by Various Authors
Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849
by Various Authors
Universal Brotherhood, Volume XIII, No. 10, January 1899 A Magazine Devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, the Theosophical Movement, Philosophy, Science and Art
by Various Authors
Letters from a Landscape Painter
by Charles Lanman
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 329, August 30, 1828
by Various Authors
The Christmas dinner, from "The sketch book"
by Washington Irving
In Bird Land
by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. LXXXIX, No. 1, 1923)
by Various Authors
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Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 4 [September 1902] Illustrated by Color Photography
by Various Authors
A Peep Into the Past
by Sir Max Beerbohm
John Bull's Womankind (Les Filles de John Bull)
by Max O'Rell
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 428 Volume 17, New Series, March 13, 1852
by Various Authors
Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Thomas Cooper
Cartas americanas. Primera serie
by Juan Valera
Woodland Paths
by Winthrop Packard
"My Visit to Tolstoy": Five Discourses
by Joseph Krauskopf
Letters of a Lunatic A Brief Exposition of My University Life, During the Years 1853-54
by G. J. (George J.) Adler
California Sketches, New Series
by O. P. (Oscar Penn) Fitzgerald
Amori et dolori sacrum: La mort de Venise
by Maurice Barrès
Nuevas cartas americanas
by Juan Valera
The Sin and Danger of Self-Love Described by a Sermon Preached At Plymouth, in New-England, 1621
by Robert Cushman
The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 1, October 1922)
by Various Authors
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 3, March 1847
by Various Authors
The Ballotless Victim of One-Party Governments The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 16
by Archibald Henry Grimké
Margaret and Her Friends or, Ten conversations with Margaret Fuller upon the mythology of the Greeks and its expression in art, held at the house of the Rev. George Ripley, Bedford Place, Boston, beginning March 1, 1841
by Caroline Wells Healey Dall, Margaret Fuller
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 24, 1890
by Various Authors
The Physiology of Marriage, Part 1
by Honoré de Balzac
The Little Review, April 1915 (Vol. 2, No. 2)
by Various Authors
Essays Irish and American
by John Butler Yeats
Die naturwissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der Poesie. Prolegomena einer realistischen Aesthetik
by Wilhelm Bölsche
Coasting Bohemia
by J. Comyns (Joseph Comyns) Carr
Some War Impressions
by Jeffery Farnol
Thirty Letters on Various Subjects, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by William Jackson
Leaves from the Diary of an Impressionist: Early Writings
by Lafcadio Hearn
Színházi esték
by Zoltán Ambrus
Salta
by Juan Carlos Dávalos
Christo não volta (Resposta ao «Voltareis, ó Christo?» de Camillo Castello-Branco)
by Alberto Pimentel
The magazine of history with notes and queries, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1905
by Various Authors
The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 07 (1820)
by Various Authors
Letters to Persons Who Are Engaged in Domestic Service
by Catharine Esther Beecher
Reform and Politics Part 2 from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII
by John Greenleaf Whittier
Tutkielmia: Valikoima
by Michel de Montaigne
An Address Delivered at the Interment of Mrs. Harriet Storrs, Consort of Rev. Richard S. Storrs, Braintree, Mass., July 11, 1834.
by John Codman
Alcibiade, la critica e il secolo di Pericle lettera di Felice Cavallotti a Yorick figlio di Yorick
by Felice Cavallotti
Style and the Man
by Meredith Nicholson
The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 30, January 23, 1841
by Various Authors
A bunch of rope yarns
by Stanton H. (Stanton Henry) King
Elias Lönnrots svenska skrifter. 1. Uppsatser och översättningar
by Elias Lönnrot
Fechsung
by Peter Altenberg
The Disadvantages and Opportunities of the Colored Youth
by Reverdy C. (Reverdy Cassius) Ransom
Meditations and Moral Sketches
by François Guizot
Verspreide Opstellen, II
by Jan Ligthart
A Sermon preached at St. George's Church, Bolton, on Sunday, 7th January, 1838 occasioned by the death of the Rev. William Thistlewaite
by James Slade
A Sermon Preached at Kensington Church, on June the 29th, 1794 After the Victory Gained at Sea, June the 1st
by Joseph Phillimore
Christian Literature a sermon delivered May 8th, 1870, in Kensington Chapel, at the seventy-first anniversary of the Religious Tract Society
by John Stoughton
The Family Letters of Oliver Goldsmith A Paper Read Before the Bibliographical Society, October 15th, 1917
by Ernest Clarke
The faithful servant A sermon, preached in St. Peter's, Southborough, on occasion of the death of the Rev. Stephen Langston
by Edward Hoare
Apologie pour les nouveaux-riches
by Thierry Sandre
"Bear ye one another's burdens." A Plain Sermon on the Lancashire Distress
by James Galloway Cowan
Das Nationaltheater des Neuen Deutschlands. Eine Reformschrift
by Eduard Devrient
Primrose Hill Park, Regent's Park, and Hampstead Heath
by William Ray Smee
Runoudesta
by Horace