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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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Joy and Power: Three Messages with One Meaning
by Henry Van Dyke
The Life and Public Service of General Zachary Taylor: An Address
by Abraham Lincoln
Letters to a daughter
by Hubert Bland
Eulogy on Chief-Justice Chase Delivered by William M. Evarts before the alumni of Dartmouth College, at Hanover
by William Maxwell Evarts
Speranze e glorie; Le tre capitali: Torino, Firenze, Roma
by Edmondo De Amicis
The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
Intentions
by Oscar Wilde
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine
by Heinrich Heine
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2
by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron
The Ghosts, and Other Lectures
by Robert Green Ingersoll
Christian Science
by Mark Twain
Fantasia of the Unconscious
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems.
by Margaret Fuller
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862
by Abraham Lincoln
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series
by Lafcadio Hearn
The Good News of God
by Charles Kingsley
The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson, With a Memoir by Arthur Symons
by Ernest Christopher Dowson
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 393, July 1848
by Various Authors
A Father's Legacy to His Daughters
by John Gregory
Literary Byways
by William Andrews
John Brown: An Address at the 14th Anniversary of Storer College
by Frederick Douglass
The Warriors
by Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845
by Various Authors
Confessions and Criticisms
by Julian Hawthorne
Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885
by Various Authors
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 08
by Alphonse de Lamartine
The Evolutionist at Large
by Grant Allen
The English Flower Garden with illustrative notes
by Henry Arthur Bright
Αριστοτέλης Βαλαωρίτης
by Emmanouel D. Rhoides
On Being Human
by Woodrow Wilson
Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici': An Appreciation
by Alexander Whyte
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 374, June 6, 1829
by Various Authors
Shelley: An Essay
by Francis Thompson
Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Charles Dudley Warner
by Charles Dudley Warner
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 01
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Viagens na Minha Terra (Volume I)
by Visconde de João Batista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett Almeida Garrett
Imaginäre Brücken: Studien und Aufsätze
by Jakob Wassermann
Lettres à Sixtine
by Remy de Gourmont
Epitres des hommes obscurs du chevalier Ulric von Hutten traduites par Laurent Tailhade
by Ulrich von Hutten
State of the Union Addresses
by John Adams
Art principles in literature
by Francis P. (Francis Patrick) Donnelly
Cronache Letterarie
by Luigi Capuana
Runous ja runouden muodot: Kirjoitelmia. Runoja.
by B. F. (Bernhard Fredrik) Godenhjelm
The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 1, 1837-1843 : A selection from Her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861.
by Queen of Great Britain Victoria
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4
by Edgar Allan Poe
Steep Trails
by John Muir
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
by George Sand, Gustave Flaubert
The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature
by Conrad Hjalmar Nordby
Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 5 With a Memoir and Index
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller
by Friedrich Schiller
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 03
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Glimpses of Three Coasts
by Helen Hunt Jackson
The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes. Volume 04
by Samuel Johnson
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland
by Grover Cleveland
"La Guzla" de Prosper Mérimée
by Vojislav Mate Jovanović
Les trente-six situations dramatiques
by Georges Polti
A Century of Science, and Other Essays
by John Fiske
In the Catskills: Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
by John Burroughs
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858
by Abraham Lincoln
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc.
by Robert Green Ingersoll
The Barbarism of Berlin
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Autobiographic Sketches
by Thomas De Quincey
Le IIme livre des masques
by Remy de Gourmont
State of the Union Addresses
by John F. (John Fitzgerald) Kennedy
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 4
by Charles Dudley Warner
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
by Various Authors
Women as World Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism
by Floyd Dell
Sunday Under Three Heads
by Charles Dickens
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
by Various Authors
American ideals, and other essays, social and political
by Theodore Roosevelt
Walking-Stick Papers
by Robert Cortes Holliday
Letters from England, 1846-1849
by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft
Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life
by Oscar Wilde
No Compromise with Slavery An Address Delivered to the Broadway Tabernacle, New York
by William Lloyd Garrison
Essays on early ornithology and kindred subjects
by James Roxburgh McClymont
An Address to Free Coloured Americans
by Anti-slavery Convention of American Women
A Traveller in Little Things
by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
The Relation of Literature to Life
by Charles Dudley Warner
The Man of Letters as a Man of Business
by William Dean Howells
Los Cent Conçeyls del Conçeyl de Cent
by Pompeyo Gener
Correspondence, between the late Commodore Stephen Decatur and Commodore James Barron, which led to the unfortunate meeting of the twenty-second of March
by Stephen Decatur, James Barron
Een twaalftal samenspraken Tot inleiding: Cd. Busken Huet's beschouwing over Erasmus
by Desiderius Erasmus
Nos femmes de lettres
by Paul Flat
Varia
by Agnes Repplier
Mr. Belloc still objects to Mr. Wells's "Outline of history"
by Hilaire Belloc
