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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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The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers
by Jonathan Swift
War of the Classes
by Jack London
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
Sketches of Young Couples
by Charles Dickens
Horae subsecivae. Rab and His Friends, and Other Papers
by John Brown
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
by Eugene Field
Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722
by Daniel Defoe
A Book for the Hammock
by William Clark Russell
My Garden Acquaintance
by James Russell Lowell
Science in Arcady
by Grant Allen
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843
by Various Authors
Le Rhin, Tome I
by Victor Hugo
An Introduction to the Study of Browning
by Arthur Symons
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3
by Charles Dudley Warner
Letters on Literature
by Andrew Lang
Lost Leaders
by Andrew Lang
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829
by Various Authors
Sketches from Memory (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 284, November 24, 1827
by Various Authors
The man in the street: Papers on American topics
by Meredith Nicholson
House and Home Papers Seventh Edition
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 473, January 29, 1831
by Various Authors
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 270, August 25, 1827
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828
by Various Authors
Étude sur Shakspeare
by François Guizot
Oeuvres par Maximilien Robespierre — Miscellaneous
by Maximilien Robespierre
Le chemin de velours; Nouvelles dissociations d'idées
by Remy de Gourmont
Abraham Lincoln
by Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt
Nuoren ylioppilaan kirjeitä 1850-luvulta
by Julius Krohn
The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind
by George Jean Nathan, H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
Thoughts Out of Season, Part II
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man
by Oscar Wilde
The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
by Various Authors
The Craft of Fiction
by Percy Lubbock
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
by Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham
American nights entertainment
by Grant M. (Grant Martin) Overton
A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing
by George Saintsbury
Our National Parks
by John Muir
Darwin and Modern Science
by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
闲情偶寄
by Yu Li
Autobiography and Selected Essays
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature
by W. P. (William Paton) Ker
Quotes and Images From The Works of Mark Twain
by Mark Twain
State of the Union Addresses
by Theodore Roosevelt
Notes on My Books
by Joseph Conrad
Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
by Richard Jefferies
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
by Jonathan Swift
Letters of Two Brides
by Honoré de Balzac
Overtones, a book of temperaments : Richard Strauss, Parsifal, Verdi, Balzac, Flaubert, Nietzsche, and Turgénieff
by James Huneker
Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 1 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions.
by Herbert Spencer
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820
by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 3
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In the Courts of Memory, 1858-1875; from Contemporary Letters
by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
夢溪筆談, Volume 01-26
by Kuo Shen
Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
by Edward Fordham Spence
The Lost Art of Reading
by Gerald Stanley Lee
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
by Henry Van Dyke
Quotes and Images from Chesterfield's Letters to His Son
by Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Winter Sunshine
by John Burroughs
Beneath an Umbrella (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
by Fanny Burney
Portraits et études; Lettres inédites de Georges Bizet
by Hugues Imbert, Georges Bizet
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
by Various Authors
From a College Window
by Arthur Christopher Benson
Widger's Quotes and Images from A Woodland Queen by André Theuriet The French Immortals: Quotes and Images
by André Theuriet
The Women of Tomorrow
by William Hard
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845
by Various Authors
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 4, part 1: William Henry Harrison
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 371, May 23, 1829
by Various Authors
Time's Portraiture (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Why Go to College? An Address
by Alice Freeman Palmer
韓詩外傳, Vol. 3-4
by active 150 B.C. Ying Han
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828
by Various Authors
The Book of Gallant Vagabonds
by Henry Beston
Some Anomalies of the Short Story (from Literature and Life)
by William Dean Howells
De Sobremesa; crónicas, Cuarta Parte (de 5)
by Jacinto Benavente
American Historical and Literary Curiosities, Part 02
by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith, John F. (John Fanning) Watson
Lettres à M. Panizzi, tome II
by Prosper Mérimée
A Sermon Preach'd upon the Occasion of the Anniversary Thanksgiving of the Fifth of November, 1706 at the Church of Kensington
by Nathaniel Hough
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
by Walt Whitman
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I
by Augustus De Morgan
Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals
by Mrs. R. Lee
Tolstoy on Shakespeare: A Critical Essay on Shakespeare
by graf Leo Tolstoy
Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays Collected Works, Volume Two
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Acres of Diamonds: Our Every-day Opportunities
by Russell H. Conwell
Democracy and Social Ethics
by Jane Addams
The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 05 (of 12)
by William Hazlitt