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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 Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
by Edmund Burke
The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections
by A. Edward (Alfred Edward) Newton
A practical directory for young Christian females : being a series of letters from a brother to a younger sister
by Harvey Newcomb
Florence Nightingale to Her Nurses A selection from Miss Nightingale's addresses to probationers and nurses of the Nightingale school at St. Thomas's hospital
by Florence Nightingale
Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816)
by Edward Stanley
Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers
by John Burroughs
Courts and Criminals
by Arthur Cheney Train
The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Views and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: Literature
by William Ernest Henley
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Worldly Ways & Byways
by Eliot Gregory
The Open Air
by Richard Jefferies
Historical and Political Essays
by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Poets and Dreamers: Studies and translations from the Irish
by Lady Gregory
Notes de Voltaire et de Condorcet sur les pensées de Pascal
by Blaise Pascal, marquis de Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet, comte Nicolas Louis François de Neufchâteau, Voltaire
The Life of the Fields
by Richard Jefferies
Œuvres Complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, tome 4 mises en ordre, revues et annotées d'après les manuscrits de l'auteur
by Frédéric Bastiat
On the Significance of Science and Art
by graf Leo Tolstoy
The provincial American and other papers
by Meredith Nicholson
What Peace Means
by Henry Van Dyke
Correspondance, 1812-1876 — Tome 3
by George Sand
Estudios americanos (primera serie)
by Martín García Mérou
Il libro di Don Chisciotte
by Edoardo Scarfoglio
Essays on Taste
by John Gilbert Cooper, John Armstrong
Servitude et grandeur militaires
by Alfred de Vigny
Studi sulla letteratura contemporanea : Prima serie
by Luigi Capuana
Letters to His Son, 1756-58 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
by Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Franse Toestanden
by Heinrich Heine
The Works of William Cowper His life, letters, and poems, now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence
by William Cowper
Optimism: An Essay
by Helen Keller
Memories and Studies
by William James
What I Saw in America
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 02 In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
by Ambrose Bierce
Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America
by Edmund Burke
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals
by Thomas Moore
Cock Lane and Common-Sense
by Andrew Lang
Essays and Tales
by Joseph Addison
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 6 (1907-1910)
by Mark Twain
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)
by Edmund Burke
The Best Letters of Charles Lamb
by Charles Lamb
In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays
by Augustine Birrell
Pre-Raphaelite and other Poets
by Lafcadio Hearn
Maids, Wives, and Bachelors
by Amelia E. Barr
State of the Union Addresses
by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant
Natural history of intellect, and other papers
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections)
by Abraham Lincoln
The Rhythm of Life, and Other Essays
by Alice Meynell
Four Americans: Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman
by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Essays
by Alice Meynell
Sketches from Memory (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Social Rights And Duties: Addresses to Ethical Societies. Vol 1 [of 2]
by Leslie Stephen
Old News (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Œuvres Complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, tome 7 mises en ordre, revues et annotées d'après les manuscrits de l'auteur
by Frédéric Bastiat
Cartas sobre a educação da mocidade
by António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches
Essays in medical sociology, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Elizabeth Blackwell
Orazioni
by Ada Negri
Quotations from the PG Collected Works of Gilbert Parker
by Gilbert Parker
How Spring Came in New England
by Charles Dudley Warner
Abraham Lincoln : A memorial discourse
by T. M. (Thomas Mears) Eddy
On Something
by Hilaire Belloc
Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs
by Henry Howard Harper
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 3, January-June, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
Senatorial Character A Sermon in West Church, Boston, Sunday, 15th of March, After the Decease of Charles Sumner.
by C. A. (Cyrus Augustus) Bartol
Lettres à M. Panizzi - 3eme édition, Tome I
by Prosper Mérimée
Life's Minor Collisions
by Frances Lester Warner, Gertrude Chandler Warner
Prosas barbaras com uma introducção por Jayme Batalha Reis.
by Eça de Queirós
My First Visit to New England, and Others (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
by William Dean Howells
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 1
by Thomas De Quincey
National character : A Thanksgiving discourse Delivered November 15th, 1855, in the Franklin Street Presbyterian Church
by N. C. (Nathaniel Clark) Burt
What to Do? Thoughts Evoked By the Census of Moscow
by graf Leo Tolstoy
The ideal book or book beautiful : A tract on calligraphy printing and illustration & on the book beautiful as a whole
by T. J. (Thomas James) Cobden-Sanderson
Essais et portraits
by Jacques-Émile Blanche
Many happy returns of the day!
by Ellis Parker Butler
Specialiteiten
by Multatuli
Letters to His Son, Complete On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
by Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
La Femme Abbé
by Sylvain Maréchal
The Common Reader
by Virginia Woolf
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1
by Fanny Burney
U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses
by United States. Presidents
Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
by Abraham Lincoln
Shandygaff A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader
by Christopher Morley
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial
by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
Letters of a Traveller; Or, Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America
by William Cullen Bryant
The Arena, Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891
by Various Authors
Letters, sentences and maxims
by Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Animal Ghosts; Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
by Elliott O'Donnell
The Author's Craft
by Arnold Bennett
Quotes and Images From The Works of George Meredith
by George Meredith
Little Essays of Love and Virtue
by Havelock Ellis
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women
by Elbert Hubbard
Nature readers : Sea-side and way-side. No. 4
by Julia McNair Wright
Letters to Severall Persons of Honour
by John Donne
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay