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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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Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays
by Walter Pater
London Films
by William Dean Howells
Prose remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, with a selection from his letters and a memoir
by Arthur Hugh Clough
Essays on Paul Bourget
by Mark Twain
Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work
by John Ruskin
My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
by William Dean Howells
The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot
by Andrew Lang
Robert Merry's Museum, Volumes I-II (1841)
by Various Authors
Nouvelles lettres d'un voyageur
by George Sand
Peking Dust
by Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold) La Motte
State of the Union Addresses
by Abraham Lincoln
Inaugural Presidential Address, Official Transcript
by Barack Obama
Reveries of a Schoolmaster
by Francis B. (Francis Bail) Pearson
Introduction to the Compleat Angler
by Andrew Lang
How to Fail in Literature: A Lecture
by Andrew Lang
State of the Union Addresses
by Richard M. (Richard Milhous) Nixon
Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi; delivered during the summer of 1858.
by Jefferson Davis
On books and arts
by Sir Frederick Wedmore
An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times
by Thomas Hill Green
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 08
by Michel de Montaigne
Escape, and Other Essays
by Arthur Christopher Benson
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432 Volume 17, New Series, April 10, 1852
by Various Authors
Round About a Great Estate
by Richard Jefferies
Idle Hours in a Library
by William Henry Hudson
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Birds and Nature Vol. 10 No. 5 [December 1901]
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 471, January 15, 1831
by Various Authors
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
State of the Union Addresses
by Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel) Harding
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 21
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Opúsculos por Alexandre Herculano - Tomo 09
by Alexandre Herculano
Machado de Assis, Son Oeuvre Littéraire
by Oliveira Lima, Machado de Assis, Victor Orban
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 02
by Alphonse de Lamartine
The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political
by Franklin K. Lane
Minor Dialogues, Together With the Dialogue on Clemency
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Jersey Street and Jersey Lane: Urban and Suburban Sketches
by H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner
Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language
by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies. 2nd ed.
by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe
by George Santayana
Essays
by Arthur Christopher Benson
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals
by Thomas Moore
The Teacher: Essays and Addresses on Education
by George Herbert Palmer, Alice Freeman Palmer
Ten Essays on Zionism and Judaism
by Ahad Ha'am
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists
by Elbert Hubbard
Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
by Christopher Morley
Browning's England: A Study in English Influences in Browning
by Helen A. (Helen Archibald) Clarke
English literary criticism
by Charles Edwyn Vaughan
The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Radio Addresses to the American People Broadcast Between 1933 and 1944
by Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) Roosevelt
Equality
by Charles Dudley Warner
Pastiche and prejudice
by Arthur Bingham Walkley
Στοχασμοί
by Oscar Wilde
Great Possessions
by David Grayson
Other Tales and Sketches (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of natural history and rural life (Illustrated)
by Richard Jefferies
The Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry
by Alfred Austin
By-ways in Book-land: Short Essays on Literary Subjects
by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2
by Alexis de Tocqueville, Nassau William Senior
Half Hours With Modern Scientists: Lectures and Essays
by Thomas Henry Huxley, George F. (George Frederick) Barker, E. D. (Edward Drinker) Cope, James Hutchison Stirling, John Tyndall
Four Early Pamphlets
by William Godwin
Olla Podrida
by Frederick Marryat
Memorials and Other Papers — Complete
by Thomas De Quincey
Mr. Gladstone and Genesis Essay #5 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
by Various Authors
The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson
by Stephen Coleridge
A Watcher in The Woods
by Dallas Lore Sharp
Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
Sketches New and Old, Part 1.
by Mark Twain
Essay on Burns
by Thomas Carlyle
The Claims of Labour: An essay on the duties of the employers to the employed
by Sir Arthur Helps
The Colour of Life
by Alice Meynell
The Land of Little Rain
by Mary Austin
Barford Abbey, a Novel: In a Series of Letters
by Mrs. (Susannah) Gunning
Thomas Hart Benton's Remarks to the Senate on the Expunging Resolution
by Thomas Hart Benton
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 06
by Alphonse de Lamartine
On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes
by Mildred Aldrich
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 Volume 17, New Series, March 20, 1852
by Various Authors
State of the Union Addresses
by James Madison
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 26, 1892
by Various Authors
Widger's Quotes and Images from Cosmopolis by Paul Bourget The French Immortals: Quotes And Images
by Paul Bourget
Sketches New and Old, Part 4.
by Mark Twain
Inaugureele Rede Waarin wordt Aangetoond dat de Scheikunde met recht een plaats verdient onder de Akademische Wetenschappen
by Hieronymus David Gaubius
Lambkin's Remains
by Hilaire Belloc
Uma visita ao primeiro romancista portuguez em S. Miguel de Seide
by Alberto Pimentel
The Cornhill Magazine (vol. XLII, no. 247 new series, January 1917)
by Various Authors
Miscellaneous Prose
by George Meredith
De Sobremesa; crónicas, Segunda Parte (de 5)
by Jacinto Benavente
Decadence Henry Sidgwick memorial lecture, 1908
by Arthur James Balfour
Address of President Roosevelt at the laying of the corner stone of the office building of the House of Representatives, Saturday, April 14, 1906
by Theodore Roosevelt
Van strak gespannen snaren
by R. J. W. (Roelof Jan Willem) Rudolph
Ihmiskunnan edustaja
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois