Henry Gally: A critical essay on characteristic-writings from his translation of The moral characters of Theophrastus (1725)

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

T. Smollett

The work is an epistolary comedy that opens with a series of letters written by a nameless narrator to…

A Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” is a single‑page pamphlet first published in 1729 that frames a shocking…

Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau’s work combines two of his most celebrated essays, Walden and “On the Duty of Civil…

The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay

Mary Wollstonecraft

The volume presents the intimate correspondence between Mary Wollstonecraft, the pioneering 18th‑century…

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois

The work is a nonfiction meditation on the condition of African Americans at the turn of the twentieth…

Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources

Emperor of the French Napoleon I

The volume presents, for the first time, a complete collection of Napoleon I’s letters to his wife Joséphine,…