Essays, Letters & Speeches

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,…

De Profundis

Oscar Wilde

De Profundis is Oscar Wilde’s extended letter‑essay, composed in the bleak confines of a Victorian prison…

Plutarch's Morals

Plutarch

Plutarch’s Morals is a philosophical dialogue that opens with a vivid, almost theatrical exchange between a…

The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes

King of England Henry VIII

This volume presents the surviving love‑letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, compiled from early print…

Das Bücher-Dekameron Eine Zehn-Nächte-Tour durch die europäische Gesellschaft und Literatur

Kasimir Edschmid

Der Text ist ein ausgedehntes Panorama der europäischen Gesellschaft zu Beginn des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts,…

Rambles of an archæologist among old books and in old places: Being papers on art, in relation to archæology, painting, art-decoration, and art-manufacture

F. W. Fairholt

Frederick William Fairholt’s Rambles of an archæologist among old books and in old places is a scholarly…

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing

John Ruskin

The work is a sprawling essay that treats the history of art as inseparable from the history of war,…

Biographia Literaria

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria is a sprawling work of literary criticism and philosophical…

Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre

Voltairine De Cleyre

Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre gathers the writings of one of America’s most outspoken anarchist…

Love and Freindship [sic]

Jane Austen

Love and Friendship is an early epistolary work that presents itself as a series of letters exchanged among a…

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes

Curry, Charles Madison; Clippinger, Erle Elsworth

The book is a teacher‑oriented handbook that gathers a wide range of children’s literature, folk tales,…

Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)

Thomas Babington Macaulay

This volume gathers Thomas Babington Macaulay’s critical and historical essays, the third of a three‑part…

The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

William James

The work is a collection of philosophical essays by William James, beginning with a fervent appeal to “be not…

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters

Charles Darwin

More Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume 1 gathers a series of previously unpublished correspondences that…

The Philippines a Century Hence

José Rizal

The work is a nonfiction essay by José Rizal, the Philippine nationalist who also authored the novels Noli Me…

Anarchism and Other Essays

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman’s Anarchism and Other Essays is a polemical collection that opens with a vivid courtroom…

Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and Historical

Mrs. Jameson

The work is a scholarly essay by Mrs. Jameson that treats women’s roles in Shakespeare’s drama as moral,…

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes

Edgar Allan Poe

The volume presents the complete oeuvre of Edgar Allan Poe, gathered in five bound parts and indexed for easy…

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author

John Hill Burton

The Book‑Hunter is a scholarly treatise on the art and habit of collecting books, presented in a single…