Essays, Letters & Speeches

Pascal's Pensées

Blaise Pascal

Pascal’s Pensées is a theological‑apologetic treatise that opens with a preface to its second part, in which…

The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 1, 1833-1856

Charles Dickens

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Vol. 1, 1833‑1856 gathers the novelist’s extensive correspondence, beginning…

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I

Augustus De Morgan

The volume is a miscellany of seventeenth‑century mathematical and scientific curiosities, assembled by…

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This volume gathers Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most celebrated essays, presented in the scholarly format of…

Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University

Edward MacDowell

The book is a collection of Edward MacDowell’s university lectures, originally delivered when he held the…

Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon’s Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients gathers a series of early‑modern English essays that blend…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 07

The volume opens with a lively, mock‑heroic poem about the medieval town of Weinsberg, where a king’s wrath…

Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time

Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence is a 1914 anthology that gathers a selection of speeches, addresses, and…

Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is a philosophical essay that opens with a lyrical meditation on the relationship between humanity and…

The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 3, 1854-1861: A selection from Her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861.

Queen of Great Britain Victoria

This volume gathers a selection of Queen Victoria’s private and official correspondence from 1854‑1861, drawn…

In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts

Desiderius Erasmus

In Praise of Folly is a satirical essay by the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus, first published in the…

Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings, Volumes 1 and 2: Her correspondence from 1720 to 1761

Mrs. Montagu

The work is a two‑volume edited collection of Elizabeth Montagu’s letters, spanning 1720‑1761, assembled by…

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters

John Earle

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered is a collection of brief character sketches that treats…

The Communist Manifesto

Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich

The Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet that sets out the theory and aims of the communist movement…

The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1

Alexander Pope

The volume presents a scholarly examination of Alexander Pope’s correspondence, focusing on the tangled…

The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 1, 1837-1843: A selection from Her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861.

Queen of Great Britain Victoria

This volume is a curated selection of Queen Victoria’s personal correspondence from the early years of her…

隨園詩話

Mei Yuan

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The volume presents the complete surviving correspondence of Marcus Tullius Cicero, arranged strictly in…

The Journal to Stella

Jonathan Swift

The Journal to Stella is a manuscript‑style compilation of Jonathan Swift’s private correspondence, addressed…

Studies in Literature and History

Sir Alfred C. Lyall

The work is a scholarly survey that treats the art of English letter‑writing as a crossroads of literature,…

On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature

John Ruskin

On the Old Road, Vol. 2 is a miscellany of John Rus‑kin’s essays and articles that turn a close‑up on the…

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete

da Vinci Leonardo

The volume is a facsimile of Leonardo da Vinci’s own handwritten treatises on optics, collected under the…

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy

Richard A. Proctor

Richard A. Proctor’s Myths and Marvels of Astronomy is a Victorian‑era popular‑science collection that…

The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 2, 1857-1870

Charles Dickens

The second volume of Charles Dickens’s correspondence gathers letters written between 1857 and 1870, chiefly…