Essays, Letters & Speeches

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 06

The volume gathers the memoirs and anecdotes of Pierre de Bourdeille, Abbé de Brantôme, a 16th‑century…

Walking

Henry David Thoreau

The work is an essay‑like meditation on the practice of walking, presented as a series of reflections on what…

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia

Lamb, Charles; Lamb, Mary

The volume gathers the first‑edition texts of Charles Lamb’s essays published under his pen name Elia,…

Mussolini as revealed in his political speeches (November 1914-August 1923)

Benito Mussolini

The volume is a collection of Benito Mussolini’s political speeches spanning November 1914 to August 1923,…

The Practice of the Presence of God

Lawrence, of the Resurrection, Brother

The work is a modest devotional collection that presents the spiritual teachings of Brother Lawrence, a…

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

Various

The Works of George Berkeley. Vol. 1 of 4: Philosophical Works, 1705-21

George Berkeley

The volume presents the first of four carefully edited collections of George Berkeley’s philosophical…

The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

Various

The Continental Monthly, Volume 3, Number 3, dated March 1863, is a nineteenth‑century periodical that blends…

Three Things

Elinor Glyn

Three Things is a modestly sized essay collection in which Elinor Glyn sets out what she believes to be the…

The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851

Various

The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2 (September 1851) is a nineteenth‑century periodical that assembles…

Letters of a Javanese Princess

Raden Adjeng Kartini

The book is a collection of letters written by Raden Adjeng Kartini, a Javanese regent’s daughter born in…

The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest The writings of philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers, and others who have voiced the struggle against social injustice; Selected From Twenty-five Languages; Covering a Period of Five Thousand Years

The Cry for Justice is an ambitious anthology that gathers the voices of philosophers, poets, novelists, and…

Heretics

G. K. Chesterton

Heretics is a collection of essays in which G. K. Chesterton, the prolific early‑20th‑century English writer,…

The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind

Nathan, George Jean; Mencken, H. L.

The work is a polemical essay that treats the American national character as a subject for sociological and…

The Tatler, Volume 1

Steele, Richard, Sir; Addison, Joseph

The Tatler, Volume 1 gathers the first eighty‑four numbers of the short‑lived but influential early‑…

The religion of Plutarch: A pagan creed of apostolic times

John Oakesmith

The work is a scholarly essay by John Oakesmith that revisits his earlier privately‑circulated volume on…

The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete

George Eliot

The volume gathers George Eliot’s critical and translational pieces, beginning with a concise survey of her…

The Indolence of the Filipino

José Rizal

The work is an essay‑like treatise by José Rizal, the Philippine nationalist writer best known for his novels…

Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3

Isaac Disraeli

The work is a scholarly essay on the perils of over‑detailed place‑description in literature, framed by a…

Facts and fancies for the curious from the harvest-fields of literature: A melange of excerpta

This volume is a sprawling miscellany that grew out of a long‑lived nineteenth‑century compilation,…

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle’s “Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero‑Worship, and the Heroic in History” is a singular work…

The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)

Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

The work is a biographical memoir of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, compiled by his…

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The Common Reader

Virginia Woolf

The work is an essay‑like meditation that begins with a quotation from Dr Johnson’s Life of Gray, using it to…