Essays, Letters & Speeches

The letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846

Browning, Robert; Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

This volume presents the early correspondence between Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, covering the…

A Defence of Poesie and Poems

Philip Sidney

This work is Philip Sidney’s “Defence of Poesie,” a short but vigorous piece of literary criticism written in…

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

Various

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, dated August 1864, is a mid‑nineteenth‑century periodical that blends…

Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes

Peter; Héloïse Abelard

The volume presents the celebrated correspondence of Peter Abelard and Heloise, accompanied by a prefatory…

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics

Various

This volume of The Atlantic Monthly gathers a series of essays that examine how the American Civil War was…

Tremendous Trifles

G. K. Chesterton

Tremendous Trifles is a collection of short, whimsical essays that first appeared in the pages of a daily…

Poetic diction: A study of eighteenth century verse

Thomas Quayle

Thomas Quayle’s work is a scholarly investigation that treats eighteenth‑century verse as both a literary and…

Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals

Louisa May Alcott

The work is a biographical study of Louisa May Alcott that combines narrative history with selections from…

The Writings of Thomas Paine, Complete With Index to Volumes I - IV

Thomas Paine

The volume gathers Thomas Paine’s complete political pamphlets, indexed from the first to the fourth series,…

Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition)

Samuel Rutherford

This third edition gathers every surviving letter of the 17th‑century Scottish minister Samuel Rutherford,…

The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 2 (of 6) New Complete Library Edition

The Past Paston Letters, A.D. 1422‑1509, Volume 2, is a scholarly edition of a medieval correspondence…

The Federalist Papers

Hamilton, Alexander; Jay, John; Madison, James

The Federalist Papers are a series of persuasive essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and…

A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays is a collection of philosophical and aesthetic…

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 1 of 2)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

This volume presents a carefully selected portion of the surviving correspondence of Elizabeth Barrett…

Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

This volume gathers the essays, speeches, and addresses of Edmund Burke, the eighteenth‑century statesman…

The Memoirs, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions

Thomas Jefferson

A Lecture on the Study of History

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

The work is a scholarly lecture on the study of history, delivered by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, a…

南腔北調集

Xun Lu

Curiosities of Civilization

Andrew Wynter

Andrew Wynter’s Curiosities of Civilization gathers a series of mid‑nineteenth‑century essays originally…

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics

Various

The Atlantic Monthly’s June 1866 issue presents a sprawling, episodic narrative that opens in the modest…

The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1

Fanny Burney

The work is a curated selection of the diary and correspondence of Frances Burney, known as Madame D’Arblay,…

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4

Edgar Allan Poe

The piece is a short‑fiction narrative that opens with a tongue‑in‑cheek “historian’s” preface, in which the…

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1

Wallace, Alfred Russel; Marchant, James, Sir

The work is a scholarly compilation of Alfred Russel Wallace’s own letters and reminiscences, edited by James…

Irish Books and Irish People

Stephen Lucius Gwynn

Stephen Lucius Gwynn’s Irish Books and Irish People is a collection of essays that maps the cultural and…