Essays, Letters & Speeches

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

Essay on the Principles of Translation

Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee

The work is a scholarly essay by Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, a prominent eighteenth‑century…

Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2

Charles Darwin

The second volume of Charles Darwin’s Life and Letters gathers a selection of his private correspondence,…

The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

The volume gathers Heinrich Heine’s prose, presenting the writer not merely as the lyrical genius compared…

Essays in Radical Empiricism

William James

The volume gathers the essays William James originally intended for a separate work on “radical empiricism,”…

Dealings with the Dead, Volume 2 (of 2)

Lucius M. Sargent

The work is a nineteenth‑century miscellany on death, funerary customs, and the occasional macabre anecdote.

Aristotle on the art of poetry

Aristotle

This work is a scholarly translation of Aristotle’s surviving first book of the Poetics, the ancient treatise…

Unto This Last, and Other Essays on Political Economy

John Ruskin

John Ruskin’s Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy is a series of lectures that treat…

Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare

David Nichol Smith

This volume gathers nine eighteenth‑century essays and prefaces that trace the development of Shakespeare’s…

Lettres de Madame de Sévigné Précédées d'une notice sur sa vie et du traité sur le style épistolaire de Madame de Sévigné

Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de

Ce volume rassemble la correspondance de Marie de Rabutin‑Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626‑1696), enrichie…

The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2

George Gordon Byron

The second volume of Mr. Murray’s edition presents a meticulously compiled record of Lord Byron’s…

The Letters of William James, Vol. 2

William James

Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922

H. P. Lovecraft

The work is a nonfiction collection of essays by H. P. Lovecraft that examines the United Amateur Press…

An outline of humor Being a true chronicle from prehistoric ages to the twentieth century

An Outline of Humor presents itself as a sweeping survey of wit from the earliest recorded jokes to the turn…

The Uncommercial Traveller

Charles Dickens

The Uncommercial Traveller is a Victorian travelogue that blends observation with social commentary,…

The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 2

Elizabeth Bisland

The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 2, edited by Elizabeth Bisland, is a compiled collection of…

Collections and Recollections

George William Erskine Russell

Collections and Recollections is a self‑styled “diary‑derived” miscellany by George William Erskine Russell,…

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 16

Robert Louis Stevenson

The volume is a sprawling essay‑type investigation into the Stevenson name, its many spellings, and the…

Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 1 With a Memoir and Index

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The work is a sprawling collection of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s early critical, historical, and…

The Letters of Robert Burns

Robert Burns

Franklin's Way to Wealth; or, "Poor Richard Improved"

Benjamin Franklin

Franklin’s Way to Wealth, or “Poor Richard Improved” is a didactic collection that gathers the familiar…

Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language

F. Max Müller

Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 gathers a series of scholarly essays by Friedrich Max Müller, a…

Discours de la méthode

René Descartes

Ce texte est une introduction monumentale à la pensée de René Descartes, placée dans le contexte historique…

闲情偶寄

Yu Li