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The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852

The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852

Various

The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, dated April 1852, is a nineteenth‑century periodical that gathers…

Cover of Cabos sueltos: Literatura y lingüística

Cabos sueltos: Literatura y lingüística

Julio Cejador y Frauca

Este libro es una recopilación de ensayos y artículos que Julio Cejador y Frauca dedicó a la literatura y a…

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Essais de Montaigne (self-édition) - Volume I

Michel de Montaigne

Ce premier volume des Essais de Michel de Montaigne se présente comme une édition soigneusement annotée,…

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Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z

Modern Eloquence, Volume III gathers a selection of after‑dinner speeches contributed by some of the most…

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 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 06 (of 20)

Familiar Letters The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 06 (of 20)

Henry David Thoreau

The volume presents a curated selection of Henry David Thoreau’s private correspondence, drawn from the…

Cover of Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 3 of 3

Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 3 of 3

Marcus Tullius Cicero

This volume gathers the final three years of Cicero’s correspondence with his lifelong friend Titus Pomponius…

Cover of Egoists, A Book of Supermen
 Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Anatole France, Huysmans, Barrès, Nietzsche, Blake, Ibsen, Stirner, and Ernest Hello

Egoists, A Book of Supermen Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Anatole France, Huysmans, Barrès, Nietzsche, Blake, Ibsen, Stirner, and Ernest Hello

James Huneker

James Huneker’s “Egoists, A Book of Supermen” is a sweeping essay that treats St Stendhal as the archetype of…

Cover of Renaissance literary theory and practice: Classicism in the rhetoric and poetic of Italy, France, and England 1400-1600

Renaissance literary theory and practice: Classicism in the rhetoric and poetic of Italy, France, and England 1400-1600

Charles Sears Baldwin

Charles Sears Baldwin’s posthumously published manuscript continues the scholarly trajectory begun in his…

Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists

Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists

The book is a teacher‑crafted anthology that gathers a broad spectrum of recent American prose and poetry for…

Cover of Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The Letters of S. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan

Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan

The work is a scholarly edition of the extant letters of Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, compiled in the…

Curious Epitaphs

Curious Epitaphs

Curious Epitaphs is a collection of funerary verses that celebrate the ordinary tradesmen, engineers, and…

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M. Fabi Quintiliani institutionis oratoriae liber decimus

Quintilian

Liber decimus Institutionis Oratoriae a Quintiliano, auctore praeclaro rhetorico, est commentarius eruditus…

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Mammonart: An essay in economic interpretation

Upton Sinclair

Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2

Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2

Ludwig van Beethoven

This volume collects the later correspondence of Ludwig van Beethoven, spanning the years 1790‑1826, and…

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From Sea to Sea; Letters of Travel

Rudyard Kipling

The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment

The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment

David Grayson

The work is a first‑person travel memoir that blends personal reflection with a series of loosely linked…

Cover of Letters of John Calvin, Volume II
 Compiled from the Original Manuscripts and Edited with Historical Notes

Letters of John Calvin, Volume II Compiled from the Original Manuscripts and Edited with Historical Notes

Jean Calvin

Cover of The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 4 (of 6)
 New Complete Library Edition

The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 4 (of 6) New Complete Library Edition

The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422‑1509, Volume 4 of the six‑volume New Complete Library Edition, presents a…

The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862

The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862

Abraham Lincoln

The fifth volume of Abraham Lincoln’s collected papers gathers his correspondence, speeches, and political…

The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2

The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2

Fanny Burney

The second volume of The Diary and Letters of Madame D’Arblay gathers Fanny Burney’s court observations,…

Cover of Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
 Written in the years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the original manuscripts

Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne Written in the years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the original manuscripts

John Keats

The volume presents the complete set of John Keats’s letters to Fanny Brawne, drawn from the original…

The Key to the Brontë Works The Key to Charlotte Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights,' 'Jane Eyre,' and her other works.

The Key to the Brontë Works The Key to Charlotte Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights,' 'Jane Eyre,' and her other works.

John Malham-Dembleby

The work presented is a scholarly companion that claims to unlock the “real” Charlotte Brontë by linking…

Essays in Rebellion

Essays in Rebellion

Henry Woodd Nevinson

Essays in Rebellion is a collection of English essays by Henry Woodd Nevinson, first published in 1913.