Essays, Letters & Speeches

The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 2, 1844-1853: A selection from Her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861.

Queen of Great Britain Victoria

The volume presents a curated selection of Queen Victoria’s private and official correspondence from the…

Jewish Literature and Other Essays

Gustav Karpeles

Gustav Karpeles’s Jewish Literature and Other Essays is a collection of scholarly addresses delivered over a…

The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20)

Thomas Jefferson

The volume presents a collection of Thomas Jefferson’s correspondence and essays from the late 1780s, a…

The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols.

Mrs. Jameson

The work is a scholarly anthology that gathers together the poems, letters, and critical commentary…

Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection

Walter Savage Landor

The work is a collection of imagined dialogues and occasional verses that blend personal reminiscence with…

The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages

P. T. Barnum

The work is a sprawling nonfiction survey in which the famed showman P. T.

Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1

Isaac Disraeli

Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 is a compendium of literary anecdotes and reflections assembled by Isaac…

Homer's Odyssey A Commentary

Denton Jaques Snider

Snider’s work is a scholarly commentary that treats Homer’s Odyssey as a two‑part composition, the…

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators

Elbert Hubbard

The work is a biographical survey of great speakers, and it begins with a sweeping meditation on labor,…

Briefe an eine Freundin

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Der vorliegende Band ist ein Briefwechsel zwischen Wilhelm von Humboldt und seiner langjährigen Freundin…

Happy Days

A. A. Milne

Happy Days is a miscellany of short pieces that blurs the line between theatrical sketch and prose vignette.

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 01

Robert Louis Stevenson

The volume opens with a rambling, first‑person account of a wayward pair of travelers, dubbed “the Cigarette”…

Common Sense

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense is a polemical pamphlet printed in Philadelphia in early 1776, aimed at the…

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle’s Past and Present is a sweeping historical essay that opens with a vivid, almost theatrical…

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays

Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection gathers a dozen essays he delivered…

Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 3 Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities

F. Max Müller

The third volume of Chips from a German Workshop collects Friedrich Max Müller’s essays on literature,…

Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy

Walt Whitman

The volume gathers a series of Whitman’s nonfiction pieces, opening with a vivid meditation on the…

Letters of Asa Gray; Vol. 2

Asa Gray

This volume gathers a series of Asa Gray’s letters from the early 1860s, revealing the botanist’s candid…

The World I Live In

Helen Keller

Helen Keller’s The World I Live In is a nonfiction work that blends memoir, philosophical essay, and sensory…

I manifesti del futurismo

F. T. Marinetti

Il volume è il manifesto poetico‑politico del Futurismo, scritto da Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil

W. E. B. Du Bois

Darkwater is a collection of essays, poems, and reflections that W. E. B.

The Subjection of Women

John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women is a philosophical essay that tackles the entrenched belief that…

The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

This volume presents a faithful, unabridged edition of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s surviving correspondence,…

The Toilers of the Field

Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies’ The Toilers of the Field is a nonfiction collection that gathers together a series of…