Essays, Letters & Speeches

Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 5 With a Memoir and Index

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The work is a sprawling collection of essays by Thomas Babington Macaulay, gathered in the fifth volume of…

The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 1, December, 1850

Various

The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 1, is a nineteenth‑century literary and cultural periodical that…

豆棚閒話

Ainajushi

Lord Byron as a satirist in verse

Claude Moore Fuess

Claude Moore Fuess’s dissertation‑turned‑book is a scholarly survey of George Gordon Byron’s work as a…

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters

The volume presents a richly documented biography of the medieval lovers Heloise and Abelard, beginning with…

Illustrations of Shakspeare, and of Ancient Manners: with Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakspeare; on a Collection of Popular Tales Entitled Gesta Romanorum; and on the English Morris dance.

Francis Douce

This work is a nineteenth‑century scholarly companion to Shakespeare’s plays, assembled by Francis Douce.

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10: Poetical Quotations

This volume is a survey of poetic thought rather than a conventional anthology.

The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831

Various

The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831, is a single‑issue periodical that gathers a series of…

The Maine Woods The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 03 (of 20)

Henry David Thoreau

The Maine Woods is a posthumously assembled travel narrative by Henry David Thoreau, drawn from his journal…

Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888

King of Great Britain Edward VII

The volume is a curated collection of the public speeches and addresses delivered by Albert Edward, Prince of…

Speeches: Literary and Social

Charles Dickens

This volume gathers a series of Charles Dickens’s public addresses, literary commentaries and…

The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 01 (of 12)

William Hazlitt

The volume opens with a brisk, almost genealogical sketch of Hazlitt’s early life, tracing his birth in 1778…

The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological

Andrew Lang

The volume is a scholarly undertaking that pairs a fresh prose translation of the so‑called Homeric Hymns…

Dionysius of Halicarnassus On Literary Composition Being the Greek Text of the De Compositione Verborum

of Halicarnassus Dionysius

Dionysius of Halicarnassus On Literary Composition presents the Greek text of the ancient treatise De…

The Book-Lovers' Anthology

The Book‑Lovers’ Anthology is a sweeping compilation of reflections on reading, libraries, and the very act…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 15

The volume is a sprawling anthology that gathers a wide variety of literary fragments, essays, poems, and…

The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865

Abraham Lincoln

The seventh volume of The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln gathers the president’s official…

Rousseau and Romanticism

Irving Babbitt

Irving Babbitt’s “Rousseau and Romanticism” is a scholarly essay that treats the eighteenth‑century…

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)

Edmund Burke

This volume gathers a series of speeches and pamphlets by Edmund Burke that were originally delivered in the…

The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): The American Crisis

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine’s “The American Crisis” occupies a distinctive niche in Revolutionary-era political literature,…

The So-called Human Race

Bert Leston Taylor

The So‑Called Human Race is a collection of witty snippets, quips and short observations that originally…

A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)

Mrs. Sutherland Orr

The work is a scholarly guide to the poems of Robert Browning, compiled by Mrs.

The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1

Robert Louis Stevenson

This volume gathers the surviving correspondence of Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish author best known…

Italian Hours

Henry James

The work is a loosely assembled travelogue by Henry James, the late‑nineteenth‑century American novelist who…