Essays, Letters & Speeches

Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays

Charles S. Peirce

The volume gathers Charles S. Peirce’s most mature philosophical essays, presenting a systematic account of…

Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900

Mary King Waddington

The book is a collection of personal letters written by Mary King Waddington, wife of the French…

Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature

Margaret Ball

Margaret Ball’s study opens with a clear statement of purpose: to rescue Sir Walter Scott’s neglected…

The Theistic Conception of the World An Essay in Opposition to Certain Tendencies of Modern Thought

B. F. Cocker

The work is a nineteenth‑century theological treatise in which Benjamin Franklin Cocker sets out a systematic…

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25

Robert Louis Stevenson

The volume presents a selection of Robert Louis Stevenson’s correspondence from his first year at Vailima,…

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series

Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn’s Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a series of travel sketches that blend description, cultural…

Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3 I. Prolegomena II. Achæis; or, the Ethnology of the Greek Races

W. E. Gladstone

The work is a scholarly treatise that sets out to defend and deepen the study of Homer’s epic poems.

Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 2 of 2)

John Addington Symonds

The work is a scholarly survey of Greek poetry, the second volume in a two‑part series by John Addington…

Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards

The volume gathers the sermons of Jonathan Edwards, the eighteenth‑century Congregational minister whose life…

The attaché at Peking

Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale

The work is a series of letters by Algernon Baron Redesdale, a British diplomat who spent many years inside…

The Alhambra

Washington Irving

Washington Irving’s “The Alhambra” is a hybrid of travelogue, historical sketch, and imaginative tale,…

Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823

David Ricardo

This volume presents the surviving correspondence between two of Britain’s most influential…

The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism

T. S. Eliot

The volume is a series of essays in which T. S. Eliot turns his critical eye toward the history and practice…

William Shakespeare: A Critical Study

Georg Brandes

Georg Brandes’s work is a scholarly survey that treats Shakespeare as both a historical figure and a literary…

Azul... Obras Completas Vol. IV

Rubén Darío

El libro que tienes ante ti es una obra de carácter ensayístico‑poético, escrita por Rubén Darío cuando…

Oscar Wilde, Art and Morality: A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

The work is a scholarly defence of Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, framed as an essay on “Art…

The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3

Sir Thomas Browne

The volume gathers the later English writings of Sir Thomas Browne, a 17th‑century physician and moralist,…

Oxford Lectures on Poetry

A. C. Bradley

This volume gathers the lectures Andrew Cecil Bradley delivered while holding the Oxford Chair of Poetry,…

The journal of Montaigne's travels in Italy by way of Switzerland and Germany in 1580 and 1581, Volume 1 (of 3)

Michel de Montaigne

The work is a travel journal that records Michel de Montaigne’s journey through Switzerland, the Holy Roman…

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 02 In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

Ambrose Bierce

The volume gathers Ambrose Bierce’s war‑time stories, each set amid the American Civil War and suffused with…

English Critical Essays: Nineteenth Century

This volume assembles a series of essays that aim to map the development of English literary criticism…

The Greatest Thing In the World and Other Addresses

Henry Drummond

The work is a devotional collection that grew out of a single, vivid evening in an English country house in…

Fors Clavigera (Volume 6 of 8) $b Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain

John Ruskin

Fors Clavigera, volume 6 of John Ruskin’s eight‑part series, is a collection of letters addressed to the…

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle

The volume opens with an extended essay that frames Otto von Bismarck’s political life as an outgrowth of a…