Essays, Letters & Speeches

The Last Harvest

John Burroughs

The Last Harvest is John Burroughs’s final, posthumous collection of essays, notes and short studies,…

Darwin and Modern Science

A. C. Seward

This volume is a commemorative collection of scholarly essays assembled in 1909 to mark both the centenary of…

Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773-1774.

Philip Vickers Fithian

The work is a combined journal and correspondence by Philip Vickers Fithian, a New Jersey‑born scholar who,…

Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Plutarch

The third volume of Plutarch’s Complete Works gathers a series of essays and miscellaneous pieces that read…

The English Novel

George Saintsbury

George Saint‑Bury’s The English Novel is a scholarly survey that sets out to fill a gap he perceives in…

Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature

William Hazlitt

The work is a curated collection of William Hazlitt’s critical essays, arranged to give readers both a survey…

Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865

Abraham Lincoln

This volume gathers the public speeches and private correspondence of Abraham Lincoln from the early days of…

Fors Clavigera (Volume 4 of 8) Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain

John Ruskin

Fors Clavigera, volume 4 of John Ruskin’s eight‑part series of “Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great…

The Authoress of the Odyssey Where and when she wrote, who she was, the use she made of the Iliad, and how the poem grew under her hands

Samuel Butler

The work is a scholarly monograph by Samuel Butler that tackles the long‑standing question of who authored…

Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions

Isaac Disraeli

This work is a collection of Isaac Disraeli’s essays on English literature, assembled to give readers a…

Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The work is a volume of critical and historical essays by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, assembled with a…

The Book-Hunter at Home

P. B. M. Allan

Allan’s The Book‑Hunter at Home is a practical treatise on the art and business of collecting printed works.

Old Christmas: from the Sketch Book of Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Washington Irving’s Old Christmas is a nostalgic essay‑like sketch that celebrates English holiday customs of…

Cock Lane and Common-Sense

Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang’s Cock Lane and Common‑Sense is a scholarly polemic from the late Victorian era that tackles the…

Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Varnhagen von Ense. From 1827 to 1858. With extracts from Varnhagen's diaries, and letters of Varnhagen and others to Humboldt

Alexander von Humboldt

This volume is a scholarly collection of Alexander von Humboldt’s private correspondence with his lifelong…

Essays of an Americanist I. Ethnologic and Archæologic. II. Mythology and Folk Lore. III. Graphic Systems and Literature. IV. Linguistic.

Daniel G. Brinton

Daniel G. Brinton’s Essays of an Americanist is a scholarly compilation that tackles the origins, cultures,…

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters

Charles Darwin

More Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume 2 gathers a series of hitherto unpublished letters that illuminate the…

Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900)

Mark Twain

This volume gathers a selection of Mark Twain’s private correspondence from the later years of his life,…

Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 3 With a Memoir and Index

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The work opens with a sweeping, almost comic appraisal of Reverend Edward Nares’s monumental memoir of…

Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations

J. Frank Dobie

The work is a reflective guide to the Southwest that doubles as a personal essay on the limits of regional…

Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince.

Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von

The work is a series of travel letters penned by a German prince during his tours of England, Ireland and…

Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 2 of 2] With his Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical, Selected with Care from All His Published Productions, and Comprising Whatever Is Most Entertaining and Valuable to the General Reader

Benjamin Franklin

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 08

This volume is a sprawling anthology that gathers together a wide variety of literary material from antiquity…

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 02

Robert Louis Stevenson

The volume presents a series of sketches by Robert Louis Stevenson, written in 1879, that recount his…