Essays, Letters & Speeches

Roundabout Papers

William Makepeace Thackeray

Roundabout Papers is a loosely structured series of observations that blends travelogue, historical…

International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850

Various

The volume is a nineteenth‑century periodical that opens with an extensive biographical essay on Lord Henry…

George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 3 (of 3)

George Eliot

This volume is the third of a three‑part collection of George Eliot’s letters and journals, gathering…

Goethe's literary essays: A selection in English

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The volume gathers Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s literary essays in English, presenting a broad sweep of his…

The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine

Various

The Catholic World, Vol. 15 gathers the scholarly essays and reviews that appeared in the magazine between…

Yesterdays with Authors

James Thomas Fields

Fields makes a lively tour through the literary salons of nineteenth‑century England, presenting his own role…

The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1

Thomas De Quincey

The volume gathers a heterogeneous assortment of De Quincey’s posthumous essays, selected for “variety and…

Chinese literature: Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the Sayings of Mencius, the Shi-King, the Travels of Fâ-Hien, and the Sorrows of Han

Confucius; Faxian; Mencius

This volume gathers together the core texts of early Chinese thought, Confucius’s Analects, the sayings of…

Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews. V. 1-2

John Tyndall

The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): The Age of Reason

Thomas Paine

The fourth volume of Thomas Paine’s collected writings presents the second part of his controversial work The…

The Forgotten Man, and Other Essays

William Graham Sumner

The volume is a posthumous gathering of William Graham Sumner’s economic and social essays, assembled after…

Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs

Robert Green Ingersoll

The volume presents a curated selection of the opinions and beliefs of Colonel Robert G.

分甘余話

Shizhen Wang

The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870

Various

The Catholic World, Vol. 11 (April – September 1870) is a periodical collection that presents a sustained…

Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia.

R. W. (Richard William); Dante Alighieri Church

The work is a scholarly essay by the Rev. R. W. Church, first published in the mid‑nineteenth century,…

Essays and Lectures

Oscar Wilde

The volume gathers Oscar Wilde’s early essays and lectures, most of which were never intended for…

Familiar Studies of Men and Books

Robert Louis Stevenson

These are a series of literary sketches assembled from the pages of nineteenth‑century periodicals, one from…

The charm of Venice: An anthology

The book is an anthology that gathers together prose passages and poems celebrating Venice, assembled by A.

Japanese Plays and Playfellows

Osman Edwards

The work is a scholarly survey of Japanese theatrical culture, framed by the author’s brief six‑month…

In Defense of Women

H. L. Mencken

This work is a polemical essay on the “woman question,” written by the journalist‑critic H. L. Mencken.

Mémoires de Miss Coote: Exploits d'une fouetteuse britannique racontés par elle-même

Rosa Belinda Coote

Ce texte se présente comme un récit épistolaire où Rosa Belinda Coote, dite Miss Coote, raconte à son…

Eureka: A Prose Poem

Edgar Allan Poe

Eureka: A Prose Poem is an ambitious, single‑voice meditation that treats cosmology as a literary pursuit…

The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 10 (of 12)

William Hazlitt

The volume is a collection of William Hazlitt’s essays, the tenth in a twelve‑part series that gathers his…

Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816)

Edward Stanley