Essays, Letters & Speeches

Letters to an Unknown

Prosper Mérimée

The work is a collection of letters between Prosper Mérimée and his long‑time correspondent Jeanne Françoise…

The doctor looks at literature: Psychological studies of life and letters

Joseph Collins

The work is a scholarly essay that surveys the relationship between psychology and literature, positioning…

A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies

Oscar Wilde

The volume is a collection of Oscar Wilde’s newspaper and magazine pieces, assembled under the heading “A…

The Craft of Fiction

Percy Lubbock

Percy Lubbock’s The Craft of Fiction is a work of literary criticism that opens with a sustained meditation…

Fabian Essays in Socialism

The book is a collection of essays that trace the evolution of socialist thought from the late‑19th‑century…

George Meredith: A Study

Hannah Lynch

Hannah Lynch’s George Meredith: A Study is a scholarly essay‑like work that grew out of a Paris lecture she…

The Land of Little Rain

Mary Austin

The work is a sprawling travel‑nature essay that treats California’s varied landscapes as a single, almost…

The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 07 (of 12)

William Hazlitt

The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 07, gathers the essays that originally appeared anonymously in…

Suspended Judgments: Essays on Books and Sensations

John Cowper Powys

Suspended Judgments is a collection of essays in which John Cowper Powys explores the nature of artistic…

A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage Together with the Sense of Antiquity on this Argument

Jeremy Collier

Jeremy Collier’s A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage is a polemical treatise…

The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The volume gathers the scattered notes, essays, poems and fragments that Samuel Taylor Coleridge left behind,…

Miscellanies

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This volume brings together a varied collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s public speeches, addresses, and…

Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1

Edward FitzGerald

The work is a curated collection of Edward FitzGerald’s correspondence, assembled after his death to give…

The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Jerome K. Jerome

The book presents itself as a collection of “idle thoughts” by a self‑styled idler, offering a series of…

Miscellanies

Oscar Wilde

The volume is a sprawling miscellany that gathers Oscar Wilde’s scattered essays, speeches, letters, and…

Quotes and Images From The Works of Michel De Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

Preface to Shakespeare

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson’s “Preface to Shakespeare” is a critical essay that opens with a sweeping meditation on the…

Unicorns

James Huneker

James Huneker’s Unicorns is a miscellany of essays that weaves together music criticism, literary commentary,…

French Classics

William Cleaver Wilkinson

Wilkinson’s work is a scholarly survey of French literature, positioned as the fifth volume in a series that…

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals

Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore’s “Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5” is a biographical compilation that interweaves Byron’s own…

Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 1 of 3

Marcus Tullius Cicero

This volume presents the first third of Marcus Tullius Cicero’s correspondence with his close friend Titus…

Letters of John Calvin, Volume I Compiled from the Original Manuscripts and Edited with Historical Notes

Jean Calvin

This volume presents the first part of the collected letters of Jean Calvin, the eminent Reformer whose…

Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete

The work is a scholarly anthology that begins with a concise essay tracing the origins and development of…

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The volume is a collection of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.’s “Autocrat of the Breakfast‑Table” essays,…