Essays, Letters & Speeches

The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 1 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private

Thomas Jefferson

The first volume of this nine‑part series presents the complete collected writings of Thomas Jefferson,…

Americanism

Theodore Roosevelt

The work is a political address by Theodore Roosevelt that frames itself as a celebration of “Americanism”…

Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 2. The Romantic School in Germany

Georg Brandes

Georg Brandes’s essay is a scholarly overview of the German Romantic School written from the perspective of a…

Charles Dickens and other Victorians

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Arthur Quiller‑Couch’s Charles Dickens and Other Victorians is a scholarly collection of lectures originally…

Selections from the writings of ‘Abdu'l-Bahá

ʻAbdu'l-Bahá

This volume is a collection of letters, responses, and discourses penned by ʻAbdu'l‑Bahá, the central figure…

Gods of Modern Grub Street: Impressions of Contemporary Authors

Arthur St. John Adcock

Some Diversions of a Man of Letters

Edmund Gosse

The work is a series of essay‑like reflections by Edmund Gosse, a late‑Victorian literary critic, on the…

The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation

Charles A. Eastman

Charles A. Eastman’s The Soul of the Indian offers a personal, ethnographic portrait of pre‑contact Native…

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics

Various

The August 1866 issue of The Atlantic Monthly presents a single, richly detailed article that reads like a…

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12)

Edmund Burke

The volume gathers a series of Edmund Burke’s political pamphlets and letters, the first of which opens with…

Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet

Drouet, Juliette; Guimbaud, Louis

This volume presents a curated selection of Juliette Drouet’s intimate missives to Victor Hugo, accompanied…

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851

Various

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June 1851, is a nineteenth‑century periodical that gathers a…

Letters on England

Voltaire

Voltaire’s Letters on England is a series of imagined epistolary sketches in which the French Enlightener…

Myths and Myth-Makers Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology

John Fiske

John Fiske’s Myths and Myth‑Makers is a scholarly survey that treats folklore and mythology as a comparative…

Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott

The volume presents a curated collection of letters, journal excerpts, and illustrations that trace the…

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. 2 (of 2) Or Success, Ideals and How to Attain Them

The volume is a series of conversational sketches that present the lives of notable 19th‑century Americans as…

The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers, calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners, improve the understanding, rectify the will, purify the passions, direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects, and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language with elegance and propriety

John Hamilton Moore

The work presents itself as a didactic manual for the moral and linguistic formation of young gentlemen and…

The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years

Elizabeth Atkins

Elizabeth Atkins’s work is a scholarly survey that gathers the self‑statements of English poets from the…

The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book

William Makepeace Thackeray

After the Rain : how the West lost the East

Samuel Vaknin

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 08 The Lives of the Poets, Volume II

Samuel Johnson

The volume presents Samuel Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets, Volume II,” a series of biographical sketches that…

Toleration and other essays

Voltaire

This volume gathers a selection of Voltaire’s later anti‑clerical writings, framed by an introductory essay…

Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America

Edmund Burke

This volume presents Edmund Burke’s “Speech on Conciliation with America” together with a substantial…