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ReadLetters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life
Ignatius Sancho
This work is a collection of the surviving letters of Ignatius Sancho, an African-born man who rose from the…
The Mirror of the Sea
Joseph Conrad
The work is a reflective travel narrative that treats the sea as a laboratory of ritual rather than a…
ReadPetrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters A Selection from His Correspondence with Boccaccio and Other Friends, Designed to Illustrate the Beginnings of the Renaissance
Francesco Petrarca
This volume assembles a selection of Petrarch’s letters to Boccaccio and other contemporaries, presented as a…
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 1
Sir Thomas Browne
The volume gathers the principal writings of Sir Thomas Browne, the seventeenth‑century physician‑philosopher…
ReadThe Sacred Beetle, and Others
Jean-Henri Fabre
The work is a natural‑history treatise that begins with a sweeping meditation on the role of maternity in the…
Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas
Marie Lebert
The volume is a multilingual collection of interviews that probes how a wide range of cultural professionals,…
ReadAlfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2
Wallace, Alfred Russel; Marchant, James, Sir
The volume gathers Alfred Russel Wallace’s scientific papers and the correspondence that accompanied them…
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The work is a series of critical and historical essays by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, assembled under…
ReadIndex of the Project Gutenberg Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The volume is an extensive index of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s writings, assembled as a series of brief entries…
ReadLincoln's Gettysburg Address Given November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Abraham Lincoln
This work is the historic Gettysburg Address delivered by President Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, at…
ReadGive Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Patrick Henry
This work is a political speech from the Revolutionary era, delivered by a Virginia delegate to the…
Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
The volume presents a curated collection of Oscar Wilde’s essays and short stories, assembled with the…
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
Various
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995 Memorial Issue is a compilation of historical and literary excerpts…
ReadBy-paths in Hebraic bookland
Israel Abrahams
By‑paths in Hebraic Bookland is a scholarly miscellany that gathers a series of essays originally written for…
ReadThe Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 24
Robert Louis Stevenson
This volume gathers the letters and diary entries of Robert Louis Stevenson during the years 1882‑1884, a…
The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance
Edith Birkhead
The work is a scholarly survey of the Gothic romance and its off‑shoot, the tale of terror, tracing the genre…
ReadThe pillow-book of Sei Shōnagon
Sei Shōnagon
The Pillow‑Book of Sei Shōnagon is a courtly miscellany from tenth‑century Heian Japan, compiled by the…
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
James McNeill Whistler
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies is a nonfiction compilation that gathers James McNeill Whistler’s own…
ReadThe Soul of Man under Socialism
Oscar Wilde
The work is an extended essay that launches with a sweeping survey of history’s great minds, Darwin, Keats,…
ReadThe Raven, and The Philosophy of Composition
Edgar Allan Poe
The volume presents Edgar Allan Poe’s celebrated poem “The Raven” together with his prose essay “The…
The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912
L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone
The work is a memoir‑style chronicle by L. de Hegermann‑Lindencrone, written from the perspective of a…
ReadJohn F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address is a single‑volume record of a presidential speech delivered in January…
ReadThe remains of the late Mrs. Richard Trench: Being Selections From Her Journals, Letters, & Other Papers
Melesina Chenevix St. George Trench
The work is a posthumous compilation of the papers of Melesina Chenevix St George, later Mrs Richard Trench,…
ReadMiscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The volume is a collection of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s parliamentary speeches, assembled after a bitter…