Essays, Letters & Speeches

How it feels to be colored me

Zora Neale Hurston

The work is an autobiographical essay by Zora Neale Hurston, a leading African‑American writer and folklorist…

Nether Lochaber The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West Highlands

Stewart, Alexander, Rev.

Eminent Authors of the Nineteenth Century: Literary Portraits

Georg Brandes

Georg Brandes’s Eminent Authors of the Nineteenth Century is a collection of nine revised essays that…

Autobiography and Selected Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley

The volume gathers Thomas Henry Huxley’s autobiographical sketch together with a selection of his essays,…

Fors Clavigera (Volume 5 of 8) Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain

John Ruskin

Fors Clavigera, volume 5 of John Ruskin’s eight‑part series, is a collection of letters addressed to the…

Turrets, towers, and temples: The great buildings of the world, as seen and described by famous writers

The book is a nineteenth‑century survey of the world’s most celebrated edifices, assembled by an unnamed…

Ten Essays on Zionism and Judaism

Ahad Ha'am

The volume presents ten essays by Ahad Ha’am, a leading thinker of the Jewish national revival, translated…

Alarms and Discursions

G. K. Chesterton

Alarms and Discursions is a collection of essays by G. K.

Joel Chandler Harris' life of Henry W. Grady including his writings and speeches

The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875

Various

Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude

Dewey, John; Bode, Boyd Henry; Brown, Harold Chapman; Kallen, Horace Meyer; Mead, George H.; Moore, Addison Webster; Stuart, Henry Waldgrave; Tufts, James Hayden

The volume is a collaborative collection of essays by seven leading American philosophers, each offering a…

Mezzotints in modern music $b Brahms, Tschaïkowsky, Chopin, Richard Strauss, Liszt and Wagner

James Huneker

The work is a sweeping essay that situates Johannes Brahma​ns music within the broader currents of…

Twentieth Century French Writers: Reviews and Reminiscences

A. Mary F. Robinson

This work is a compact survey of French literary activity during the first fourteen years of the twentieth…

A Book of Prefaces

H. L. Mencken

A Book of Prefaces is a scholarly essay collection in which H. L.

Roman Mosaics; Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood

Hugh Macmillan

The work is a scholarly miscellany on Rome and its environs, assembled from previously published articles…

Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature

W. P. Ker

Epic and Romance is a scholarly collection of essays by W. P.

Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kants Aufsatz „Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?“ ist ein philosophisches Manifest aus dem…

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence The Works of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Notes, Supplements

Cornelius Tacitus

This volume presents Tacitus’s “A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence,” the…

The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 3

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The work is a posthumous compilation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s marginal notes, unpublished reflections and…

The greedy book: A gastronomical anthology

Frank Schloesser

The Greedy Book is a sprawling gastronomic anthology that assembles essays, anecdotes, and historical…

Essays in the Art of Writing

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Essays in the Art of Writing is a critical treatise that opens with a striking…

Steep Trails

John Muir

Steep Trails gathers a selection of John Muir’s letters and articles spanning twenty‑nine years of his life,…

The Complete Essays of Charles Dudley Warner

Charles Dudley Warner

The Complete Essays of Charles Dudley Warner gathers a series of his characteristic musings, each beginning…

The Collector Essays on Books, Newspapers, Pictures, Inns, Authors, Doctors, Holidays, Actors, Preachers

Henry T. Tuckerman

The work is a miscellany of essays by Henry T. Tuckerman, gathered under the title The Collector.