Essays, Letters & Speeches

Thomas Davis, selections from his prose and poetry

Thomas Davis

This volume gathers the most representative selections of Thomas Davis’s prose and poetry, beginning with his…

Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals

Mrs. R. Lee

Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals is a nineteenth‑century juvenile work that treats animal…

Les Contemporains, 3ème Série Études et Portraits Littéraires

Jules Lemaître

Ce volume, issu de la série « Les Contemporains », est un essai critique de Jules Lemaître consacré à l’œuvre…

The Case of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The volume gathers two of Nietzsche’s polemical essays that confront the myth of a simple personal quarrel…

Lincoln's Birthday: a comprehensive view of Lincoln as given in the most noteworthy essays, orations and poems, in fiction and in Lincoln's own writings

This volume is a curated anthology that gathers the most noteworthy essays, orations, fiction, and poems…

Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

A. C. Bradley

The work is a series of university‑level lectures by A. C.

My Contemporaries In Fiction

David Christie Murray

David Christie Murray’s work is a polemical essay collection that launches with a candid confession of his…

Stray Studies from England and Italy

John Richard Greene

The work is a miscellany of travel essays, social sketches and literary reflections assembled by John Richard…

In Nesting Time

Olive Thorne Miller

Olive Thorne Miller’s In Nesting Time is a natural‑history sketchbook that opens with a litany of bird names…

The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 3, 1836-1870

Charles Dickens

The third volume of The Letters of Charles Dickens covers the period from 1836 to 1870, gathering together…

Aufsätze

Robert Walser

Der Band „Aufsätze“ von Robert Walser ist eine Sammlung von Kurzprosa, die sich zwischen persönlichem…

The Poetics of Aristotle

Aristotle

Aristotle’s Poetics is a systematic treatise on the nature and function of poetry, organized as a series of…

More Science from an Easy Chair

Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester

The work is a 1920 re‑issue of Sir E. Ray Lankester’s popular science essays, originally printed in the Daily…

As a man thinketh

James Allen

The work is a philosophical treatise on the conduct of life, framed within the New Thought tradition.

The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886

Various

The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, dated April 1886, is a scholarly periodical that opens with a…

The Federalist Papers

Hamilton, Alexander; Jay, John; Madison, James

The Federalist Papers are a series of essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay in the…

Archæological Essays, Vol. 1

James Young Simpson

Archæological Essays, Vol. 1 gathers the scholarly papers of Sir James Simpson, a nineteenth‑century…

Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay

Immanuel Kant

Perpetual Peace is Immanuel Kant’s philosophical essay, first published in 1795 and presented here in a…

India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge

F. Max Müller

This work is a complete edition of the lectures Max Friedrich Mueller delivered at Cambridge, presented in…

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Together with Death's Duel

John Donne

The work is a sprawling autobiographical meditation that blends personal history with theological reflection.

My Studio Neighbors

W. Hamilton Gibson

Historical Essays

James Ford Rhodes

James Ford Rhodes opens this work by declaring history his “old subject,” acknowledging the long line of…

Mearing Stones: Leaves from My Note-Book on Tramp in Donegal

Joseph Campbell

Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

Bertrand Russell

Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays is a collection of Bertrand Russell’s shorter writings on mathematics,…