Essays, Letters & Speeches

Milton

Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

Walter Alexander Raleigh’s work is a scholarly meditation on the life and criticism of John Milton, framed as…

Modern women and what is said of them : a reprint of a series of articles in the Saturday Review (1868)

E. Lynn Linton

The work is a collection of essays originally published in the London Saturday Review in 1868, assembled here…

Pipefuls

Christopher Morley

Pipefuls is a collection of short, newspaper‑sourced sketches assembled by Christopher Morley in 1920.

Pearls of Thought

Maturin M. Ballou

Pearls of Thought is a compact anthology of maxims assembled by Maturin M.

Some Reminiscences of old Victoria

Edgar Fawcett

Edgar Fawcett’s Some Reminiscences of Old Victoria is a personal memoir that blends family history with a…

The Merry-Go-Round

Carl Van Vechten

The Merry‑Go‑Round is a collection of essays by Carl Van Vechten that opens with a sprawling meditation on…

A Tramp's Notebook

Morley Roberts

Morley Roberts’s A Tramp’s Notebook is a series of reflective essays that blend travel narrative with a stark…

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."

George Horace Lorimer

The work is an epistolary didactic novel that strings together a series of letters from John Graham, the…

The Short-story

The volume is a classroom‑crafted anthology that gathers a selection of short stories long used in American…

The Log of the Sun: A Chronicle of Nature's Year

William Beebe

The Log of the Sun is a natural‑history essay that opens with a sweeping celebration of birds as the most…

Progress and History

This work is a scholarly survey of the concept of progress as it has unfolded through Western history.

Figures of Several Centuries

Arthur Symons

Arthur Symons’s Figures of Several Centuries is a scholarly survey of the autobiography as a literary form,…

Eugenics and Other Evils

G. K. Chesterton

The work is a polemical essay by G. K. Chesterton that attacks the doctrine of eugenics as a modern “science…

Browning's Heroines

Ethel Colburn Mayne

The work is a scholarly essay that treats Robert Browning’s female characters as a distinct field of study.

Proverbs of All Nations, Compared, Explained, and Illustrated

Walter K. Kelly

Walter K. Kelly’s Proverbs of All Nations, Compared, Explained, and Illustrated is a scholarly anthology that…

Wild Animals at Home

Ernest Thompson Seton

Ernest Thompson Seton’s Wild Animals at Home is a natural‑history narrative that blends observation with…

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

G. K. Chesterton

The work is a collection of essays by G. K. Chesterton that originally appeared as prefaces to individual…

Alguns homens do meu tempo: Impressões Litterarias

Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho

Este volume reúne as memórias e reflexões de Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho, escrita entre 1888 e 1900,…

The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism

Arthur Schopenhauer

The work is a curated selection from Arthur Schopenhauer’s Parerga, assembled under a title that does not…

The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays

James Russell Lowell

The work is a political essay by James Russell Lowell, taken from the fifth volume of his collected prose and…

As A Chinaman Saw Us: Passages from His Letters to a Friend at Home

This work is a collection of letters written between 1892 and 1902 by a highly educated Chinese gentleman who…

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays

Addison, Joseph; Steele, Richard, Sir

The Spectator, Volume 1 presents the first half of the celebrated eighteenth‑century periodical essays…

Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This volume is a comprehensive scholarly guide assembled by Samuel Taylor Coleridge that surveys the works of…

I marginalen

Olaf Homén

Boken är en samling essäer och kritiska analyser som kretsar kring den svenska och finska litteraturkritikens…