Essays, Letters & Speeches

The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political

Franklin K. Lane

The volume presents a curated selection of Franklin K. Lane’s personal and official correspondence, drawn…

Letters of Pliny

the Younger Pliny

The work is a collection of Latin letters by Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, better known as Pliny the…

Op den Uitkijk, Jaargang 1909 Bijblad bij De Aarde en haar Volken

Various

Dit nummer van Op den Uitkijk is een geografisch tijdschrift uit 1909, een bijlage bij De Aarde en haar…

Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 5 Miscellaneous Later Essays

F. Max Müller

The work is a scholarly essay collection by Friedrich Max Müller, a German thinker whose interests span…

The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly

Various

The Idler Magazine, Volume III (July 1893) presents a single, richly illustrated narrative that begins with a…

A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays

Willa Cather

This volume gathers a selection of Willa Cather’s essays, short stories, and sketches that portray the social…

Nights in London

Thomas Burke

Thomas Burke’s Nights in London is a lyrical tribute to the city after dark, written from the perspective of…

The Letters of Cassiodorus Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator

Senator Cassiodorus

The work is a scholarly condensation of the Variae Epistolae of Cassiodorus, the 6th‑century Roman senator…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

The work is an extended essay in which Henry David Thoreau launches his argument for a government that…

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851

Various

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February 1851, is a nineteenth‑century periodical that gathers…

The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura

Apuleius

This volume presents the two surviving speeches of Apuleius of Madaura – the Apologia, his celebrated defense…

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham

Burns, Robert; Cunningham, Allan

This volume gathers the poems, songs, and letters of Scotland’s beloved bard, Robert Burns, together with a…

Mosses from an old manse

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The work is a short‑story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne that opens with an elaborate, almost lyrical…

Terribly Intimate Portraits

Noël Coward

Terribly Intimate Portraits is a collection of whimsical sketches that blend autobiographical diary entries…

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II

Minor Dialogues, Together With the Dialogue on Clemency

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The work is a collection of Seneca’s shorter philosophical letters, grouped under the heading “Minor…

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics

Various

The December 1867 issue of The Atlantic Monthly presents a sprawling, serialized narrative that reads like a…

Penguin Persons & Peppermints

Walter Prichard Eaton

Walter Prichard Eaton’s Penguin Persons & Peppermins is a collection of essays that reads like a series of…

The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life

Arthur Schopenhauer

The work is a collection of aphorisms that sets out a practical philosophy of happiness, beginning with a…

A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds

Frank Boreham

Frank Boreham’s A Handful of Stars is a devotional meditation that gathers together excerpts from celebrated…

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I

The Wit of Women Fourth Edition

Kate Sanborn

The Wit of Women" is a curated anthology that sets out to prove, with a blend of humor and scholarship, that…

The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly

Various

The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 presents a vivid, first‑person account of a woman’s confinement in…

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

François duc de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims is a collection of concise, aphoristic statements by François du…