Essays, Letters & Speeches

The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America

Thomas Jefferson

The work is the United States Declaration of Independence, authored by Thomas Jefferson and catalogued under…

A Book of Burlesques

H. L. Mencken

The work is a collection of burlesque sketches assembled by H. L.

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Logan Pearsall Smith

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I.

Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October 1850, Volume I, is a nineteenth‑century periodical that opens…

Essays — First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays, First Series is a collection of Ralph Wallace Emerson’s early American essays, first published in the…

The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 06 (of 12)

William Hazlitt

The sixth volume of William Hazlitt’s collected essays presents a single, extended meditation that opens with…

Letters to His Son, Complete On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of

The work is a collection of epistolary counsel from the 18th‑century Earl of Chesterfield to his illegitimate…

Brieven uit en over Amerika

Gerritsen, C. V. (Carel Victor); Jacobs, Aletta H.

Dit werk is een verzameling brieven en artikelen van Aletta H.

The Bibliotaph, and Other People

Leon H. Vincent

The work is a lively essay on the culture of book‑collecting, framed as a series of anecdotes and reflections…

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)

Edmund Burke

This volume gathers the later, often unpublished, writings of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, whose career…

By the Christmas Fire

Samuel McChord Crothers

By the Christmas Fire is an essay‑length meditation that opens with a vivid domestic scene: the author,…

Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings, Volume 2 (of 2): Her correspondence from 1720 to 1761

Mrs. Montagu

This volume gathers the letters of Elizabeth Montagu, the celebrated “queen of the Bluestocking Society,”…

Aspects of the novel

E. M. Forster

These pages collect the Clark lectures delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the spring of 1927.

Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie (commanding 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles) Dated November 4th, 1914-March 11th, 1915

G. B. Laurie

This volume is a collection of letters written by Lieutenant‑Colonel George Brenton Laurie, commander of the…

Chapters in Rural Progress

Kenyon L. Butterfield

Kenyon L. Butterfield’s Chapters in Rural Progress is a nonfiction survey of the American farm problem,…

The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims

Arthur Schopenhauer

The work is a collection of Schopenhauer’s reflections on how to conduct one’s life, organized into four…

Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn

R. W. Chambers

This work is a scholarly study of the Old English epic Beowulf, written by the Anglo‑Saxon specialist R. W.

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters

Jonathan Swift

The volume gathers Jonathan Swift’s “Drapier’s Letters,” a series of political pamphlets written in the early…

The Story of My Life, volumes 4-6

Augustus J. C. Hare

The work is the fourth volume of Augustus J. C. Hare’s autobiographical series, published in London in 1900.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847

Various

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380 (June 1847) gathers a series of contemporary essays and…

The Arena, Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891

Various

The Arena, Volume 4, No. 22, September 1891, is a periodical anthology that gathers essays on contemporary…

Über die Schönheit häßlicher Bilder. Ein Vademecum für Romantiker unserer Zeit

Max Brod

Der Text ist ein ausufernder Essay, in dem Max Brod seine persönliche Auseinandersetzung mit der Ästhetik…

甌北詩話

Yi Zhao

La Femme Abbé

Sylvain Maréchal

Ce roman, signé Sylvain Maréchal, se présente comme une fresque de la vie parisienne du XIXᵉ siècle, où l’on…