Essays, Letters & Speeches

McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908

Various

This volume is a first‑hand chronicle of a theatrical troupe’s eight trans‑Atlantic tours between 1883 and…

Benjamin Franklin: Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes

Benjamin Franklin

This volume is a scholarly anthology that gathers the most extensive selection of Benjamin Franklin’s…

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

Various

The Continental Monthly, Volume III, Number 1 (January 1863) is a nineteenth‑century periodical that blends…

Manifesto of the Communist Party

Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich

The work is a political pamphlet produced in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the official platform…

The London Mercury, Vol. I, Nos. 1-6, November 1919 to April 1920

Various

Books and Printing; a Treasury for Typophiles

This volume is a curated anthology of essays and articles on the history, craft, and aesthetics of books and…

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843

Various

The August 1843 issue of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine presents a scholarly tribute to the German…

Sibylla: or, The revival of prophecy

C. A. Mace

Sibyll​a or The Revival of Prophecy is a speculative essay that treats the future of scientific thought as a…

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845

Various

The June 1845 issue of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine presents a scholarly essay on Alexander Pushkin, the…

Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew

Edward Berens

The work is a practical guide addressed to a succession of Oxford‑bound nephews, presented as a series of ten…

The Prose Works of William Wordsworth For the First Time Collected, With Additions from Unpublished Manuscripts. In Three Volumes.

William Wordsworth

The work presented is a three‑volume collection of William Wordsworth’s prose writings, assembled for the…

The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series

Addison, Joseph; Steele, Richard, Sir

The work is a three‑volume collection of the eighteenth‑century periodical The Spectator, edited by Sir…

The Spectator, Volume 2.

Addison, Joseph; Steele, Richard, Sir

The Spectator, Volume 2 is a collection of eighteenth‑century English essays by Joseph Addison and Sir…

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics

Various

The September 1866 issue of The Atlantic Monthly presents a miscellany of essays, poetry and short fiction…

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847

Various

The May 1847 issue of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine presents a lengthy essay that treats the French…

The History of Freedom, and Other Essays

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

The work is a curated anthology of Lord Acton’s essays, drawn from a range of nineteenth‑century periodicals…

Chimney-Pot Papers

Charles S. Brooks

Charles S. Brooks’s Chimney‑Pot Papers is a loosely organized collection of essays that opens with a…

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2

Jonathan Swift

This volume gathers Jonathan Swift’s polemical writings on the Sacramental Test, a contentious clause that…

Apologia Diffidentis

O. M. Dalton

Apologia Diffidentis is an introspective memoir that frames the experience of chronic shyness as a kind of…

Civilization in the United States: An inquiry by thirty Americans

The volume is a collaborative effort by thirty American thinkers, each contributing a concise essay on a…

Die Theorie des Romans: Ein geschichtsphilosophischer Versuch über die Formen der großen Epik

György Lukács

Der Text ist ein philosophisch‑historisches Essay, in dem György Lukács die Formen der großen Epik im…

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, August 1847

Various

This volume of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine presents a scholarly essay on the evolution of Greek…

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics

Various

The Atlantic Monthly’s January 1865 issue presents a sprawling, single‑piece narrative that opens with a…

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.

Various

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, is a mid‑nineteenth‑century periodical that gathers a…