Essays, Letters & Speeches

War and the Weird

Phillips, Forbes; Hopkins, R. Thurston

War and the Weird is a hybrid of war memoir and speculative essay that uses the First‑World War as a…

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics

Various

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, is a nineteenth‑century periodical that assembles essays, reviews…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 04

The volume presents a series of extended historical narratives drawn from 19th‑century American…

Stories from Aulus Gellius Being Selections And Adaptations From The Noctes Atticae

Aulus Gellius

Hic liber est collectio, aliquantulum adaptata, fabulæ breves ex Noctibus Atticis Aulii Gelli, edita a R. G.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics

Various

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866, is a periodical anthology that gathers a variety of…

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus

American Anti-Slavery Society

The Anti‑Slavery Examiner, Omnibus gathers the fiery pamphlets and speeches of the American Anti‑Slavery…

Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance

Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Bibliomania is a bibliographical romance that treats the feverish love of books as a curable disease.

Ueber Goethes Hermann und Dorothea

Victor Hehn

Der vorliegende Text ist ein wissenschaftliches Werk von Victor Hehn, das sich mit Goethes Epos Hermann und…

Intentions

Oscar Wilde

The work is a literary essay framed as a theatrical dialogue, in which the characters Cyril and Vivian argue…

Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2

Isaac Disraeli

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics

Various

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March 1866, is a nineteenth‑century periodical anthology that…

Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature

Isaac Disraeli

The work is a sweeping survey of English literary history, presented as a series of sketches that trace the…

The Works of William Cowper His life, letters, and poems, now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence

William Cowper

The volume you hold is a comprehensive, single‑volume edition of William Cowper’s life, letters, and poetry,…

Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

John Keats

The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon

Washington Irving

The Sketch‑Book of Geoffrey Crayon is a self‑conscious collection of travel essays and personal reflections…

Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings, Volume 1 (of 2): Her correspondence from 1720 to 1761

Mrs. Montagu

This volume presents the early portion of Elizabeth Montagu’s extensive correspondence, spanning from 1720 to…

The Uncensored Letters of a Canteen Girl

Katharine Duncan Morse

The book is a first‑person wartime diary presented as a series of unsent letters from a young American…

Essays — Second Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This volume is the second collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s American essays, published in the nineteenth…

Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The volume presents a curated selection of Anton Chekhov’s correspondence, drawn from the…

Satire in the Victorian novel

Frances Theresa Russell

Frances Theresa Russell’s doctoral thesis, Satire in the Victorian Novel, opens with a sweeping appraisal of…

The Arena, Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891

Various

The Arena, Volume 4, No. 24, November 1891, is a periodical anthology of American literary commentary, and…

Spare Hours

John Brown

Spare Hours is a miscellany of essays, sketches and anecdotes assembled by the Edinburgh‑born physician John…

閱微草堂筆記

Yun Ji

Discourses of Brigham Young

Brigham Young

This volume presents a curated selection of Brigham Young’s public addresses, drawn from the Journal of…