Essays & Short Works
Speeches: Literary and Social
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Charles Dickens
Speeches: Literary and Social is a collection of speeches given by Charles Dickens in various settings, including banquets, public gathering…
The Future in America: A Search After Realities
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H. G. Wells
A series of travel essays by one of the most well known antiquarian authors focused on America and its persistent social, economic and devel…
Essays Collection, Vol. 01
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Various
Here are 20 essays by various authors, covering all kinds of subjects. Some are famous, others are gems ferreted out from chapters or passag…
Een reiziger, die geen handel drijft
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Charles Dickens
Een serie journalistieke artikelen uit het tijdschrift 'All the Year round' geschreven in de periode 1860 - 1869. In deze artikelen worden v…
Anti-Dictator: The Discours sur la servitude voluntaire
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Étienne De La Boétie
Étienne de La Boétie was the closest friend of Michel de Montaigne and the subject of the latter's famous essay "On Frien…
Christmas Short Works Collection 2018
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Various
A delightful collection of stories and poems, with several interesting selections discussing various Christmas and holiday traditions, and a…
Studies in Stagecraft
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Clayton Hamilton
A companion piece to Hamilton's earlier work, The Theory of the Theatre. Where that volume dealt with the criticism of dramatic art in gener…
The Silver Shadow, and Other Day Dreams
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Frank W. Boreham
Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of edi…
Le Mal du siècle
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Ferdinand Brunetière
Ferdinand Brunetière, auteur, critique littéraire et académicien français (1849-1906), s’est passionné …
The Children
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Alice Meynell
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 056
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 10 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres. - Summary by schrm
The Forgotten Man and Other Essays
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William Graham Sumner
Sumner's popular essays were to give him a wider audience to distribute his anti-imperialism, his advocacy of free markets and the gold stan…
Problems of the Playwright
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Clayton Hamilton
A third volume of essays by American critic Clayton Hamilton, published as a companion piece to The Theory of the Theatre & Studies in S…
The Evolutionist at Large
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Grant Allen
These Essays originally appeared in the columns of the 'St. James's Gazette,' and I have to thank the courtesy of the Editor for kind permis…
Letters to a Daughter
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Hubert Bland
Letters to a Daughter is a collection of essays proffering ‘fatherly advice’ in the form of a one-sided correspondence. Each of these takes …
The Open Library
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Brewster Kahle
Text of the speech given by Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, at the launch of the Open Library in October 2005. LibriVox was…