Essays & Short Works

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Essays on Prohibition

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Various



A collection of essays regarding the pros and cons of prohibition of alcoholic beverages, principally in the United States. - Summary by Kev…

They Who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigration (Version 2)

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Mary Antin



In this extended essay, Mary Antin asks us to consider three questions:First: A question of principle: Have we any right to regulate immigra…

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