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The Perfect Wagnerite
[english | 1923]George Bernard Shaw
Summary: [The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblungs Ring (originally published London 1898) is a philosophical commentary on Richard Wagners Der Ring des Nibelungen by the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw. Shaw offered it to those enthusiastic admirers of Wagner who were unable to follow his ideas and do not in the least understand the dilemma of Wotan. According to Shaw: I write this pamphlet ...]
Genres: [criticism | essays | drama] Downloads: 361
The Physiology Of Marriage Part 1
[english | ]Honor De Balzac
Summary: [Includes bibliographical references (p. xxi).]
Genres: [essays | sexuality] Downloads: 95
The Physiology Of Marriage Part 2
[english | ]Honor De Balzac
Summary: [Includes bibliographical references (p. xxi).]
Genres: [essays | sexuality] Downloads: 305
The Physiology Of Marriage Part 3
[english | ]Honor De Balzac
Summary: [Includes bibliographical references (p. xxi).]
Genres: [essays | sexuality] Downloads: 427
The Pilgrim And The American Of Today
[english | 1892]Charles Dudley Warner
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Genres: [essays] Downloads: 193
The Positive School Of Criminology
[english | 1901]Enrico Ferri
Summary: [Bibliographical footnotes.]
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The Praise Of Folly
[english | ]Desiderius Erasmus
Summary: [The Praise of Folly is an essay written in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in 1511. The essay was inspired by De Triumpho Stultitiae written by Italian humanist Faustino Perisauli born at Tredozio near Forli. Erasmus revised and extended the work which he originally wrote in the space of a week while sojourning with Sir Thomas More at Mores estate in Bucklersbury. In ...]
Genres: [essays | humor] Downloads: 430
The Price Of A Soul
[english | 1914]William Jennings Bryan
Summary: [The Price by Francis Lynde. The Price is presented here in a high quality kindle edition. This popular classic work by Francis Lynde is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Francis Lynde then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.]
Genres: [philosophy | essays | religion] Downloads: 356
The Priestly Vocation
[english | 1918]Bernard Ward
Excerpts: [... consider what the ordinary life of a priest was even in the later days of the Vicariates. He dressed as a layman he did not even venture to wear ...... live with less high ideals and aspirations. The true fact, however, is that the two vocations are radically and essentially different. Each has its own ...... be made a school of holiness. The second answer is the spirit which ...]
Genres: [religion | essays] Downloads: 411
The Principles Of Success In Literature
[english | ]George Henry Lewes
Excerpts: [... conditions. No one, it is to be presumed, will imagine that I can have any pretension of giving recipes for Literature, or of furnishing power and talent ...... Public knowledge and public taste fluctuate and there come times when works which were once capable of instructing and delighting thousands lose their ...... consciousness assures them that what they have seen or felt is ...]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 156
The Public Orations Of Demosthenes Vol 1
[english | ]Demosthenes
Summary: [The Public Orations Of Demosthenes Volume 1 by Demosthenes. TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR WALLACE PICKARD]
Genres: [essays | classic] Downloads: 24
The Public Orations Of Demosthenes Vol 2
[english | ]Demosthenes
Summary: [The Public Orations Of Demosthenes Volume 1 by Demosthenes. TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR WALLACE PICKARD]
Genres: [essays | classic] Downloads: 350
The Quest Of The Simple Life
[english | 1907]William Dawson
Summary: [Reverend William Dawson (1704??1752) was the second president of The College of William Mary in Williamsburg Virginia. A graduate of the Queens College at Oxford University Dawson ran the College from 1743?1752. He is also the brother of Thomas Dawson who was the fourth president of William Mary (1755?1760).]
Genres: [non fiction | essays] Downloads: 372
The Ruin Of Fleet Street
[english | 1882]E Harcourt Burrage
Summary: [Id hoped this was a history of journalism. Instead its a not-very-entertaining collection of cautionary tales about assorted drunkards connected with London literary and newspaper life and their bad ends.]
Genres: [non fiction | essays] Downloads: 259
The Salvaging Of Civilisation
[english | 1921]H Wells
Excerpts: [... at all. It is to the general problem arising out of this consideration, that this and the three following essays will be addressed the question: ...... are these intellectuals right in their estimate of the common man. Is he such a shallow and vehement fool as they seem to believe. Is he so patriotic ...... the coming human commonweal. If they are not that, then they are ...]
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The Sceptics Of The Old Testament Job Koheleth Agur
[english | ]Emile Joseph Dillon
Excerpts: [... reach of him who reads as he runs. And I feel confident that the reader who can appreciate the highest forms of poetry, or who has anxiously pondered ...... so upright living was followed in Judea by material wealth, prosperity, a numerous progeny and all the good things that seem to make life worth living. ...... earth cannot be regarded as the retribution for the deeds done in ...]
Genres: [religion | essays] Downloads: 130
The Scientific Evidences Of Organic Evolution
[english | 1882]George John Romanes
Excerpts: [... at the beginning of my subject by very briefly describing the theory of natural selection. It is a matter of observable fact that all plants and animals ...... if in any case the alteration thus effected is sufficient in amount to lead naturalists to denote the specific type by some different name, it follows ...... in preference to Newton's explanation for, excepting the law of ...]
Genres: [science | essays] Downloads: 43
The Second Funeral Of Napoleon
[english | ]William Makepeace Thackeray
Excerpts: [... Greenacre: suppose you had been asked out to dinner, and the gentleman of the house had said: Ho. Francois. a glass of champagne for Miss Smith-Courvoisier ...... the Gammon of Gammons. And as you must not peer too curiously within, so neither must you remain scornfully without. Humbug- worshippers, let us come ...... Paris, beams with sufficient grandeur on this place: whereas the ...]
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