Essays Books

Certain Personal Matters

  [english | ]  

H Wells

Excerpts: [... between general appreciation and uncritical acceptance. At times I find life a Bother. The kind of thing that I object to is, as a good example, all ...... does not occur to them how widely the sordid vices are distributed in the other sex. If you are a hotel proprietor, or a school proprietor, or a day ...... to come, so that a lot happened after this duel of Sword v. Fiery Eye. I ...]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 174

Character And Opinion In The United States

  [english | 1920]  

George Santayana

Summary: [LC copy imperfect: all before p. 3 wanting.]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 65

Charles Sumner Centenary

  [english | 1911]  

Archibald Grimk

Excerpts: [... What was true of the Greek Demigod was likewise true of Charles Sumner. His study of the law for instance formed but a part of his great preparation. ...... association with the leading spirits of the times in Europe and America. All combined to teach him to know himself and the universal verities of man ...... had already passed away. Webster was in Millard Fillmore's cabi, and ...]
Genres: [essays | african american studies] Downloads: 84

Chimney Pot Papers

  [english | 1919]  

Charles Brooks

Summary: [Reprinted from the Unpopular review and Century magazine.]
Genres: [essays | humor] Downloads: 179

Chopin And Other Musical Essays

  [english | 1891]  

Henry Theophilus Finck

Summary: [Henry Theophilus Finck (September 22 1854 - 1926) was an American musical critic born at Bethel Missouri and raised in Portland Oregon where he was taught piano and violincello. He taught himself Latin and Greek so thoroughly that he was able to enter Harvard as a sophomore in 1872. At Harvard he studied philosophy the classics and music. He attended the Bayreuth Festival in 1876 of which he ...]
Genres: [music | essays] Downloads: 198

Chosen Peoples

  [english | 1919]  

Israel Zangwill

Summary: [Israel Zangwill (January 21 1864 - August 1 1926) was a British-Jewish humourist and writer.]
Genres: [religion | essays] Downloads: 303

Christo No Volta

  [english | 1873]  

Alberto Augusto De Almeida Pimentel

Excerpts: [... 200 ris. CHRISTO NO VOLTA. CHRISTO NO VOLTA. (Resposta ao Voltareis, Christo. de Camillo Castello-Branco). NARRATIVA. POR. ALBERTO ...... dia da grande submerso da terra. Li os jornaes de fio a pavio, como se diz no sei se em bom portuguez, reli-os, decorei-os. Cheguei a devorar os annuncios ...... pude duvidar ao ouvir um grito surdo como o de quem cahia contra o solo. Chamei ...]
Genres: [religion | essays] Downloads: 303

Civilisation Its Cause And Cure

  [english | 1889]  

Edward Carpenter

Summary: [Civilisation Its Cause And Cure by Edward Carpenter. As a philosopher Carpenter is particularly known for his publication of Civilisation Its Cause and Cure in which he proposes that civilisation is a form of disease that human societies pass through. Civilisations he says rarely last more than a thousand years before collapsing and no society has ever passed through civilisation successfully. ...]
Genres: [religion | essays | philosophy] Downloads: 19

Cobwebs Of Thought

  [english | ]  

Arachne

Excerpts: [... which are acutely pathetic. The pain which consumed him arose from the concentration of self on self. Self was monopolised by self, self-consciousness ...... ourselves that we take to study a science or art-if we could learn to depend on the sequence of our own thoughts as an engineer can on the sequence of ...... moralist of what practical use is it for him to endeavour to alter a ...]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 347

Collected Articles Of Frederick Douglass A Slave

  [english | 1881]  

Frederick Douglass

Summary: [Collected Articles Of Frederick Douglass A Slave by Frederick Douglass. The Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass - A Slave written by legendary author Frederick Douglass are widely considered to be one of the greatest writings of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass - A Slave is required reading ...]
Genres: [african american studies | essays | history] Downloads: 328

Concerning Animals And Other Matters

  [english | 1914]  

Edward Hamilton Aitken

Excerpts: [... a blank, a moral Sahara, a catechism of the Nihilist creed. What such a one needs is a hobby. Every hobby is good-a sign of good and an influence for ...... time to identify these particular fishes (Haplochilus lineatus), and in the meantime he dubbed them Scooties from the lightning rapidity of their movements, ...... feet there may be only four. But as soon as we come to those ...]
Genres: [essays | humor] Downloads: 317

Concerning Cats

  [english | 1900]  

Helen Winslow

Summary: [Comic and Curious Cats (aka Martin Lemans Comic and Curious Cats) is a childrens book with text by Angela Carter and illustrations by Martin Leman. It was first published by Gollancz 1979 in 1989 a poster and postcard books of the illustrations were also released. It is not an actual story but a poetic alphabet of cats in which Carter describes each felines characteristics with the same letters ...]
Genres: [essays | non fiction | audiobook] Downloads: 365

Conflict Of Northern And Southern Theories Of Man And

  [english | 1855]  

Henry Ward Beecher

Summary: [Debby Applegate (born 1968) is an American historian and biographer. She is the author of The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 65

Content

  [english | 2008]  

Cory Doctorow

Summary: [Essays on copyright and the new millennium.]
Genres: [essays | creative commons | post 1930] Downloads: 261

Cordwood

  [english | 1887]  

Bill Nye

Excerpts: [... to overstock the ranges at last and founder the goose that now lays the golden egg. This, of course, is really none of my business, but if I didn't ...... telescope which he had made himself from an old bamboo fishing-rod. But astronomy is a very enervating branch of science. Galileo frequently came ...... shades in dress. Small pugs that are warranted not to bag at the knees are ...]
Genres: [humor | essays] Downloads: 473

Counsels And Maxims

  [english | ]  

Arthur Schopenhauer

Summary: [Wisdom of life.--Counsels and maxims.--Religion: a dialogue.--The art of literature.--Studies in pessimism.--On human nature.--The art of controversy.]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 12

Courage

  [english | 1922]  

J Barrie

Summary: [Firefight at Yechon: Courage and Racism in the Korean War is an autobiography by Charles M. Bussey. Bussey joined the Tuskegee Airmen an all-black air unit which protected Allied bombers on missions over Europe during World War II in over North Africa Italy and finally Germany. Bussey later served as an Army officer in the Korean war. On July 20 1950 Bussey was returning to his 77th Engineer ...]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 373

Cours Familier De Littrature volume 1

  [french | 1856]  

Alphonse De Lamartine

Excerpts: [... main, et elle conduit de l'autre main un enfant qui commence marcher et qui trbuche sur les pierres. On les suit de l'oeil dans les vignes des ...... de cour, de guerre et de chasse il aimait M. de Vaudran, qui lui avait ouvert sa bibliothque il commenait m'aimer, tout enfant que j'tais moi-mme, ...... alors trs-dcent et mme recherch, mon oncle. Cet oncle tait un amateur exquis de ...]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 50

Courts And Criminals

  [english | 1910]  

Arthur Cheney Train

Excerpts: [... office a man who should conduct the police business of the city with more regard for the liberties of the inhabitants thereof. The judge who had started ...... turned loose. What does his liberty amount to or his much-vaunted legal rights if the city is to be made safe. Yet why does not some apostle of liberty ...... case and for the captain or inspector who has directed their ...]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 322

Cowley Essays

  [english | ]  

Abraham Cowley

Summary: [Bibliography: p. xxvii.]
Genres: [non fiction | essays] Downloads: 472