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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 096 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 096 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
"Can we solve the problems confronting us? Well, the answer is an unequivocal and emphatic yes." This quote, from U.S. President Ronald Reagan's first inaugural address, captures the searching tone of many reader-chosen selections in vol. 096: The...
1891 Collection - Various
1891 Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Essays & Short Works
A look at the year 1891 through literature and non-fiction essays first published that year, including works by Mary E Wilkins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sara Orne Jewett, and Oscar Wilde. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
1912: Short Works Collection - Various
1912: Short Works Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This is a collection of public domain works either published in 1912, or written in 1912 and published before 1923. The accent is on non-fiction but I will include short stories, poems, one-act plays, as well. (Summary by Bellona Times)Read and...
The Art of Letters - Robert Lynd
The Art of Letters - Robert Lynd
- Author: Robert Lynd
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essay on the literary scene of his day with critiques of poets and and poetry, ranging from Pepys to Walter de la Mare. He even examines criticism...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 003 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 003 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics science and religion. Included in...
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing - Mary Webb
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing - Mary Webb
- Author: Mary Webb
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Mary Webb was a novelist and poet and two of her novels "Gone to Earth" and "Precious Bane" have been successfully adapted for film and television. She was passionate about nature and particularly the Shropshire countryside where she grew up and...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 031 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 031 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the Faust Legend, Stephen Crane, Sundials and the Statue of Liberty. (Summary by Sue Anderson)...
The Spirit of Place and Other Essays - Alice Meynell
The Spirit of Place and Other Essays - Alice Meynell
- Author: Alice Meynell
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League. She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works...
George Bernard Shaw - G. K. Chesterton
George Bernard Shaw - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Essays & Short Works
Chesterton and Shaw were famous friends and enjoyed their arguments and discussions. Although rarely in agreement, they both maintained good-will towards and respect for each other. However, in his writing, Chesterton expressed himself very plainly...
Anarchism and Other Essays - Emma Goldman
Anarchism and Other Essays - Emma Goldman
- Author: Emma Goldman
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Political Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century....
Fancies Versus Fads - G. K. Chesterton
Fancies Versus Fads - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A Collection of 31 essays from G.K. Chesterton. “I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves are slight, it is possible that the thread (and the metaphor) may manage to hang together. These notes range...
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things - William Hazlitt
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things - William Hazlitt
- Author: William Hazlitt
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things is a posthumous collection of essays by William Hazlitt, organized by his grandson, William Carew Hazlitt. The book contains some of Hazlitt's more famous essays that couldn't be found in book...
Essays and Dialogues - Giacomo Leopardi
Essays and Dialogues - Giacomo Leopardi
- Author: Giacomo Leopardi
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
"We would no more choose to feed the minds of our countrymen and women with the despairing utterances of the pessimist poet, than we would their bodies with hasheesh. Such melancholy as his clothed in such eloquent words may be the luxury of the...
Irish Impressions - G. K. Chesterton
Irish Impressions - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Political Science
“For the Irish Question has never been discussed in England. Men have discussed Home Rule; but those who advocated it most warmly, and as I think wisely, did not even know what the Irish meant by Home. Men have talked about Unionism; but they have...
The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy - John Galsworthy
The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This is a collection of essays by John Galsworthy. A multitude of subjects is covered, but the essays are connected by an artistic spirit, and they are written much more like short stories than in the classical style of essays. - Summary by Carolin...
Essays on Modern Novelists - William Lyon Phelps
Essays on Modern Novelists - William Lyon Phelps
- Author: William Lyon Phelps
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Literary Criticism
A collection of essays on 19th century novelists, both famous ones and those largely forgotten now. Among the writers presented most wrote in English, but three foreign authors are also discussed. Phelps taught a course on novels at a university and...
Treatises On Friendship And Old Age - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Treatises On Friendship And Old Age - Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Essays & Short Works
Friendship. Old Age. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer, and philosopher. He is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists. One commentator has written, “The influence of Cicero upon the...
Heretics - G. K. Chesterton
Heretics - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Contemporary
The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere "rollicking journalist," he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature. A man of...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 009 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 009 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in these collections are independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, philosophy,...
Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson - Samuel Johnson
Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson - Samuel Johnson
- Author: Samuel Johnson
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This is a volume of selected essays by "the great master of reason" Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The Adventurer and The Idler are included, covering a vast range of topics. - Summary by Carolin...
My Discovery of England - Stephen Leacock
My Discovery of England - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
"In the course of time a very considerable public feeling was aroused in the United States and Canada over this state of affairs. The lack of reciprocity in it seemed unfair. It was felt (or at least I felt) that the time had come when some one...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 004 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 004 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
A collection of eleven short nonfiction works in the public domain. The items included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, conservation, philosophy, politics, religion and cooking....
For Every Music Lover - Aubertine Woodward Moore
For Every Music Lover - Aubertine Woodward Moore
- Author: Aubertine Woodward Moore
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works / Music
A series of essays for music lovers, covering many topics. From music appreciation, to violin and symphony, music education, to piano and, in fact, the very origins of music, there is sure to be something for everyone. (Summary by prwells32)...
Pastiche and Prejudice - Arthur Bingham Walkley
Pastiche and Prejudice - Arthur Bingham Walkley
- Author: Arthur Bingham Walkley
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
Arthur Bingham Walkley was an exceedingly popular critic, working as a drama critic at The Times alone for no less than 26 years, and writing for several other newspapers and privately besides that. This book of pastiches was completed after he...
Confessions of a Book-Lover - E. Walter Walters
Confessions of a Book-Lover - E. Walter Walters
- Author: E. Walter Walters
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Writing & Linguistics
"I am of the company of book men who read simply for the love of it," confesses E. Walter Walters, in this gently written tome. Walters documents his habit of "book fishing--" seeking and finding quality volumes in the discount binds at his...
Utopia of Usurers - G. K. Chesterton
Utopia of Usurers - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
“Now I have said again and again (and I shall continue to say again and again on all the most inappropriate occasions) that we must hit Capitalism, and hit it hard, for the plain and definite reason that it is growing stronger. Most of the excuses...
This, That, and the Other - Hilaire Belloc
This, That, and the Other - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
“When Fame comes upon a man well before death then must he most particularly beware of it, for is it then most dangerous. Neither must he, having achieved it, relax effort nor (a much greater peril) think he has done his work because some Fame now...
Revolution and Counter-Revolution, or: Germany in 1848 - Friedrich Engels
Revolution and Counter-Revolution, or: Germany in 1848 - Friedrich Engels
- Author: Friedrich Engels
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Modern (19th C)
Revolution and Counter-Revolution is an account of what happened in Prussia, Austria and other German states during 1848, describing the impact on both middle-class and working-class aspirations and on the idea of German unification. Events in...
What I Saw in America - G. K. Chesterton
What I Saw in America - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Travel & Geography
“Let me begin my American impressions with two impressions I had before I went to America. One was an incident and the other an idea; and when taken together they illustrate the attitude I mean. The first principle is that nobody should be ashamed...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 015 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 015 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, government, military history, science,...
Modern Essays - Christopher Morley
Modern Essays - Christopher Morley
- Author: Christopher Morley
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph. Early twentieth or late nineteenth centuries. “I think I can offer you, in this parliament of philomaths...
The Crimes of England - G. K. Chesterton
The Crimes of England - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / History
"Second, when telling such lies as may seem necessary to your international standing, do not tell the lies to the people who know the truth. Do not tell the Eskimos that snow is bright green; nor tell the negroes in Africa that the sun never shines...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 023 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 023 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, cooking, humor, medicine, theater, philosophy, memoirs....
It Might Have Happened to You - Coningsby Dawson
It Might Have Happened to You - Coningsby Dawson
- Author: Coningsby Dawson
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This is a frank eyewitness description of the suffering, starvation in particular, that was widely experienced in Central and Eastern Europe in the aftermath of "The Great War". “It is not stating matters too strongly to say that…peace had caused at...
The Book of This and That - Robert Lynd
The Book of This and That - Robert Lynd
- Author: Robert Lynd
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as stupidity, Christmas, spring fashions, and the beauty of statistics. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
Lancashire Characters and Places - Thomas Newbigging
Lancashire Characters and Places - Thomas Newbigging
- Author: Thomas Newbigging
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and Edwin Waugh. Thomas Newbigging was born in Glasgow and died in Knutsford, Chesshire, living in between in...
Stage Land - Jerome K. Jerome
Stage Land - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor / Literary Criticism
A comic look at the curious habits and customs of the inhabitants of 'Stage Land'. Dedicated to 'that highly respectable but unnecessarily retiring individual, of whom we hear so much but see so little, "the earnest student of drama".'...
The Spirit of American Literature - John Albert Macy
The Spirit of American Literature - John Albert Macy
- Author: John Albert Macy
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE is a collection of essays reviewing contemporary authors on the literary scene at the turn of the century and assessing the uniquely American characteristics of their growing body of work. Excerpted from the...
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy - Stephen Leacock
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Short Stories / Essays & Short Works / Humor
Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG)...
From Pillar to Post - John Kendrick Bangs
From Pillar to Post - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
I could not let these random notes of a delightful experience go forth into the world without expressing in some way my deep appreciation of the valued services rendered me in my ten years of platform work by my friends of the Lyceum Bureaus. In...
