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Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens - G. K. Chesterton
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Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens - G. K. Chesterton
β€œThese papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries of the classics which are one of the real improvements of recent times. Thus they were harmless, being diluted...
Culture and Anarchy - Matthew Arnold
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Culture and Anarchy - Matthew Arnold
Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. The preface was added in 1875. Arnold's famous piece of writing on culture established his High...
It's a Good Old World - Bruce BARTON
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It's a Good Old World - Bruce BARTON
In this collection of essays, Bruce Barton, considered to be among the most influential advertising men of the 20th century, uses history, religion and current events of the 1920s to teach common sense ideals. From Jesus to Beethoven to Napoleon to...
The Pleasures of Ignorance - Robert Lynd
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The Pleasures of Ignorance - Robert Lynd
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 cats and weed to why we hate insects and morals of beans. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
Shadowings - Lafcadio HEARN
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Shadowings - Lafcadio HEARN
  • Author: Lafcadio HEARN
  • Genre: Essays & Short Works / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
This is another of the popular books that Lafcadio Hearn wrote on various Japanese subjects. The first part "Stories From Strange Books" is a collection of Japanese tales about ghosts and strange occurrences. In the second part "Japanese Studies",...
Shandygaff - Christopher Morley
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Shandygaff - Christopher Morley
A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader. (Title page) SHANDYGAFF: a very refreshing drink, being a mixture of bitter ale or beer and...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 026 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 026 - Various
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  • 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, travel, embroidery, science, mathematics, humor, philosophy,...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 020 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 020 - Various
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  • 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, science, cooking, economics, education, humor, philosophy, nature and...
The Valley of the Moon - Jack London
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The Valley of the Moon - Jack London
The novel Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-the-Century, who left the city life behind and searched Central and Northern California for a suitable farmland...
The Tocsin of Revolt, and other Essays - Brander MATTHEWS
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The Tocsin of Revolt, and other Essays - Brander MATTHEWS
This is a volume of essays by American author Brander Matthews. Matthews is today mostly remembered for his short pieces of speculative fiction, but his essays are also of enduring interest. This volume contains 15 essays on different topics,...
De Vulgari Eloquentia - Dante ALIGHIERI
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De Vulgari Eloquentia - Dante ALIGHIERI
De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the vernacular) is a short essay written by Dante Alighieri in Latin. The work remains incomplete; only one and a half books are extant. It is believed to have been composed during Dante's exile, probably at...
Other People's Money - Louis D. BRANDEIS
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Other People's Money - Louis D. BRANDEIS
  • Author: Louis D. BRANDEIS
  • Genre: *Non-fiction / Business & Economics / Essays & Short Works
Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It is a collection of essays written by Louis Brandeis published as a book in 1914. The book attacked the use of investment funds to promote the consolidation of various industries under the control of a...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 068 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 068 - Various
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  • Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain. "The Regulation of Time" and "Uniform Standard Time" are two of several readings which touch on social regulation, societal norms, and individual expression. Others examine dancing mania...
A Miscellany of Men - G. K. Chesterton
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A Miscellany of Men - G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was among the world's most prolific writers who incorporated relentless logic, wonderful humor, and a clear view of truth into an amazing tool for exposing the foolishness of the policies of the world around him through the...
In Defense of Harriet Shelley - Mark Twain
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In Defense of Harriet Shelley - Mark Twain
  • Author: Mark Twain
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Essays & Short Works
Mark Twain pulls no punches while exposing the "real" Percy Shelley in this scathing condemnation of Edward Dowden's "Life of Shelley". Even though, as Twain writes, "Shelley's life has the one indelible blot upon it, but is otherwise worshipfully...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 047 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 047 - Various
  • Author: Various
  • Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include philosophy and thought -- Plato, Aristotle, Leonhard Euler, Henri Amiel, and the French Rights of Man; adventure and mystery -- the ascent of...
Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 1 - Mark Twain
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Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 1 - Mark Twain
Spanning the time between 1872 and the year before he died, this collection of after-dinner speeches, random thoughts to "the press", etc. clearly documents, once again, the truly eclectic mind of Samuel Clemens. It also demonstrates how he dealt...
The Romance Of The Commonplace - Frank Gelett BURGESS
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The Romance Of The Commonplace - Frank Gelett BURGESS
Thirty four whimsical, tongue-in-cheek, and entertaining essays about not much in particular, published in 1902, by one of the most popular writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The American Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) was an...
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (Version 2) - Mark Twain
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Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (Version 2) - Mark Twain
This is Mark Twain's vicious and amusing review of Fenimore Cooper's literary art. It is still read widely in academic circles. Twain's essay, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses (often spelled "Offences") (1895), particularly criticized The...
The Defendant - G. K. Chesterton
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The Defendant - G. K. Chesterton
A collection of reprinted articles on a wide-range of subjects, all in the unique style of G. K. Chesterton. Using wit, paradox, and good humor he β€œdefends” a series of seeming harmless things that need no defense, and in so doing he exposes many of...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 027 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 027 - Various
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  • 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 include speeches and essays on history, science, politics, nature, travel, psychology and love....
Faces and Places - Sir Henry W. Lucy
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Faces and Places - Sir Henry W. Lucy
Faces and Places is a collection of articles on nineteenth century travel, events and personalities by the British journalist Henry Lucy, who wrote for the Daily News, a London newspaper. His open letter To Those About to Become Journalists rings as...
The Early History of the Airplane - Orville WRIGHT
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The Early History of the Airplane - Orville WRIGHT
  • Author: Orville WRIGHT
  • Genre: Essays & Short Works / Technology & Engineering / Memoirs
The Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They were not the first to build and fly aircraft, but they invented the controls that were necessary for a pilot...
A Christmas Miscellany 2017 - Various
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A Christmas Miscellany 2017 - Various
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  • Genre: General Fiction / Essays & Short Works
A selection of short works about Christmas. (Summary by david wales)...
Coffee Break Collection 004 - Hodge Podge - Various
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Coffee Break Collection 004 - Hodge Podge - Various
  • Author: Various
  • Genre: Short Stories / Essays & Short Works
This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) fiction or non-fiction works in English suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. The theme for this collection is HodgePodge: humor, romance, science, long poems,...
On Nothing & Kindred Subjects - Hilaire Belloc
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On Nothing & Kindred Subjects - Hilaire Belloc
β€œI knew a man once, Maurice, who was at Oxford for three years, and after that went down with no degree. At College, while his friends were seeking for Truth in funny brown German Philosophies, Sham Religions, stinking bottles and identical...
Some Articles About Mark Twain - Undefined
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Some Articles About Mark Twain - Undefined
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  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Essays & Short Works / Humor
"Samuel Langhorne Clemens", "Mark Twain At Home", "Youth of Mark Twain" & "Mark Twain Gossip"Published in the June 16, 1888 edition of "Literature - An Illustrated Weekly Magazine" (Vol. 1, No. 17) these four, early magazine articles about Mark...
Exotics and Retrospectives - Lafcadio HEARN
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Exotics and Retrospectives - Lafcadio HEARN
Lafcadio Hearn, born 1850 in Greece, went to Japan when he was 40 years old and became a Japanese citizen only 6 years later. His writings about Japan from the beginning of the Meiji era, when the country was just opening to the West, remain among...
Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life - Lafcadio HEARN
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Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life - Lafcadio HEARN
  • Author: Lafcadio HEARN
  • Genre: Essays & Short Works / Travel & Geography
In an introductory paragraph, Lafcadio Hearn declares his intention: "The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than of the outer life of Japan, for which reason they have been grouped under the title Kokoro (heart). Written with...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 035 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 035 - Various
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  • Genre: Essays & Short Works
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include how to swim, Navajo silversmithing, the sun, begonias and ferns, Martin Luther, U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon, Captain Cook's...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 012 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 012 - Various
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  • Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
A collection of fifteen 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 humor, history, politics, science medicine,...
Of the Injustice of Counterfeiting Books - Immanuel Kant
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Of the Injustice of Counterfeiting Books - Immanuel Kant
This essay of Kant’s on copyright argues that the unlicensed copying of books cannot possibly be permissible, due to the fact that it assumes a consent on the part of the author which it is logically impossible for the author to give. The argument...
An Interpretation of Keats's Endymion - Henry Clement NOTCUTT
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An Interpretation of Keats's Endymion - Henry Clement NOTCUTT
Endymion is the largest work by John Keats and was composed between April and November 1817. When it was published in April 1818 the critical reception was almost universally hostile. Since that time, many readers have found the poem dense and...
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together With Death's Duel - John Donne
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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together With Death's Duel - John Donne
  • Author: John Donne
  • Genre: Essays & Short Works / Christianity - Other
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English theologian and writer John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a serious illness. The work...
The Dial, May 1920 - Various
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The Dial, May 1920 - Various
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  • Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Essays & Short Works
An example of one of the leading literary magazines of the early 20th Century. Poetry by e.e. cummings and Louise Bryant (aka Mrs. John Reed, of "Reds" fame), a short story by Sherwood Anderson, a memoir of the late poet James Flecker, theater and...
Five Lectures on Blindness - Kate M. FOLEY
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Five Lectures on Blindness - Kate M. FOLEY
The [five] lectures were written primarily to be delivered at the summer sessions of the University of California, at Berkeley and at Los Angeles, in the summer of 1918. . . they are the outgrowth of almost a quarter of a century spent in work for...
Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion - George Santayana
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Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion - George Santayana
Even before the Great War turned the world upside down, Western civilization was being revolutionized at all levels: intellectually, philosophically, artistically. Noted positivist philosopher George Santayana published this volume on the eve of the...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 029 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 029 - Various
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  • Genre: Essays & Short Works
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include architecture, education, philosophy, religion, health, humor, history, and literature. (Summary by Sue Anderson)...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 022 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 022 - Various
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  • Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of nineteen 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, science, women's rights, pirates, vampires,...
Ars Poetica and Carmen Saeculare - Quintus HORATIUS FLACCUS
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Ars Poetica and Carmen Saeculare - Quintus HORATIUS FLACCUS
The Ars Poetica, by Horace, also known as Epistula ad Pisones, is a treatise on poetry written in the form of a letter, and published around 18 B.C. In it, Horace defines and exemplifies the nature, scope and correct way of writing poetry. This...
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