| title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
| Ceres' Runaway and Other Essays | Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson, 1847-1922 | en | | Ceres' runaway -- Vanquished man -- Northern fancy -- Laughter -- Harlequin Mercutio -- Little language -- Anima Pellegrina! -- Sea wall -- Daffodil -- Addresses -- Audience -- Tithonus -- Tow path -- Tethered constellations -- Popular burlesque -- Dry autumn -- Plaid -- Two burdens -- Unready -- Child of tumult -- Child of subsiding tumult | | | 1998-04-01 |
| Essays on Paul Bourget | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | en | | What Paul Bourget thinks of us
A little note to M. Paul Bourget | | | 2004-09-16 |
| Essays from 'The Guardian' | Pater, Walter, 1839-1894 | en | Unaccented version in 7essg10.txt and 7essg10.zip, accented versions in 8essg10.txt and 8essg10.zip | English literature -- Amiel's "Journal intime." -- Browning -- "Robert Elsmere." -- Their Majesties' servants -- Wordsworth -- Mr. Gosse's poems -- Ferdinand Fabre -- The "Contes" of M. Augustin Filon | | | 2003-05-01 |
| Chopin and Other Musical Essays | Finck, Henry Theophilus, 1854-1926 | en | | Chopin, the greatest genius of the pianoforte -- How composers work -- Schumann, as mirrored in his letters -- Music and morals -- Italian and German vocal styles -- German opera in New York. | | Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849; Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856; Music; Music -- History and criticism | 2006-06-12 |
| The Unseen World and Other Essays | Fiske, John, 1842-1901 | en | | The unseen world -- "The tomorrow of death" -- The Jesus of history -- The Christ of dogma -- A word about miracles -- Draper on science and religion -- Nathan the Wise -- Historical difficulties -- The famine of 1770 in Bengal -- Spain and the Netherlands -- Longfellow's Dante -- Paine's "St. Peter" -- A philosophy of art -- Athenian and American life | | | 1998-10-01 |
| The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | en | | The curious republic of Gondour -- A memory -- Introductory to "Memoranda" -- About smells -- A couple of sad experiences -- Dan Murphy -- The "Tournament" in A.D. 1870 -- Curious relic for sale -- A reminiscence of the back settlements -- A royal compliment -- The approaching epidemic -- The tone imparting committee -- Our precious lunatic -- The European war -- The wild man interviewed -- Last words of great men. | | Essays; Short stories | 2004-09-17 |
| Jewish Literature and Other Essays | Karpeles, Gustav, 1848-1909 | en | | A glance at Jewish literature -- The Talmud -- The Jew in the history of civilization -- Women in Jewish literature -- Moses Maimonides -- Jewish troubadours and minnesingers -- Humor and love in Jewish poetry -- The Jewish stage -- The Jew's quest in Africa -- A Jewish king in Poland -- Jewish society in the time of Mendelssohn -- Leopold Zunz -- Heinrich Heine and Judaism -- The music of the synagogue. | | Jews; Jewish literature -- History and criticism | 2009-01-27 |
| Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 | Saintsbury, George, 1845-1933 | en | | The kinds of criticism -- I. Crabbe -- II. Hogg -- III. Sydney Smith -- IV. Jeffrey -- V. Hazlitt -- VI. Moore -- VII. Leigh Hunt -- VIII. Peacock -- IX. Wilson -- X. De Quincey -- XI. Lockhart -- XII. Praed -- XIII. Borrow -- Appendix: A. De Quincey. B. Lockhart. | | English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | 2009-11-12 |
| The Merry-Go-Round | Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 | en | | In defence of bad taste -- Music and supermusic -- Edgar Saltus -- The new art of the singer -- Au bal musette -- Music and cooking -- An interrupted conversation -- The authoritative work on American music -- Old days and new -- Two young American playwrights [Avery Hopwood and Philip Moeller] -- De senectute cantorum -- Impressions in the theater: The land of joy, A note on Mimi Aguglia, The new Isadora, Margaret Anglin produces As you like it -- The modern composers at a glance. | | Music; Theater; Essays | 2008-08-15 |
| The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III | | en | | Excerpts from Boswell's "Life of Johnson"
A Poet Defined, from the Preface to "Lyrical Ballads" by Wordsworth
The Arrival of the Master of Ravenswood, from "The Bride of Lammermoor" by Scott
The Death of Meg Merriles, from "Guy Mannering" by Scott
A Vision of Rob Roy, from "Rob Roy" by Scott
Queen Elizabeth and Amy Robsart at Kenilworth, from "Kenilworth" by Scott
The Illness and Death of Lady Scott, from Scott's "Journal"
Does Fortune Favor Fools?, from "A Sailor's Fortune" by Coleridge
The Destiny of the United States, from the "Table Talk" by Coleridge
Nelson's Death at Trafalgar, from the "Life of Nelson" by Southey
The Death of Hofer, by Landor
Napoleon and Pericles, by Landor
Dream Children—A Reverie; Poor Relations; The Origin of Roast Pig; That We Should Rise with the Lark, from the "Essays of Elia" by Lamb
Hamlet, from the "Characters of Shakespeare's Plays" by Hazlitt
Dreams of an Opium-Eater, from the "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" by de Quincey
Joan of Arc, from the "Biographical and Historical Essays" by de Quincey
Charles Lamb, from the "Literary Reminiscences" by de Quincey
Of His Mother's Treatment of Him, letter by Lord Byron
To His Wife after the Separation, letter by Lord Byron
To Sir Walter Scott, letter by Lord Byron
Of Art and Nature as Poetical Subjects, from the "Reply to Bowles" by Lord Byron
In Defense of Poetry, by Shelley
The Baths of Caracalla, from letter by Shelley
The ruins of Pompeii, from letter by Shelley
The Mutilation of the Hermæ; If Alexander Had Lived, from the "History of Greece" by Grote
Charlotte Corday, from the "History of the French Revolution" by Carlyle
The Blessedness of Work, from "Past and Present" by Carlyle
Cromwell, from "Heroes and Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History" by Carlyle
In Praise of Those Who Toil, from "Sart | | | 2007-07-30 |
| Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | en | | The loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton -- On the decay of the art of lying -- About magnanimous-incident literature -- The grateful poodle -- The benevolent author -- The grateful husband -- Punch, brothers, punch -- The great revolution in Pitcairn -- The canvasser's tale -- An encounter with an interviewer -- Paris notes -- Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany -- Speech on the babies -- Speech on the weather -- Concerning the American language -- Rogers. | | Short stories; Essays | 2004-09-16 |
| Essays in Liberalism
Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the
Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 | Various | en | | The League of Nations and the rehabilitation of Europe, by R. Cecil -- The balance of power, by A. F. Pollard -- International disarmament, by Sir F. Maurice -- Reparations and inter-allied debt, by J. M. Keynes -- The outlook for national finance, by J. Stamp -- Free trade, by J. M. Robertson -- India, by H. Grant -- Egypt, by J. A. Spender -- The machinery of government, by R. Muir -- The state and industry, by W. T. Layton -- The regulation of wages, by L. T. Hobhouse -- Unemployment, by H. D. Henderson -- The problem of the mines, by A. D. McNair -- The land question, by A. S. C. Carr -- Agricultural questions, by F. D. Acland. | | Liberalism -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1910-1936 | 2005-12-12 |
| Essays in Little | Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 | en | | Alexandre Dumas -- Mr. Stevenson's works -- Thomas Haynes Bayly -- Theodore de Banville -- Homer and the study of Greek -- The last fashionable novel -- Thackeray -- Dickens -- Adventures of Buccaneers -- The sagas -- Charles Kingsley -- Charles Lever: his books, adventures and misfortunes -- The poems of Sir Walter Scott -- John Bunyan -- Letter to a young journalist -- Mr.Kipling's stories | Adams, William Davenport, 1828-1891 [Compiler] | Literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | 1999-01-01 |
| Anarchism and Other Essays | Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 | en | Includes biographic sketch by Hippolyte Havel. | Biographic Sketch Preface -- Anarchism: What It Really Stands For -- Minorities Versus Majorities -- The Psychology of Political Violence -- Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure -- Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty -- Francisco Ferrer and The Modern School -- The Hypocrisy of Puritanism -- The Traffic in Women -- Woman Suffrage -- The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation -- Marriage and Love -- The Drama: A Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought. | | Women -- Social and moral questions; Feminism; Anarchism | 2000-04-01 |
| Medical Essays, 1842-1882 | Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 | en | | Homoeopathy and its kindred delusions -- The contagiousness of puerperal fever -- Currents and counter-currents in medical science -- Border lines of knowledge in some provinces of medical science -- Scholastic and bedside teaching -- The medical profession in Massachusetts -- The young practitioner -- Medical libraries -- Some of my early teachers | | Medicine; Education, Medical -- Massachusetts -- 19th century; Homeopathy; Libraries, Medical -- Massachusetts -- 19th century | 2004-09-29 |
| Views and Reviews
Essays in appreciation: Literature | Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903 | en | | Dickens -- Thackeray -- Disraeli -- Dumas -- Meredith -- Byron -- Hugo -- Heine -- Arnold -- Homer and Theocritus -- Rabelais -- Shakespeare -- Sidney -- Tour neur -- Walton -- Herrick -- Locker -- Banville -- Dobson -- Berlioz -- George Eliot -- Borrow -- Balzac -- Labiche -- Champfleury -- Longfellow -- Tennyson -- Gordon Hake -- Landor -- Hood -- Lever -- Jefferies -- Gay -- Essays and essayists -- Boswell -- Congreve -- Arabian nights entertainments -- Richardson -- Tolstoï -- Fielding. | | Literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- History and criticism | 2007-08-08 |
| Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) | Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 | en | | Worries of a Winter Walk -- Summer Isles of Eden -- Wild Flowers of the Asphalt -- A Circus in the Suburbs -- A She Hamlet -- The Midnight Platoon -- The Beach at Rockaway -- Sawdust in the Arena -- At a Dime Museum -- American Literature in Exile -- The Horse Show -- The Problem of the Summer -- Aesthetic New York Fifty-odd Years Ago -- From New York into New England -- The Art of the Adsmith -- The Psychology of Plagiarism -- Puritanism in American Fiction -- The What and How in Art -- Politics in American Authors Storage -- "Floating down the River on the O-hi-o". | | Fiction -- History and criticism; American fiction -- History and criticism; Criticism | 2004-10-22 |
| Literature and Life (Complete) | Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 | en | | Man of Letters in Business -- Confessions of a Summer Colonist -- The Young Contributor -- Last Days in a Dutch Hotel -- Anomalies of the Short Story -- Spanish Prisoners of War -- American Literary Centers -- Standard Household Effect Co. -- Notes of a Vanished Summer -- Worries of a Winter Walk -- Summer Isles of Eden -- Wild Flowers of the Asphalt -- A Circus in the Suburbs -- A She Hamlet -- The Midnight Platoon -- The Beach at Rockaway -- Sawdust in the Arena -- At a Dime Museum -- American Literature in Exile -- The Horse Show -- The Problem of the Summer -- Aesthetic New York Fifty-odd Years Ago -- From New York into New England -- The Art of the Adsmith -- The Psychology of Plagiarism -- Puritanism in American Fiction -- The What and How in Art -- Politics in American Authors Storage -- "Floating down the River on the O-hi-o". | | Literature -- Collections; Essays; Short stories | 2004-10-22 |
| Worldly Ways and Byways | Gregory, Eliot, 1854-1915 | en | | Charm -- The moth and the star -- Contrasted travelling -- The outer and the inner woman -- On some gilded misalliances -- The complacency of mediocrity -- The discontent of talent -- Slouch -- Social suggestion -- Bohemia -- Social exiles -- "Seven Ages" of furniture -- Our elite and public life -- The small summer hotel -- A false start -- A holy land -- Royalty at play -- A rock ahead -- The Grand Prix -- "The treadmill" -- "Like master like man" -- An English invasion of the Riviera -- A common weakness -- Changing Paris -- Contentment -- The climber -- The last of the dandies -- A nation on the wing -- Husks -- The Faubourg St. Germain -- Men's manners -- An ideal hostess -- The introducer -- A question and an answer -- Living on Your friends -- American society in Italy -- The Newport of the past -- A conquest of Europe -- A race of slaves -- Introspection. | | Sociology; American essays -- 19th century | 1995-12-01 |
| The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science | | en | | Hypnotism : Its history, practice and theory / Bramwell -- Natural history / Buffon -- Vestiges of creation / Chambers -- Surface of the globe / Cuvier -- Origin of species / Darwin -- Elements of chemical philosophy / Davy -- Experimental researches in electricity / Faraday -- Chemical history of a candle / Faraday -- Senses of insects / Forel -- Dialogues on the system of the world / Galileo -- Essays in eugenics / Galton -- Evolution of man / Haeckel -- On the motion of the heart and blood / Harvey -- Outlines of astronomy / Herschel -- Cosmos, a sketch of the universe / Humboldt -- Theory of the Earth / Hutton -- Zoological philosophy / Lamarck -- Physiogonomical fragments / Lavater -- Animal chemistry / Liebig -- Principles of geology / Lyell -- Treatise on electricity and magnetism / Maxwell -- Nature of man / Metchnikoff -- Prolongation of life / Metchnikoff -- Old red sandstone / Miller -- Principia / Newton -- Anatomy of vertebrates / Owen -- Cellular pathology / Virchow. | | | 2008-05-17 |