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Literary Criticism

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William Hazlitt - Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

This famous Shakespearean exploration illuminates its plays through the frame of character, while also weighing theme, mood, structure and poetics. In it, 19th-century critic William Hazlitt unveils Shakespeare's...

Nemo and 1 more 10 hours 15 minutes

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Edgar Allan Poe - Eureka: A Prose Poem

Eureka is Poe's attempt at explaining the universe, using his general proposition «Because Nothing was, therefore All Things are». In it, Poe discusses man's relationship to God and the universe or, as he offers at...

Scotty Smith 4 hours 32 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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H. L. Mencken - Prejudices, First Series

Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time. Among his targets in this volume (the first of six) are critics, H.G. Wells Thorstein Veblen,...

DrPGould and 4 more 7 hours

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature (version 2)

First published anonymously in 1836, Nature marks the beginning both of Emerson’s literary career and the Transcendentalist movement. Asking why his generation “should not also enjoy an original relation to the...

Jesse Zuba 1 hour 47 minutes

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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - Essays book 3

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre. He is also known as the father of Modern Skepticism. His pieces became...

Malone and 4 more 20 hours 31 minutes Essays by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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Oxford Book of American Essays

Collection of 32 essays by American authors ranging from Benjamin Frannklin to Emerson to Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Roosevelt. On subjects from the gout to insects with a 24 hour life span to old bachelors to...

James E. Carson 20 hours 28 minutes

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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - Essays book 2

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre. He is also known as the father of Modern Skepticism. His pieces became...

Malone and 5 more 27 hours 41 minutes Essays by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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Self-Help

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus - Morals (Moralia), Book 1

The Moralia (or The morals or Matters relating to customs and mores) is a work by the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. It is a collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches that give an insight into...

Martin Geeson and 11 more 22 hours 14 minutes

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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - Essays book 1

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre and is popularly thought of as the father of Modern Skepticism. He...

Martin Geeson and 17 more 17 hours 5 minutes Essays by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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General Fiction

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My First Book

This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which over twenty well-known authors write with characteristic style and...

Ruth Golding and 1 more 9 hours 9 minutes

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Early Modern

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Benjamin Franklin - Silence Dogood Letters

As a teenager, Benjamin Franklin apprenticed with his brother James at the shop where The New-England Courant was printed. Since James would not publish any of Benjamin's works, fifteen-year-old Benjamin sent letters...

Darcy Smittenaar and 1 more 1 hour 20 minutes

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Hilaire Belloc - On Anything

Long before I knew that the speech of men was misused by them and that they lied in the hearing of the gods perpetually, in those early days through which all men have passed, during which one believes what one is...

Ray Clare 7 hours 18 minutes

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