Essays

All 132 titles, A–Z

• Acres of Diamonds · Russell H. Conwell
• Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays · Robert Louis Stevenson
• Adventures Among Books · Andrew Lang
• The Altruist in Politics · Benjamin N. Cardozo
• The American Crisis · Thomas Paine
• Angling Sketches · Andrew Lang
• Areopagitica · John Milton
• Arizona Sketches · J. A. Munk
• The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table · Oliver Wendell Holmes
• The Battle of the Books, and Other Short Pieces · Jonathan Swift
• The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers · Jonathan Swift
• Biographia Literaria · Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The Book of Snobs · William Makepeace Thackeray
• Books and Bookmen · Andrew Lang
• Bunyan Characters (1st Series) · Alexander Whyte
• Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) · Alexander Whyte
• Bygone Beliefs · H. Stanley Redgrove
• Ceres' Runaway, and Other Essays · Alice Meynell
• The Children · Alice Meynell
• Chinese Sketches · Herbert Allen Giles
• Clocks · Jerome K. Jerome
• Cobb’s Anatomy · Irvin S. Cobb
• The Colour of Life · Alice Meynell
• Common Sense · Thomas Paine
• Common Sense and The American Crisis · Thomas Paine
• The Communist Manifesto · Karl Marx
• Contributions to All the Year Round
• The Crown of Thorns · E. H. Chapin
• A Defence of Poesie and Poems · Philip Sidney
• Dreams · Jerome K. Jerome
• Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes · Robert Louis Stevenson
• An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit · George Meredith
• Essays · Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Essays and Lectures · Oscar Wilde
• Essays in Little · Andrew Lang
• Essays in the Art of Writing · Robert Louis Stevenson
• Essays of Travel · Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral · Francis Bacon
• Everybody’s Business Is Nobody’s Business · Daniel Defoe
• The Expedition of Humphry Clinker · T. Smollett
• Familiar Studies of Men and Books · Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Federalist Papers · Alexander Hamilton
• George Cruikshank · William Makepeace Thackeray
• Hasisadra’s Adventure · Thomas Henry Huxley
• Hearts of Controversy · Alice Meynell
• Historical Lectures and Essays · Charles Kingsley
• Hunting Sketches · Anthony Trollope
• I and My Chimney · Herman Melville
• The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow · Jerome K. Jerome
• In the Midst of Life · Ambrose Bierce
• The Journal to Stella · Jonathan Swift
• The Jubilee of the Constitution · John Quincy Adams
• Lay Morals, and Other Papers · Robert Louis Stevenson
• Les Rêveries du Promeneur Solitaire · Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Letters from England, 1846-1849 · Elizabeth Davis Bancroft
• Letters from the Cape · Lucie Duff Gordon
• Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society · George Borrow
• Letters on Literature · Andrew Lang
• Liber Amoris, Or, The New Pygmalion · William Hazlitt
• The Library · Andrew Lang
• Life and Letters of Robert Browning · Sutherland Orr
• Literary Blunders · Henry B. Wheatley
• Little Rivers · Henry Van Dyke
• The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac · Eugene Field
• Love and Freindship [sic] · Jane Austen
• The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay · Mary Wollstonecraft
• The Love of Books · Richard de Bury
• Memories and Portraits · Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Mirror of the Sea · Joseph Conrad
• Miscellaneous Papers · Charles Dickens
• A Miscellany of Men · G. K. Chesterton
• A Modest Proposal · Jonathan Swift
• Mosses from an Old Manse · Nathaniel Hawthorne
• My Garden Acquaintance · James Russell Lowell
• Myths and Myth-Makers · John Fiske
• The Natural History of Selborne · Gilbert White
• Old Friends · Andrew Lang
• On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History · Thomas Carlyle
• On the Method of Zadig · Thomas Henry Huxley
• Pages from an Old Volume of Life · Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Painted Windows · Elia Wilkinson Peattie
• A Plea for Old Cap Collier · Irvin S. Cobb
• The Poet at the Breakfast-Table · Oliver Wendell Holmes
• The Poetics of Aristotle · Aristotle
• Ponkapog Papers · Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• The Professor at the Breakfast-Table · Oliver Wendell Holmes
• The Prophet, The Madman and The Forerunner · Kahlil Gibran
• A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction · William Dean Howells
• The Puzzle of Dickens’s Last Plot · Andrew Lang
• Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and The Letter to a Friend · Thomas Browne
• Reprinted Pieces · Charles Dickens
• The Rhythm of Life, and Other Essays · Alice Meynell
• Robert Louis Stevenson · Alexander H. Japp
• Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays · Charles Kingsley
• The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow · Jerome K. Jerome
• Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde · Oscar Wilde
• Sesame and Lilies · John Ruskin
• Shelley · Francis Thompson
• Shorter Prose Pieces · Oscar Wilde
• Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science · Simon Newcomb
• The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon · Washington Irving
• Sketches of Young Couples · Charles Dickens
• Some Reminiscences · Joseph Conrad
• The Soul of Man Under Socialism · Oscar Wilde
• Speeches · Charles Dickens
• The Spirit of Place, and Other Essays · Alice Meynell
• Stage-Land · Jerome K. Jerome
• Steep Trails · John Muir
• Sunday Under Three Heads · Charles Dickens
• Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches · Edmund Burke
• Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 · Daniel Defoe
• The Uncommercial Traveller · Charles Dickens
• The Unseen World, and Other Essays · John Fiske
• Urban Sketches · Bret Harte
• Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays · G. K. Chesterton
• Vailima Letters · Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Valet’s Tragedy, and Other Studies · Andrew Lang
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman · Mary Wollstonecraft
• Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · Robert Louis Stevenson
• Wake-Robin · John Burroughs
• Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience · Henry David Thoreau
• Walking · Henry David Thoreau
• War of the Classes · Jack London
• The Ways of Men · Eliot Gregory
• What Is Man? and Other Essays · Mark Twain
• Wild Apples · Henry David Thoreau
• Worldly Ways & Byways · Eliot Gregory
• Yankee Gypsies · John Greenleaf Whittier
• 分甘余話 · Wang Shizhen
• 西湖夢尋 · Zhang Dai
• 閱微草堂筆記 · Yun Ji
• 顏氏家訓 · Zhitui Yan