Essays & Short Works

The Copyright Question

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George Morang


This is a letter to the Toronto Board of Trade regarding Canadian copyrights. Morang requested an appearance before the Toronto Board of Tra…

Is Mars Habitable?

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Alfred Russel Wallace


In 1907 Wallace wrote the short book Is Mars Habitable? to criticize the claims made by Percival Lowell that there were Martian canals built…

Visits To The Dead In The Catacombs Of Rome

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George Washington Greene


This essay of a cultured observer, for many years United States consul in Rome, appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 10, issue 59,…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 009

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Various


Diese Sammlung umfasst 10 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.Eine Liste weiterer kurzer Aufnahmen (Erzählungen, Gedichte…

Bird Stories from Burroughs

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John Burroughs


What a better way to learn about birds than to read this delightful collection of interesting bird stories! John Burroughs was a nature essa…

Modern Essays

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Christopher Morley


Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph.…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 017

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Various


Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.

Appreciations, with an Essay on Style

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Walter Pater


Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, is a collection of Walter Pater's previously-published essays on literature. The collection was well …

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 3

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Charles Dickens


2012 is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the third volume of this collection, which aimed to catalogue as many as possible o…

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 2

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Charles Dickens


This year is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the second volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry a…

A Fleet In Being; Notes Of Two Trips With The Channel Squadron

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Rudyard Kipling


[Kipling] became involved in the debate over the British response to the rise in German naval power known as the Tirpitz Plan to build a fle…

Certain Personal Matters

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H. G. Wells


Although best known for his works of science fiction, social commentary and history, H.G. Wells here gives us humorous and light-hearted pi…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 011

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Various


A collection of sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, articles, speeches and reports included in this collection…

Leo Tolstoy

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G. K. Chesterton


Three men of letters give insightful essays on the work of Leo Tolstoy. (Summary by Larry Wilson)

Insomnia Collection Vol. 003

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Various


Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. Ho…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 023

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Various


A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the rea…

Theodore Roosevelt; An Address Delivered Before The Congress Of The United Stat…

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Henry Cabot Lodge


A biographical encomium delivered on the occasion of Roosevelt's death. Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. (1858 – 1919) was an Amer…

永日小品 (Eijitsu Syohin)

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Sōseki Natsume


これは、夏目漱石の随筆集です。1909年に朝日新聞に連載されました。東京での日常生活、ロンドンでの経験などが含まれています。This is a collection of essays by Natsume Soseki. They were published in the A…

Life's Enthusiasms

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David Starr Jordan


The words in this essay on positive thought sing like those in Whitman's "Leaves of Grass." The author praises joyous living and r…

Lettre à un magistrat sur le commerce de la librairie... et Lettre sur les aveu…

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Denis Diderot


Deux Lettres écrites avec tout le talent de Denis Diderot.1/ Sur les lois régissant le commerce de librairie, les droits, les …

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