Essays & Short Works

Gossip in a Library

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Edmund Gosse


A collection of informal essays about books in his library. He combines commentary, translations, and humorous asides about authors and thei…

Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned

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Christopher Morley


Chrisopher Morley was an American literary luminary whose prolific writings included novels, essays, poetry, plays and great journalistic ou…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 089

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Various


"From vocalists you may learn much, but do not believe all that they say." Robert Schumann's Advice to Young Musicians is replete …

Into The Valley Of Death: Crimea, Balaklava, The Light Brigade: Russell, Tennys…

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Various


The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1854) is a famous poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It is about, among other things, the valor of soldiers and…

The Cinema of Orson Welles

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Peter Bogdanovich


Acclaimed director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon) was, early in his career, a film critic. It was during this time t…

The Drama: A Quarterly Review

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Various


This is a collection of theatrical essays from the American quarterly The Drama, including six non-fiction works -- 3 profiles: Schnitzler, …

G.K. Chesterton in The British Review

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G. K. Chesterton


Four articles/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for "The British Review". These were published in 1913 and 1914. (Summary by Maria…

The Web of Indian Life

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Sister Nivedita


The Web of Indian Life, written by Sister Nivedita (Irish-born Margaret E. Noble) and published in 1904, is a collection of essays that desc…

Minstrel Weather

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Marian Storm


A series of poetically written meditations on the seasons and other nature subjects. Or “ …Minstrel Weather, a series of open-air vignettes…

London Tradesmen

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Anthony Trollope


This book is a series of sketches written by Anthony Trollope near the end of his life, reprinted and collected. Each sketch is an essay on …

The Color of a Great City

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Theodore Dreiser


Theodore Dreiser was highly acclaimed for his novels and other writing. This non-fiction work takes place in many areas of New York City in …

Collected Prose

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James Elroy Flecker


Best remembered for his poetry, James Elroy Flecker was also a playwright, novelist and prose writer. This collection of his idiosyncratic p…

Hope Farm Notes

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Herbert W. Collingwood


“Most of these notes were originally printed in the Rural New-Yorker from week to week and covering a period of about 20 years. . . . From t…

Christmas Short Works Collection 2013

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Various


A selection of poems, short stories and other prose for the Christmas season in English, Finnish and German.

Representative Men (Version 2)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson


Seven Essays: his reasoning why and how great men have always been honored and necessary in our civilization, followed by six chapters deali…

Post Mortem: Essays, Historical And Medical

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Charles MacLaurin and Charles Maclaurin


This 1922 collection of extensive essays comprises well written biographies of a few famous folk. The life narratives include analyses of me…

A Selection of Australian Poetry and Prose

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Various


A collection of Australian writing from the public domain.

Essays and Addresses on the Philosophy of Religion

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Friedrich Von Hügel


Baron Friedrich von Hugel was a lay Catholic theologian whose work was influential during the rise of modernist thought. His Essays and Addr…

From the Easy Chair Vol. 2

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George William Curtis


The second volume of essays and observations From the Easy Chair of William Curtis, editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the…

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