All Essays

83 books in this genre on this shelf. Finding aid — not a complete catalog.

Visions and revisions — John Cowper Powys
Utilitarianism — John Stuart Mill
Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy — John Stuart Mill
Pragmatism — William James
What the white race may learn from the Indian — George Wharton James
Philosophical essays — Bertrand Russell
Self and self-management — Arnold Bennett
Clergymen of the Church of England — Anthony Trollope
An essay on the trial by jury — Lysander Spooner
Hunting sketches — Anthony Trollope
Monologues — Richard Middleton
The Natural History of Selborne — Gilbert White
Other people's money — Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Madam How and Lady Why — Charles Kingsley
Science and the Modern World — Alfred North Whitehead
Happiness — Carl Hilty
The moral obligation to be intelligent — Erskine, John
Minstrel weather — Marian Storm
The theory of the theatre — Clayton Meeker Hamilton
Hetzjagd durch die Zeit — Egon Erwin Kisch
Der rasende Reporter — Egon Erwin Kisch
Speeches, Literary and Social — Charles Dickens
Break, Break, Break — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Physics — Aristotle
In New England fields and woods — Rowland Evans Robinson
Über psychoanalyse — Sigmund Freud
The gospel of wealth, and other timely essays — Andrew Carnegie
Utopia — Thomas More
A dish of orts — George MacDonald
Travels in Alaska — John Reid Muir
My first summer in the Sierra — John Reid Muir
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow — Jerome Klapka Jérôme
The Land of Little Rain — Mary Hunter Austin
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences — Mark Twain
First and Last — Hilaire Belloc
On Something — Hilaire Belloc
Domestic Manners of the Americans — Frances Milton Trollope
The gorilla hunters — Robert Michael Ballantyne
Hero Tales from American History — Henry Cabot Lodge
Forgotten Man and Other Essays — William Graham Sumner
Partial Portraits — Henry James
Out of the Dark — Helen Keller
Third class in Indian railways — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Anarchism and Other Essays — Emma Goldman
Coniston tales — W. G. Collingwood
Where No Fear Was — Arthur Christopher Benson
Natural Theology — William Paley
Geography and Plays — Gertrude Stein
Freedom of the Will — Jonathan Edwards
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers — John Burroughs
Elia; and The Last Essays of Elia — Charles Lamb
Essays, first series — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia — Samuel Johnson
Resist not evil — Clarence Darrow
The boy travellers in the Russian Empire — Thomas Wallace Knox
The vocation of the scholar — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle: — Charles Darwin
The life and letters of Charles Darwin — Charles Darwin
Florida Trails — Winthrop Packard
Thoughts Are Things — Prentice Mulford
Civil Disobedience — Henry David Thoreau
Walden — Henry David Thoreau
Walking — Henry David Thoreau
Parables from nature — Margaret Gatty
Nature — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Columbian Orator — Caleb Bingham
Leviathan — Thomas Hobbes
The works of Francis Bacon — Francis Bacon
The stories Mother Nature told her children — Jane Andrews
Stories of the first American animals — Langford, George
Defendant — G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Fancies versus fads — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Eugenics and Other Evils — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Alarms and discursions — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles — G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Du contrat social — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Green Mansions — W. H. Hudson
Idle Days in Patagonia — William Henry Hudson
Two Treatises on Government — John Locke
Seven Lamps of Architecture — John Ruskin
Novum Organum — Francis Bacon