Essays & Short Works
- Philosophical Travelogues
- Essays on Society and Culture
- Essays for Personal Growth
- Explorations in Science and Thought
- Explorations in Psychology
- Political Essays and Reflections
- Political Essays and Manifestos
- Philosophical Essays on Existence
A Personal Anthology of Shakespeare
This personal anthology is my choice of speeches from Shakespeare that I enjoy reading (that I would like to have had by heart years ago!) a…
Vices are not Crimes
In Vices are not Crimes, Lysander Spooner presents a thought-provoking examination of the relationship between individual liberty and govern…
The Uncommercial Traveller
The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. In 1859 Dickens founded a new …
Dream Psychology
Not a few serious-minded students, [...], have been discouraged from attempting a study of Freud's dream psychology. The book in which he or…
Write it Right
Witty, opinionated alphabetical examples of what Bierce considered poor (American) English and advice on alternatives - entertaining, though…
De Profundis
This short work of Wilde's was written during his two year incarceration for "gross indecency". This work is a letter which sorts …
The Crimes of England
"Second, when telling such lies as may seem necessary to your international standing, do not tell the lies to the people who know the t…
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive…
A Problem in Modern Ethics
“Society lies under the spell of ancient terrorism and coagulated errors. Science is either wilfully hypocritical or radically misinformed.”…
The Book of Hallowe'en
This book is intended to give the reader an account of the origin and history of Hallowe'en, how it absorbed some customs belonging to other…
A Dictionary of English Synonymes
A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions, Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseolog…
American Notes
In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the Jungle Book, visits the USA. As the travel-diary of an Anglo-India…
Mental Efficiency
In this light-hearted yet thought-provoking collection of articles, Bennett offers his thoughts on exercising the mind, organising your life…
Lectures on Landscape
Lectures on Landscape presents a thought-provoking exploration of landscape painting through the eyes of John Ruskin, a prominent artist and…
The Art of the Moving Picture
"This 1922 book by poet and sometime cultural critic Vachel Lindsay might have been the first to treat the then-new medium of moving pi…
Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow
Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome, offering a witty and insightful look at the quirks…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Principles of Economics
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…
The Humbugs of the World
P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witc…
Emily Dickinson on Death
Emily Dickinson is one of the most intriguing of American poets. Since she grew increasingly reclusive, very few of her poems were published…