“The Philosophy of Style,” explored a growing trend of formalist approaches to writing. Highly focused on the proper placement and ordering of the par...
How to Tell a Story and Other Essays is a series of essays by Mark Twain. In them, he describes his own writing style, attacks the idiocy of a fellow...
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, Brewster Kahle, Alexis Ros...
His experiences in India House, his moral character, certain botanical explorations, how effective he was as a critic, studies in morals and the law,...
On subjects from the gout to insects with a 24 hour life span to old bachelors to leaves of grass to the odes of Horace. It seems to be an attempt to...
First Cobb talks about women and their annoying habits, such as talking in building entrances, not having their fare ready on the streetcar, getting o...
Chicago in the 1880s was a deadly place. In an era before modern medicine or sanitation, the large immigrant populations sustained themselves by worki...
The Abraham Lincoln Statue at Chicago is accepted as the typical Westerner of the forum, the rostrum, and the tribune, as he stood to be inaugurated u...
Voltairine de Cleyre was an activist, anarchist, feminist, and protagonist of woman's liberation, her works here highlight varying issues related to s...
"A good candidate for 'the most under-appreciated work by Mark Twain' would be 'The Treaty With China,' which he published in the New York Tribune in...
Mince Pie is a compilation of humorous sketches, poetry, and essays written by Christopher Morley. Morley sets the tone in the preface: "If one asks w...
It is London's account of his experiences as a hobo in the 1890s, during the worst economic depression the United States had experienced up to that ti...
Even before the Great War turned the world upside down, Western civilization was being revolutionized at all levels: intellectually, philosophically,...
Emile, or On Education is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the...
With her usual wit and charm, Ms. Repplier recalls her days at Eden Hall, the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Torresdale, north of Philadelphia. She sh...
"It is quite generally recognized that psychology has remained in the semi-mythological, semi-scholastic period longer than most attempts at scientifi...
Although best known for his Winnie the Pooh stories, A.A. Milne spent years as an editor at the English humor magazine Punch. These sprightly essays w...
Italian Hours is a book of travel writing by Henry James published in 1909. The book collected essays that James had written over nearly forty years a...
Partial Portraits is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1888. The book collected essays that James had written over the precedin...
"Days with Walt Whitman" is a contemplative summary of the life of Walt Whitman and the making of the poet, by one of his followers. Edward Carpenter...
In 1908, Münsterberg published his controversial book On the Witness Stand (1908), which is a collection of magazine articles previously published by...
It is a collection of short stories, poems, and essays about the holiday season, written by various authors. The book is set to be published in 2022,...
