Essays & Short Works
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- Philosophical Essays on Existence
Labor and Freedom
"While there is a lower class I am in it; While there is a criminal class I am of it; While there is a soul in prison I am not free.&qu…
All Things Are Possible
A passionate exponent of Russian Existentialism, Lev Shestov is little known in the English-speaking world but had an extensive influence on…
The Morals
The Moralia (or The morals or Matters relating to customs and mores) is a work by the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. It is…
Psychotherapy
Talking about viewing the Ocean "If I take the attitude of appreciation, it would be absurd to say that this wave is composed of chemic…
The National Geographic Magazine
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 1 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Announcement by the National Geographic SocietyIntr…
The Uncommercial Traveller
The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. In 1859 Dickens founded a new …
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory
The scene of the Dialogus de Oratoribus, as this work is commonly known, is laid in the sixth year of Vespasian, 75 a.D. The commentators ar…
The Compleat Angler
The Compleat Angler is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. Walton did not profess to be an expert with the fl…
The Gospel In Brief
In this book, Tolstoy seeks to condense the four Gospels of the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, into one, by looking along the …
The Perfect Wagnerite
The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring (originally published London, 1898) is a philosophical commentary on Richard Wagne…
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…
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
“These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries o…
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…
Walden
Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, a refl…
Irish Impressions
“For the Irish Question has never been discussed in England. Men have discussed Home Rule; but those who advocated it most warmly, and as I …
Vices are not Crimes
In Vices are not Crimes, Lysander Spooner presents a thought-provoking examination of the relationship between individual liberty and govern…
Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
In this little book Freud discusses three areas of human sexuality: 1. Sexual perversions or aberrations. In this essay, Freud concludes th…
The Freedmen's Book
Lydia Maria Child, an American abolitionist, compiled this collection of short stories and poems by former slaves and noted activists as an …
An Irishman's difficulties with the Dutch language
Jack O'Neill, an Irishman, has just returned from a month's holiday in The Netherlands. Before he left, he had boasted to his friends that h…
Flowers from the Garden of Saint Francis
This is a collection of 365 moral admonitions of Saint Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) and other notable Franciscans. The compiler of this ant…