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Arthur, T S (Timothy Shay Arthur), prolific and voluminous American writer, novelist

o "Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining" from 'Words of Cheer for the Tempted, Toiling, Sorrowing'

o Angel In Every House, An from 'Words of Cheer for the Tempted, Toiling, Sorrowing'

o Baby Is Dead from 'Words of Cheer for the Tempted, Toiling, Sorrowing'

o Bodily Deformity, Spiritual Beauty from 'Words of Cheer for the Tempted, Toiling, Sorrowing'

o Brothers from 'The Home Mission'


o Dead, The from 'Words of Cheer for the Tempted, Toiling, Sorrowing'

o Dead Child, The from 'Words of Cheer for the Tempted, Toiling, Sorrowing'

o Do You Suffer More Than Your Neighbour? from 'Words of Cheer for the Tempted, Toiling, Sorrowing'

o Great Principles And Small Duties from 'Words of Cheer for the Tempted, Toiling, Sorrowing'

o Have A Flower In Your Room from 'Words of Cheer for the Tempted, Toiling, Sorrowing'


o Home from 'The Home Mission'

o Hours Of Life, The from 'Words of Cheer for the Tempted, Toiling, Sorrowing'

o Human Longings For Peace And Rest from 'Words of Cheer for the Tempted, Toiling, Sorrowing'

o Life A Treadmill from 'Words of Cheer for the Tempted, Toiling, Sorrowing'

o Mother from 'Words of Cheer for the Tempted, Toiling, Sorrowing'


o Ours, Loved, And "Gone Before" from 'Words of Cheer for the Tempted, Toiling, Sorrowing'

o Sisters from 'The Home Mission'

o We Are Led By A Way That We Know Not from 'Words of Cheer for the Tempted, Toiling, Sorrowing'

o Wealth from 'Words of Cheer for the Tempted, Toiling, Sorrowing'


Bacon, Francis

o Of Adversity

o Of Ambition

o Of Anger

o Of Atheism

o Of Beauty


o Of Boldness

o Of Building

o Of Ceremonies And Respects

o Of Counsel

o Of Cunning


o Of Custom And Education

o Of Death

o Of Deformity

o Of Delays

o Of Discourse


o Of Dispatch

o Of Empire

o Of Envy

o Of Expense

o Of Faction


o Of Fame

o Of Followers And Friends

o Of Fortune

o Of Friendship

o Of Gardens


o Of Goodness And Goodness Of Nature

o Of Great Place

o Of Honor And Reputation

o Of Innovations

o Of Judicature


o Of Love

o Of Marriage And Single Life

o Of Masques And Triumphs

o Of Nature In Men

o Of Negotiating


o Of Nobility

o Of Parents And Children

o Of Plantations

o Of Praise

o Of Prophecies


o Of Regiment Of Health

o Of Revenge

o Of Riches

o Of Seditions And Troubles

o Of Seeming Wise


o Of Simulation And Dissimulation

o Of Studies

o Of Suitors

o Of Superstition

o Of Suspicion


o Of The True Greatness Of Kingdoms And Estates

o Of Travel

o Of Truth

o Of Unity In Religion

o Of Usury


o Of Vain-Glory

o Of Vicissitude of Things

o Of Wisdom For A Man's Self

o Of Youth And Age

o Valerius Terminus: Of The Interpretation Of Nature



Balzac, Honore de

o Petty Troubles of Married Life A BOOK OF ESSAYS, second and final part of 'Analytical Studies' of 'La Comédie humaine'

o Physiology of Marriage, The A BOOK OF ESSAYS, first part of 'Analytical Studies' of 'La Comédie humaine'


Barrie, James Matthew Sir James Matthew Barrie,Scottish novelist, playwright, dramatist

o Courage


Beerbohm, Max

o "273"

o "Ariane Et Dionyse": A Painting By Paul Bergeron, 1740

o "Carlotta Grisi": A Coloured Print

o "Harlequin": A Sign-Board

o "Ho-Tei": A Coloured Drawing by Hokusai


o "L'oiseau Bleu": A Painting On Silk By Charles Conder

o "Macbeth And The Witches": A Painting By Corot

o "Peter The Dominican": A Painting By Giovanni Bellini

o "The Garden Of Love": A Painting By Rubens

o "The Ragged Regiment"


o "The Visit": A painting by George Morland

o 'A Clergyman' (1918)

o 1880

o Books Within Books (1914)

o Club In Ruins, A


o Crime (1920), The

o Dandies And Dandies

o Decline Of The Graces, The

o Diminuendo

o Dulcedo Judiciorum


o Fire, The

o General Elections

o Going Out For A Walk (1918)

o Golden Drugget (1918), The

o Good Prince, A


o Home-Coming, A

o Hosts And Guests (1918)

o House Of Commons Manner, The

o How Shall I Word It? (1910)

o Humour Of The Public, The


o Ichabod

o In Homes Unblest (1919)

o King George The Fourth

o Kolniyatsch (1913)

o Laughter (1920)


o Letter That Was Not Written (1914), A

o Memory Of A Midnight Express, A

o Mobled King (1911)

o Morris For May-Day, A

o Naming Of Streets, The


o No. 2. The Pines

o On Shakespeare's Birthday

o On Speaking French (1919)

o Parallel, A

o Pathetic Imposture, A


o Pervasion Of Rouge, The

o Point To Be Remembered By Very Eminent Men (1918), A

o Poor Romeo!

o Porro Unum...

o Quia Imperfectum (1918)


o Relic (1918), A

o Seeing People Off

o Servants (1918)

o Something Defeasible (July, 1919)

o Study In Dejection, A


o Whistler's Writing

o William And Mary (1920)


Bennett, Arnold

o Author's Craft, The


Bierce, Ambrose

o American Sycophant, The

o Ancestral Bond, The

o Arbitration

o Charity

o Civilization


o Crime And Its Correctives

o Cynic Looks at Life Little Blue Book # 1099, a collection of essays

o Death Penalty, The

o Dissertation On Dogs, A

o Emancipated Woman


o Game Of Politics, The

o Immortality

o Industrial Discontent

o On with the Dance! A Review A BOOK OF ESSAYS

o Opportunity


o Opposing Sex, The

o Religion

o Right To Take Oneself Off, The

o Right To Work, The

o Shadow On The Dial, The


o Some Features Of The Law


Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George

o Tomlinsoniana


Burroughs, John

o Adirondacks, The from 'Wake-Robin' nature essays

o Apple, The

o April from 'Birds and Poets'

o Arrival Of The Fit, The

o Baffling Problem, The


o Before Beauty from 'Birds and Poets'

o Before Genius from 'Birds and Poets'

o Birch Browsings from 'Wake-Robin' nature essays

o Bird Enemies

o Bird Life In Winter nature essay


o Bird Medley, A from 'Birds and Poets'

o Bird Of Passage, A

o Birds And Birds from 'Locusts and Wild Honey'

o Birds And Poets from 'Birds and Poets'

o Birds' Free Lunch, A nature essay


o Birds'-Nesting from 'Locusts and Wild Honey'

o Birds'-Nests from 'Wake-Robin' nature essays

o Bluebird, The from 'Wake-Robin' nature essays

o Breath Of April, A nature essay

o Breath Of Life, The


o Coming Of Summer, The nature essay

o Emerson from 'Birds and Poets'

o Flight Of The Eagle, The from 'Birds and Poets'

o Glimpses Of Wild Life

o Halcyon In Canada, The from 'Locusts and Wild Honey'


o Human Traits In The Animals nature essay

o Idyl Of The Honey-Bee, An

o In The Hemlocks from 'Wake-Robin' nature essays

o Invitation, The from 'Wake-Robin' nature essays

o Is It Going To Rain? from 'Locusts and Wild Honey'


o Journeying Atoms, The

o Life And Mind

o Life And Science

o Life Of Fear, A

o Living Wave, The


o Naturalist's View Of Life, The

o Notes By The Way

o Our Rural Divinity from 'Birds and Poets'

o Pastoral Bees, The nature essay

o Phases Of Farm Life


o Return Of The Birds, The from 'Wake-Robin' nature essays

o Scientific Vitalism

o Sharp Eyes nature essay

o Snow-Walkers, The

o Spring At The Capital With An Eye To The Birds from 'Wake-Robin' nature essays


o Spring Poems from 'Birds and Poets'

o Strawberries from 'Locusts and Wild Honey'

o Taste Of Maine Birch, A

o Touches Of Nature from 'Birds and Poets'

o Tragedies Of The Nests, The


o Vital Order, The

o Wild Life In Winter nature essay

o Winter Neighbors

o Wonderful World, A

o Woodcock's Evening Hymn, The nature essay



Butler, Samuel

o Art In The Valley Of Saas from 'Essays on Life, Art and Science'

o Aunt, The Nieces, And The Dog, The from 'Essays on Life, Art and Science'

o Deadlock In Darwinism, The from 'Essays on Life, Art and Science'

o Eminent Person, An from 'Cambridge Pieces'

o How To Make The Best Of Life from 'Essays on Life, Art and Science'


o Medieval Girl School, A from 'Essays on Life, Art and Science'

o On English Composition And Other Matters from 'Cambridge Pieces'

o Our Tour from 'Cambridge Pieces'

o Powers from 'Cambridge Pieces'

o Prospectus Of The Great Split Society from 'Cambridge Pieces'


o Quis Desiderio from 'Essays on Life, Art and Science'

o Ramblings In Cheapside from 'Essays on Life, Art and Science'

o Samuel Butler And The Simeonites from 'Cambridge Pieces'

o Sanctuary Of Montrigone, The from 'Essays on Life, Art and Science'

o Shield Of Achilles, With Variations, The from 'Cambridge Pieces'


o Skit On Examinations, A from 'Cambridge Pieces'

o The Humour of Homer, The

o Thought And Language from 'Essays on Life, Art and Science'

o Translation From An Unpublished Work Of Herodotus from 'Cambridge Pieces'


Cather, Willa US novelist, short-story writer

o Edgar Allan Poe

o Frank Norris

o Harold Frederic

o Henry James

o Kate Chopin


o Mark Twain

o On The Art Of Fiction

o Stephen Crane

o Walt Whitman

o When I Knew Stephen Crane


o William Dean Howells


Chesterton, G K British author, prolific writer

o "Eatanswill Gazette", The from 'All Things Considered'

o Accident, An

o Advantages Of Having One Leg, The

o Anarchist, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Anonymity And Further Counsels from 'All Things Considered'


o Appetite Of Earth, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Appetite of Tyranny, The A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS

o Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens A BOOK OF ESSAYS

o Art Of Missing The Point, The

o Ballade Of A Strange Town, The


o Barbarism of Berlin, The A BOOK OF ESSAYS

o Boy, The from 'All Things Considered'

o Cab Ride Across Country, A

o Case For The Ephemeral, The from 'All Things Considered'

o Cheese from 'Alarms and Discursions'


o Chorus, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Christmas from 'All Things Considered'

o Cockneys And Their Jokes from 'All Things Considered'

o Conceit And Caricature from 'All Things Considered'

o Crimes of England, The A BOOK OF ESSAYS


o Criminal Head, A from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Dead Poet, A from 'All Things Considered'

o Defendant, The A BOOK OF ESSAYS

o Demagogues And Mystagogues from 'All Things Considered'

o Diabolist, The


o Dickensian, The

o Dragon's Grandmother, The

o Drama Of Dolls, A from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Dregs Of Puritanism, The

o Dukes from 'Alarms and Discursions'


o Edward VII. And Scotland from 'All Things Considered'

o Empire Of The Ignorant, The

o End Of The World, The

o Error Of Impartiality, The from 'All Things Considered'

o Essay On Two Cities, An from 'All Things Considered'


o Ethandune from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Eugenics and Other Evils A BOOK OF ESSAYS

o Extraordinary Cabman, The

o Fairy Tales from 'All Things Considered'

o Fallacy Of Success, The from 'All Things Considered'


o Fatigue Of Fleet Street, The

o Field of Blood, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Five Hundred And Fifty-Five from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Flat Freak, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o French And English from 'All Things Considered'


o French Revolution And The Irish, The

o Furrows, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Futurists, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Garden Of The Sea, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o George Bernard Shaw A BOOK OF ESSAYS


o Giant, The

o Glimpse Of My Country, A

o Glory Of Grey, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Gold Of Glastonbury, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Great Man, A


o Heretics A BOOK OF ESSAYS

o High Plains, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o How I Found The Superman from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o How I Met The President

o Humanitarianism And Strength from 'All Things Considered'


o Humanity: An Interlude

o In The Place De La Bastille

o In Topsy-Turvy Land

o Introductory: On Gargoyles from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Liberalism: A Sample


o Limericks And Counsels Of Perfection from 'All Things Considered'

o Little Birds Who Won't Sing, The

o Long Bow, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Maid Of Orleans, The from 'All Things Considered'

o Man And His Newspaper, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'


o Methuselahite, The from 'All Things Considered'

o Miscellany of Men, A A BOOK OF ESSAYS

o Modern Martyr, The from 'All Things Considered'

o Modern Scrooge, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Mystery Of A Pageant, The


o New House, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o New Name, The

o New Raid, The

o Nightmare, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o On Lying In Bed


o On Political Secrecy from 'All Things Considered'

o On Running After One's Hat from 'All Things Considered'

o On The Cryptic And The Elliptic from 'All Things Considered'

o Orthodox Barber, The

o Orthodoxy A BOOK OF ESSAYS


o Oxford From Without from 'All Things Considered'

o Patriotism And Sport from 'All Things Considered'

o Perfect Game, The

o Philosophy Of Sight-Seeing, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Phonetic Spelling from 'All Things Considered'


o Piece Of Chalk, A

o Poetry Of The Revolution, The

o Prehistoric Railway Station, The

o Real Danger, A

o Red Angel, The


o Red Town, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Revive The Court Jester

o Riddle Of The Ivy, The

o Romance Of The Marshes, A from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Science And Religion from 'All Things Considered'


o Secret Of A Train, The

o Sentimentalist, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Servile State Again, The

o Shop Of Ghosts, The

o Simmons And The Social Tie from 'Alarms and Discursions'


o Some Policemen And A Moral

o Spiritualism from 'All Things Considered'

o Steward Of The Chiltern Hundreds, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Strangeness Of Luxury, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Surrender Of A Cockney, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'


o Symbolism Of Krupp, The

o Telegraph Poles, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Thoughts Around Koepenick from 'All Things Considered'

o Three Kinds Of Men, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Tom Jones And Morality from 'All Things Considered'


o Tower, The

o Tower Of Bebel, The

o Toy Theatre, The

o Tragedy Of Twopence, A

o Travellers In State, The


o Tremendous Trifles

o Triumph Of The Donkey, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Twelve Men, The

o Twelve Types A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS

o Two Noises, The


o Tyranny Of Bad Journalism, The

o Utopia of Usurers A BOOK OF ESSAYS

o Varied Types A BOOK OF ESSAYS

o Victorian Age in Literature, The A BOOK OF ESSAYS

o Vote And The House, The from 'All Things Considered'


o What I Found In My Pocket

o What I Saw in America A BOOK OF ESSAYS

o What's Wrong With The World A BOOK OF ESSAYS

o Wheel, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o White Horses, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'


o Wind And The Trees, The

o Wine When It Is Red from 'All Things Considered'

o Wings Of Stone, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Woman from 'All Things Considered'

o Workman's History Of England, A


o Worship Of The Wealthy, The from 'All Things Considered'

o Wrath Of The Roses, The from 'Alarms and Discursions'

o Zola Controversy, The from 'All Things Considered'


Churchill, Winston American novelist

o American Contribution And The Democratic Idea, The


Cobb, Irvin S.

o Art from 'Cobb's Bill-of-Fare', Wit and humor essay

o Eating in Two or Three Languages

o Music from 'Cobb's Bill-of-Fare', Wit and humor essay

o Sport from 'Cobb's Bill-of-Fare', Wit and humor essay

o Vittles from 'Cobb's Bill-of-Fare', Wit and humor essay



Conrad, Joseph

o Mirror of the Sea, The autobiographical essays


De Quincey, Thomas

o Alexander Pope Biographical Essay

o Charles Lamb Biographical Essay

o Dinner, Real And Reputed

o English Mail-Coach; Or, The Glory Of Motion, The

o Goethe Biographical Essay


o Joan Of Arc

o On Murder, Considered As One Of The Fine Arts

o On The Knocking At The Gate, In Macbeth

o Schiller Biographical Essay

o Second Paper On Murder


o Shakespeare Biographical Essay

o Vision Of Sudden Death, The


Defoe, Daniel

o Essay Upon Projects, An

o Everybody's Business Is Nobody's Business

o Vindication of the Press, or An Essay on Usefulness of Writing, A


Dickens, Charles A great British writer, novelist

o Contributions to All The Year Round

o Uncommercial Traveller, The


Doyle, Arthur Conan Famous British Author

o Through the Magic Door

o Vital Message, The


Emerson, Ralph Waldo US poet, essayist

o Essays, First Series

o Essays, Second Series

o Representative Men: Seven Lectures

o Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Salaman and Absal by Omar Khayyam and Ralph Waldo Emerson and Jami

o Shakespeare; Or, The Poet


o The American Scholar


Galsworthy, John

o About Censorship

o Black Godmother, The from essays 'Concerning Life'

o Christian, A from essays 'Concerning Life'

o Evolution from essays 'Concerning Life'

o Felicity from essays 'Concerning Life'


o Gone

o Grand Jury--In Two Panels And A Frame, The from essays 'Concerning Life'

o Inn Of Tranquillity, The from essays 'Concerning Life'

o Magpie Over The Hill from essays 'Concerning Life'

o Meditation On Finality from essays 'Concerning Letters'


o Memories from essays 'Concerning Life'

o My Distant Relative from essays 'Concerning Life'

o Novelist's Allegory, A from essays 'Concerning Letters'

o Procession, The from essays 'Concerning Life'

o Quality from essays 'Concerning Life'


o Reflections On Our Dislike Of Things As They Are from essays 'Concerning Letters'

o Riding In Mist from essays 'Concerning Life'

o Romance--Three Gleams from essays 'Concerning Life'

o Sheep-Shearing from essays 'Concerning Life'

o Some Platitudes Concerning Drama from essays 'Concerning Letters'


o That Old-Time Place from essays 'Concerning Life'

o Threshing from essays 'Concerning Life'

o Vague Thoughts On Art

o Wanted-Schooling from essays 'Concerning Letters'

o Wind In The Rocks from essays 'Concerning Life'


o Windlestraw, The from essays 'Concerning Letters'


Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

o Our Androcentric Culture, or The Man Made World


Grahame, Kenneth

o Aboard The Galley from 'Pagan Papers'

o Autumn Encounter, An from 'Pagan Papers'

o Bohemian In Exile, A from 'Pagan Papers'

o Cheap Knowledge from 'Pagan Papers'

o Deus Terminus from 'Pagan Papers'


o Eternal Whither, The from 'Pagan Papers'

o Fairy Wicket, The from 'Pagan Papers'

o Justifiable Homicide from 'Pagan Papers'

o Loafing from 'Pagan Papers'

o Lost Centaur, The from 'Pagan Papers'


o Marginalia from 'Pagan Papers'

o Non Libri Sed Liberi from 'Pagan Papers'

o Of Smoking from 'Pagan Papers'

o Orion from 'Pagan Papers'

o Romance Of The Rail, The from 'Pagan Papers'


o Romance Of The Road, The from 'Pagan Papers'

o Rural Pan, The from 'Pagan Papers'

o White Poppy, The from 'Pagan Papers'


Holmes, Oliver Wendell

o Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The A collection of essays

o Medical Essays

o Pages From an Old Volume of Life A collection of essays

o Poet at the Breakfast Table, The The third and last of "The Breakfast-Table series" books of essays

o Professor at the Breakfast Table, The A collection of essays, a sequel to The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table



Howells, William Dean

o Aesthetic New York Fifty-Odd Years Ago

o American Literary Centers

o American Literature In Exile

o Beach At Rockaway, The

o Belated Guest, A


o Cambridge Neighbors

o Circus In The Suburbs, A

o Confessions Of A Summer Colonist, The From "Literature and Life"

o Criticism And Fiction

o Editor's Relations With The Young Contributor, The


o Emile Zola

o First Impressions of Literary New York

o Flitting from 'Suburban Sketches'

o From New York Into New England

o Henry James, Jr.


o Horse Show, The

o Last Days in a Dutch Hotel

o Literary Boston As I Knew It

o Man Of Letters As A Man Of Business, The

o Modern Italian Poets ESSAYS AND VERSIONS


o My First Visit to New England

o My Literary Passions A BOOK OF ESSAYS

o My Mark Twain

o Oliver Wendell Holmes

o Politics Of American Authors


o Problem Of The Summer, The

o Psychological Counter-Current In Recent Fiction, A

o Psychology Of Plagiarism, The

o Puritanism In American Fiction

o Roundabout to Boston


o She Hamlet, A

o Some Anomalies of the Short Story

o Spanish Prisoners of War

o Staccato Notes of a Vanished Summer

o Standard Household-Effect Company, The


o Storage

o Studies of Lowell

o Summer Isles Of Eden

o What And The How In Art, The

o White Mr. Longfellow, The


o Wild Flowers Of The Asphalt

o Worries Of A Winter Walk


Hubbard, Elbert

o Message to Garcia: Being a Preachment, A


Ives, Charles

o "Essays Before a Sonata"


Jerome, Jerome K

o Adventuress, The from 'Stage-Land'

o Are Early Marriages A Mistake? from 'Idle Ideas in 1905'

o Are We As Interesting As We Think We Are? from 'Idle Ideas in 1905'

o Child, The from 'Stage-Land'

o Clocks from "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow"


o Comic Lovers, The from 'Stage-Land'

o Comic Man, The from 'Stage-Land'

o Creatures That One Day Shall Be Men from 'Idle Ideas in 1905'

o Detective, The from 'Stage-Land'

o Do We Lie A-Bed Too Late? from 'Idle Ideas in 1905'


o Do Writers Write Too Much? from 'Idle Ideas in 1905'

o Does The Young Man Know Everything Worth Knowing? from 'Idle Ideas in 1905'

o Dreams from "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow"

o Evergreens from "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow"

o Good Old Man, The from 'Stage-Land'


o Hero, The from 'Stage-Land'

o Heroine, The from 'Stage-Land'

o How Many Charms Hath Music, Would You Say? from 'Idle Ideas in 1905'

o How To Be Happy Though Little from 'Idle Ideas in 1905'

o How To Solve The Servant Problem from 'Idle Ideas in 1905'


o Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow A BOOK OF HUMOROUS ESSAYS

o Irishman, The from 'Stage-Land'

o Is The American Husband Made Entirely Of Stained Glass from 'Idle Ideas in 1905'

o Lawyer, The from 'Stage-Land'

o On The Art Of Making Up One's Mind from 'The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow'


o On The Care And Management Of Women from 'The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow'

o On The Delights And Benefits Of Slavery from 'The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow'

o On The Disadvantage Of Not Getting What One Wants from 'The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow'

o On The Exceptional Merit Attaching To The Things We Meant To Do from 'The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow'

o On The Inadvisability Of Following Advice from 'The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow'


o On The Minding Of Other People's Business from 'The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow'

o On The Motherliness Of Man from 'The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow'

o On The Nobility Of Ourselves from 'The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow'

o On The Playing Of Marches At The Funerals Of Marionettes from 'The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow'

o On The Preparation And Employment Of Love Philtres from 'The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow'


o On The Time Wasted In Looking Before One Leaps from 'The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow'

o Ought Stories To Be True? from 'Idle Ideas in 1905'

o Peasants, The from 'Stage-Land'

o Sailor, The from 'Stage-Land'

o Servant Girl, The from 'Stage-Land'


o Shall We Be Ruined By Chinese Cheap Labour? from 'Idle Ideas in 1905'

o Should Married Men Play Golf? from 'Idle Ideas in 1905'

o Should Soldiers Be Polite? from 'Idle Ideas in 1905'

o Should We Say What We Think, Or Think What We Say? from 'Idle Ideas in 1905'

o Should Women Be Beautiful? from 'Idle Ideas in 1905'


o Villain, The from 'Stage-Land'

o What Mrs. Wilkins Thought About It from 'Idle Ideas in 1905'

o When Is The Best Time To Be Merry? from 'Idle Ideas in 1905'

o White Man's Burden! Need It Be So Heavy?, The from 'Idle Ideas in 1905'

o Why Didn't He Marry The Girl? from 'Idle Ideas in 1905'


o Why We Hate The Foreigner from 'Idle Ideas in 1905'


Kingsley, Charles

o "A Mad World, My Masters"

o Air-Mothers, The from 'Health and Education'

o Alexander Smith And Alexander Pope from 'Literary and General Lectures and Essays'

o Ancient Civilisation from 'Historical Lectures and Essays'

o Burns And His School from 'Literary and General Lectures and Essays'


o Chalk-Stream Studies from 'Prose Idylls'

o Charm Of Birds, A from 'Prose Idylls'

o Fens, The from 'Prose Idylls'

o Frederick Denison Maurice. In Memoriam from 'Literary and General Lectures and Essays'

o From Ocean To Sea from 'Prose Idylls'


o George Buchanan, Scholar from 'Health and Education'

o Grots And Groves from 'Literary and General Lectures and Essays'

o Heroism from 'Health and Education'

o Hours With The Mystics from 'Literary and General Lectures and Essays'

o How To Study Natural History from 'Scientific Essays and Lectures'


o My Winter Garden from 'Prose Idylls'

o Natural Theology Of The Future, The from 'Scientific Essays and Lectures'

o Nausicaa In London: Or, The Lower Education Of Woman from 'Health and Education'

o North Devon from 'Prose Idylls'

o On Bio-Geology from 'Scientific Essays and Lectures'


o On English Composition from 'Literary and General Lectures and Essays'

o On English Literature from 'Literary and General Lectures and Essays'

o Phaethon: Loose Thoughts For Loose Thinkers from 'Literary and General Lectures and Essays'

o Plays and Puritans

o Poetry Of Sacred And Legendary Art, The from 'Literary and General Lectures and Essays'


o Rondelet, The Huguenot Naturalist from 'Health and Education'

o Science from 'Scientific Essays and Lectures'

o Science Of Health, The from 'Health and Education'

o Stage As It Was Once, The from 'Literary and General Lectures and Essays'

o Study Of Natural History For Soldiers, The from 'Scientific Essays and Lectures'


o Superstition from 'Scientific Essays and Lectures'

o Tennyson from 'Literary and General Lectures and Essays'

o Thoughts In A Gravel-Pit from 'Scientific Essays and Lectures'

o Thoughts On Shelley And Byron from 'Literary and General Lectures and Essays'

o Thrift from 'Health and Education'


o Tree Of Knowledge, The from 'Health and Education'

o Two Breaths, The from 'Health and Education'

o Vesalius The Anatomist from 'Health and Education'

o Woman's Work In A Country Parish from 'Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays'

o Women And Politics



Lang, Andrew

o Essays in Little

o Old Friends - Essays in Epistolary Parody


London, Jack Prolific American author, novelist, short story writer

o Class Struggle (speech), The A speech, from 'War of the Classes' collection

o How I Became a Socialist From 'War of the Classes' collection

o Question of the Maximum (A speech), The A speech (from 'War of the Classes' collection)

o Review, A from 'War of the Classes' collection

o Revolution and Other Essays A BOOK OF ESSAYS


o Scab (Speech), The A speech (from 'War of the Classes' collection)

o Tramp (Speech), The A speech (from 'War of the Classes' collection)

o Wanted: A New Law of Development (speech) A speech - from 'War of the Classes' collection


Lowell, James Russell

o Abraham Lincoln

o American Tract Society, The Political Essay

o Among My Books - First Series collection of essays

o Among My Books - Second Series collection of essays

o E Pluribus Unum Political Essay


o Election In November, The Political Essay

o Function Of The Poet And Other Essays, The A collection of essays

o General Mcclellan's Report Political Essay

o Life of Poe

o McClellan Or Lincoln? Political Essay


o My Garden Acquaintance

o Pickens-And-Stealin's Rebellion, The Political Essay

o President On The Stump, The Political Essay

o Rebellion: Its Causes And Consequences, The Political Essay

o Reconstruction Political Essay


o Scotch The Snake, Or Kill It? Political Essay

o Seward-Johnson Reaction, The Political Essay


Lynd, Robert

o Art of Letters, The A BOOK OF ESSAYS

o Betting Man, The

o Cats

o Daredevil Barber, The

o Eggs: An Easter Homily


o Enter The Spring

o Going To The Derby

o Herring Fleet, The

o Hum Of Insects, The

o In The Train


o Intellectual Side Of Horse-racing, The

o June

o Juror In Waiting, A

o May

o Morals Of Beans, The


o Most Curious Animal, The

o New Year Prophecies

o Old and New Masters A BOOK OF ESSAYS

o Old Indifference, The

o On Feeling Gay


o On Knowing The Difference

o On Seeing A Joke

o Pleasures Of Ignorance, The

o This Blasted World

o Three-Halfpenny Bit, The


o Virtue

o Weeds: An Appreciation

o Why We Hate Insects


MacDonald, George

o Hope of the Gospel


Meredith, George

o Concession To The Celt--1886

o Essay On Comedy And The Uses Of The Comic Spirit, An

o Introduction To W. M. Thackeray's "The Four Georges"

o Leslie Stephen--1904

o Letters Written To The 'Morning Post' From The Seat Of War In Italy


o Pause In The Strife--1886, A


Montaigne

o Of Cripples

o Of Experience

o Of Managing the Will

o Of Physiognomy

o Of Vanity



Poe, Edgar Allan Famous major American poet, short-story writer, novelist

o Old English Poetry

o Philosophy of Furniture

o Poetic Principle, The


Repplier, Agnes

o "Greatest Of These Is Charity", The

o Benefactor, The

o Chill Of Enthusiasm, The

o Condescension Of Borrowers, The

o Customary Correspondent, The


o Estranging Sea, The

o Girl Graduate, The

o Goodness And Gayety

o Grocer's Cat, The

o Mission Of Humour, The


o Nervous Strain, The

o Question Of Politeness, A

o Temptation Of Eve, The

o Travellers' Tales


Ruskin, John

o Elements Of Drawing In Three Letters To Beginners, The

o Fiction, Fair and Foul

o On the Old Road Volume 1 (of 2) A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS AND ARTICLES ON ART AND LITERATURE

o On the Old Road Volume 2 (of 2) A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS AND ARTICLES ON ART AND LITERATURE

o Pre-Raphaelitism


o Two Paths, The


Russell, Bertrand A great philosopher, 1950 Nobel Laureate in Literature

o Analysis of Mind, The

o Political Ideals

o Problems of Philosophy


Schiller, Frederich

o Detached Reflections On Different Questions Of Aesthetics

o Letters On The Aesthetical Education Of Man A BOOK OF ESSAYS

o Moral Utility Of Aesthetic Manners, The

o Of The Cause Of The Pleasure We Derive From Tragic Objects

o On Dignity


o On Grace And Dignity

o On Simple And Sentimental Poetry

o On The Necessary Limitations In The Use Of Beauty Of Form

o On The Tragic Art

o On The Use Of The Chorus In Tragedy


o Pathetic, The

o Reflections On The Use Of The Vulgar And Low Elements In Works Of Art

o Stage As A Moral Institution, The


Shaw, George Bernard 1925 Nobel Prize winner, Irish playwright

o Maxims for Revolutionists

o Treatise on Parents and Children, A


Shelley, Percy Bysshe

o Defence Of Poetry, A

o On Life In A Future State

o On Love

o On The Literature, The Arts, And The Manners Of The Athenians: A Fragment

o On The Punishment Of Death: A Fragment


o On The Symposium, Or Preface To The Banquet Of Plato: A Fragment

o Speculations On Metaphysics


Stevenson, Robert Louis Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist

o Aes Triplex

o Apology For Idlers, An

o Books Which Have Influenced Me from Essays in the Art of Writing

o Character Of Dogs, The

o Child's Play


o Christmas Sermon, A

o College Magazine, A

o College Papers

o Crabbed Age And Youth

o Criticisms


o Day After To-morrow, The

o Edinburgh Picturesque Notes

o El Dorado

o English Admirals, The

o Essays of Travel


o Father Damien

o Genesis Of 'The Master Of Ballantrae', The from Essays in the Art of Writing

o Gossip On Romance, A

o Great North Road, The

o Inland Voyage, An


o Lay Morals

o Memories and Portraits

o Morality Of The Profession Of Letters, The from Essays in the Art of Writing

o Mountain Town in France - A Fragment - 1879, A

o My First Book: 'Treasure Island' from Essays in the Art of Writing


o Note On Realism, A from Essays in the Art of Writing

o On Some Technical Elements Of Style In Literature from Essays in the Art of Writing

o On The Enjoyment Of Unpleasant Places

o Ordered South, An

o Pan's Pipes


o Pentland Rising, The

o Plea For Gas Lamps, A

o Prayers Written At Vailima

o Preface To 'The Master Of Ballantrae' from Essays in the Art of Writing

o Sketches


o Some Portraits By Raeburn

o Talk And Talkers

o Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

o Virginibus Puerisque

o Walking Tours



Swift, Jonathan Irish writer, satirist, Dean Swift (Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral from 1713 to 1745)

o Hints towards an essay on conversation (from The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces)

o Modest Proposal, A

o Thoughts on various subjects (from The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces)


Thackeray, William Makepeace

o Roundabout Papers A collection of essays


Thoreau, Henry David

o Autumnal Tints from 'Excursions'

o Landlord, The from 'Excursions'

o Natural History Of Massachusetts from 'Excursions'

o Night And Moonlight from 'Excursions'

o On the Duty of Civil Disobedience


o Plea for Captain John Brown, A

o Succession Of Forest Trees, The from 'Excursions'

o Walk To Wachusett, A from 'Excursions'

o Walking from 'Excursions'

o Wild Apples from 'Excursions'


o Winter Walk, A from 'Excursions'


Tolstoy, Leo

o Life In The Country from 'What to Do?'

o On Labor and Luxury from 'What to Do?'

o On The Significance Of Science And Art from 'What to Do?'

o To Women from 'What to Do?'


Trollope, Anthony

o How To Ride To Hounds

o Hunting Farmer, The

o Lady Who Rides To Hounds, The

o Man Who Hunts And Does Like It, The

o Man Who Hunts And Doesn't Like It, The


o Master Of Hounds, The

o The Hunting Parson

o The Man Who Hunts And Never Jumps


Twain, Mark Famous American author, humorist, novelist, lecturer

o As Concerns Interpreting

o At the Shrine of St. Wagner

o Bee, The

o Concerning Tobacco

o Death of Jean, The


o Essays on Paul Bourget

o Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

o How to Make History Dates Stick

o In Defense of Harriet Shelley

o Is Shakespeare Dead?


o Memorable Assassination, The

o On the Decay of the Art of Lying

o Scrap of Curious History, A

o Simplified Alphabet, A

o Taming the Bicycle


o Turning-Point of My Life, The

o What Is Man?

o William Dean Howells


Van Dyke, Henry

o Americanism of Washington, The

o Christmas-Giving And Christmas-Living

o Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things

o Little Rivers, A Book Of Essays In Profitable Idleness


Warner, Charles Dudley

o "Equality"

o "H.H." In Southern California from 'Nine Short Essays'

o "Old Soldier", The from 'As We Go'

o Advent Of Candor, The from 'As We Go'

o Altruism from 'As We Were Saying'


o American Man, The from 'As We Go'

o American Newspaper from 'As We Go'

o Art Of Governing from 'As We Were Saying'

o Art Of Idleness, The from 'As We Go'

o Attraction Of The Repulsive, The from 'As We Go'


o Beautiful Old Age, A from 'As We Go'

o Born Old And Rich from 'As We Go'

o Born With An "Ego" from 'As We Go'

o Broad A, The from 'As We Were Saying'

o Burden Of Christmas, The from 'As We Were Saying'


o Can A Husband Open His Wife's Letters? from 'As We Go'

o Cap And Gown, The from 'As We Were Saying'

o Certain Diversities Of American Life

o Chewing Gum from 'As We Were Saying'

o Climate And Happiness from 'As We Go'


o Clothes Of Fiction, The from 'As We Were Saying'

o Deadly Diary, The from 'As We Go'

o Dinner-Table Talk from 'As We Were Saying'

o Directoire Gown, The from 'As We Were Saying'

o Does Refinement Kill Individuality? from 'As We Were Saying'


o Education Of The Negro, The

o Electric Way, The from 'As We Go'

o England

o English Volunteers During The Late Invasion, The from 'Nine Short Essays'

o Fashions In Literature


o Frocks And The Stage from 'As We Were Saying'

o Give The Men A Chance from 'As We Go'

o Giving As A Luxury from 'As We Go'

o Indeterminate Sentence: What Shall Be Done With The Criminal Class?, The

o Interesting Girls from 'As We Go'


o Is There Any Conversation from 'As We Go'

o Island Of Bimini, The from 'As We Go'

o June from 'As We Go'

o Juventus Mundi from 'As We Go'

o Leisure Class, A from 'As We Go'


o Life-Saving And Life Prolonging Art, The from 'Nine Short Essays'

o Literary Copyright

o Literature And The Stage from 'Nine Short Essays'

o Locoed Novelist, A from 'As We Were Saying'

o Loss In Civilization, The from 'As We Were Saying'


o Love Of Display from 'As We Were Saying'

o Modern Fiction

o Mystery Of The Sex, The from 'As We Were Saying'

o Nathan Hale--1887 from 'Nine Short Essays'

o Naturalization from 'As We Were Saying'


o New Feminine Reserve, The from 'As We Go'

o Newspaper-Made Man, The from 'As We Go'

o Night In The Garden Of The Tuileries, A from 'Nine Short Essays'

o Novel And The Common School, The

o Our President from 'As We Go'


o People For Whom Shakespeare Wrote, The

o Pilgrim, And The American Of Today--1892, The

o Pursuit Of Happiness, The from 'Nine Short Essays'

o Red Bonnet, The from 'As We Were Saying'

o Relation Of Literature To Life, The


o Repose In Activity from 'As We Go'

o Responsibility Of Writers, The from 'As We Were Saying'

o Rose And Chrysanthemum from 'As We Were Saying'

o Shall Women Propose? from 'As We Were Saying'

o Simplicity from 'Nine Short Essays'


o Social Clearing-House from 'As We Were Saying'

o Social Screaming from 'As We Were Saying'

o Some Causes Of The Prevailing Discontent

o Tall Girl, The from 'As We Go'

o Tendency Of The Age, A from 'As We Were Saying'


o Thoughts Suggested By Mr. Froude's "Progress"

o Truthfulness from 'Nine Short Essays'

o Value Of The Commonplace from 'As We Were Saying'

o Weather And Character from 'As We Go'

o What Is Your Culture To Me


o Whistling Girl, The from 'As We Go'

o Women In Congress from 'As We Were Saying'

o Women--Ideal And Real from 'As We Go'


Wells, H. G. Herbert George Wells, English Writer

o Certain Personal Matters essays

o Englishman Looks at the World, An essays


Whittier, John Greenleaf

o Beautiful, The

o Black Men in The Revolution and War of 1812, The from Historical Papers

o Charms And Fairy Faith

o Conflict With Slavery, The

o Criticism


o Daniel O'Connell from Historical Papers

o England under James II from Historical Papers

o First Day In Lowell

o Governor Endicott from Historical Papers

o Inner Life, The


o John Winthrop from Historical Papers

o Lighting Up, The

o Magicians And Witch Folk

o Old Portraits and Modern Sketches

o Personal Sketches and Tributes


o Pope Night from Historical Papers

o Scottish Reformers, The from Historical Papers

o The border war of 1708 from Historical Papers

o The Great Ipswich Fright from Historical Papers

o The Pilgrims of Plymouth from Historical Papers


o Training, The

o World's End, The


Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Also known as Kate Douglas Riggs)

o Children's Rights: A book of nursery logic by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith


Wilde, Oscar Irish author,poet

o A House of Pomegranates

o American invasion, The

o Anglo-Indian's Complaint, An

o Art And The Handicraftsman

o Art at Willis's rooms


o Beauties of Bookbinding, The

o Close of the Arts and Crafts, The

o Critic as Artist, The

o De Profundis

o Decay of Lying: An Observation, The


o English Poetesses

o English Renaissance Of Art, The

o Ethics of Journalism, The

o Grosvenor Gallery, 1877, The

o House Decoration


o Keats's Sonnet on Blue

o L'envoi

o Lecture To Art Students

o Letter To Joaquin Miller

o Letters on Dorian Gray


o London Models

o More Radical Ideas Upon Dress Reform

o Mr Morris on Tapestry

o Mr Whistler's Ten O'Clock

o Mrs. Langtry as Hester Grazebrook


o Pen, Pencil, and Poison

o Poems In Prose

o Printing and Printers

o Puppets And Actors

o Relation of Dress to Art. A Note in Black and White on Mr. Whistler's Lecture, The


o Reviews

o Rise of Historical Criticism, The

o Sculpture At the Arts and Crafts

o Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde

o Shorter Prose Pieces


o Soul of Man under Socialism, The

o Tomb of Keats, The

o Truth of Masks - A Note On Illusion, The

o Unity of the Arts. A Lecture and a Five O'Clock, The

o Women's Dress



Wodehouse, P G British-American humorist, novelist

o Agonies Of Writing A Musical Comedy, The

o Alarming Spread Of Poetry, The

o In Defense Of Astigmatism

o My Battle With Drink

o My Life As A Dramatic Critic


o New Advertising, The

o On The Writing Of Lyrics

o Past Theatrical Season, The

o Photographers And Me

o Plea For Indoor Golf, A


o Secret Pleasures Of Reginald, The

o Some Aspects Of Game-Captaincy

o Unfinished Collection, An




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