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
African-American Collection
Celebrate the rich tapestry of African American literature with this diverse anthology, curated to honor Black History Month. This collectio…
Christmas Short Works Collection
Celebrate the spirit of the season with the Christmas Short Works Collection, a delightful anthology of public domain stories, essays, poems…
Mistakes of Moses
Robert G. Ingersoll was an extremely popular humanist orator in the late nineteenth century, and he wrote Mistakes of Moses after many bootl…
Creative Unity
Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore talks of the many things he feels is necessary for creativity through joy of unity, he covers many topics like t…
The Sins of Hollywood
Exacerbated by several high-profile Hollywood scandals, a wave of anti-Hollywood rhetoric tried to paint the movie capital as a veritable ho…
Essays
In his profound collection of essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson explores the intricate relationship between the individual and the universe. Throu…
Short Nonfiction Collection
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…
Not That It Matters
More of the witty, wry, and deliciously wicked essays and articles written by Milne. Most people know him as the creator of Winnie The Pooh,…
Aphorisms
In Aphorisms, Oscar Wilde presents a collection of sharp, insightful observations that blend humor with profound wisdom. Originally publishe…
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…
Essay on the Creative Imagination
"It is quite generally recognized that psychology has remained in the semi-mythological, semi-scholastic period longer than most attemp…
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…
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Margaret Fuller was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nin…
From Sunrise Land
One of the most renowned of all Protestant Christian missionaries, Amy Carmichael is remembered most for the fifty-five years she spent doin…
Memory
An in-depth series of chapters devoted to the use of our memory system; as the title suggests, how to develop our memory system, how to trai…
The Art of Fiction
A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…
As a Man Thinketh
The burgeoning conflict between science and organized religion in the Nineteenth Century had many cultural offshoots, one of the most signif…
Tolstoy on Shakespeare
In this thought-provoking essay, Leo Tolstoy presents a critical examination of William Shakespeare's works, exploring the playwright's them…
Curiosities of the Sky
Curiosities of the Sky invites listeners to explore the wonders of astronomy through the eyes of Garrett P. Serviss, a pioneer in popular sc…