PDF Books in Literary Essays
The Frontier in American History
by Frederick Jackson TurnerThe Frontier in American History is an essay by the Harward educated American historian Frederick Jackson Turner, whose ideas were prominent to the forming of Frontier thesis. Best known for this work, his other notable writings include “Rise of the new west”, “Social Forces in American History”, "Is Sectionalism in America Dying ..
The Art of Controversy
by Arthur SchopenhauerThe Art of Controversy is a collection of essays of the German Philosopher translated by T. Bailey Saunders from German to English. The translator mentions in the preface as below The volume now before the reader is a tardy addition to a series in which I have endeavoured to present Schopenhauer's minor writings in an adequate form. Its conte..
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
by Washington IrvingThe Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon is a collection of short stories and essays written by American writer Washington Irving who is known for his magnum opus “The Legend of Sleepy Hallow”. He started using the pseudonym "Geoffrey Crayon" in this book and went on to use throughout his career. This collection of stories includes “The broken heart’, “L..
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
by Francois duc de La RochefoucauldReflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims is a collection of essays written by the French essayist François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac known for his memoirs and maxims. The translator J. W. Willis Bund, he mentions in the introductory note that, there could have been errors as none of the author’s works has been translated wi..
Essays of Michel de Montaigne Complete
byThe Essays of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising the Essays over the period from approximately 1570 to 1592 was to record "some traits of my character and of my humours." The Essays were first published in 1580 and cover a wide range of t..
Speeches - Literary and Social
by Charles DickensCharles Dickens was born at Landport, Portsmouth, on February 7, 1812. At that time his father, Mr. John Dickens, held an office in the Navy Pay Department, the duties of which obliged him to reside alternately at the principal naval stations of England. But on the conclusion of peace in 1815 a considerable reduction was made by Government in thi..
1601 - Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors
by Mark TwainConversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors. or simply 1601 is the title of a short risqu? squib by Mark Twain, first published anonymously in 1880, and finally acknowledged by the author in 1906. Written as an extract from the diary of one of Queen Elizabeth I's ladies-in-waiting, the pamphlet purports to record a con..
Through the Magic Door
by Arthur Conan DoyleThrough the Magic Door is a book written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published serialized in Cassell's Magazine between december 1906 and november 1907. However, the book was based on a series of 6 articles published in Great Thoughts from 5 may to 30 june 1894 and in the Associated Press (The Philadelphia Inquirer, etc) from 20 may and 15 july 189..