Essays Books

American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology

Thomas Henry Huxley

American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology is a collection of essays on evolution theory written by Thomas Henry Huxley, an English biologist and anthropologist specialising ..

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

G. K. Chesterton

These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries of the classics which are one of the real improvements of rece..

Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1

Thomas De Quincey

Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 is a collection of essays written on Christian life by Thomas Penson De Quincey, who was an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an E..

Wisdom and Destiny

Maurice Maeterlinck

Wisdom and Destiny a literary book written by Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also known as Count Maeterlinck from 1932, who was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish bu..

Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The work known as the Biographical Supplement of the Biographia Literaria of S. T. Coleridge, and published with the latter in 1847, was begun by Henry Nelson Coleridge, and finished after his death b..

A Study in Tinguian Folk-Lore

Fay-Cooper Cole

This paper is based on a collection of Philippine folk-tales recently published by the Field Museum of Natural History. The material appearing in that publication was gathered by the writer during a s..

Sadhana - the realisation of life

Rabindranath Tagore

Sadhana is a collection of essays, most of which he gave before the Harvard University, describing Indian beliefs, philosophy and culture from different viewpoints, often making comparison with Wester..

The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches

David Starr Jordan

The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches is a collection of essays written by David Starr Jordan, an American ichthyologist, educator, eugenicist, and peace activist. He was president ..