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The Art of Poetry - an Epistle to the Piso

Horace Walpole

The Art of Poetry: an Epistle to the Pisos is a Latin didactic poetry written by Horace Walpole, an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. ..

Artemis to Actaeon, and Other Verses

Edith Wharton

Artemis to Actaeon, and Other Verses is a collection of poems and verses written by Edith Wharton,  an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and designer. ..

Clocks

Jerome K. Jerome

Clocks is a short essay written by Jerome Klapka Jerome, an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat. ..

English Past and Present

Richard Chenevix Trench

A series of four lectures which I delivered last spring to the pupils of the King’s College School, London, supplied the foundation to this present volume. These lectures, which I was obliged to prepa..

An Essay on the Principle of Population

T. R. Malthus

The following Essay owes its origin to a conversation with a friend, on the subject of Mr Godwin's essay on avarice and profusion, in his Enquirer. The discussion started the general question of the f..

Essays in Liberalism

Various Authors

The papers contained in this volume are summaries—in some cases, owing to the defectiveness of the reports, very much abridged summaries—of a series of discourses delivered at the Liberal Summer Schoo..

First and Last

Hilaire Belloc

First and Last is a collection of essays and short works by Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc, an Anglo-French writer and historian and one of the most prolific writers in England during the earl..

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Karl Marx

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is one of Karl Marx' most profound and most brilliant monographs. It may be considered the best work extant on the philosophy of history, with an eye especia..