Essays Books

A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind

Jean Jacques Rousseau

This work presents Rousseau's belief in the profoundly transformational effects of the development of civilization on human nature, which Rousseau claims other political philosophers had failed to gra..

Birds and Poets - with Other Papers

John Burroughs

I have deliberated a long time about coupling some of my sketches of outdoor nature with a few chapters of a more purely literary character, and thus confiding to my reader what absorbs and delights m..

Essays of Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, wherein he characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind and insat..

An Englishman Looks at the World

H. G. Wells

An Englishman Looks at the World is a 1914 essay collection by H. G. Wells containing journalistic pieces written between 1909 and 1914. The book consists of twenty-six pieces ranging from five to six..

English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century

James Anthony Froude

English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century is a collection of lectures delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by James Anthony Froude, an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's ..

The Case of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A collection of three of Nietzsche's writings concerning the music of Wagner. In particular, he relates Wagner's music as degenerate, unrefined and unintelligent and relates it to a gradually degenera..

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.This series of books will include in complete editions thos..

Areopagitica

John Milton

A prose tract or polemic by John Milton, published November 23, 1644, at the height of the English Civil War... Milton, though a supporter of the Parliament, argued forcefully against the Licensing Or..