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This book-collection file includes 19 non-fiction books by G.K. Chesterton: Alarms and Discursions, All Things Considered, The Appetite of Tyranny, The Crimes of England, Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens, The Defendant, Eugenics and Other Evils, Heretics, Lord Kitchener,...

This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone. Table of Contents:...

An essential collection of William Faulkner’s mature nonfiction work, updated, with an abundance of new material. This unique volume includes Faulkner’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a review of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (in which he suggests that Hemingway has found God),...

Contents:  Introduction by C.-A. Sainte-Beuve    1   Translator’s Note    35   CORRESPONDENCE OF MADAME: I.     Letters of 1695-1714     39 II.     Letters of 1714-1716     64 III.  ...

This file includes: Books for Children (Tales from Shakespear, The Adventures of Ulysses, Mrs. Leicester's School, The Kind and Queen of Hearts, Poetry for Children, and Prince Dorus), Elia and Last Essays of Elia, Letters 1796-1820, Letters 1821-1842, Poems and Plays, Rosamund Gray and Selected Essays...

Containing 40 essays and more than 20 fragments from before the time Treasure Island made Stevenson famous as a fiction writer, the collection demonstrates that essay writing was a deliberate choice of him. Robert Louis Stevenson, in full Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, (born November 13, 1850,...

This is the inaugural volume in the first full-scale scholarly edition of Thoreau's correspondence in more than half a century. When completed, the edition's three volumes will include every extant letter written or received by Thoreau--in all, almost 650 letters, roughly 150 more than in any previous...

Essays of Travel By Robert Louis Stevenson, 1905 The amateur emigrant, from the Clyde to Sandy Hook -- Cockermouth and Keswick -- An autumn effect -- A winter's walk in Carrick and Galloway -- Forest . Robert Louis Stevenson, in full Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, (born November 13, 1850, Edinburgh,...

Helen Garner is one of Australia’s greatest writers. Her short non-fiction has enormous range. Spanning fifteen years of work, Everywhere I Look is a book full of unexpected moments, sudden shafts of light, piercing intuition, flashes of anger and incidental humour. It takes us from backstage at...

Letters from the Caribbean, Arizona, and Elsewhere is a compilation of essays selected from a column by author Ric Hernandez, who wrote them over a three-year period for the Trinidad Express. They were first published in a more abridged version as Letters from Port of Spain. Come along as the writer...

Though he died more than forty years ago, James Thurber remains one of America's greatest and most enduring humorists, and his books -- for both adults and children -- remain as popular as ever. In this comprehensive collection of his letters -- the majority of which have never before been published...

Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of de Montaigne's complete essays. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: Preface.; The Life of Montaigne; The Letters of Montaigne.;...

“Explore[s] the Jewish past via letters that reflect connections and collisions between old and new worlds.” —Jewish Book Council At the turn of the 20th century, Jewish families scattered by migration could stay in touch only through letters. Jews in the Russian Empire and America wrote...

'People are my landscape', Isaiah Berlin liked to say, and nowhere is the truth of this observation more evident than in his letters. He is a fascinated watcher of human beings in all their variety, and revels in describing them to his many correspondents. His letters combine ironic social comedy...