American essays

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Essays — First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson, also an audiobook

Essays — Second Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson, also an audiobook

What Is Man? and Other Essays

Mark Twain, also an audiobook

Thoughts of a fool

Evelyn Gladys

Society and solitude: Twelve chapters

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Oxford Book of American Essays

Brander Matthews, also an audiobook

How it feels to be colored me

Zora Neale Hurston

The £1,000,000 bank-note, and other new stories

Mark Twain

Lectures and biographical sketches

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Modern Essays

Christopher Morley, also an audiobook

Harvard Classics Volume 28

Charles William Eliot

The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays

Charles W. Chesnutt

Prejudices, second series

H. L. Mencken, also an audiobook

A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings

Noah Webster

Modern Essays and Stories

Frederick Houk Law

Soliloquies in England, and Later Soliloquies

George Santayana

Prejudices, third series

H. L. Mencken

Prejudices, first series

H. L. Mencken, also an audiobook

My study windows

James Russell Lowell

The Last Harvest

John Burroughs

Mince Pie

Christopher Morley, also an audiobook

Letters and social aims

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Unseen World, and Other Essays

John Fiske

Miscellanies

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Atlantic Classics, Second Series

Ellery Sedgwick, also an audiobook

Compensation

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Invisible Censor

Francis Hackett

On the Decay of the Art of Lying

Mark Twain

The Ways of Men

Eliot Gregory

Fresh Leaves

Fanny Fern

The Seven Ages of Man

Ralph Bergengren

Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness

Henry Van Dyke

The Joys of Being a Woman, and Other Papers

Winifred Margaretta Kirkland

Birds and Poets : with Other Papers

John Burroughs

Bizarre

Lawton Mackall, also an audiobook

A doctor enjoys Sherlock Holmes

Edward J. Van Liere

The Hive

Will Levington Comfort

Atlantic Classics

Ellery Sedgwick

Fern Leaves from Fanny's Port-folio. Second Series

Fanny Fern

Caper-Sauce: A Volume of Chit-Chat about Men, Women, and Things.

Fanny Fern

Essays in Idleness

Agnes Repplier, also an audiobook

Prejudices, fourth series

H. L. Mencken

The Human Drift

Jack London, also an audiobook

Tablets

Amos Bronson Alcott

The Romance of the Commonplace

Gelett Burgess, also an audiobook

Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness

Henry Van Dyke

Goose-Quill Papers

Louise Imogen Guiney, also an audiobook

Revolution, and Other Essays

Jack London, also an audiobook