Essays

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Love and Freindship [sic]

Jane Austen, also an audiobook

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

William James

Walking

Henry David Thoreau, also an audiobook

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, also an audiobook

L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also an audiobook

朝花夕拾

Xun Lu

Chinese

Thomas Davis, selections from his prose and poetry

Thomas Davis

On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2)

John Ruskin

Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 16

Robert Louis Stevenson

Fino a Dogali

Alfredo Oriani

Italian

Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend

Thomas Browne, Sir, also an audiobook

How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays

Mark Twain, also an audiobook

Excursions

Henry David Thoreau, also an audiobook

Essays and Lectures

Oscar Wilde

Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass, also an audiobook

Shorter Prose Pieces

Oscar Wilde

An apology for idlers, and other essays

Robert Louis Stevenson

Penguin Persons & Peppermints

Walter Prichard Eaton

On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2)

John Ruskin

Memories and Studies

William James

A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays

Willa Cather, also an audiobook

Treatise on Parents and Children

Bernard Shaw

Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems.

Margaret Fuller

Essays and Dialogues

Giacomo Leopardi

Miscellanies

Oscar Wilde

Varied Types

G. K. Chesterton, also an audiobook

Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays

Robert Louis Stevenson

Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian

Michel de Montaigne and others

Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

The Perfect Gentleman

Ralph Bergengren

Literature and Life (Complete)

William Dean Howells

Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922

H. P. Lovecraft

Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Plutarch

Pipefuls

Christopher Morley, also an audiobook

Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson, also an audiobook

Lay Morals, and Other Papers

Robert Louis Stevenson

Ideas of Good and Evil

W. B. Yeats

The Merry-Go-Round

Carl Van Vechten

Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 5)

Plutarch

Sketches

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

Essays of Travel

Robert Louis Stevenson, also an audiobook

Chimney-Pot Papers

Charles S. Brooks

Europe and elsewhere

Mark Twain

The Treasure of the Humble

Maurice Maeterlinck

A Tramp's Notebook

Morley Roberts