Essays & Short Works
- Philosophical Travelogues
- Essays on Society and Culture
- Essays for Personal Growth
- Explorations in Science and Thought
- Explorations in Psychology
- Political Essays and Reflections
- Political Essays and Manifestos
- Philosophical Essays on Existence
The Crimes of England
"Second, when telling such lies as may seem necessary to your international standing, do not tell the lies to the people who know the t…
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive…
A Problem in Modern Ethics
“Society lies under the spell of ancient terrorism and coagulated errors. Science is either wilfully hypocritical or radically misinformed.”…
The Book of Hallowe'en
This book is intended to give the reader an account of the origin and history of Hallowe'en, how it absorbed some customs belonging to other…
Butterflies Are Free To Fly
When Nicolaus Copernicus discovered the Earth wasn’t the center of the Universe, everything changed. When Isaac Newton figured out the law o…
A Dictionary of English Synonymes
A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions, Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseolog…
Dream Psychology
Not a few serious-minded students, [...], have been discouraged from attempting a study of Freud's dream psychology. The book in which he or…
American Notes
In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the Jungle Book, visits the USA. As the travel-diary of an Anglo-India…
Mental Efficiency
In this light-hearted yet thought-provoking collection of articles, Bennett offers his thoughts on exercising the mind, organising your life…
The Art of the Moving Picture
"This 1922 book by poet and sometime cultural critic Vachel Lindsay might have been the first to treat the then-new medium of moving pi…
The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist and essayist, was an advocate of the theory of evolution and a self-proclaimed agnostic. A talented w…
Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow
Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome, offering a witty and insightful look at the quirks…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Principles of Economics
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…
The Humbugs of the World
P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witc…
Emily Dickinson on Death
Emily Dickinson is one of the most intriguing of American poets. Since she grew increasingly reclusive, very few of her poems were published…
Short Nonfiction Collection
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…
The Coming of the Fairies
After a number of deaths in his close family, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned to spiritualism in hope of finding proof of the afterlife. Being…
Irish Wit and Humor
Excerpted anecdotes from the biographies of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell, relating humorous snippets of politics in 18th and 19th ce…
On the Future of our Educational Institutions
Nietzsche gives a series of lectures in Bale, Germany on the subject of German educational institutions, and what the best way forward. Sum…