Essays & Short Works

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Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.Das Faß Amontillado übersetzt von Gisela EtzelVor der…

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 5

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Charles Dickens


2012 was the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the fifth and last volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poet…

The Logic of Vegetarianism

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Henry Salt


With clear logic and entertaining dialogues, the author presents many reasons for a vegetarian rather than a “flesh-eating” diet, and his ar…

Ars Poetica and Carmen Saeculare

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus


The Ars Poetica, by Horace, also known as Epistula ad Pisones, is a treatise on poetry written in the form of a letter, and published around…

Cobb's Anatomy

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Irvin S. Cobb


Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was born on June 23, 1876. At seventeen years of age, he began writing for the Paducah Daily News, his hometown paper…

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.Der selbstsüchtige Riese übersetzt von Wilhelm Cremer …

Pipefuls

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Christopher Morley


A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course a…

Insect Stories

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Vernon Kellogg


These 13 essays explore the fascinating world of insects all around us. Vernon Kellogg, an eminent entomologist and natural story teller, an…

Essays and Dialogues

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Giacomo Leopardi


"We would no more choose to feed the minds of our countrymen and women with the despairing utterances of the pessimist poet, than we wo…

On Nothing & Kindred Subjects

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Hilaire Belloc


“I knew a man once, Maurice, who was at Oxford for three years, and after that went down with no degree. At College, while his friends were …

Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy …

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The President'S Commission On The Assassination Of President Kennedy and President'S Commission On The Assassination Of Presiden


The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963, was a cruel and shocking act of violence directed against a man, a family…

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Vom Schweigen" übersetzt von Gustav Landauer (18…

Prejudices, First Series

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H. L. Mencken


Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time. Among his targets…

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Ein Drama in den Lüften" übersetzt von Mart…

硝子戸の中 (Garasudono uchi)

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Sōseki Natsume


『硝子戸の中』(がらすどのうち)は、『こゝろ』と『道草』の間に書かれた夏目漱石最後の随筆である。'Garasudono uchi' is Natsume Sōseki's last essay, which was written between 'Kokoro' & '…

The Brilliant Proof (Burhäne Lämé) in reply to an attack upon the Bahai Revelat…

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Mírzá Abu’L-Fadl Gulpáygání


“In these days,” writes the renowned Bahá’í scholar, Mírzá Abu’l-Fadl, “which are the latter days of 1911, A. D.…

Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

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William Hazlitt


This famous Shakespearean exploration illuminates its plays through the frame of character, while also weighing theme, mood, structure and p…

De Vulgari Eloquentia

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Dante Alighieri


De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the vernacular) is a short essay written by Dante Alighieri in Latin. The work remains incomplete; on…

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