Essays Collection, Vol. 01

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 26, 2024

In Category - Essays & Short Works

Authors: Various

Book Language: English

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The Case of the Officers of Excise by Thomas Paine
All Things Are Possible, Part 1, no. 79 by Lev Shestov
Crisis 1 (These are the times that try men's souls), from The American Crisis by Thomas Paine
On Authors by Margaret Prescott Montague
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Scientifiction, Searchlight of Science by Jack Williamson
A Modest Proposal by Dr. Jonathan Swift
Shakespere by Samuel P. Putnam
At the Turning of the Year by William Sharp
Sicut Dudum (1435) by Pope Eugene IV
Freedom and Enterprise by F. A. Harper
The Day After Christmas by Joyce Kilmer
The Fun of Writing by Christopher Morley
Darwinian Hypothesis by T H Huxley
The Decline of the Drama by Stephen Leacock
The Problem of Consciousness by Walter S. Hunter
The White Rose Road by Sarah Orne Jewett
Signs and Symbols by Joyce Kilmer
A New Declaration of Independence by Emma Goldman
Looking Back on Girlhood by Sarah Orne Jewett

Here are 20 essays by various authors, covering all kinds of subjects. Some are famous, others are gems ferreted out from chapters or passages in books where they have lain hidden for decades. Britannica defines an essay as "an analytic, interpretive, or critical literary composition usually much shorter and less systematic and formal than a dissertation or thesis and usually dealing with its subjects from a limited and often personal point of view." In short, an essay is neither fiction nor a short story, but a composition designed to educate/persuade more than entertain or inform, though essays sometimes do both, or neither. (Summary by Michele Fry, BC/DPL)