Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott
Published 1889
436 pages
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Essays are short works of nonfiction in which a writer thinks something through. The subject can be anything: politics, a walk, a film, a grief. What matters is the mind at work and the voice. Collections here range from the classic to the sharply contemporary. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free.
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Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
Clarence King
Published 1875
334 pages
The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales
Richard Garnett
Published 1888
382 pages
American Notes and Pictures from Italy
Charles Dickens
Published 1892
444 pages
Latter-day pamphlets
Thomas Carlyle
Published 1885
472 pages
Democratic Vistas, and Other Papers
Walt Whitman
Published 1888
196 pages
The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan
Published 1849
200 pages
The Bruce
John Barbour
1856 · 1894 edition
536 pages
Charles I.
Jacob Abbott
Published 1876
292 pages
On Horseback Through Asia Minor
Fred Burnaby
Published 1877
430 pages
The Analysis of Beauty
William Hogarth
Published 1772
192 pages
Rhyme? and Reason?
Lewis Carroll
Published 1884
240 pages
Many Inventions
Rudyard Kipling
1893 · 1898 edition
462 pages
Education
Herbert Spencer
Published 1883
296 pages
English traits
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Published 1883
308 pages
Wisdom and Destiny
Maurice Maeterlinck, Alfred Sutro
Published 1898
386 pages
The King of the Mountains
Edmond About
Published 1897
256 pages
The Poetical Works of John Milton
John Milton
1874 · 1892 edition
654 pages
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay, Restoration Restoration Editors
Published 1852
344 pages
Hudibras
Samuel Butler
Published 1886
302 pages
The Pleasures of Life
John Lubbock
Published 1887
222 pages
The History of Java
Thomas Stamford Raffles
Published 1817
612 pages
Thaddeus of Warsaw
Jane Porter
Published 1887
380 pages
Far from the madding crowd
Thomas Hardy
Published 1895
500 pages