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Notes on Life & Letter
by Joseph ConradThe twenty-six essays collected in Notes on Life and Letters (first published 1921) offer a kaleidoscopic view of Joseph Conrad's literary views and interest in the events of his day, including the Titanic disaster and First World War. The introduction traces the pre-publication history of the essays, traces the book's reception, and offers new per..
Notes on My Books
by Joseph ConradNotes on My Books is a literary essays on the works of Joseph Conrad written by himself. The author states in his preface of the book as "It is only some such train of thought, or rather of feeling, that can in a measure explain the aim of the attempt, made in the tale which follows, to present an unrestful episode in the obscure lives of a fe..
Phantasmagoria and Other Poems
by Lewis CarrollPhantasmagoria is a poem written by Lewis Carroll and first published in 1869 as the opening poem of a collection of verse by Carroll entitled Phantasmagoria and Other Poems. The collection was also published under the name Rhyme? And Reason? It is Lewis Carroll's longest poem. Both the poem and the collection were illustrated by A. B. Frost...
Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing
by Lewis CarrollEight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing is an essay by Lewis Carroll on useful tips for composing, writing, mailing, and recording letters. The essay was published in 1890 by Emberlin and Son as a hardcover booklet consisting of 35 pages of text, followed by four pages of advertising, three pages of illustration, a stamp holder, and an illust..
Feeding the Mind
by Lewis CarrollFeeding the Mind is a note on his books written by Lewis Carroll himself. The history of this little sparkle from the pen of Lewis Carroll may soon be told. It was in October of the year 1884 that he came on a visit to a certain vicarage in Derbyshire, where he had promised, on the score of friendship, to do what was for him a most unusual favour—t..
My Miscellanies, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by Wilkie CollinsPreface from the book: We hear a great deal of lamentation now-a-days, proceeding mostly from elderly people, on the decline of the Art of Conversation among us. Old ladies and gentlemen with vivid recollections of the charms of society fifty years ago, are constantly asking each other why the great talkers of their youthful days have found no succ..
Free Thought and Official Propaganda
by Bertrand RussellFree Thought and Official Propaganda is a speech delivered in 1922 by Bertrand Russell on the importance of unrestricted freedom of expression in society, and the problem of the state and political class interfering in this through control of education, fines, economic leverage, and distortion of evidence...
Man's Redemption of Man - A Lay Sermon
by William OslerMan's Redemption of Man: A Lay Sermon is a medical address to students by Sir William Osler, a Canadian physician, one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital and the first to bring medical students out of lecture hall for medical training. His other works include "The progress of the Century", "The Evolution of modern Medici..