Essays Collection, Vol. 02

Various

Language: English

Genres: Essays & Short Works Non-fiction

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1. Barrier Beaches of the Atlantic Coast, by Frederick J. H. Merrill
2. The Belief in the Omnipotence of Thought, by Ludwig von Mises
3. Can the Church Lead?, by Pearl S. Buck
4. The Concept of a Perfect System of Government, by Ludwig von Mises
5. The Divineness of Discontent, by Agnes Repplier
6. Does Consciousness Exist?, by William James
7. The Edison Carbon Telephone and Hughes' Microphone, by D. E. Hughes
8. English Notions About Women, by Fanny Fern
9. Foreigners, by Stephen Graham
10. Hazards of the Past, by John Burroughs
11. Mary The Mother Of Jesus, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
12. Mary the Mythical Madonna, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
13. Operas after the English Manner, by John Dennis
14. Passing Under the Yoke, by W. Warde Fowler
15. Physical Culture, by Margaret W. Morley
16. Principles Fought for in the American Revolution, by Calvin Coolidge
17. Success in Fiction, by James Payn
18. Tobacco, by Stephen Graham
19. To Rufus Choate Jones, Lawyer, Concerning The Duties and Dangers of his Profession, by Josiah Gilbert Holland
20. Transylvanian Superstitions, by Emily Gerard

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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)