Essays Collection, Vol. 01

Género(s): Ensayos y obras cortas No ficción

Narradores:Peter Yearsley, Scotty Smith, Michele Fry, Paula Messina, Atul Sharma, Ben Tucker, Winnifred Assmann, KevinS, Larry Wilson, bobpliley, Glenn Carruthers, Elsie Selwyn, Tatsu MJ, Christine Rottger

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

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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)