In the American Grain
Look Inside the Book First published in 1925, In the American Grain is a daring and provocative investigation into the origins of […]
Genre: Letters and Essays
A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf’s immensely influential and still provocative long essay, A Room of One’s Own, originated from a pair of lectures she presented […]
Free Thought and Official Propaganda
Previous slide Next slide “Free Thought and Official Propaganda,” a speech delivered by Bertrand Russell in 1922, initially defines freedom of thought […]
Why Men Fight
Previous slide Next slide Written in the midst of World War I, Why Men Fight lays out Bertrand Russell’s wholesale rejection of […]
What Is Man? and Other Essays
Previous slide Next slide What Is Man? and Other Essays showcases Twain at his most insightful and provocative. Brimming with philosophical candor […]
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essential Essays
Previous slide Next slide Ralph Waldo Emerson transformed America by writing in an utterly unique, personal, and insistently optimistic voice about matters […]
The Renaissance
Previous slide Next slide Walter Pater’s enduring work, The Renaissance, ignited impassioned debates and earned profound admiration for its distinctive critique of […]
Studies in Classic American Literature
Previous slide Next slide In Studies in American Literature, D. H. Lawrence’s brilliance as both a writer and a critic shimmers with […]
Letters of a Javanese Princess
Previous slide Next slide This collection of letters was written by Raden Adjeng Kartini, the daughter of a Javanese civil servant in […]
Aspects of the Novel
Previous Next E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel is based on a series of lectures he delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge, […]