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By: William Dean Howells (1837-1920) | |
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Editor's Relations with the Young Contributor (from Literature and Life) |
By: William E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) | |
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The Souls of Black Folk
“Few books make history and fewer still become the foundational texts for the movements and struggles of an entire people....” One such great work was The Souls of Black Folk by William EB Du Bois. Published in 1903, it is a powerful and hard-hitting view of sociology, race and American history. It became the cornerstone of the civil rights movement and when Du Bois attended the first National Negro Conference in 1909, he was already well-known as a proponent of full and unconditional equality for African Americans... |
By: William E. Gladstone (1809-1898) | |
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Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists | |
By: William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) | |
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Forgotten Man and Other Essays
Sumner's popular essays were to give him a wider audience to distribute his anti-imperialism, his advocacy of free markets and the gold standard. He also had a long term influence over modern American conservatism. This is the final collection of his essays and is edited by Albert Galloway Keller. It concludes with The Forgotten Man where Sumner argued that, in his day, politics was being subverted by those proposing a "measure of relief for the evils which have caught public attention. |
By: William Hazlitt (1778-1830) | |
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Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners |
By: William Henry Hudson (1841-1922) | |
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Idle Hours In A Library
“[these essays on Shakespeare, Pepys, Restoration novels, and bohemianism]—the results of many hours of quiet but rather aimless browsing among books, and not of special investigations, undertaken with a view to definite scholastic ends. They are, moreover, as will readily be seen, completely unacademic in style and intention.” Published in 1897. Hudson was a prolific author, naturalist, and ornithologist. His most popular book in the early 20th century was Green Mansions. |
By: William James (1842-1910) | |
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The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy | |
Memories and Studies |
By: William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943) | |
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Essays on Modern Novelists
A collection of essays on 19th century novelists, both famous ones and those largely forgotten now. Among the writers presented most wrote in English, but three foreign authors are also discussed. Phelps taught a course on novels at a university and he added to those biographical essays some of his ideas about the importance of novels in the process of teaching about literature. |
By: William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) | |
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Roundabout Papers | |
Some Roundabout Papers |
By: William Patton (1798-1879) | |
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The National Preacher, Vol. 2. No. 6., Nov. 1827 Or Original Monthly Sermons from Living Ministers |
By: Wright, Orville and Wilbur (1871-1948 / 1867-1912) | |
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The Early History of the Airplane
The Brothers Orville (1871 - 1948) and Wilbur (1867 – 1912) Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They were not the first to build and fly aircraft, but they invented the controls that were necessary for a pilot to steer the aircraft, which made fixed wing powered flight possible. The Early History of the Airplane consists of three short essays about the beginnings of human flight. The second essay retells the first flight: "This... |