Essays Collection, Vol. 01


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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)

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The Case of the Officers of Excise by Thomas Paine 37:39 Lu par Peter Yearsley
All Things Are Possible, Part 1, no. 79 by Lev Shestov 4:32 Lu par Scotty Smith
Crisis 1 (These are the times that try men's souls), from The American Crisis by Thomas Paine 22:11 Lu par Michele Fry
On Authors by Margaret Prescott Montague 10:55 Lu par Paula Messina
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 42:26 Lu par Atul Sharma
Scientifiction, Searchlight of Science by Jack Williamson 4:14 Lu par Ben Tucker
A Modest Proposal by Dr. Jonathan Swift 22:05 Lu par Winnifred Assmann
Shakespere by Samuel P. Putnam 20:43 Lu par Michele Fry
At the Turning of the Year by William Sharp 14:01 Lu par KevinS
Sicut Dudum (1435) by Pope Eugene IV 6:22 Lu par Paula Messina
Freedom and Enterprise by F. A. Harper 54:08 Lu par Michele Fry
The Day After Christmas by Joyce Kilmer 15:21 Lu par Paula Messina
The Fun of Writing by Christopher Morley 5:04 Lu par Larry Wilson
Darwinian Hypothesis by T H Huxley 42:42 Lu par bobpliley
The Decline of the Drama by Stephen Leacock 11:34 Lu par Winnifred Assmann
The Problem of Consciousness by Walter S. Hunter 1:09:18 Lu par Glenn Carruthers
The White Rose Road by Sarah Orne Jewett 26:37 Lu par Elsie Selwyn
Signs and Symbols by Joyce Kilmer 8:18 Lu par Tatsu MJ
A New Declaration of Independence by Emma Goldman 5:08 Lu par Christine Rottger
Looking Back on Girlhood by Sarah Orne Jewett 15:16 Lu par Elsie Selwyn