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A Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Hanging by George Orwell
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
A New Year’s Gift sent to the Parliament and Army by Gerrard Winstanley
A Nice Cup of Tea by George Orwell
A Vindication of Natural Diet by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ad Valorem by John Ruskin
Americanism in Literature by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
An Apology for Poetry by Philip Sidney
Aristotle and Plato: Differences and Similarities
Aristotle’s Views on Happiness, Virtue, and the Ideal Man
Atlanta Exposition Speech by Booker T. Washington
Attitude by Margaret Atwood
Books vs Cigarettes by George Orwell
Bookshop Memories by George Orwell
Buds and Bird-Voices by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Decline of the English Murder by George Orwell
Difference between Tragedy and Epic according to Aristotle
Dream Children by Charles Lamb
Essay on the Literature, the Arts, and the Manners of the Athenians
Forgetting by Robert Lynd
Gifts by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Goethe by Thomas Carlyle
Going Out for a Walk by Max Beerbohm
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. Jerome
In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse by George Orwell
In Defence of the Novel by George Orwell
Literature and Totalitarianism by George Orwell
Machines and Emotions by Bertrand Russell
Marrakech by George Orwell
Modern Gallantry by Charles Lamb
My Country Right or Left by George Orwell
My Father by Rabindranath Tagore
My School by Rabindranath Tagore
My Struggle for an Education by Booker T. Washington
Nationalism in India by Rabindranath Tagore
Not Counting Niggers by George Orwell
Notes on Nationalism by George Orwell
Notes on the Way by George Orwell
Of a Monstrous Child by Michel de Montaigne
Of Cannibals by Michel de Montaigne
Of Deformity by Francis Bacon
Of Love by Francis Bacon
Of Revenge by Francis Bacon
Of Sense by Thomas Hobbes
Of Studies by Francis Bacon
Of the Natural Condition of Mankind, As Concerning Their Felicity, and Misery by Thomas Hobbes
Of Truth by Francis Bacon
Of Youth and Age by Francis Bacon
On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners by James Russell Lowell
On a Future State by Percy Bysshe Shelley
On Babies by Jerome K. Jerome
On Being Hard Up by Jerome K. Jerome
On Being Idle by Jerome K. Jerome
On Being in Love by Jerome K. Jerome
On Being in the Blues by Jerome K. Jerome
On Being Shy by Jerome K. Jerome
On Cats and Dogs by Jerome K. Jerome
On Dress and Deportment by Jerome K. Jerome
On Eating and Drinking by Jerome K. Jerome
On Furnished Apartments by Jerome K. Jerome
On Getting on in the World by Jerome K. Jerome
On History by Thomas Carlyle
On Life by Percy Bysshe Shelley
On Love by Percy Bysshe Shelley
On Memory by Jerome K. Jerome
On Poetic Genius and Poetic Diction by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
On Poetry in General by William Hazlitt
On the Art of Living with Others by Arthur Helps
On the Choice of a Profession by Robert Louis Stevenson
On the Decay of the Art of Lying by Mark Twain
On the Metaphysical Poets by Samuel Johnson
On the Punishment of Death by Percy Bysshe Shelley
On the Weather by Jerome K. Jerome
On Vanity and Vanities by Jerome K. Jerome
Pacifism and the War by George Orwell
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
Popular Fiction: Literature or Commodity
Preface to “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman
Preface to the Fables by John Dryden
Qui Judicatis Terram by John Ruskin
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Friendship
Rural Manners by Joseph Addison
Selected Snobberies by Aldous Huxley
Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society and Solitude by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speculations on Metaphysics by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Spilling the Spanish Beans by George Orwell
The Art of Fiction by Henry James
The Art of Rereading by Arthur Elmore Bostwick
The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift
The Ganga by Jawaharlal Nehru
The Mutability of Literature by Washington Irving
The Philosophy of Composition by Edgar Allan Poe
The Philosophy of Furniture by Edgar Allan Poe
The Poetic Principle by Edgar Allan Poe
The Roots of Honour by John Ruskin
The Secret of Health, Success and Power by James Allen
The Spectator Club by Richard Steele
The Spike by George Orwell
The Study of Poetry by Francis Hovey Stoddard
The Variety and Unity of India by Jawaharlal Nehru
The Veins of Wealth by John Ruskin
Third Thoughts by E. V. Lucas
Three Days to See by Helen Keller
Unto This Last by John Ruskin
Uses of Great Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Waiting for a Visa by B. R. Ambedkar
Walking by Henry David Thoreau
Westminster Abbey by Joseph Addison
What is Fascism? by George Orwell
Why I Write by George Orwell
You and the Atomic Bomb by George Orwell