50 Classic Essays

An anthology of 50 classic essays with an active table of contents to make it easy to quickly find the book you are looking for.


Works Include:


An Accursed Race by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Apology by Xenophon

The Appetite of Tyranny by G.K. Chesterton

The Art of Money Getting by P. T. Barnum

The Art of Writing and Other Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson

As We Go by Charles Dudley Warner

"Bethink Yourselves" by Leo Tolstoi

The Californiacs by Inez Haynes Irwin

The City That Was by Will Irwin

Certain Personal Matters by H. G. Wells

Clocks by Jerome K. Jerome

A Confession by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

The Defendant by G.K. Chesterton

An Essay on Professional Ethics by George Sharswood

An Essay on Satire Particularly on the Dunciad by Walter Harte

Evergreens by Jerome K. Jerome

An Exhortation to Peace and Unity Attributed (incorrectly) to John Bunyan

Get Next! by Hugh McHugh

How to Become Rich by William Windsor

How to Fail in Literature by Andrew Lang

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. Jerome

If I May by A. A. Milne

"Imperialism" and "The Tracks of Our Forefathers" by Charles Francis Adams

Irish Impressions by G.K. Chesterton

Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain

Laugh and Live by Douglas Fairbanks

Laughter by Henri Bergson

The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie

Marriage and Love by Emma Goldman

Maxims for Revolutionists by George Bernard Shaw

The Native Son by Inez Haynes Irwin

Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never Again! by Edward Carpenter

'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!' AND 'Isn't That Just Like a Man'

by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb and Mary Roberts Rinehart

On the Decay of the Art of Lying by Mark Twain

On the Significance of Science and Art by Leo Tolstoy

Optimism by Helen Keller

Sea Warfare by Rudyard Kipling

The Superstition of Divorce by G.K. Chesterton

Through the Magic Door by Arthur Conan Doyle

A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke

Twelve Types by G.K. Chesterton

Waiting for Daylight by Henry Major Tomlinson

Walking by Henry David Thoreau

War of the Classes by Jack London

What to Do? by Leo Tolstoy

When a Man Comes to Himself by Woodrow Wilson

Why Worry? by George Lincoln Walton, M.D.

Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau

Zionism and Anti-Semitism by Max Simon Nordau and Gustav Gottheil