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What Is Man? and Other Essays
Mark Twain
The Ways of Men
Eliot Gregory
Worldly Ways & Byways
Eliot Gregory
The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 10
James Whitcomb Riley
The Unseen World, and Other Essays
John Fiske
Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness
Henry Van Dyke
The Human Drift
Jack London
Gala-Days
Gail Hamilton
On the Decay of the Art of Lying
Mark Twain
Essays — First Series
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays — Second Series
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Revolution, and Other Essays
Jack London
Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
John Burroughs
Observations of a Retired Veteran
Henry C. Tinsley
Confessions and Criticisms
Julian Hawthorne
From the Easy Chair, Volume 1
George William Curtis
Wolfert's Roost, and Miscellanies
Washington Irving
The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and…
Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt
Mince Pie
Christopher Morley
Americans and Others
Agnes Repplier
The Last Harvest
John Burroughs
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
Charles William Eliot
Is Polite Society Polite? and Other Essays
Julia Ward Howe
The Invisible Censor
Francis Hackett
From the Easy Chair, Volume 2
George William Curtis
From the Easy Chair, Volume 3
George William Curtis
Rosemary and Rue, by Amber
Martha Everts Holden, Opie Percival Read
Tablets
Amos Bronson Alcott
Atlantic Classics
Ellery Sedgwick, Katharine Baker, Ralph Bergengren, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Walter Prichard Eaton, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Zephine Humphrey, Lucy Elliot Keeler, Edward Sandford Martin, Margaret Prescott Montague, Meredith Nicholson, Agnes Repplier, Robert Haven Schauffler, Dallas Lore Sharp, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Simeon Strunsky, Owen Wister
Life's Minor Collisions
Frances Lester Warner, Gertrude Chandler Warner
Atlantic Classics, Second Series
Ellery Sedgwick, Jane Addams, Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery) Allinson, Lida F. (Lida Frances) Baldwin, William Beebe, John Jay Chapman, Samuel McChord Crothers, Fannie Stearns Davis, Lucy Martin Donnelly, William Trufant Foster, Robert M. (Robert Malcolm) Gay, Edgar J. (Edgar Johnson) Goodspeed, Sharlot Mabridth Hall, Richard Bowland Kimball, Jean Kenyon Mackenzie, Henry Childs Merwin, Laura Spencer Portor, Elizabeth Taylor
Modern Essays
Christopher Morley, Harry Morgan Ayres, Beerbohm, Max, Sir, Hilaire Belloc, David W. (David William) Bone, Rupert Brooke, Heywood Broun, Thomas Burke, James Branch Cabell, Joseph Conrad, Harry Esty Dounce, Oscar W. Firkins, Philip Guedalla, Louise Imogen Guiney, A. P. (Alan Patrick) Herbert, Robert Cortes Holliday, Joyce Kilmer, Stephen Leacock, John Albert Macy, Don Marquis, William McFee, A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne, Osler, William, Sir, Bertrand Russell, George Saintsbury, George Santayana, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Logan Pearsall Smith, Marian Storm, Simeon Strunsky, H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson, Robert Palfrey Utter, Stewart Edward White, William Allen White