Literary essays

'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded.

All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit--the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history.

Walden is one of the best-known non-fiction books ever written by an American.

'The sight of suffering does one good, the infliction of suffering does one more good - this is a hard maxim, but none the less a fundamental maxim, old, powerful, and "e;human, all-too-human"e;.

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus is one of the most important books of meditations and maxims ever written.

'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself'Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius.

Aristotle's 'Poetics' is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.

This collection contains 59 essays, published at various times between 1597 and 1625, on subjects ranging among state policy, personal conduct and the appreciation of nature.

In Men I'm not Married To Dorothy Parker's famous wit is on full display as she describes nine men that she did not marry.