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Essays — 37 PDFs & ePubs

37 classic essays books · free in PDF & EPUB

Masters of essays

The authors who built the genre — all their books free in the library.

Henry David Thoreau

6 books in the library →

Oscar Wilde

3 books in the library →

Virginia Woolf

3 books in the library →

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Mark Twain

On Love

Stendhal

The Irish Sketch-Book

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Maine Woods

Henry David Thoreau

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A year of prophesying

Weekly essays that guess the future with brash clarity—politics, science, culture.