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Essays -- a random selection of 16 from << http://www.bartleby.com/109/ >> Go there to find more


16 Classic essays from well known writers
1 The Ephemera: An Emblem of Human Life, by Benjamin Franklin
2 The Mutability of Literature, by Washington Irving
3 Gifts, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
4 Buds and Bird-voices, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
5 The Philosophy of Composition, by Edgar Allan Poe
6 Bread and the Newspaper, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
7 Walking, by Henry David Thoreau
8 Americanism in Literature, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
9 Our March to Washington, by Theodore Winthrop
10

Five American Contributions to Civilization, by Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot (March 20, 1834 – August 22, 1926) was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university. Eliot served the longest term as president in the university's history. (from wikipedia)

11 I Talk of Dreams, by William Dean Howells
12 An Idyl of the Honey-bee, by John Burroughs
13 Colonialism in the United States, by Henry Cabot Lodge
14 The Tyranny of Things, by Edward Sandford Martin
15 Dante and the Bowery, by Theodore Roosevelt
16 The Revolt of the Unfit, by Nicholas Murray Butler