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• Shadows and sunbeams: Being a second series of Fern leaves from Fanny’s portfolio, by Fanny Fern, illust. by George Housman Thomas (Gutenberg ebook)
• Society and solitude: Twelve chapters, by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Autumnal leaves: tales and sketches in prose and rhyme, by Lydia Maria Child (Gutenberg ebook)
• Impressions and experiences, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg ebook)
• This Then is Upland Pastures: Being some out-door essays dealing with the beautiful things that the spring and summer bring, by Adeline Knapp (Gutenberg ebook)
• Reveries of a Bachelor; or, A Book of the Heart, by Donald Grant Mitchell, illust. by E. M. Ashe (Gutenberg ebook)
• O. Henry Encore, by O. Henry, ed. by Mary Sunlocks Harrell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The £1,000,000 bank-note, and other new stories, by Mark Twain (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Service, by Henry David Thoreau (Gutenberg ebook)
• Essays in Idleness, by Agnes Repplier (Gutenberg ebook)
• In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers, by Agnes Repplier (Gutenberg ebook)
• Patrins: To Which Is Added an Inquirendo Into the Wit & Other Good Parts of His Late Majesty King Charles the Second, by Louise Imogen Guiney (Gutenberg ebook)
• Goose-Quill Papers, by Louise Imogen Guiney (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fern Leaves from Fanny's Port-folio. Second Series, by Fanny Fern, illust. by Frederick M. Coffin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fresh Leaves, by Fanny Fern (Gutenberg ebook)
• Facts and Fictions of Life, by Helen H. Gardener (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ginger-Snaps, by Fanny Fern (Gutenberg ebook)
• Folly as It Flies; Hit at by Fanny Fern, by Fanny Fern (Gutenberg ebook)
• Caper-Sauce: A Volume of Chit-Chat about Men, Women, and Things., by Fanny Fern (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed., by W. C. Bartlett (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tablets, by Amos Bronson Alcott (Gutenberg ebook)

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• The Bookman Anthology of Essays (1923) (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), ed. by John Chipman Farrar, contrib. by Mary Austin, Arthur E. Bostwick, Benjamin Brawley, Heywood Broun, Abbie Farwell Brown, Floyd Dell, John Erskine, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Zona Gale, Hildegarde Hawthorne, Oliver Herford, Robert Cortes Holliday, Aline Kilmer, Kenneth Macgowan, Thomas L. Masson, Arthur Bartlett Maurice, William McFee, Charles Henry Meltzer, H. L. Mencken, William Lyon Phelps, Keith Preston, Burton Rascoe, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Hugh Walpole, and Alexander Woollcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern Essays and Stories: A Book to Awaken Appreciation of Modern Prose, and to Develop Ability and Originality in Writing (New York: The Century Co., 1923), ed. by Frederick Houk Law (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modern Essays and Stories: A Book to Awaken Appreciation of Modern Prose, and to Develop Ability and Originality in Writing (New York: The Century Co., 1922), ed. by Frederick Houk Law
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• Modern Essays and Stories: A Book to Awaken Appreciation of Modern Prose, and to Develop Ability and Originality in Writing (New York: The Century Co., c1922), ed. by Frederick Houk Law (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Modern Essays (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., c1921), ed. by Christopher Morley, contrib. by John Albert Macy, William Allen White, Rupert Brooke, Don Marquis, David W. Bone, William McFee, Joyce Kilmer, Joseph Conrad, A. P. Herbert, Oscar W. Firkins, Hilaire Belloc, William Osler, Stephen Leacock, Harry Morgan Ayres, Thomas Burke, A. A. Milne, Max Beerbohm, Stuart Pratt Sherman, H. M. Tomlinson, Louise Imogen Guiney, Marian Storm, George Santayana, Simeon Strunsky, George Saintsbury, Bertrand Russell, Philip Guedalla, Robert Palfrey Utter, Logan Pearsall Smith, James Branch Cabell, Robert Cortes Holliday, Harry Esty Dounce, and Robert Cortes Holliday
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• Atlantic Classics (first series; Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Co., c1916), ed. by Ellery Sedgwick, contrib. by Robert Haven Schauffler, Dallas Lore Sharp, Edward Sandford Martin, Cornelia A. P. Comer, Owen Wister, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Margaret Prescott Montague, Meredith Nicholson, Agnes Repplier, Katharine Baker, Simeon Strunsky, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Walter Prichard Eaton, Ralph Bergengren, Zephine Humphrey, and Lucy Elliot Keeler
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• Atlantic Classics (second series; Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Co., c1918), ed. by Ellery Sedgwick, contrib. by Henry Childs Merwin, William Beebe, Jane Addams, Samuel McChord Crothers, Robert M. Gay, Jean Kenyon Mackenzie, Edgar J. Goodspeed, William Trufant Foster, Lida F. Baldwin, Fannie Stearns Davis, John Jay Chapman, Lucy Martin Donnelly, Sharlot Mabridth Hall, Richard Bowland Kimball, Laura Spencer Portor, Anne C. E. Allinson, and Elizabeth Taylor
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• The Oxford Book of American Essays (New York: Oxford University Press, 1914), ed. by Brander Matthews, contrib. by Benjamin Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, Washington Irving, Richard Henry Dana, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Walt Whitman, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, George William Curtis, Theodore Winthrop, Charles Dudley Warner, Charles William Eliot, William Dean Howells, John Burroughs, Clarence King, Henry James, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Henry Cabot Lodge, W. C. Brownell, Edward Sandford Martin, Samuel McChord Crothers, Theodore Roosevelt, Nicholas Murray Butler, and William P. Trent
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• Essays, English and American (Harvard Classics v28), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot, Thomas Henry Huxley, Edward A. Freeman, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Ellery Channing, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, and James Russell Lowell
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• Best American essays, selected by John R. Howard. (New York, T. Y. Crowell & company, [c1910]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critical and social essays reprinted from the New York Nation. (New York, Leypoldt & Holt, 1867), by New York Nation (page images at HathiTrust)
• My unknown chum [electronic resource] / (Toronto : S.B. Gundy, [191-?]), by Charles Bullard Fairbanks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life and teachings of Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D.D. [electronic resource] : containing the noblest truths, the most delightful narratives ... / (St. John, N.B. : R.A.H. Morrow, c1902), by T. De Witt Talmage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Under the trees [electronic resource] / (Toronto : G.N. Morang, 1902), by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pipefuls [electronic resource] / (Toronto : S.B. Gundy, [1920?]), by Christopher Morley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Live coals [electronic resource] / (London, Ont. : Schuyler, Smith, 1886), by T. De Witt Talmage and Lydia E. White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gods, and other lectures. (Washington, D.C., C.P. Farrell, 1879), by Robert Green Ingersoll (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Prize book of the Publick Latin School of Boston. (Boston : Cummings and Hilliard, 1820-), by Boston Latin School (Mass.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The essays humorous, moral and literary, of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin. (Boston: Published by John West and Co. ... E.G. House, Printer, 1811), by Benjamin Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays : second series / (Boston : J. Munroe and company, 1845), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent. / (London : J. Murray, 1822), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miscelanea de economia, politica y moral, extractada de las obras de Benjamin Franklin, y precedida de una noticia sobre su vida, (Paris, B. Padre, 1825), by Benjamin Franklin and Rafael. trl Mangino (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contributions to academic literature. (New York, H. & S. Raynor, 1842), by Charles H. Lyon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ... (Philadelphia, Carey & Lea, 1831), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miscellaneous letters & essays, on various subjects. (London, R. Carlile, 1819), by Thomas Paine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Society & solitude : & other essays, (London : J. M. Dent & sons, ltd.; New York : E. P. Dutton & co., 1916), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimen days in America / (London : W. Scott, 1887), by Walt Whitman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from the South. (New-York, Haprer & Bros., 1835), by James Kirke Paulding and Northern Man (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays and letters, (New York, R. & W.A.Bartow & co., 1822), by Benjamin Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Representative essays, comprising twelve unabridged essays by Irving [and others] (New York, G.P. Putnam, 1908 [c1885]), by George Haven Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to tell a story, and other essays / (New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, c1899), by Mark Twain and Library of William Faulkner (University of Virginia) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nature ; Love ; Friendship ; Domestic life ; Success ; Greatness ; Immortality / (Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Co., c1883), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays of American essayists; including biographical and critical sketches, with a special introduction by Chauncey C. Starkweather. (New York, London, The Co-operative publication society, [c1900]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays, literary, moral & philosophical ... (Philadelphia : Thomas & Samuel F. Bradford, 1798), by Benjamin Rush (page images at HathiTrust)
• American essays / (New York ; Chicago : Globe School Book Co., c1902), by Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, George William Curtis, Washington Irving, and Edward Everett Hale, ed. by Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern essays / (New York : Macmillan, 1920, c1915), ed. by John Milton Berdan, Hewette Elwell Joyce, and John Richie Schultz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The friendly road : new adventures in contentment / (New York : Grosset & Dunlap, c1913), by David Grayson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Backlog studies / (Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1886, c1885), by Charles Dudley Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Random reflections / (Cody, Wyo. : Forget-me-not Press, 1907), by J. L. Powers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prosistas americanos : trozos escojidos de literatura : coleccionados i extractados de autores mejicanos, uruguayos, bolivianos, ecuatorianos, cubanos, venezolanos, peruanos, chilenos, arjentinos, colombianos, americanos / (París : Tip. Lahure, 1875), by José Domingo Cortés (page images at HathiTrust)
• Here then is that helpful as well as ennobling discourse entitled the essay on friendship / (East Aurora, N.Y. : Roycrofters, MCMIII (1903)), by Henry David Thoreau, Samuel Warner, and Roycroft Shop. prt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The optimist: a series of essays. (New York, G.P. Putnam, 1852), by Henry T. Tuckerman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reveries of a bachelor. Or, A book of the heart. (New York, C. Scribner and Co., 1869), by Donald Grant Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autocrat of the breakfast-table; every man his own Boswell, (London, G. Routledge and Sons, Ltd., [1882]), by Oliver Wendell Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Birds and poets : with other papers / (Edinburgh : David Douglas, 1887), by John Burroughs, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Walt Whitman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Staats- und Lebenskunst; aus seinen Reden und Botschaften ausgewählt, (Berlin, K. Curtius, [pref. 1910]), by Theodore Roosevelt and Max Kullnick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent. [pseud.] ... In two volumes. (Paris, Baudry, 1831-), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Scraps and bits, (New York, R. F. Fenno & company, [c1916]), by Louis J. Rosenberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A bundle of papers, (New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1881), by Albert Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Salmagundi; or, The whimwhams and opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, esq., and others. (Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1872), by Washington Irving, Evert A. Duyckinck, James Kirke Paulding, and William Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• Types of the essay / (New York : C. Scribner's Sons, [c1921]), by Benjamin A. Heydrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gentle art of making enemies as pleasingly exemplified in many instances, wherein the serious ones of this earth, carefully exasperated, have been prettily spurred on to unseemliness and indiscretion, while overcome by an undue sense of right. (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904), by James McNeill Whistler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poet at the breakfast-table / (London : J.M. Dent ; Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin, 1902), by Oliver Wendell Holmes, illust. by H. M. Brock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The prince's dream, and other fragments / (Cedar Rapids, Iowa : Torch Press, 1908), by O. J. Laylander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Esquisses morales et littéraires; ou, Observations sur les moeurs, les usages, et la littérature des Anglois et des Américains. (Paris, C. Le Tellier fils, 1827), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• The choice works of the Rt. Rev. John England, Bishop of Charleston, S.C. : with memoir, memorials, notes, and full index / (New York : P.J. Kenedy, 1900), by John England and Hugh P. McElrone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contributions to v. 1 of the Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. (New-Haven, O. Steele & Co., 1810), by Noah Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Skirmishes and sketches. (Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1866), by Mary Abigail Dodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Country living and country thinking, (Boston, Ticknor, 1864), by Gail Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Power, wealth, illusions / (Boston : J.R. Osgood, c1860, t.p. 1875), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mountaineer. (Staunton, Va., Printed by I. Collet, 1823), by Conrad Speece and Va.) Republican Farmer (Staunton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The savage / (Baltimore : Published by Edward J. Coale, 1813), by 1782-1833? Piomingo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shanty papers ... (Westport Point, Massachusetts, 1916), by Edward Yoemans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures in friendship, (New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1910), by Ray Stannard Baker, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caseine : being rural meditations / (Cincinnati : Published for the author by John P. Walsh, 1869), by Joseph Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essais de morale et d'économie politique de Benjamin Franklin, (Paris, L. Hachette et cie, 1867), by Benjamin Franklin and Edouard Laboulaye (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pioneer preacher; or, Rifle, axe, and saddle-bags, and other lectures, (New York, Derby & Jackson, 1859), by William Henry Milburn and J. McClintock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin : consisting of essays, humourous, moral, and literary : with his life / (Peekskill, N.Y. : S. Marrks, 1834), by Benjamin Franklin and Henry Stueber (page images at HathiTrust)
• The weaver and the way of life, ([London, A.L. Humphreys, 1909]), by John Wesley DeKay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays and letters; moral and philosophical; commercial and political. (New York, R.& W.A. Bartow & Co., 1821), by Benjamin Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A fasciculus, (Pittsburgh, Bakewell & Marthens, printers, 1868), by Adolphus Frederick Marthens (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Sociological and other essays; a collection of forty-eight folders. (Trenton, N.J., 1911-22), by Ralph Van Kirk Von Brandt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old bachelor. (Baltimore, F. Lucas, jun., [18--?]), by William Wirt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The philosophy of Elbert Hubbard. ([East Aurora, N.Y.] The Roycrofters [c1916]), by Elbert Hubbard and John Thomas Hoyle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The professor at the breakfast-table / (Boston : Houghton-Mifflin, 1909, c1891), by Oliver Wendell Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Works of Orville Dewey. ([New York, C.S. Francis, 1868]), by Orville Dewey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays, English and American, with introductions and notes ... (New York, P.F. Collier & son company, [1917]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Atlantic classics, first series. (Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press, [c1918]), by Atlantic Monthly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Work and play. (New York : Charles Scribner's, 1903), by Horace Bushnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• As it seems to me; being some Philistine essays concerning several things, (East Aurora, N.Y., Roycroft Shop, 1898), by Elbert Hubbard and Roycroft Shop (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American literary criticism/ (New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co., 1904), by William Morton Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The essay in American literature. (New York, N.Y., The Faculty of the Graduate School New York University, 1914), by Adaline May Conway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical and critical miscellanies (Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1903), by William Hickling Prescott and John Foster Kirk (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poet at the breakfast-table : he talks with his fellow-boarders and the reader / (Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1894, c1891), by Oliver Wendell Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miscellanea: comprising reviews, lectures, and essays, on historical, theological, and miscellaneous subjects. (Baltimore, J. Murphy Co., [cop. 1894]), by M. J. Spalding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve outputs selected from among lectures and articles put out from 1879 to summer tide of 1907. (Brookline, Mass., 1907), by Eveleen Laura Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• The circus, and other essays, (New York, L. J. Gomme, 1916), by Joyce Kilmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Miscellanies; embracing nature, addresses, and lectures. (Boston, J.R. Osgood and company, 1876), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Igerne and other writings / (New York : The De Vinne Press, 1897), by Arthur Handly Marks (page images at HathiTrust)
• What is good English? and other essays, (New York, Dodd, Mead and co., 1899), by Harry Thurston Peck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Backlog studies; (Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1887), by Charles Dudley Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contributions to thought. (Concord, Mass., Author's Private Print Off., [c1874]), by William W. Wheildon (page images at HathiTrust)
• My study fire, (New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1900), by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays and essay-writing : based on Atlantic monthly models / (Boston : Little, Brown, c1918), by William Maddux Tanner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays / (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1876), by Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Updike (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays : First series. (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1885), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sid says, (New York, The Century co., 1917), by John MacAlpine Siddall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The man of to-day, (Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company, 1911), by George Spring Merriam (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The long ago / (New York : B. Hopkins, c1916), by J. W. Wright and Press in the Forest (page images at HathiTrust)
• Composition and selected essays : for normal schools and colleges /, by James Cloyd Bowman and J. Lawrence Eason (page images at HathiTrust)
• A mingled yarn : sketches on various subjects / (New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1883), by Henry Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Echoes of destiny (Baltimore, Md., The Arnold Press, [cop. 1916]), by Clarence Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern problems and their solutions; a study for all classes, in essays and in prose-poems, ([New York, New York Commercial, 1916]), by Robert Lazarus Ziv (page images at HathiTrust)
• Testament of vision. (Grand Rapids, Eerdman's, [1958]), by Henry Zylstra (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays and essay-writing, based on Atlantic monthly models, (Boston The Atlantic Monthly Company, [c1917]), by William M. Tanner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays, English and American, (Chicago, New York, Scott, Foresman, [c1918]), by Raymond Macdonald Alden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Adventures in common sense / (New York : Wm. H. Wise, c1920), by Frank Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays, English and American / (New York : Collier, [c1910]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Facts and fictions of life / (Chicago : Kerr, 1893), by Helen H. Gardener and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Points of view. (Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1893), by Agnes Repplier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Youth and the New World, essays from the Atlantic monthly, (Boston, The Atlantic Monthly Press, [c1921]), by Ralph Philip Boas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evenings in the library: bits of gossip about books and those who write them. (St. John, N.B., R.A.H. Morrow, 1878), by George Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• My study fire. (New York, Dodd, 1908), by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays and addresses. ([Boston, Marvin & Son, n.d.]), by George Morgan Browne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stray reveries, (New York, Chicago [etc.] F.H. Revell company, [1897]), by A. G. Vermilye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nineteenth century questions, (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1898), by James Freeman Clarke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some ancient melodies, and other experiments. (Cincinnati, R. Clarke, 1882), by N. K. Royse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Equilibrium; or, Meetings of the Sphinx Club. ([Providence, R.I.] The Author, 1906), by Charles F. Farrar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the writings of Mrs. Sarah Hall, author of Conversations on the Bible, (Philadelphia, H. Hall, 1833), by Sarah Hall and Harrison Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern essays, (New York, The Macmillan Company, 1925, [c1915]), by John Milton Berdan and Hewette Elwell Joyce (page images at HathiTrust)
• In maiden meditation; a mosaic, ([n.p.] Privately printed, 1893), by Eva Whitthorn Trezevant, Asociación de Escritores Venezolanos, and Europäische Verlagsanstalt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays, (Halle a. Saale, Paalzow & Lehmann, [1894]), by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thora. trl Weigand, and Karl Federn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Repräsentanten des Menschengeschlechts; (Leipzig, P. Reclam jun., 1895), by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oskar. trl Daehnert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prejudices: second series /, by H. L. Mencken (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Emerson; (México, Secretaría de educación pública, 1943), by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Larocque Tinker, and Mexico. Secretaría de Educación Pública (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Crayon papers. (New York, T.Y. Crowell & Co., [n.d.]), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Contemporary attitudes; essays in many fields of thought, (Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company, [c1929]), by Kendall B. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays and essay-writing, based on Atlantic monthly models, (Boston, The Atlantic monthly press, [c1918]), by Atlantic monthly, ed. by William Maddux Tanner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays by present-day writers, (New York, The Macmillan Company, 1924), by Raymond Woodbury Pence (page images at HathiTrust)
• Representative English essays, (New York, London, Harper & Brother, 1923), by Warner Taylor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays and essay-writing, based on Atlantic monthly models, (Boston, Little, Brown and co., 1925), by Atlantic monthly, ed. by William Maddux Tanner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forum papers, first series; (New York, Duffield and company, The Forum printing company, 1924), by Benjamin Alexander Heydrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays toward truth; studies in orientation, (New York, H. Holt and Company, [c1924]), by Kenneth Allan Robinson, James Dow McCallum, and William Benfield Pressey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays from "The Critic" (Boston, J. R. Osgood and company, 1882), by Edmund Clarence Stedman and John Burroughs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures in essay reading; (New York, Harcourt, Brace and company, [c1923]), by University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on current themes, (Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and company, [c1923]), by C. Alphonso Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Present-day essays, (New York, H. Holt and company, [1923]), by Edwin Van Berghen Knickerbocker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays for college English, (Boston, New York [etc.] : D. C. Heath & co., [c1915]), by James Cloyd Bowman, Bruce Weirick, LeRoy Bethuel Greenfield, and Louis I. Bredvold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays from The sketch book / (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1891), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures in essay reading ; essays selected by the Department of rhetoric and journalism of the University of Michigan. (New York : Harcourt, Brace and company, 1924), by University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays, English and American / (New York : P.F. Collier & Son Corp., c1938), by James Russell Lowell, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, William Ellery Channing, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edward Augustus Freeman, Thomas Henry Huxley, Walter Bagehot, John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, John Henry Newman, and William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays from the Chap-book. Being a miscellany of curious and interesting tales, histories, &c; (Chicago, H. S. Stone & Company, 1896) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prejudices: first series, (New York, Knopf, [c1919]), by H. L. Mencken (page images at HathiTrust)
• Society and solitude. Twelve chapters. (London, S. Low, Son & Marston, 1870), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The professor at the breakfast table, with, The story of Iris. (Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1890), by Oliver Wendell Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern essays (New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1924), by Christopher Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays. Second series. (New York, T.Y. Crowell & Co., [189-?]), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Brann the iconoclast : a collection of the writings of W.C. Brann in two volumes, with biography / (Waco, Tex. : Herz Bros., c1905), by William Cowper Brann and J. D. Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
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• The gentle art of making enemies, as pleasingly exemplified in many instances, wherein the serious ones of this earth, carefully exasperated, have been prettily spurred on to unseemliness and indiscretion, while overcome by an undue sense of right... (London, W. Heinemann, 1892), by James McNeill Whistler (page images at HathiTrust)
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