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Essay

Here are entered works on the essay as a literary form. Collections of essays are entered under Essays.

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• Essay -- Authorship
• Essay -- Periodicals

• Literary sketch
• Sketch, Literary

• An examination of the charges made against Unitarians and Unitarianism : and the improved version, by the Right Rev. Dr. Magee, Bishop of Raphoe, in his Discourses and dissertations on atonement and sacrifice : with some strictures on the statements of the Bishop of St. David's, Dr. Hales, Dean Graves ... : and on the system pursued by some recent editors of the Greek testament / (Bristol : Printed and sold by T. J. Manchee ... London; and by Parsons and Browne, Bristol, 1820), by Lant Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The essay. (London, M. Secker, [1914?]), by Orlo Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The essay. (Chicago, LaSalle Extension University, [c1910]), by Clark Sutherland Northup (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays and how to write them. (London, Ralph Holland & Co., 1910), by Avar William Holmes Forbes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notes on the personal essay in America, 1840-1860 / (1907), by Angie Ray Clark (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thomas Fuller and the essay / (1917), by Mildred Barnes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The essay / (New York : G. H. Doran, [1914?]), by Orlo Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines and summaries; a handbook for the analysis of expository essays, (New York, H. Holt and company, [c1915]), by Norman Foerster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Latitudes, (New York, B. W. Huebach, inc., 1924), by Edwin Muir (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual of essay-writing ... (London, A. and C. Black, 1899), by J. H. Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essay writing; a handbook for the use of teachers, (New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [c1928]), by Raphael Dorman O'Leary (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essay-writing; (New York, Longmans, Green & co.;, [1915]), by Guy Kendall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essay-writing for schools; a practical exposition of the principles of this form of composition, illustrated by models and by examples drawn from the English classics; and designed to meet the requirements of the public examinations. (London, A. Murray, 1903), by L. Cope Cornford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to write an essay,: with sample essays and subjects for essays, (London : G. Routledge & Sons, limited; New York, E.P. Dutton & co., 1920), by W. T. Webb (page images at HathiTrust)

• Writing for Success (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2011), by Scott McLean (PDF at saylor.org)

• Siglo XXI, Literatura y Cultura Españolas (in Spanish; 2003-) (partial serial archives)
• Artes del Ensayo (in Spanish; 2017-) (partial serial archives)

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