The Elizabethan sage and scholar offers educated opinions on life, death, and everything in between — truth, adversity, love, superstition, health, ambition, fame, and many other topics. Wise, witty, and immensely readable, these short but thought-provoking essays constitute an excellent combination of style and substance. Reprint of the Dent, London, 1906 edition.
Great English Essays: From Bacon to Chesterton by Bob Blaisdell Essays spanning 4 centuries reflect the wit, wisdom, and common sense of a number of distinguished English writers. Includes works by Addison, Swift, Johnson, Goldsmith, Lamb, Woolf, Shaw, and others.
Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Six essays and one address outline Emerson's moral idealism and hint at later scepticism. In addition to title essay, this volume includes "History," "Friendship," "The Over-Soul," "The Poet" and "Experience," plus the Harvard Divinity School Address.
