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Biographies

Essays

Classic Essays

Essays in Idleness
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by Yoshida Kenko

The Anatomy of Melancholy
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by Robert Burton

The Complete Essays
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by Mark Twain

The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
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by Charles Baudelaire

In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays
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by G.K. Chesterton
Further Classic Essays
Essays ( ) by Francis Bacon
The Complete Essays ( ) by Michel de Montaigne
Selected Essays ( ) by Samuel Johnson
A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays ( ) by Charles Lamb
Walden ( ) by Henry David Thoreau
The Essential Writings ( ) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose ( ) by Oscar Wilde
Essays ( ) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Modern and Contemporary Essays (English Language)

A Collection of Essays
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by George Orwell

Geography of the Imagination
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by Guy Davenport

We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live
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by Joan Didion

The Portable Dorothy Parker
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by Dorothy Parker

An Elemental Thing
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by Eliot Weinberger
Further Modern and Contemporary Essays (English Language)
Early and Later Essays ( ) by W.B. Yeats
Selected Essays ( ) by Virginia Woolf
Selected Essays ( ) by T.S. Eliot
Selected Essays ( ) by D.H. Lawrence
Kokoro ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn
Essays ( ) by E.B. White
Against Interpretation and Other Essays ( ) by Susan Sontag
Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry ( ) by John Simon
Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience ( ) by Aldous Huxley
Mystery and Manners ( ) by Flannery O'Connor
Literary Essays ( ) by Ezra Pound
In Favor of the Sensitive Man, and Other Essays ( ) by Anais Nin
Portraits and Observations: The Essays ( ) by Truman Capote
The Best of Myles ( ) by Flann O'Brien
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Philosophy

Travel Literature

General Travels

The Travels
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by Ibn Battutah

The Journals
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of Captain James Cook

Collected Travel Writing
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by Evelyn Waugh

Travels With Herodotus
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by Ryszard Kapuscinsk

The Way of the World
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by Nicolas Bouvier
More General Travels
From the Meadows of Gold ( ) by Mas'udi
Voyages and Discoveries ( ) by Richard Hakluyt
South: The Endurance Expedition ( ) by Ernest Shackleton
The Last Grain Race ( ) by Eric Newby
Pecked to Death by Ducks ( ) by Tim Cahill
Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It ( ) by Geoff Dyer
Travels in Europe

Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness
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by Ibn Fadlan

The Innocents Abroad
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by Mark Twain

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
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by Rebecca West

A Time of Gifts
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by Patrick Leigh Fermor

The Rings of Saturn
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by W.G. Sebald
More Travels in Europe
Guide to Greece ( ) Pausanias
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