David J. Brewer, et al., eds. The World’s Best Essays.
1900.
Jameson to
Overbury
Anna Brownell Jameson.
1794–1860.
Biography and Characterization
Ophelia, Poor Ophelia
John Jay.
1745–1829.
Biography and Characterization
Concerning Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence
Jean Paul (J. P. F. Richter).
1763–1825.
Biography and Characterization
Love and Marriage
His View of Goethe
A Dream upon the Universe
Analects
Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb.
1841–1905.
Biography and Characterization
Homer and the Epic
Richard Jefferies.
1848–1887.
Biography and Characterization
A Roman Brook
Thomas Jefferson.
1743–1826.
Biography and Characterization
Truth and Toleration against Error
Francis Jeffrey.
1773–1850.
Biography and Characterization
Watt and the Work of Steam
On Good and Bad Taste
Jerome K. Jerome.
1859–1927.
Biography and Characterization
On Getting On in the World
Douglas William Jerrold.
1803–1857.
Biography and Characterization
Barbarism in Birdcage Walk
Samuel Johnson.
1709–1784.
Biography and Characterization
Omar, the Son of Hassan
Dialogue in a Vulture’s Nest
On the Advantages of Living in a Garret
Some of Shakespeare’s Faults
Parallel between Pope and Dryden
Ben Jonson.
1572–1637.
Biography and Characterization
On Shakespeare—On the Difference of Wits
On Malignancy in Studies
Of Good and Evil
Junius
Biography and Characterization
To the Duke of Grafton
Immanuel Kant.
1724–1804.
Biography and Characterization
The Canon of Pure Reason
Thomas Keightley.
1789–1872.
Biography and Characterization
On Middle-Age Romance
Arabian Romance
How to Read Old-English Poetry
Charles Kingsley.
1819–1875.
Biography and Characterization
A Charm of Birds
Peter Kropotkin.
1842–1921.
Biography and Characterization
The Course of Civilization
Jean de La Bruyère.
1645–1696.
Biography and Characterization
On the Character of Mankind
On Human Nature in Womankind
Charles Lamb.
1775–1834.
Biography and Characterization
A Complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig
New Year’s Eve
Modern Gallantry
Popular Fallacies
Walter Savage Landor.
1775–1864.
Biography and Characterization
Addison Visits Steele
The Pangs of Approaching the Gods
Andrew Lang.
1844–1912.
Biography and Characterization
The Beresford Ghost Story
Celebrated Literary Forgeries
Sidney Lanier.
1842–1881.
Biography and Characterization
On the Ocklawaha in May
Johann Caspar Lavater.
1741–1801.
Biography and Characterization
On Reading Character
William Edward Hartpole Lecky.
1838–1903.
Biography and Characterization
Montaigne and Middle-Age Superstition
Sex and Moral Character
Hugh Swinton Legaré.
1797–1843.
Biography and Characterization
Liberty and Greatness
A Miraculous People
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz.
1646–1716.
Biography and Characterization
On the Ultimate Origin of Things
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
1729–1781.
Biography and Characterization
“
Laocoon”—Art’s Highest Law
Poetry and Painting Compared
The Education of the Human Race
George Henry Lewes.
1817–1878.
Biography and Characterization
Rousseau, Robespierre, and the French Revolution
Justus von Liebig.
1803–1873.
Biography and Characterization
Goldmakers and the Philosopher’s Stone
Man as a Condensed Gas
John Lingard.
1771–1851.
Biography and Characterization
Cromwell’s Government by the “Mailed Hand
”
Livy.
59 B.C.–17 A.D.
Biography and Characterization
On the Making of History
John Locke.
1632–1704.
Biography and Characterization
“
Of Civil Government”—Its Purposes
Of Tyranny
Of the Conduct of the Understanding
Concerning Toleration and Politics in the Churches
Of Ideas in General, and Their Original
John Gibson Lockhart.
1794–1854.
Biography and Characterization
The Character of Sir Walter Scott
Burns and the Pundits of Edinburgh
Cesare Lombroso.
1835–1909.
Biography and Characterization
Eccentricities of Famous Men
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
1807–1882.
Biography and Characterization
Anglo-Saxon Language and Poetry
A Walk in Père Lachaise
When the Swallows Come
The First Bloom of Summer
Men of Books
Leaders of Humanity
The Loom of Life
The Modern Romans
Cassius Longinus.
c.
213–273.
Biography and Characterization
From “On the Sublime
”
Sublimity in the Great Poets
Great Masters of Eloquence
Liberty and Greatness
James Russell Lowell.
1819–1891.
Biography and Characterization
The Pious Editor’s Creed
On Paradisaical Fashions for Women
Some Advantages of Poverty
Lamb’s Good Nature
Prophets of the New Dispensation
Loving and Singing
Poetry and Religion
Sir John Lubbock.
1834–1913.
Biography and Characterization
A Song of Books
The Happiness of Duty
Lucian.
c.
125–after 180.
Biography and Characterization
That Bibliomaniacs Should Read Their Own Books
Martin Luther.
1483–1546.
Biography and Characterization
That Unnecessary Ignorance Is Criminal
Sir Charles Lyell.
1797–1875.
Biography and Characterization
The Great Earthquake of Lisbon
John Lyly.
1555?–1606.
Biography and Characterization
A Cooling Card for All Fond Lovers
How the Life of a Young Man Should Be Led
Justin McCarthy.
1830–1912.
Biography and Characterization
The Last of the Napoleons
Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay.
1800–1859.
Biography and Characterization
John Bunyan and the “Pilgrim’s Progress
”
The Impeachment of Warren Hastings
Samuel Johnson in Grub Street
Addison and His Friends
Milton and Dante
The Genius of Mirabeau
History as an Evolution
Montgomery’s Satan
On Gladstone’s “Church and State
”
Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli.
1469–1527.
Biography and Characterization
Whether Princes Ought to Be Faithful to Their Engagements
How Far Fortune Influences the Things of This World, and How Far She May Be Resisted
Henry Mackenzie.
1745–1831.
Biography and Characterization
An Old Countryhouse and an Old Lady
Sir James Mackintosh.
1765–1832.
Biography and Characterization
On the Genius of Bacon
James Madison.
1751–1836.
Biography and Characterization
General View of the Powers Proposed to Be Vested in the Union
Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout).
1804–1866.
Biography and Characterization
The Rogueries of Tom Moore
Sir Henry Sumner Maine.
1822–1888.
Biography and Characterization
The Law of Nations
Paul Henri Mallet.
1730–1807.
Biography and Characterization
Civilization and the Earliest Literature
Thomas Robert Malthus.
1766–1834.
Biography and Characterization
Ratios of the Increase of Population and Food
Sir John Mandeville.
Fourteenth Century.
Biography and Characterization
A Mohammedan on Christian Vices
The Devil’s Head in the Valley Perilous
Marcus Aurelius.
121–180.
Biography and Characterization
Meditations on the Highest Usefulness
Harriet Martineau.
1802–1876.
Biography and Characterization
Walter Savage Landor
Karl Marx.
1818–1883.
Biography and Characterization
The Buying and Selling of Labor-Power
Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco.
1852–1931.
Biography and Characterization
Horace’s Sabine Farm
Frederick Denison Maurice.
1805–1872.
Biography and Characterization
The Friendship of Books
Matthew Fontaine Maury.
1806–1873.
Biography and Characterization
The Sea and Its Sublime Laws
Giuseppe Mazzini.
1805–1872.
Biography and Characterization
On the French Revolution
Mencius.
d.
289 B.C.
Biography and Characterization
Universal Love
The Most Difficult Thing in the World
Moses Mendelssohn.
1729–1786.
Biography and Characterization
The Historical Attitude of Judaism
Shakespeare as a Master of the Sublime
Jules Michelet.
1798–1874.
Biography and Characterization
The Death of Jeanne D’Arc
John Stuart Mill.
1806–1873.
Biography and Characterization
From “On Liberty
”
John Milton.
1608–1674.
Biography and Characterization
The Strongest Thing in the World
On His Reading in Youth
On Giving Despots a Fair Trial
Ragged Notions and Babblements in Education
Donald Grant Mitchell (Ik Marvel).
1822–1908.
Biography and Characterization
Spring
A Reverie of Home
Mary Russell Mitford.
1787–1855.
Biography and Characterization
The Talking Lady
St. George Jackson Mivart.
1827–1900.
Biography and Characterization
Happiness in Hell
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
1689–1762.
Biography and Characterization
In Praise of Oriental Life
On Matrimonial Happiness
On Training Young Girls
Michel de Montaigne.
1533–1592.
Biography and Characterization
Of Books
That Men Are Not to Judge of Our Happiness till after Death
Of Liberty of Conscience
That We Taste Nothing Pure
Of Thumbs and Poltroons
Of the Vanity of Words
That the Intention Is Judge of Our Actions
Of Idleness
Of “Lyars
”
Of Quick or Slow Speech
That the Soul Discharges Her Passions upon False Objects Where the True Are Wanting
Of the Inequality amongst Us
Of Glory and the Love of Praise
Of Presumption and Montaigne’s Own Modesty
Of Friendship and Love
Of Prayers and the Justice of God
Montesquieu.
1689–1755.
Biography and Characterization
Of the Liberties and Privileges of European Women
Relation of Laws to Different Beings
Education in a Republican Government
Conquests Made by a Republic
Of Public Debts
A Paradox of Mr. Bayle
Sumptuary Laws in a Democracy
Particular Cause of the Corruption of the People
Hannah More.
1745–1833.
Biography and Characterization
“
Moriana
”
Sir Thomas More.
1478–1535.
Biography and Characterization
Of Their Trades and Manner of Life in Utopia
John Morley.
1838–1923.
Biography and Characterization
George Eliot and Her Times
William Morris.
1834–1896.
Biography and Characterization
The Beauty of Life
John Lothrop Motley.
1814–1877.
Biography and Characterization
William the Silent
Louise Chandler Moulton.
1835–1908.
Biography and Characterization
Young Beaux and Old Bachelors
Motives for Marriage
Engagements
Friedrich Max Müller.
1823–1900.
Biography and Characterization
Language Science and History
Women in Mohammed’s Paradise
John Henry Newman.
1801–1890.
Biography and Characterization
Inspiration and Higher Criticism
Barthold Georg Niebuhr.
1776–1831.
Biography and Characterization
The Importance of Roman History
Niẓāmī Ganjavī.
1140/41–1202/03.
Biography and Characterization
On Truth
On the Pride of Wealth
Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg).
1772–1801.
Biography and Characterization
The Holy Mystery of Night
Sleep
Eternity
The Transports of Death
Star Dust
Max O’Rell (Paul Blouet).
1848–1903.
Biography and Characterization
John Bull and His Moral Motives
Degradation in London
Hans Christian Örsted.
1777–1851.
Biography and Characterization
Are Men Growing Better
?
Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée).
1839–1908.
Biography and Characterization
The Ugliness of Modern Life
The Quality of Mercy
Sir Thomas Overbury.
1581–1613.
Biography and Characterization
A Good Wife
A Usurer
An Ingrosser of Corn
The Tinker
The Fair and Happy Milkmaid
A Franklin
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