Essays Essays A Defence of Common Sense is an essay by the philosopher G. E. Moore. The essay attempts to refute skepticism by arguing that at least some of our beliefs about the world are absolutely certain. Moore argues that these beliefs are common sense. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Defence of Common Sense"
A Dozen Good Reasons to Get US Out! of the United Nations is a classic John Birch Society text advocating American withdrawal from the United Nations. It consists of some of the most commonly-cited arguments for U.S. withdrawal. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Dozen Good Reasons to Get US Out! of the United Nations"
A Hanging is an essay written by George Orwell. In it, he recounts an episode from his time as a police officer in Burma. He observes a criminal being executed. He is unmoved by what he sees, until he notices the condemned man side step to avoid a puddle as he is frog-marched to the gallows. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Hanging"
A Lecture on Modern Poetry was a paper by T. E. Hulme which was read to the Poets' Club around the end of 1908. It is a concise statement of Hulme's influential advocacy of free verse. The lecture was not published during Hulme's lifetime. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Lecture on Modern Poetry"
A Man Without a Country is a collection of essays published in 2005 by the author Kurt Vonnegut. The extremely short essays that this book comprises deal with topics ranging from the importance of humor, to problems with modern technology, to Vonnegut's opinions on the differnces between men and women. Most prevalent in the text, however, are those essays which elucidate Vonnegut's opinions on politics, and the issues in modern American society. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Man Without a Country"
A Message to Garcia is an inspirational essay written by Elbert Hubbard. It was originally published as a filler without a title in the March, 1899 issue of the Philistine magazine which he edited, but was quickly reprinted as a pamphlet and a book. It was wildly popular, translated into 37 languages, and became a well-known allusion in American popular and business culture until the middle of the twentieth century. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Message to Garcia"
A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a satirical pamphlet written by Jonathan Swift in 1729. The work has now become one of the epitomes of satire, and the modern phrase "A modest proposal" derives from the work. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Modest Proposal"
A Nice Cup of Tea is an essay by British writer George Orwell, first published in the Evening Standard newspaper of January 12 1946. It is a lengthy, straight-faced discussion about the craft of making a cup of tea, including the line: "Here are my own eleven rules, every one of which I regard as golden." ...more on Wikipedia about "A Nice Cup of Tea"
A Plea for Captain John Brown is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. It was first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts on October 30, 1859, two weeks after John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and was repeated several times before Brown's execution on December 2, 1859. It was later published as a part of Echoes of Harper's Ferry in 1860. 1 ...more on Wikipedia about "A Plea for Captain John Brown"
A Reader's Manifesto is an article, written by B. R. Myers, from the July/ August 2001 issue of The Atlantic Monthly magazine. The article, which saw no end of responses from admirers and critics, is, as Myers had described it, "a light-hearted polemic" about modern literature. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Reader's Manifesto"
A Small Place is an essay published in 1988 by Jamaica Kincaid. The work is a savage indictment of the Antiguan government, tourist industry and British colonial legacy. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Small Place"
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again is the title essay of a collection of non-fiction writing by David Foster Wallace. The collection addresses a number of disparate topics: the title refers to a one week trip aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again"
A Walk to Wachusett is an essay penned by Henry David Thoreau about a journey he took with companion, Richard Fuller, from Concord, Massachusetts to the summit of Mount Wachusett located in Princeton, Massachusetts. Their journey, by foot, began on July 19, 1842. Traveling through Acton, Stow, Bolton, Lancaster and Sterling, they reached West Sterling by sunset and lodged at a local inn. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Walk to Wachusett"
An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798. The author was soon identified as the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus. ...more on Wikipedia about "An Essay on the Principle of Population" Inform your friends about www.shortopedia.com
Anti-Machiavel is an 18th century essay by Frederick the Great, King of Prussia and patron of Voltaire, rebutting The Prince, the 16th century book by Niccolò Machiavelli. It was first published in September 1740, a few months after Frederick became king. Of this work, Voltaire would slyly remark, "If Machiavelli were alive today and an adviser to a Prince, the first thing he would advise him to do would be to publically denounce Machiavelli". ...more on Wikipedia about "Anti-Machiavel"
Vannevar Bush's essay As We May Think, first published in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1945, argued that as humans turned from war, scientific efforts should shift from increasing physical abilities to making all previous collected human knowledge more accessible. ...more on Wikipedia about "As We May Think"
Christian Science by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) is a highly critical essay on the beliefs of Christian Scientists. ...more on Wikipedia about "Christian Science (book)"
Considerations on the Government of Poland — also simply The Government of Poland or, in the original French, Considérations sur le gouvernement de Pologne — is an essay by French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau concerning the design of a new constitution for the people of Poland (or more exactly, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth). It represents Rousseau's last venture into political theory. ...more on Wikipedia about "Considerations on the Government of Poland"
De vulgari eloquentia is the title of an important essay by Dante Alighieri, written in Latin and initially meant to consist in four books, but aborted after the second. It was probably written in the years that preceded Dante's exile, between 1303 and 1305. ...more on Wikipedia about "De vulgari eloquentia"
Some Notes on Rhythm in Verse by Donald Davie first appeared in Agenda Poetry, in the Autumn / Winter issue 1972–73, and was later collected in his book of essays and interviews, Trying To Explain. ...more on Wikipedia about "Donald Davie's Some Notes on Rhythm in Verse"
An essay is a short work that treats a topic from an author's personal point of view, often taking into account subjective experiences and personal reflections upon them. Essays are usually brief works in prose, but works in verse are sometimes dubbed essays (e.g. Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism (1711) and An Essay on Man (1733-1734). Many voluminous and famous works refer to themselves as essays (e.g. John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), Thomas Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)). ...more on Wikipedia about "Essay"
High Tide in Tucson is a book of twenty-five essays by author Barbara Kingsolver on issues around family, community and ecology. ...more on Wikipedia about "High Tide in Tucson"
'Humdrum and Harum-Scarum: A Lecture on Free Verse' is an essay by the poet Robert Bridges, first published in November 1922 in both the North American Review and the London Mercury. In it Bridges explains what he regards as the 'adverse conditions' that free verse imposes upon a poet: ...more on Wikipedia about "Humdrum and Harum-Scarum"
The Letter to The Grand Duchess Christina, written in 1615 by Galileo Galilei was an essay on the relation between the revelations of the Bible and the new discoveries then being made in science. ...more on Wikipedia about "Letter to Grand Duchess Christina"
A Litblog (alternate: lit-blog or literary blog) is a Weblog that focuses primarily on the topic of literature. There is a community of litblogs in the blogosphere whose authors cover a variety of subtopics within the realm of literary matters. Litbloggers write about the publishing industry, writing, current fiction, poetry, literary journals, reader's diaries, criticism and genres of literature, including science fiction and mystery. ...more on Wikipedia about "Litblog"
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