Free Go»
What is human nature? What can a single person know of himself, the world around him, or even of God? Since their publication in 1580, Montaigne's Essays have been a fixture in the field of philosophy ...
Rating:
Free Go»
Never-before-published essays by American legend Mark Twain.
Rating:
151 Best Movies You've Never Seen by Leonard Maltin
Free Go»
Leonard Maltin is famous for his voluminous annual, Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, the go-to reference book since its initial publication in 1969. But that book has 17,000 entries, so it isn't a place ...
Rating:
Someone Will Be With You Shortly
Free Go»
In Someone Will Be With You Shortly,Lisa Kogan grapples with issues big (her 7-year-old daughter, Julia, and the 8,000 miles that separate them from Julia’s father) and small (her recent apartment r ...
Rating:
Free Go»
HarperStudio has made four of the essays in Burn This Book available for free to DailyLit readers. The version on DailyLit does not include the entire book. To read the full book, you can click on the ...
Rating:
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Free Go»
Henry David Thoreau’s 1849 essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience is a groundbreaking work in the history of protest literature. Based on a series of lectures that he gave in Massachusetts, Civil D ...
Rating:
On the Decay of the Art of Lying
Free Go»
On the Decay of the Art of Lying is Mark Twain’s 1885 address to the Historical and Antiquarian Society of Hartford, Connecticut. In this witty piece of prose, Twain defends the rightful place of ly ...
Rating:
Free Go»
The Protestant Reformation was an historical event that dramatically changed Europe—and the world—forever. This essay is considered to be a major catalyst for that revolution. Folly it most certai ...
You can subscribe to an RSS feed to find out as new books are added in this category.
DailyLit: Great stories and knowledge in under 5 minutes a day.
Read books online: get short installments by daily email (or RSS feed).
