Thrift by Charles Kingsley
Story type: EssayA LECTURE DELIVERED AT WINCHESTER, MARCH 17, 1869.Ladies,–I have chosen for the title of this lecture a practical and prosaic word, b …
Essay
An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author’s own argument — but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have traditionally been sub-classified as formal and informal.
Vesalius The Anatomist by Charles Kingsley
Story type: EssayI cannot begin a sketch of the life of this great man better than by trying to describe a scene so picturesque, so tragic in the eyes …
The Science Of Health by Charles Kingsley
Story type: EssayWhether the British race is improving or degenerating? What, if it seem probably degenerating, are the causes of so great an evil? Ho …
The Air-Mothers by Charles Kingsley
Story type: Essay“Die Natur ist die Bewegung.”Who are these who follow us softly over the moor in the autumn eve? Their wings brush and rustle in the …
Nausicaa In London: Or, The Lower Education Of Woman by Charles Kingsley
Story type: EssayFresh from the Marbles of the British Museum, I went my way through London streets. My brain was still full of fair and grand forms; …
The Two Breaths by Charles Kingsley
Story type: EssayA LECTURE DELIVERED AT WINCHESTER, MAY 31, 1869.Ladies,–I have been honoured by a second invitation to address you here, from the lad …