Letter to a Lady of a Certain Age on the Present State of the Opera (Lettre à une dame d’un certain âge, sur l’état présent de l’opéra) – Baron d’Holbach

Lou Andreas-Salomé recounts her 1900 journey through Russia with Rainer Maria Rilke, tracing his spiritual response to its…

Carl Schmitt's essayistic study reads Theodor Däubler's vast epic Nordlicht as a metaphysical and mythic poem of elemental…

Carl Schmitt argues that Shakespeare's Hamlet is exceptional because real contemporary history irrupts into the play, breaking its…

Lassalle's cultural-historical study situates Lessing within the German Enlightenment and the emancipation of the middle-class mind.

A ceremonial record of the French Academy's 1749 reception of the Bishop of Rennes, including his address and…

A French verse libretto for Lully's tragédie en musique, retelling the myth of Bellerophon across a prologue and…

A collection of fictional gallant letters exploring courtship, wit, jealousy, and the social art of love among cultivated…

Fontenelle argues that the pagan oracles were not supernatural revelations but human impostures engineered by priests and statesmen.

A grieving husband's warm, elegiac tribute to the actress Ida Roland, portraying her as a radiant, contradictory, and…

Coudenhove-Kalergi's 1922 essay traces Europe's conflicts to two opposed human types, the rustic and the urban, and the…

Coudenhove-Kalergi traces the Western gentleman ideal from antiquity, Christianity, and chivalry, arguing it is the moral foundation of…

A practical 1825 London household manual by two career servants detailing the duties, wages, and conduct of every…