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Essays
An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition of an essay is vague, overlapping with those of an article and a short story. Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse have been dubbed essays (e.g. Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism and An Essay on Man). While brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like Joh
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Black Women: Biography, Autobiography, Personal Essays, and Memoir (nonfiction)
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― On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
― On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
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― Applied Daimonology. Principles and essays.
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