Essays & Short Works
Librivox Multilingual Short Works Collection 001
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
This is a collection of short pieces, fiction and non-fiction, chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers. (Summary by Leni)
Coffee Break Collection 028 - Hobbies
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Various
This is the 28th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…
The Spirit of Place and Other Essays
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Alice Meynell
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…
Milton
Read by Pamela Nagami
Thomas Babington Macaulay
John Milton (1608-1674) was an English poet, classicist, and fearless advocate for civil liberty, who served the Commonwealth of England und…
Fabian Essays in Socialism
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George Bernard Shaw
The Fabian Society is a British institution, which, though radical, advocated social reform through legislative rather than revolutionary me…
It Might Have Happened to You
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Coningsby Dawson
This is a frank eyewitness description of the suffering, starvation in particular, that was widely experienced in Central and Eastern Europe…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 076
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Various
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Our constitution is color-blind... the law regards man as man and takes no accoun…
A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman from the South
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Anna J. Cooper
Published in 1892, this is the author's first work. Its eight essays are considered a seminal text of Black feminism. Its theme is that thro…
Catalogs to Sleep By
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Various
Excerpts from vintage catalogs, read in a soft, soothing voice and meant to lull you to sleep. Drift off to dreamland with details of such t…
Dispatches from the Ruhr
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Ernest Hemingway
Before finding celebrity as an author, including his 1954 Nobel Prize, Ernest M. Hemingway honed his craft as a journeyman reporter. In the …
Live, From Milwaukee, It's Tuesday Night
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Billie Pagliolo-Olmon
"Live, From Milwaukee, It's Tuesday Night," is an eclectic collection of essays and short stories, some of them humorous, some of…
LibriVox 9th Anniversary Collection
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Various
This year is the 9th anniversary of our illustrious community, and readers have found and recorded 99 items with a connection with the numbe…
The Mob Violence and the American Negro: My Experience in the Sunny South
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Velley Lester
According to the author of the Preface, "Mr. Lester is also zealous to bring about a better relation and a better understanding between…
Theological Essays
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Charles Bradlaugh
Charles Bradlaugh was an English political activist and atheist who founded the National Secular Society in 1866. In the 23 "Theologica…
If I May (Version 2)
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A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne, best known as the creator of Winnie the Pooh, was a prolific author of books, plays, essays and articles. He also spent a numbe…
The Early Diary of Frances Burney, Vol. 1
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Frances Burney and Annie Raine Ellis
Vol. 1 of Diaries and letters of the young Fanny Burney. The diaries give a lively and accurate account of her experiences in the literary a…
Librivox Multilingual Short Works Collection 005
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Various
This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages. All chosen and recorded by L…
From the Easy Chair Vol. 1
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George William Curtis
George William Curtis was a writer and public speaker. He was editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the American Republican p…
Journeys to Bagdad
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Charles S. Brooks
In these 10 short and witty essays, author Charles S. Brooks (1878-1934) muses on various topics, as wide-ranging as Shakespeare, travelling…