Essays & Short Works

How To Tell A Story, and Other Essays

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.7
The complete collection of works using this title. Other versions, including the Project Gutenberg version, have been radically shortened. M…

France At War

by Rudyard Kipling Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019) 4.3
In 1915, as the "Great War" (World War 1) entered its second year Rudyard Kipling made a journalistic tour of the front, visiting …

Mozart

by Friedrich Kerst Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His name is one of the most recognizable names in history and one of the most enduring of composers. At age 5, this…

Lessons From A Geek Fu Master

by Mur Lafferty Read by Mur Lafferty 4.6
Lessons from the Geek Fu Master is a collections of essays by Mur Lafferty, producer and host of the podcast, Geek Fu Action Grip. Her essay…

Summer in a Garden

by Charles Dudley Warner Read by Mark Penfold 4.8
This is Warner's contemplative and humorous account of the wondrous and mysterious workings of a garden he tended for 19 weeks. After this i…

Cartas de Inglaterra

by José Maria de Eça de Queirós and José Maria De Eça De Queirós Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Eça de Queirós (1845-1900), um dos mais importantes escritores portugueses da história, destacou-se pelos romances Os M…

The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

by Robert G. Ingersoll Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, one of the greatest orators of the mid-19th century, was a highly sought after lecturer/toastmaster who sold out e…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…

Of the Injustice of Counterfeiting Books

by Immanuel Kant Read by D.E. Wittkower 4.2
This essay of Kant’s on copyright argues that the unlicensed copying of books cannot possibly be permissible, due to the fact that it assume…

The Common Reader

by Virginia Woolf Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, some of which originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement or the Dial, and others were or…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collectio…

The Shirley Letters from California Mines

by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe Read by rachelellen 4.7
Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe moved to California from Massachusetts during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800’s. During her travels, Louise w…

In Defense of Harriet Shelley

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.6
Mark Twain pulls no punches while exposing the "real" Percy Shelley in this scathing condemnation of Edward Dowden's "Life of…

Oxford Book of American Essays

by Various Read by James E. Carson 4.7
Collection of 32 essays by American authors ranging from Benjamin Franklin to Emerson to Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Roosevelt. On su…

My First Book

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which…

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

by John Donne Read by David Wales 4.9
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English theologian and writer John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in Lond…

Idle Ideas

by Jerome K. Jerome Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Back in 1905 Jerome K. Jerome shared his thoughts on a variety of subjects, including "Should Women Be Beautiful?", "Should S…

Of All Things

by Robert C. Benchley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Of All Things is a witty collection of essays by Robert C. Benchley that takes a humorous look at the absurdities of everyday life. With a k…

Chocolate

by Antonio Colmenero De Ledesma Read by LibriVox Volunteers 2
In this early treatise, Antonio Colmenero De Ledesma extols the virtues of chocolate, presenting it as a miraculous substance with a wide ar…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa

by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Eine Bagatelle" und "Die letzte Mohikanerin"…

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