Essays & Short Works

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 019

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Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.

Girl Scout Collection

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These articles, pamphlets, and stories relating to the Girls Scouts of America touch on the history, activities, ideals, and traditions of t…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 037

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Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake,…

On Everything

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Hilaire Belloc


Hillaire Belloc of French by birth, British by naturalization was a diverse and prolific writer of the early 20th century. His writing runs…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 044

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Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include wives, widows, and women scorned--…

Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences

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H. G. Wells


Select Conversations with an Uncle, published in 1895, was H.G. Wells's first literary publication in book form. It consists of reports of t…

G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - November 1919 to April 1…

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G. K. Chesterton


A collection of the newspaper columns/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for "The New Witness", under the heading "At the Sign…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 012

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Diese Sammlung umfasst 10 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Mondschein" und "Der Krüppel" übe…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 052

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Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include Nature and Science--fall scenery,…

Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

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Francis P. Church


"Is There A Santa Claus?" was the headline that appeared over an editorial in the September 21, 1897 edition of the New York Sun. …

In New England Fields and Woods

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Rowland E. Robinson


Born in rural Vermont in 1833, and nearly unknown to today's readers, Rowland Evans Robinson was once one of Vermont's best-known writers. A…

Coffee Break Collection 019 - Plants and Flowers

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The Librivox Coffee Break Collections are themed anthologies, selected and read by Librivox readers. Each short piece is fifteen minutes lon…

Is Shakespeare Dead?

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Mark Twain


A short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Mark Twain. It explores the controversy over the authorship of the Shakespearean li…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 046

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Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include meteor showers, smallpox inoculation…

Life in the Sick-room: Essays by an Invalid

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Harriet Martineau


Thinking she would be ill for the rest of her life, Harriet Martineau wrote these partly autobiographical essays about life in the sickroom.…

Pauls Ontwaken

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Frederik Van Eeden


In dit aangrijpende korte werk beschrijft de schrijver en psychiater Frederik van Eeden het leven en met name de dood van Paul, de jongste z…

Fancies Versus Fads

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G. K. Chesterton


A Collection of 31 essays from G.K. Chesterton. “I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves…

A Florida Sketch-Book

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Bradford Torrey


This is a series of late-19th Century essays about Florida's flora & fauna written by a Massachusetts-based naturalist. (Summary by Bell…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 026

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Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Aase, das kleine Gänsemädchen" und "As…

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