Essays & Short Works

Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 6, August 1906

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Various


Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature&qu…

LibriVox 11th Anniversary Collection

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"LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to li…

The Fringe of an Art: Appreciations in Music

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Vernon Blackburn


A collection of essays on things musical by Vernon Blackburn, including composers, music in different time periods, and modern music. (Summ…

Hunting Sketches

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Anthony Trollope


Anthony Trollope describes with his characteristic wit the different types of hunters commonly found in 19th century Britain. - Summary by E…

The Powder of Sympathy

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Christopher Morley


Another collection of mostly short “soliloquys” from Christopher Morley, an American literary luminary, who introduces them thus: “… these p…

Curiosities of the Hymnal

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Carl F. Price


Carl F. Price, a pioneering hymnologist, historian, and author, says, "Every real hymn has its story, if only we could discover it.&quo…

An Essay Upon Wind, with Curious Anecdotes of Eminent Peuters

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Charles James Fox


Purported to be written by noted British Parliamentarian Charles James Fox as a result of a wager, this important and engaging essay is a me…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 095

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"A legendary island in the Atlantic Ocean, first mentioned by Plato", is how the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica descr…

The Booklover and His Books

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Henry Lyman Koopman


This book about books was written by Harry Lyman Koopman, who served as the head librarian for Brown University from 1893 to 1930. Published…

Editorials from The Dial magazine, Volume 66

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Martyn Johnson


Editorials published in Volume 66 of The Dial magazine, a fortnightly political and literary review. The source available to us features iss…

State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1946 - 1953)

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Harry S. Truman


The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…

Coffee Break Collection 037 - More Birds

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Various


This is the 37th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 061

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Various


Diese Sammlungsreihe erscheint unregelmäßig und umfasst 10 verschiedene deutschsprachige Prosatexte.- zusammengefasst von schrm

On Reading The Bible

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


These are three lectures (numbers 8, 9, 10) excerpted from the author’s 1920 book On The Art Of Reading. The lectures were delivered to stu…

The Honour of the Gout

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Philander Misaurus


This droll and 'enflammatory' pamphelet doth be a grondebreaking worke of musing upon a great aflicktion of Man, upon the better nature of t…

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