Essays & Short Works

The Three Great Virtues

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Read by Robert Scott 3.3
In this thought-provoking essay, Ralph Waldo Emerson explores the foundational principles of human character through the lens of the three g…

Orthodoxy

by G. K. Chesterton Read by David Grizzly Smith 4.9
"Orthodoxy," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. First published in 1908. "The only possible excuse for this boo…

The Morals

by Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The Moralia (or The morals or Matters relating to customs and mores) is a work by the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. It is…

Евреи и Россия

by Ze'Ev Jabotinsky Read by Mark Chulsky 4.3
Собрание статей 1903-1912 гг., которые заложили идейную основу сионистскому движению в Российской Империи и во всем мире.В 2014 году исполня…

Essays

by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

The Silence Dogood Letters

by Benjamin Franklin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
As a teenager, Benjamin Franklin apprenticed with his brother James at the shop where The New-England Courant was printed. Since James would…

Heretics

by G. K. Chesterton Read by David Grizzly Smith 4.8
"Heretics," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. First published in 1905. Chesterton had a sense of humor, had a sense …

Eugenics and Other Evils

by G. K. Chesterton Read by David Grizzly Smith 4.6
I think G.K. Chesterton explains his book rather well in his introduction, but it might help to start with a sense of the time in question. …

Essays

by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

Essays

by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

The Birth of Propaganda

by Jabez L. Van Cleef Read by Jabez L. Van Cleef 4.8
"The Birth of Propaganda" is poetic adaptation of the essay "Propaganda in a Democratic Society," by Aldous Huxley, whic…

Deep Thoughts

by Michael R. Mennenga Read by Michael R. Mennenga 4.9
Short-form Humor from the mind of Michael R. Mennenga. Editorial on daily life and the human condition.

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…

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…

No Doorway Wide Enough

by Bill Schmalfeldt Read by Bill Schmalfeldt 4.5
It was just about three weeks after his 45th birthday in 2000 when Bill Schmalfeldt was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. In 2007 while wo…

A Handy Guide for Beggars

by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay Read by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay 4.8
"Being sundry explorations, made while afoot and penniless in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Pe…

Brieven van den nutteloozen toeschouwer

by Louis Couperus Read by Anna Simon 4.8
Deze serie columns in de vorm van brieven schreef Couperus voor het dagblad Het Vaderland, vanuit Munchen en later vanuit Florence. Ze vers…

An Irregular Miscellany

by A.F. Harrold Read by A.F. Harrold 4
Throughout the 1920s the Common University provided a free and ready source of education to the working classes of England through various l…

Live, From Milwaukee, It's Tuesday Night

by Billie Pagliolo-Olmon Read by Billie Pagliolo-Olmon 5
"Live, From Milwaukee, It's Tuesday Night," is an eclectic collection of essays and short stories, some of them humorous, some of…