Essays & Short Works

Eureka

Read by Scotty Smith


Edgar Allan Poe



Eureka is Poe's attempt at explaining the universe, using his general proposition "Because Nothing was, therefore All Things are".…

Woman and War

Read by Noel Badrian


Olive Schreiner



Olive Schreiner was a South African writer born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She is credited with being the first Inte…

Short Nonfiction Collection

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Various



Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Natural cataclysm is the subject of several readin…

The Pleasures of Ignorance

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Robert Lynd



From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as c…

The Book of This and That

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Robert Lynd



From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as s…

A Handy Guide for Beggars

Read by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay


Nicholas Vachel Lindsay



"Being sundry explorations, made while afoot and penniless in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Pe…

An Essay on Criticism

Read by cwanki


Alexander Pope



The title, An Essay on Criticism hardly indicates all that is included in the poem. It would have been impossible to give a full and exact i…

Old Age

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Various



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

Short Nonfiction Collection

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Various



Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include botany, dreams, farming, history, li…

Short Nonfiction Collection

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Various



A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…

Short Nonfiction Collection

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Various



Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include how to swim, Navajo silversmithing…

Short Nonfiction Collection

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Various



A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…

The National Geographic Magazine

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


National Geographic Society



National Geographic Magazine Volume 2 Number 1 April 1890.: * On the Telegraphic Determinations of Longitude by the Bureau of Navigation* Re…

Short Nonfiction Collection

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Various



A collection of sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were inde…

Some Articles About Mark Twain

Read by John Greenman


Sarah Knowles Bolton, Charles Hopkins Clark, William M. Clemens and Edmund Yates



"Samuel Langhorne Clemens", "Mark Twain At Home", "Youth of Mark Twain" & "Mark Twain Gossip"Pub…

The National Geographic Magazine

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


National Geographic Society



National Geographic Magazine Volume 3, articles published in 1891 and 1892. South America: Annual Address by the President, Gardiner G. Hubb…

Short Nonfiction Collection

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Various



A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…

Collection

Read by Bellona Times


Various



This is what people were reading in 1903, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction articles. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

The Holiday Round

Read by Kirsten Wever


A. A. Milne



Alan Alexander Milne, popularly known as A. A. Milne, is best known – perhaps to most people only known – for his children’s book, Winnie th…

Satires and Profanities

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


George William Foote



"Believing as I do that James Thomson is, since Shelley, the most brilliant genius who has wielded a pen in the service of Freethought,…

< 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 >