Essays & Short Works
Advice to Young Men and Boys
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Benjamin Comegys
Benjamin B Comegys was a member of the Philadelphia Board of Trusts, which oversees (among many) the trust for Girard College. Comegys was o…
Letters from the West
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James Hall
James Hall was a soldier, lawyer, circuit judge, newspaper editor, historian, and author of fiction. He was also the first publisher of a li…
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Bêtisier littéraire
Pour fêter mon 800 ème billet sur Littérature audio.com et le premier avril farceur, voici un collier de perles de gra…
A Reel of Rainbow
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Frank W. Boreham
Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of edi…
Death
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Maurice Maeterlinck
"The more we dread it, the more dreadful it becomes..." Death by Maurice Maeterlinck explores the cultural and societal fear of de…
The Souls of the Streets and Other Little Papers
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Arthur Ransome
Acclaimed British author Arthur Ransome presents us with a small collection of charming and wistful sketches on the character of the street,…
A Christmas Miscellany 2023
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Various
Eleven short works or book chapters about Christmas or around that time period. - Summary by David Wales
The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 3
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W. E. B. Du Bois
The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerci…
Le Mal du siècle
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Ferdinand Brunetière
Ferdinand Brunetière, auteur, critique littéraire et académicien français (1849-1906), s’est passionné …
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 098
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Various
"The moment a man attempts to tell the truth as he not only thinks but feels it, what he says becomes charged with that man himself.&qu…
Readings from Modern Mexican Authors
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Frederick Starr
Starr visited Mexico in 1894 and became acquainted with a wide array of contemporary writers. This work is a compendium of 29 of those write…
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…
Essays on Things
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William Lyon Phelps
William Lyon Phelps was founder of the Pundits, a secret society at Yale, noted for its collection of the wittiest and most erudite students…
History of a Literary Radical, and Other Essays
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Randolph Silliman Bourne
A posthumous collection of Bourne's writing from publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and early issues of The New Republic, with a long…
Religio Journalistici
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Christopher Morley
The great Canadian journalist and humorist ruminates and reflects upon his life and calling in this 1924 little gem. - Summary by david wale…
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1953 - 1963)
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John F. Kennedy
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,…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 059
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Diese Sammlung umfasst 10 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres. - Summary by schrm
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 7, September 1906
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Various
Mother Earth, an American anarchist journal, was self styled as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature". Mo…
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…