Essays & Short Works
Mettray - Bathmen
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Jacobus Craandijk
Wandeling van Zutphen via het Nederlandse Mettray (een jeugdinrichting die tegenwoordig Rentray heet) naar Joppe en huize Dorth. In Bathmen …
From the Easy Chair
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George William Curtis
The third volume of essays and observations From the Easy Chair of William Curtis, editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the …
Hearts of Controversy
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Alice Meynell
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…
LibriVox Anniversary Collection
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Various
"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…
King Edward I of England
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Thomas Frederick Tout
Edward I (1239 – 1307), was King of England from 1272 to 1307. The eldest son of Henry III, Edward was involved from an early age in the p…
Goose-Quill Papers
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Louise Imogen Guiney
Louise Imogen Guiney, and American poet and essayist, here presents twenty essays with her characteristic wit and poetic flair and often a t…
Anglo-American Memories
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George Washburn Smalley
“These Memories [1911] were written in the first instance for Americans and have appeared week by week each Sunday in the New York Tribune….…
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…
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
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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,…
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…
Ceres’ Runaway
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Alice Meynell
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…
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…
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…
Letters from the West
Read by Ted Lienhart
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…
Read by René Depasse
Bêtisier littéraire
Pour fêter mon 800 ème billet sur Littérature audio.com et le premier avril farceur, voici un collier de perles de gra…
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…
España y América
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Antonio Sánchez Moguel
Conjunto magestral de obras literarias e históricas de personajes hispanoparlantes de ambos lados del Atlántico. El autor exam…
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…