Essays & Short Works
Christmas Short Works Collection
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Various
A delightful collection of stories and poems, with several interesting selections discussing various Christmas and holiday traditions, and a…
Studies in Stagecraft
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Clayton Hamilton
A companion piece to Hamilton's earlier work, The Theory of the Theatre. Where that volume dealt with the criticism of dramatic art in gener…
The Silver Shadow
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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…
The Evolutionist at Large
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Grant Allen
These Essays originally appeared in the columns of the 'St. James's Gazette,' and I have to thank the courtesy of the Editor for kind permis…
Le Mal du siècle
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Ferdinand Brunetière
Ferdinand Brunetière, auteur, critique littéraire et académicien français (1849-1906), s’est passionné …
The Children
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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…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 10 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres. - Summary by schrm
The Forgotten Man and Other Essays
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William Graham Sumner
Sumner's popular essays were to give him a wider audience to distribute his anti-imperialism, his advocacy of free markets and the gold stan…
Problems of the Playwright
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Clayton Hamilton
A third volume of essays by American critic Clayton Hamilton, published as a companion piece to The Theory of the Theatre & Studies in S…
Letters to a Daughter
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Hubert Bland
Letters to a Daughter is a collection of essays proffering ‘fatherly advice’ in the form of a one-sided correspondence. Each of these takes …
A Christmas Miscellany
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Various
Eleven short works or book chapters about Christmas or around that time period. - Summary by David Wales
The Open Library
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Brewster Kahle
Text of the speech given by Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, at the launch of the Open Library in October 2005. LibriVox was…
Librivox Multilingual Short Works Collection
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Various
This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages. All chosen and recorded by L…
Essays on Prohibition
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A collection of essays regarding the pros and cons of prohibition of alcoholic beverages, principally in the United States. - Summary by Kev…
They Who Knock at Our Gates
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Mary Antin
In this extended essay, Mary Antin asks us to consider three questions:First: A question of principle: Have we any right to regulate immigra…
Ronald And I
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Alfred Pretor
This is a collection of essays (1899) on English village life in the late nineteenth century. The essay “My Rector” was the focus of some co…
Short Nonfiction Collection
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Various
In his autobiographical essay "The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob," Booker T. Washington wrote: "It is not argument, nor cr…
The Morality of Marriage and Other Essays
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Mona Caird
In this series of essays, British feminist and novelist Mona Caird discusses marriage customs at various points in history, offers thoughtfu…