Essays & Short Works
Heroines of Fiction
Read by Jim Locke
William Dean Howells
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
No Doorway Wide Enough
Read by Bill Schmalfeldt
Bill Schmalfeldt
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…
And Even Now
Read by Kirsten Wever
Max Beerbohm
This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such notables as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Sh…
G. K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - 1921
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G. K. Chesterton
A collection of the newspaper columns/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for "The New Witness", under the heading "At the Sign…
Coffee Break Collection 023 - Mysteries, Riddles and Conundrums
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Various
This is the twenty-third Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes …
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series
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Lafcadio Hearn
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a collection of essays by Lafcadio Hearn detailing his first impressions of the country he found so fascinat…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 029
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Various
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include architecture, education, philosophy,…
Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (1868-1890)
Read by Rob Marland
Oscar Wilde
This first collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde begins with the Irish playwright's earliest extant letter, thanking his mother fo…
The Fringes Of The Fleet
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Rudyard Kipling
During the war (WWI), [Kipling] wrote a booklet The Fringes of the Fleet containing essays and poems on various nautical subjects of the war…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 043
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Various
Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the role of "people of color&…
Essays on Art
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Essays on art, letters, thoughts, aphorisms - Goethe's thoughts were dealing with artworks of every branch of arts. He addressed many aspect…
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
It seems eminently fitting and proper in this year, the fiftieth anniversary of the Proclamation of Emancipation that the Negro should give …
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy
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Stephen Leacock
Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG)
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 014
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Die Nacht - Ein Traumgesicht" und "Coco" &u…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 024
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.
Rural Rides
Read by Nicole Lee
William Cobbett
William Cobbett: 1763-1835 English farmer, journalist and politician. His book Rural Rides collects together the articles published in his P…
A Room of One's Own
Read by Cori Samuel
Virginia Woolf
This feminist essay argues for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy. First…
Declaration of Rights
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Stamp Act Congress
On June 8, 1765 James Otis, supported by the Massachusetts Assembly sent a letter to each colony calling for a general meeting of delegates.…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 015
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Vision" übersetzt von Georg von Ompteda (1863-1…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 016
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.