Politics

Twenty Years at Hull House

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Jane Addams


Jane Addams was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer settlement worker…

Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again

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Mark Twain


This satire on the U.S.A.'s myth of being the "Home of the Oppressed, where all men are free and equal", is unrelenting in its pur…

John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works

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Various


This biography is actually a series of essays by prominent personalities of the time that shed light on John Stuart Mill's life and areas of…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 001

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Various


A collection of ten short essays or other short nonfiction works in the public domain read by LibriVox volunteers.

Offences Against One's Self: Paederasty

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Jeremy Bentham


Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He was a political radical and a leading theor…

The Westminster Alice

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Saki


Published five years before John Kendrick Bangs had the same idea with Alice in Blunderland, Saki, in his 1902 series of satirical articles,…

Samuel the Seeker

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Upton Sinclair


What would happen to you if you tried to make your way in the world believing all the clear, simple things you had ever been taught growing …

Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton


Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the premier movers in the original women’s rights movement, along with Susan B. Anthony, her best friend f…

A Yellow Journalist

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Miriam Michelson


Rhoda Massey is a young, sharp reporter for a daily newspaper in San Francisco. After proving herself an astute and fearless investigator on…

Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart

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Maria W. Stewart


Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery a…

Felix Holt, The Radical

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George Eliot


"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is …

Areopagitica (Version 2)

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John Milton


The noblest and most extensive defense of freedom of the press in English. Although Milton was sufficiently practical to serve as a censor o…

The Free Press

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Hilaire Belloc


I propose to discuss in what follows the evil of the great modern Capitalist Press, its function in vitiating and misinforming opinion and i…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 003

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Various


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

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 007

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Various


A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collectio…

Bacon

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Richard William Church


This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days and progresses to his relationships with Que…

The Masque of Anarchy

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Percy Bysshe Shelley


The Masque of Anarchy was Shelley's response to the Peterloo massacre at St Peter's Fields, Manchester, where 18 died and hundreds were inju…

There Are Realistic Alternatives

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Gene Sharp


Violence in society and politics, whether in the form of war, terrorism, dictatorship, oppression, usurpation, or genocide, is widely recogn…

A Cry From An Indian Wife

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E. Pauline Johnson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of A Cry From an Indian Wife by E. Pauline Johnson,. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 015

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Various


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

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