Essays & Short Works

The Speaking Voice

by Katherine Jewell Everts Read by Ruth Golding 4.6
From the Preface of The Speaking Voice: principles of training simplified and condensed: "This book offers a method of voice training w…

Essays in Radical Empiricism

by William James Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Essays in Radical Empiricism presents a thought-provoking exploration of the nature of experience and reality through the lens of William Ja…

Democracy in America

by Alexis De Tocqueville Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful …

The Profits of Religion

by Upton Sinclair Read by MichelleHarris 4.8
"The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation" is a non-fiction book, first published in 1917, by the American nov…

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

by Oscar Wilde Read by John Gonzalez 4.7
Wilde’s meditation on capital punishment, the Ballad of Reading Gaol comes after he was convicted and imprisoned under charges of gross inde…

Insomnia Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
The Insomnia Collection offers a unique anthology of essays and short works designed to soothe the restless mind. Curated from a variety of …

The French Revolution

by Hilaire Belloc Read by Ray Clare 4.5
“It is, for that matter, self-evident that if one community decides in one fashion, another, also sovereign, in the opposite fashion, both c…

New Discoveries at Jamestown

by John L. Cotter Read by Mark F. Smith 4.5
Chances are, you are reading this because you are aware that Jamestown, Virginia, celebrated its 400th birthday in 2007. It was the first &q…

Newspaper Articles

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.9
Explore the sharp wit and keen observations of Mark Twain in this collection of newspaper articles penned between 1862 and 1881. Under his f…

Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology

by Carl Gustav Jung Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
A collection of classical writings of Swiss psychologist Carl G. Jung, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology. Writ…

In the Line of Battle

by Walter Wood Read by Lee Smalley 4.5
“A COLLECTION OF absolutely authentic accounts by privates and non-commissioned officers.... We see a great simplicity and directness of obs…

The Defendant

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Ray Clare 4.5
A collection of reprinted articles on a wide-range of subjects, all in the unique style of G. K. Chesterton. Using wit, paradox, and good hu…

The Negro Problem

by Various Read by James K. White 4.5
This is a collection of essays, edited by Booker T. Washington, representative of what historians have characterized as "racial uplift …

Ways of Wood Folk

by William J. Long Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Late nineteenth-century naturalist William J. Long invites us in to the secret worlds of the woodland animals. Containing Long's own animal …

What I Saw in America

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Ray Clare 4.3
In What I Saw in America, G. K. Chesterton offers a unique perspective on the American landscape, culture, and spirit through a series of in…

A Modest Proposal

by Jonathan Swift Read by John Gonzalez 4.3
Jonathan Swift almost defines satire in this biting and brutal pamphlet in which he suggests that poor (Catholic) Irish families should fatt…

Sidelights on Relativity

by Albert Einstein Read by Paul Adams 4.6
Sidelights on Relativity offers a unique glimpse into the mind of one of history's greatest scientific thinkers, Albert Einstein. This colle…

What is Property?

by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
What Is Property?: or, An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (French: Qu'est-ce que la propriété ? ou Reche…

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth

by René Descartes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation “cogito ergo sum”, “I think, therefore I am.” …. It is a method …

A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

by Sigmund Freud Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
These twenty-eight lectures to laymen are elementary and almost conversational. Freud sets forth with a frankness almost startling the diffi…

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