Essays & Short Works

The National Geographic Magazine

by National Geographic Society Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the January Number. It includes the Introductory by the editor, John Hyde, and the…

Moral Letters

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Read by Suprada Urval 3.8
This is the second volume of the Letters, Epistles LXVI-XCII. Among the personalities of the early Roman Empire there are few who offer to t…

An Irregular Miscellany

by A.F. Harrold Read by A.F. Harrold 4
Throughout the 1920s the Common University provided a free and ready source of education to the working classes of England through various l…

Visits To The Dead In The Catacombs Of Rome

by George Washington Greene Read by David Wales 3.3
This essay of a cultured observer, for many years United States consul in Rome, appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 10, issue 59,…

Five Lectures on Blindness

by Kate M. Foley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
The [five] lectures were written primarily to be delivered at the summer sessions of the University of California, at Berkeley and at Los An…

Smoke Bellew

by Jack London Read by Jim Locke 2.9
Smoke Bellew, or really Jack London, leaves his less than satisfying writing job in San Francisco for the opportunity to search for gold in …

The ID Files

by Jason Rennie Read by Jason Rennie 3
The ID Files is a compilation of interviews about the recent Intelligent Design Controversy taken from The Sci Phi Show (http://thesciphisho…

Shall I Pray or Watch TV?

by Vic Zarley Read by Vic Zarley 3.5
Shall I Pray or Watch TV? looks at the history of TV and its effect on our culture all from a Christian worldview perspective. My hope is th…

Writing Wrongly

by Thomas Corfield Read by Thomas Corfield 4.1
When the worst writer in history self-publishes his books, the world of literature is decimated overnight. Illiteracy becomes something to a…

How to Avoid Positive Stinking

by Vic Zarley Read by Vic Zarley 2.7
13 short vignettes to help the Christian take a deeper walk with the Lord as well as help the curious understand how Christianity is really …

Supernatural Horror in Literature

by H. P. Lovecraft 3.3
“Supernatural Horror in Literature” is a long essay surveying the field of horror fiction. It was written between November 1925 and May 1927…

The World of Unicellular

by Oleg Seriy and MaRiCaBo Read by Oleg Seriy and MaRiCaBo 0.5
It is the next book of an author of apocalyptic books. It may be said that this book is an adapted version of “Book of Rescue from the Dooms…

Understanding Television

by MIT OpenCourseWare
The subtitle of this course for the spring 2003 term is "American Television: A Cultural History." The class takes a cultural appr…

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

by Sir Walter Scott Read by Deon Gines 2
A series of letters written by Scott on the history of witchcraft and other supernatural events in England and other locations. He documents…

Message to the World's Religious Leaders

by Universal House of Justice 4.1
"TO THE WORLD’S RELIGIOUS LEADERS "The enduring legacy of the twentieth century is that it compelled the peoples of the world to b…

The Gettysburg Address

by Abraham Lincoln Read by Shurtagal 3.6
It was a cloudy November day in 1863 when thousands gathered to hear renowned orator Edward Everett dedicate a national cemetery at the site…

Mary Lee Taylor

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The Mary Lee Taylor Program is the longest running Old Time Radio cooking show, debuting on CBS Radio on November 7, 1933, and concluding on…

Is the Bible Worth Reading

by Lemuel Kelley Washburn Read by LibriVox Volunteers 1.9
These are more than 100 short essays on all things atheism and freethought penned by Lemuel K. Washburn, an American freethought writer and …

The Difficult Task of Loving Atheists

by Vic Zarley Read by Vic Zarley 1.5
In 2006, the author found the newly released Richard Dawkins’ book, The God Delusion at the library. Shaking his head in disbelief that anyo…

OWI Mileage Rationing Program

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This special syndicated OWI program promoted gas rationing during a critical time in history. It features performances by notable stars incl…

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