Essays & Short Works
The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book
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William F. Bigelow
A collection of articles from Good Housekeeping magazine, The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book focuses on the subject of marriage. With instr…
From October to Brest-Litovsk
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Leon Trotsky
This account by Trotsky is of the events in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, to his signing of the Brest-Litovsk tre…
Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 2
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Mark Twain
This second collection of essays by Mark Twain is a good example of the diversity of subject matter about which he wrote. As with the essays…
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1
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Charles Mackay
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philoso…
Literary Taste: How to Form It
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Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 descri…
The Defendant
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G. K. Chesterton
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…
Areopagitica
Read by Moira Fogarty
John Milton
A prose tract or polemic by John Milton, published November 23, 1644, at the height of the English Civil War... Milton, though a supporter o…
The Letters of Mark Twain, Complete
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Mark Twain
These letters were arranged in two volumes by Albert Bigelow Paine, Samuel L. Clemens's literary executor, as a supplement to Mark Twain, A …
The Emancipation Proclamation
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Abraham Lincoln
After having written and released an initial draft of this proclamation in September of 1862, minor changes were made and Lincoln signed it …
Essays book 2
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …
Short Story Collection Vol. 001
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Various
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 001: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
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Mark Twain
Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda. (Summa…
Three Essays on Religion
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John Stuart Mill
The Three Essays on Religion were written at different times during Mill's life, and only published after his death. The first two, 'Nature'…
George Bernard Shaw
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G. K. Chesterton
Chesterton and Shaw were famous friends and enjoyed their arguments and discussions. Although rarely in agreement, they both maintained good…
Lectures on Landscape
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John Ruskin
A series of lectures on landscape painting delivered at Oxford in 1871, by artist, critic, and social commentator, John Ruskin.
The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment
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Élisabeth Celnart
A mid-nineteenth century book of etiquette. (Summary by Libby Gohn)
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law In All Its Phases
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Thoroughly appalled and sickened by the rising numbers of white-on-black murders in the South since the beginning of Reconstruction, and by …
Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll, Volume 1
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll was a Civil War veteran, American political leader and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought, noted for…
Coffee Break Collection 005 - Love and Relationships
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Various
This is a collection of 20 short works (between 3 and 15 minutes long) that are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time…
A Miscellany of Men
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G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was among the world's most prolific writers who incorporated relentless logic, wonderful humor, and a clear view of…