Essays & Short Works

Collection

by Various Read by Bellona Times 4.2
Step back in time to 1891, a pivotal year in literature, through a curated collection of essays and short works that capture the essence of …

The National Geographic Magazine

by National Geographic Society Read by LibriVox Volunteers
National Geographic Magazine Volume 6, articles published from January, 1894, to May, 1895.* Geographic Progress of Civilization - Annual Ad…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…

Essays on Art

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Essays on art, letters, thoughts, aphorisms - Goethe's thoughts were dealing with artworks of every branch of arts. He addressed many aspect…

Essays and Dialogues

by Giacomo Leopardi Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
"We would no more choose to feed the minds of our countrymen and women with the despairing utterances of the pessimist poet, than we wo…

The Emancipation Proclamation

by Abraham Lincoln Read by John Greenman 4.6
On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, a pivotal document in American history that declared the…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
A collection of eleven short nonfiction works in the public domain. The items included in this collection were independently selected by the…

Curiosities of Literature

by Isaac D'Israeli Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
This is a collection of short essays on literature. Various subjects are discussed, such as libraries, critics, the classics, and all sorts …

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Natural cataclysm is the subject of several readin…

Miscellaneous Essays

by Thomas De Quincey Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas De Quincey offers a captivating glimpse into the mind of one of the 19th century's most intriguing literary f…

Essay on the Trial by Jury

by Lysander Spooner Read by BethAnne 4.9
FOR more than six hundred years that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215 there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutiona…

Nature

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) works in English suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. Th…

The Spring of Joy

by Mary Webb Read by Noel Badrian 5
Mary Webb was a novelist and poet and two of her novels "Gone to Earth" and "Precious Bane" have been successfully adapt…

Shandygaff

by Christopher Morley Read by David Wales 5
A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to th…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include Nature and Science--fall scenery,…

Heroines of Fiction

by William Dean Howells Read by Jim Locke
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
2012 was the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the fourth volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry and s…

Essays

by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Explore a diverse array of ideas and insights in this collection of twenty short nonfiction works, each selected by dedicated LibriVox volun…

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