Essays & Short Works

Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy

by John Stuart Mill Read by Gary Gilberd 4.8
This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Sermons of a Buddhist Abbot

by Soyen Shaku Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Look! it's the science of sitting, No! it's the science of meditating, No! it's Zen. If you wanted to know anything regarding Zen Buddhism a…

The Morals

by Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Moralia (loosely translatable as "Matters relating to customs") of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an e…

On the Future of our Educational Institutions

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by Aaron Rivera 4.2
Nietzsche gives a series of lectures in Bale, Germany on the subject of German educational institutions, and what the best way forward. Sum…

Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy

by George Santayana Read by Gary Gilberd 4.7
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive…

Write it Right

by Ambrose Bierce Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Witty, opinionated alphabetical examples of what Bierce considered poor (American) English and advice on alternatives - entertaining, though…

A Problem in Modern Ethics

by John Addington Symonds Read by Martin Geeson 4.6
“Society lies under the spell of ancient terrorism and coagulated errors. Science is either wilfully hypocritical or radically misinformed.”…

A Dictionary of English Synonymes

by Richard Soule Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions, Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseolog…

The Greek View of Life

by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson Read by Martin Geeson 4.3
“With the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in fact the…

Principles of Economics

by Alfred Marshall Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

Mathematical Problems

by David Hilbert Read by Prachi Pendse 4.3
Lecture delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris in 1900 and subsequently published in the Bulletin of the Ame…

American Psychology

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This is the second of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an acade…

Mental Efficiency

by Arnold Bennett Read by Ruth Golding 4.1
In this light-hearted yet thought-provoking collection of articles, Bennett offers his thoughts on exercising the mind, organising your life…

The Gettysburg Address

by Abraham Lincoln Read by John Greenman 4.7
Delivered during a pivotal moment in American history, The Gettysburg Address is President Abraham Lincoln's profound reflection on the prin…

For Every Music Lover

by Aubertine Woodward Moore Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
For Every Music Lover is a collection of insightful essays that delve into the rich tapestry of music and its appreciation. Authored by Aube…

The World as Will and Idea

by Arthur Schopenhauer Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
The World as Will and Idea presents Arthur Schopenhauer's profound exploration of the nature of existence, where he posits that the driving …

Der Wahrheitpfad

by Karl Eugen Neumann Read by Christian Al-Kadi 4.7
Das Dhammapada ist eine Anthologie von Aussprüchen des Buddha. Dabei sind die Verse so ausgewählt, dass sie den Kern der Lehre des…

Principles of Economics

by Alfred Marshall Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

The Phenomenology of Mind

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.3
Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's fi…

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