Essays & Short Works
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- Explorations in Psychology
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- Philosophical Essays on Existence
Principles of Economics
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…
The Gettysburg Address
The Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, in November, 1863, followed a few short months after the roiling, acrid clouds of gun…
The Philosophy of Style
“The Philosophy of Style,” explored a growing trend of formalist approaches to writing. Highly focused on the proper placement and ordering …
Has a Frog a Soul?
Thomas Huxley, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his championing and development of Darwinism, was perhaps the most important Victorian biolog…
An Address to Free Colored Americans
The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women met in New York City in May, 1837. Members at the Convention came from all walks of life…
The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burto…
Lo perecedero
Hace algún tiempo me paseaba yo por una florida campiña estival, en compañía de un amigo taciturno y de un joven…
Travel
This is the seventh collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in le…
From Dictatorship to Democracy
From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dict…
Estudio sobre el arte de hablar en público
El autor de este tratado de oratoria, uno de los individuos mas respetados y que figura entre los tres ó cuatro oradores y pensadores…
The Discovery Of The Future
The Discovery of the Future is a 1902 philosophical lecture by H. G. Wells that argues for the knowability of the future. It was originally …
Days
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 10, 2012.As a lectur…
The Elements of Style
“The Elements of Style (1918) by William Strunk, Jr. is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the best-known and most influe…
The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States hist…
The Conduct of Life
This is the best of Emerson's later works, qualifying his earlier popular essays, series one and two, with the heavier hand of experience. T…
The Theory of Psychoanalysis
Jung says the following in his introduction: "in these lectures I have attempted to reconcile my practical experiences in psychoanalysi…
On the Nature of the Gods
De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) outlines Stoic, Epicurean and Academic (Skeptical) views on religious questions. Problems discu…
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Beccaria's treatise On Crimes and Punishments, which condemns disproportionate and irrational penalties in general as well as torture and th…
The Awful German Language
If you’ve ever studied German (and maybe even if you haven’t), you’re likely to find this short essay to be hilarious. Published as Appendix…
El egoísmo
Es para nosotros una gran fortuna que la prudencia y la urbanidad arrojen su manto encima y nos impidan ver cuán general y recí…