Essays & Short Works
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 033
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include astronomy, religion, United States…
Is Shakespeare Dead?
Read by PhyllisV
Mark Twain
A short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Mark Twain. It explores the controversy over the authorship of the Shakespearean li…
A Room of One's Own
Read by Cori Samuel
Virginia Woolf
This feminist essay argues for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy. First…
An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and Mind, wit…
Read by TriciaG
Dr. Benjamin Rush
Written when the United States extended only to the Mississippi River, by one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, this short …
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 019
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.
Girl Scout Collection
Read by Betsie Bush
Various
These articles, pamphlets, and stories relating to the Girls Scouts of America touch on the history, activities, ideals, and traditions of t…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 037
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake,…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 052
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include Nature and Science--fall scenery,…
On Everything
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Hilaire Belloc
Hillaire Belloc of French by birth, British by naturalization was a diverse and prolific writer of the early 20th century. His writing runs…
Excursions
Read by PhyllisV
Henry David Thoreau
Excursions is an 1863 anthology of several essays by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The anthology contains an introduction …
G.K. Chesterton in America: A Catholic Review of the Week
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
G. K. Chesterton
A collection of 15 articles/essays written by G.K. Chesterton in "America: A Catholic Review of the Week". The publication dates r…
G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - November 1919 to April 1…
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
G. K. Chesterton
A collection of the newspaper columns/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for "The New Witness", under the heading "At the Sign…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 044
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include wives, widows, and women scorned--…
Life in the Sick-room: Essays by an Invalid
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Harriet Martineau
Thinking she would be ill for the rest of her life, Harriet Martineau wrote these partly autobiographical essays about life in the sickroom.…
Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
H. G. Wells
Select Conversations with an Uncle, published in 1895, was H.G. Wells's first literary publication in book form. It consists of reports of t…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 012
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 10 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Mondschein" und "Der Krüppel" übe…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 046
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include meteor showers, smallpox inoculation…
Fancies Versus Fads
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
G. K. Chesterton
A Collection of 31 essays from G.K. Chesterton. “I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves…