Essays & Short Works
Coffee Break Collection 023 - Mysteries, Riddles and Conundrums
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Various
This is the twenty-third Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes …
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series
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Lafcadio Hearn
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a collection of essays by Lafcadio Hearn detailing his first impressions of the country he found so fascinat…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 029
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Various
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include architecture, education, philosophy,…
The Fringes Of The Fleet
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Rudyard Kipling
During the war (WWI), [Kipling] wrote a booklet The Fringes of the Fleet containing essays and poems on various nautical subjects of the war…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 043
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Various
Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the role of "people of color&…
Essays on Art
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Essays on art, letters, thoughts, aphorisms - Goethe's thoughts were dealing with artworks of every branch of arts. He addressed many aspect…
Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (1868-1890)
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Oscar Wilde
This first collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde begins with the Irish playwright's earliest extant letter, thanking his mother fo…
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy
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Stephen Leacock
Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG)
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
It seems eminently fitting and proper in this year, the fiftieth anniversary of the Proclamation of Emancipation that the Negro should give …
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 014
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Die Nacht - Ein Traumgesicht" und "Coco" &u…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 024
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.
Rural Rides
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William Cobbett
William Cobbett: 1763-1835 English farmer, journalist and politician. His book Rural Rides collects together the articles published in his P…
Declaration of Rights
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Stamp Act Congress
On June 8, 1765 James Otis, supported by the Massachusetts Assembly sent a letter to each colony calling for a general meeting of delegates.…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 015
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Vision" übersetzt von Georg von Ompteda (1863-1…
Eureka: A Prose Poem
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Edgar Allan Poe
Eureka is Poe's attempt at explaining the universe, using his general proposition "Because Nothing was, therefore All Things are".…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 002
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst verschiedene deutschsprachige Texte aller Genres, Fiktion, Non-Fiktion und Lyrik.Eine Liste weiterer kurzer Aufnahmen…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 016
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 025
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.
Woman and War
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Olive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a South African writer born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She is credited with being the first Inte…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 057
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Various
Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Natural cataclysm is the subject of several readin…