Essays & Short Works

The National Geographic Magazine

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National Geographic Society



The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the March Number. It includes the following articles, along with a few miscellaneo…

Librivox Multilingual Short Works

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Various



This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages. All chosen and recorded by L…

Once A Week

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A. A. Milne



Once A Week is a collection of short stories and slightly longer vignettes which were written for Milne's solid British Audience, including …

The Romance Of The Commonplace

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Frank Gelett Burgess



Thirty four whimsical, tongue-in-cheek, and entertaining essays about not much in particular, published in 1902, by one of the most popular …

Coniston Tales

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William Gershom Collingwood



A selection of poems and short prose pieces grounded in the landscape, history and legends of Coniston in the English Lake District. W. G. C…

Homage to John Dryden

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T. S. Eliot



Best known as a poet and playwright, Nobel Laureate T.S. Eliot also wrote many works of literary criticism. In this volume he gives us thr…

The Ukrainians and the European War

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Various



The WWI (European war) for Ukrainians was the hope of its nation unity and freedom from Austria-Hungary but mostly from Russian Empire. Gali…

A Voice from the South

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Anna J. Cooper



Published in 1892, this is the author's first work. Its eight essays are considered a seminal text of Black feminism. Its theme is that thro…

Del sentimiento trágico de la vida

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Miguel De Unamuno



Uno de los libros mas internacionalmente conocidos de gran pensador Don Miguel de Unamuno, en el refleja sus inquietudes existenciales respe…

The Open Road

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G. K. Chesterton



A collection of 2 book reviews written by G.K. Chesterton in "The Open Road", both from 1911. (Summary by Maria Therese)

If I May

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A. A. Milne



A. A. Milne, best known as the creator of Winnie the Pooh, was a prolific author of books, plays, essays and articles. He also spent a numbe…

Fabian Essays in Socialism

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George Bernard Shaw



The Fabian Society is a British institution, which, though radical, advocated social reform through legislative rather than revolutionary me…

Theological Essays

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Charles Bradlaugh



Charles Bradlaugh was an English political activist and atheist who founded the National Secular Society in 1866. In the 23 "Theologica…

Milton

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Thomas Babington Macaulay



John Milton (1608-1674) was an English poet, classicist, and fearless advocate for civil liberty, who served the Commonwealth of England und…

The Dolliver Romance

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Nathaniel Hawthorne



This post-humous collection of stories, sketches and essays by celebrated quintessential New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne gives us gli…

Hobbies

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Various



This is the 28th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…

The National Geographic Magazine

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National Geographic Society



The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the June Number. It includes the following articles:* The Seine, the Meuse, and th…

Thrilling Stories of the Ocean

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Marmaduke Park



Authentic accounts of modern voyagers and travelers; designed for the entertainment and instruction of young people. - Summary by Marmaduke …

Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad

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William Alexander MacKay



By Zorra, in the following sketches, is meant a little district in Oxford county, Ontario, some ten miles square, composed of part of East a…

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