Essays & Short Works

永日小品

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Sōseki Natsume



これは、夏目漱石の随筆集です。1909年に朝日新聞に連載されました。東京での日常生活、ロンドンでの経験などが含まれています。This is a collection of essays by Natsume Soseki. They were published in the A…

Life's Enthusiasms

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David Starr Jordan



The words in this essay on positive thought sing like those in Whitman's "Leaves of Grass." The author praises joyous living and r…

Theodore Roosevelt

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Henry Cabot Lodge



A biographical encomium delivered on the occasion of Roosevelt's death. Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. (1858 – 1919) was an Amer…

The Plain Speaker

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William Hazlitt



The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things is a posthumous collection of essays by William Hazlitt, organized by his grandson, Wi…

Pipefuls

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Christopher Morley



A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course a…

Tales of the Cities

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Various



This is a collection of city stories, fiction or non-fiction, in English and published before 1923. Contributions have been chosen by the re…

Short Nonfiction Collection

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Various



A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the rea…

The Man in the Iron Mask

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Alexandre Dumas



In the late 1600s a man was doubly-imprisoned: his body in an iron cell and his face in an iron mask. Who the “man in the iron mask” was, wh…

Short Nonfiction Collection

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Various



A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…

Short Nonfiction Collection

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Various



A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independentl…

Collection

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Various



A look at the year 1891 through literature and non-fiction essays first published that year, including works by Mary E Wilkins, Sir Arthur C…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa

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Various



Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.Das Faß Amontillado übersetzt von Gisela EtzelVor der…

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection

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Charles Dickens



2012 was the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the fifth and last volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poet…

LibriVox Anniversary Collection

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm



What do you do for a sixth anniversary? We challenged our readers to find any short works which had 'six' in the title - in any language. Th…

The Warren Report

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The President'S Commission On The Assassination Of President Kennedy, President'S Commission On The Assassination Of Presiden and President'S Commission On The Assassination Of President Kennedy



The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963, was a cruel and shocking act of violence directed against a man, a family…

The Logic of Vegetarianism

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Henry Salt



With clear logic and entertaining dialogues, the author presents many reasons for a vegetarian rather than a “flesh-eating” diet, and his ar…

Essays and Dialogues

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Giacomo Leopardi



"We would no more choose to feed the minds of our countrymen and women with the despairing utterances of the pessimist poet, than we wo…

Ars Poetica

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus



The Ars Poetica, by Horace, also known as Epistula ad Pisones, is a treatise on poetry written in the form of a letter, and published around…

Prejudices

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H. L. Mencken



Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time. Among his targets…

Cobb's Anatomy

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Irvin S. Cobb



Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was born on June 23, 1876. At seventeen years of age, he began writing for the Paducah Daily News, his hometown paper…

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