Essays & Short Works
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
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Margaret Fuller
Margaret Fuller was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nin…
Faces and Places
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Sir Henry W. Lucy
Faces and Places is a collection of articles on nineteenth century travel, events and personalities by the British journalist Henry Lucy, wh…
Alarms and Discursions
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G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, p…
The Curious Republic of Gondour
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Mark Twain
As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain's more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from poli…
The I.W.W.
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Vincent St. John
“We must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, ‘Abolition of the wage system’”The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), membe…
Has a Frog a Soul?
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Huxley, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his championing and development of Darwinism, was perhaps the most important Victorian biolog…
Selected Essays
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Voltairine De Cleyre
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.&…
The Ethics of Belief
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William Kingdon Clifford
This is an essay on decision biases and a critique on prejudices, neatly written and thought provoking. (Summary by sidhu177)
Christmas Short Works Collection
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Various
LibriVox’s 2007 Christmas Short Works Collection containing public domain short stories, essays, poems, and scripture passages recorded by a…
The Early History of the Airplane
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Orville Wright
The Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They…
Fighting France
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Edith Wharton
American novelist Edith Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the li…
The Sunny Side
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A. A. Milne
The Sunny Side is a collection of short stories and essays by A. A. Milne. Though Milne is best known for his classic children's books, espe…
Newspaper Articles
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Mark Twain
This is a collection of newspaper articles written by Samuel Clemens, for various newspapers, between 1862 and 1881. After Feb 3rd 1863, he …
Kepler
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Walter W. Bryant
This biography of Johannes Kepler begins with an account of what the world of astronomy was like before his time, then proceeds to a look at…
Not That It Matters
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A. A. Milne
More of the witty, wry, and deliciously wicked essays and articles written by Milne. Most people know him as the creator of Winnie The Pooh,…
The Freedmen's Book
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Lydia Maria Child
Lydia Maria Child, an American abolitionist, compiled this collection of short stories and poems by former slaves and noted activists as an …
The Treaty with China
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Mark Twain
"A good candidate for 'the most under-appreciated work by Mark Twain' would be 'The Treaty With China,' which he published in the New Y…
The National Geographic Magazine
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National Geographic Society
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 2 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Africa, its Past and FutureReports on:Geography of …
The Golden Age
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Kenneth Grahame
The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and originally published in book form in 1895, in L…
Industrial Conspiracies
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Clarence Darrow
Publisher's Note.—This address was delivered shortly after Mr. Darrow's triumphant acquittal on a charge growing out of his defense of the M…