Essays & Short Works
- Philosophical Travelogues
- Essays on Society and Culture
- Essays for Personal Growth
- Explorations in Science and Thought
- Explorations in Psychology
- Political Essays and Reflections
- Political Essays and Manifestos
- Philosophical Essays on Existence
Short Nonfiction Collection
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…
Winds of Doctrine
Even before the Great War turned the world upside down, Western civilization was being revolutionized at all levels: intellectually, philos…
Shandygaff
A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to th…
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a collection of essays by Lafcadio Hearn detailing his first impressions of the country he found so fascinat…
Essays
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …
Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature
Dr Peter Millican gives a series of lectures looking at Scottish 18th Century Philosopher David Hume and the first book of his Treatise of H…
The Shining Pyramid
For the first time ever, the complete contents of both the 1923 and 1925 editions of The Shining Pyramid are brought together in a single co…
The Uncommercial Traveller
The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. In 1859 Dickens founded a new …
Is Shakespeare Dead?
A short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Mark Twain. It explores the controversy over the authorship of the Shakespearean li…
Yellowstone National Park
Lost in the wilderness of The Yellowstone for over a month, nearly dying of starvation and wild animal attack, despairing of ever finding hi…
What the White Race May Learn from the Indian
People learn from other people, and races have forever learned from other races. Herein we are treated to an in-depth understanding of categ…
Doctor Jack's Soapbox Seminars
What if the cataclysmic Tunguska explosion of 1908 was caused, not by a meteor or a comet, but by a microscopic black hole?
... Well, like a…
Biographies in Sound
Biographies in Sound was an hour-long documentary radio program that was produced and broadcast in the 1950s. It's one of the best examples …
Varied Types
Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of our day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Here he …
The Mysterious Universe
One of the earliest of the popular science book genre, it is a philosophical summary of the new physics of the era by a leading British phys…
A Square Deal
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States when president William McKinley was assassinated in 1901. As the …
The Plain Speaker
The Plain Speaker is a thought-provoking collection of essays by the renowned English essayist William Hazlitt, curated posthumously by his …
Letter from China
This is a poignant and irreverent diary of the author's yearlong (2001-2) experience of teaching English to college students in Beijing, Peo…
1943 Radio News
Experience the news from 1943 with this collection of radio broadcasts. This compilation includes various news segments and V-Discs from tha…
Insomnia Collection
Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. Ho…