Essays & Short Works

Totem and Taboo

by Sigmund Freud Read by Mary Schneider 4.6
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud published in German in 1913 under…

Selected Classics of Washington Irving

by Washington Irving Read by Greg Giordano 4.6
Washington Irving is one of early America's most treasured writers. He is best known for his wit and satirical voice. Irving had the extraor…

Anarchy

by Errico Malatesta Read by Anna Simon 4.6
Anarchy is a thought-provoking exploration of the principles and philosophy of anarchism, penned by the influential thinker Errico Malatesta…

Etiquette in Society

by Emily Post Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
From advice on planning the perfect wedding to eating an artichoke correctly, Emily Post offers instruction on how to live a well-mannered l…

Treatises On Friendship And Old Age

by Marcus Tullius Cicero Read by David Wales 4.5
Friendship. Old Age. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer, and philosopher. He is considered one …

Socialism

by Friedrich Engels Read by Bob Neufeld 4.4
The main idea of "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" (1880) was distinguishing scientific socialism and utopian socialism. Engels …

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli Read by Paul Adams 4.6
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavel…

Eugenics and Other Evils

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Ray Clare 4.7
Eugenics and Other Evils is a thought-provoking collection of essays by G. K. Chesterton that critiques the eugenics movement of the early 2…

As a Man Thinketh

by James Allen Read by Audio Andrea 4.7
As a Man Thinketh is a literary essay of James Allen, published in 1902. The title is influenced by a verse in the Bible from the Book of Pr…

The Everlasting Righteousness

by Horatius Bonar Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
... or How Shall Man Be Just with God?How does salvation work? How does a righteous God declare an unrighteous person to be righteous in His…

Mark Twain's Speeches

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.9
This collection of the 195 known, publicly-printed speeches of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was compiled by Paul Fatout and publish…

The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis

by Sigmund Freud Read by Peter Tucker 4.8
A series of lectures given in the USA by Freud in German, later translated into English - Summary by Peter Tucker

The New Jerusalem

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Ray Clare 4.6
The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of anyone involved in the production of this book, and are not the views of LibriVox.Dale A…

Anarchism and Other Essays

by Emma Goldman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the developme…

Mysticism and Logic

by Bertrand Russell Read by Landon D. C. Elkind 4.5
This anthology collects a number of fascinating strands of Bertrand Russell's thought. "Mathematics and the Metaphysicians" detail…

On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill Read by John Stuart Mill 4.9
"On Liberty," a seminal work by philosopher John Stuart Mill. Mill felt there were no definite standards for defining what societ…

The Letters of Mark Twain

by Mark Twain Read by James K. White 4.8
These letters were arranged in two volumes by Albert Bigelow Paine, Samuel L. Clemens's literary executor, as a supplement to Mark Twain, A …

The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

by Bertrand Russell Read by Landon D. C. Elkind 4.8
'The Philosophy of Logical Atomism' is a series of lectures by Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) that touches on numerous topics, including the n…

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters…

Self and Self-management

by Arnold Bennett Read by Ruth Golding 4.4
Bennett's essays always provide food for thought and bring a wry smile to the lips. Human nature, it appears, changes little over the ages, …

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