Essays & Short Works

Coffee Break Collection 025 - Water

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Various


This is the twenty-fifth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes …

Your United States: Impressions Of A First Visit

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Arnold Bennett


Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journal…

The Shining Pyramid: The Definitive Edition

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Arthur Machen


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 Complete Essays of John Galsworthy

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John Galsworthy


This is a collection of essays by John Galsworthy. A multitude of subjects is covered, but the essays are connected by an artistic spirit, a…

Vassar Studies

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Julia Augusta Schwartz


Published in 1899, Vassar Studies is a collection of twelve realistic glimpses into the character of attending students at Vassar College. I…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 069

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Various


"It seemed as if a total dissolution of nature was taking place" is the way 15-year old Alexander Hamilton described living throug…

The Human Drift

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Jack London


The Human Drift is a posthumous collection of famous author Jack London's miscellaneous writings, including multiple essays of one of his fa…

Lancashire Characters and Places

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Thomas Newbigging


An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and E…

Monologues

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Richard Middleton


This is a collection of 32 highly diverting essays of English author Richard Middleton. Although Middleton is now best remembered for his gh…

Frauds, Forgeries, and Fake News Collection

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Various


This collection showcases fabricated documents and stories throughout history, and the diversity of purposes and contexts they were deployed…

Narratives of Colored Americans

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Abigail Mott


Abigail Mott was a Quaker and abolitionist from New York who, along with fellow Quaker M. S. Wood, has compiled a provocative collection of …

The Mirror of the Sea (Version 2)

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Joseph Conrad


"Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion. The length of passages,…

An Irregular Miscellany: A selection of essays and lectures from the Common Univ…

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A.F. Harrold


Throughout the 1920s the Common University provided a free and ready source of education to the working classes of England through various l…

Five Lectures on Blindness

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Kate M. Foley


The [five] lectures were written primarily to be delivered at the summer sessions of the University of California, at Berkeley and at Los An…

The Meaning of Life and Other Essays

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Alban Goodier, S.J.


Even with the best intentions, we can often get caught up in the affairs of this world and forget about God. To stay on the path to Heaven w…

Women, Children, Love and Marriage

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Catherine Gasquoine Hartley


This book contains a number of essays about various subjects pertaining to women, children love and marriage - Summary by ashleighjane

G.K. Chesterton in Vanity Fair Magazine

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G. K. Chesterton


A collection of 12 articles/essays that G.K. Chesterton wrote for Vanity Fair magazine in 1920-1921, under the general title “The Next/New R…

Multilingual Short Works Collection 012

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Various


This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English). Al…

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