Essays & Short Works

LibriVox 11th Anniversary Collection

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Various


"LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to li…

The Fringe of an Art: Appreciations in Music

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Vernon Blackburn


A collection of essays on things musical by Vernon Blackburn, including composers, music in different time periods, and modern music. (Summ…

The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 12 - Tributes

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Robert G. Ingersoll


Col. Ingersoll, a renowned trial lawyer and known as "the Great Agnostic", was one of the most sought after Toastmasters of his da…

Sadhana, The Realisation of Life (Version 3)

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Rabindranath Tagore


"Sadhana: The Realization of Life" by Rabindranath Tagore is a profound exploration of spirituality, blending Eastern philosophy w…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 097

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Various


"One does not care to walk over a rug or carpet that displays a scene in perspective, neither does one wish to gaze into a landscape wr…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 060

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Various


Diese Sammlung umfasst 10 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres. (Inhaltswarnung: Einige dieser Texte thematisieren Gewalt oder …

Editorials from The Dial magazine, Volume 66

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Martyn Johnson


Editorials published in Volume 66 of The Dial magazine, a fortnightly political and literary review. The source available to us features iss…

State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1946 - 1953)

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Harry S. Truman


The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…

Hunting Sketches

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Anthony Trollope


Anthony Trollope describes with his characteristic wit the different types of hunters commonly found in 19th century Britain. - Summary by E…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 095

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Various


"A legendary island in the Atlantic Ocean, first mentioned by Plato", is how the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica descr…

Lost Leaders

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Andrew Lang


Andrew Lang, best beloved for his series of fairy books, has collected here essays on wide ranging topics from golf and shaving to Thackeray…

Coffee Break Collection 037 - More Birds

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Various


This is the 37th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 061

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Various


Diese Sammlungsreihe erscheint unregelmäßig und umfasst 10 verschiedene deutschsprachige Prosatexte.- zusammengefasst von schrm

On Reading The Bible

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


These are three lectures (numbers 8, 9, 10) excerpted from the author’s 1920 book On The Art Of Reading. The lectures were delivered to stu…

The Honour of the Gout

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Philander Misaurus


This droll and 'enflammatory' pamphelet doth be a grondebreaking worke of musing upon a great aflicktion of Man, upon the better nature of t…

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