Essays & Short Works

The Communist Manifesto

by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx Read by Mark F. Smith 4.2
The Communist Manifesto was conceived as an outline of the basic beliefs of the Communist movement. The authors believed that the European P…

Tea-table Talk

by Jerome K. Jerome Read by Ruth Golding 4.4
As the New York Times said in 1903, this lesser-known work by Jerome K. Jerome does not display "the wit of Congreve or even the glitte…

Religio Medici and Hydriotaphia

by Thomas Browne Read by Nicole Lee 4.4
Religio Medici (The Religion of a Doctor) sets out Sir Thomas Browne's spiritual testament as well as being an early psychological self-port…

American Notes

by Rudyard Kipling Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019) 4.2
In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the Jungle Book, visits the USA. As the travel-diary of an Anglo-India…

Floor Games

by H. G. Wells Read by Mark F. Smith 4.5
H.G. Wells had so much fun playing with his children on the floor of their playroom, he decided to write a jovial little book to inspire oth…

The Book of Hallowe'en

by Ruth Edna Kelley Read by Sibella Denton 4.5
This book is intended to give the reader an account of the origin and history of Hallowe'en, how it absorbed some customs belonging to other…

A Traveller in War-Time

by Winston Churchill Read by Bellona Times 4.5
This is a collection of a series of journalistic articles written during his travels throughout WWI era Europe that Churchill -- the America…

Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy

by George Santayana Read by Gary Gilberd 4.7
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive…

Selected Aphorisms

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by Edmund Bloxam 4.6
A collection of three of Nietzsche's writings concerning the music of Wagner. In particular, he relates Wagner's music as degenerate, unrefi…

Mormonism and Masonry

by Samuel H. Goodwin Read by Chiquito Crasto 4.4
Mormonism and Masonry delves into the intricate relationship between the Mormon faith and Freemasonry, examining the historical and cultural…

African-American Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Celebrate the rich tapestry of African American literature with this diverse anthology, curated to honor Black History Month. This collectio…

The Einstein Theory of Relativity

by Hendrik A. Lorentz Read by Availle 4.4
When Albert Einstein published his first paper on relativity theory, it caused a stir in the physicists' community. When more and more evide…

The Truth About Jesus

by M. M. Mangasarian Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Truth About Jesus presents a thought-provoking examination of the historicity of Jesus, based on a series of studies delivered in 1909 t…

Not That It Matters

by A. A. Milne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
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 Morals

by Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Moralia (loosely translatable as "Matters relating to customs") of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an e…

Essay on the Creative Imagination

by Théodule-Armand Ribot Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.9
"It is quite generally recognized that psychology has remained in the semi-mythological, semi-scholastic period longer than most attemp…

Selected House of Commons Speeches

by Winston S. Churchill Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 – 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during W…

American Psychology

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
This is the second of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an acade…

The Relations of Saint Teresa of Avila

by St. Teresa of Avila Read by Ann Boulais 4.7
The Relations of Saint Teresa of Avila offers a profound glimpse into the spiritual journey of one of Christianity's most revered mystics. I…

The World’s Story

by Eva March Tappan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
This is the second volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March T…

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