Essays & Short Works

Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution

by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Read by Christian Pecaut 3.5
In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with …

Signs of Change

by William Morris Read by Deborah Brabyn 4.4
In the 1880s William Morris, the artist and poet famously associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, left the Liberal Party and threw him…

Principles of Economics

by Alfred Marshall Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

Zum ewigen Frieden

by Immanuel Kant Read by Christian Al-Kadi 4.6
In der Abhandlung „Zum ewigen Frieden" wendet Kant die Grundsätze seiner Moralphilosophie auf die Beziehungen zwischen Staaten an.…

Duelo y melancolía

by Sigmund Freud Read by Alba 4.7
Después de habernos servido del sueño como modelo normal de las perturbaciones mentales narcisistas, vamos a intentar esclarec…

On the Popular Judgment

by Immanuel Kant Read by D.E. Wittkower 4
This tripartite essay – published variously as “On the Popular Judgment” (J. Richardson trans.), “On the Old Saw” (E.B. Ashton trans.), or “…

The Ego and His Own

by Max Stirner Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
In this book, his most famous, Max Stirner presents a philosophical case for a radical egoism that shuns the socially-oriented outlooks of b…

Psychotherapy

by Hugo Münsterberg Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Talking about viewing the Ocean "If I take the attitude of appreciation, it would be absurd to say that this wave is composed of chemic…

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

by Friedrich Engels Read by Rainer 4.6
Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels schrieben ihr Manifest im Dezember 1847, als Leitfaden fuer die grundsaetzlichen Prinzipien und Praktiken des…

The Phenomenology of Mind

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's fi…

The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment

by Élisabeth Celnart Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment by Élisabeth Celnart is a comprehensive guide to the social g…

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
A neat book on dream analysis by the founding father of psychoanalysis. This book is about the inner theater and the workings of the mind in…

A Personal Anthology of Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare Read by Martin Clifton 4.4
This personal anthology is my choice of speeches from Shakespeare that I enjoy reading (that I would like to have had by heart years ago!) a…

The Silence Dogood Letters

by Benjamin Franklin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
As a teenager, Benjamin Franklin apprenticed with his brother James at the shop where The New-England Courant was printed. Since James would…

The Book of Lies

by Aleister Crowley Read by P. J. Taylor 3.8
The Book of Lies, or Liber 333, is a holy book in the Western occult tradition of Thelema, consisting of 91 short chapters of poems, aphoris…

The Art of the Moving Picture

by Vachel Lindsay Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
"This 1922 book by poet and sometime cultural critic Vachel Lindsay might have been the first to treat the then-new medium of moving pi…

Vices are not Crimes

by Lysander Spooner Read by Annise 4.5
In Vices are not Crimes, Lysander Spooner presents a thought-provoking examination of the relationship between individual liberty and govern…

How to Tell a Story

by Mark Twain Read by Claudia Salto 3.9
In his inimitable way, Mark Twain gives sound advice about how to tell a story, then lets us in on some curious incidents he experienced, an…

Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule

by Mahatma Gandhi Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
First written in Gandhi's native language Gujarati, this booklet advocates for Indian non-violent self-rule during the struggle for Indian i…

The Coming of the Fairies

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
After a number of deaths in his close family, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned to spiritualism in hope of finding proof of the afterlife. Being…

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