Essays & Short Works

Coffee Break Collection 006 - Food and Drink

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Various


This is the sixth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in leng…

The Fireside Chats

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Franklin D. Roosevelt


President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thirty radio addresses made throughout his terms as President of the United States between 1933 and 1944…

In Our Convent Days

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Agnes Repplier


With her usual wit and charm, Ms. Repplier recalls her days at Eden Hall, the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Torresdale, north of Philadelph…

Historical Newspaper Articles, Volume 2

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Various


This collection of 20 public domain newspaper articles comprises volume 2 of Historic Newspaper Articles in the LibriVox collection. Both U.…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 052

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Various


Diese Sammlung umfasst 10 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.

The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 4

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National Geographic Society


National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 4 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Irrigation in CaliforniaRound about AshevilleA Trip…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 006

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Various


A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were inde…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 008

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Various


A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collectio…

This, That, and the Other

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Hilaire Belloc


“When Fame comes upon a man well before death then must he most particularly beware of it, for is it then most dangerous. Neither must he, h…

Miscellaneous Essays of Thomas de Quincey

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Thomas De Quincey


The Hunter Thompson of the 19th Century, de Quincey is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (an activity shared with his…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 024

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Various and Plato


A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the rea…

On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery

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Joseph Lister


Joseph Lister was born near London in 1827. He studied medicine at the University of London and pursued a career as a surgeon in Scotland. H…

The Night Side of New York

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Various


This nonfiction collection of sketches, by "members of the New York press," takes the reader on a tour of 1866 New York City after…

Gleanings in Buddha Fields

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Lafcadio Hearn


Lafcadio Hearn was one of the first Westerners to live in Japan during the early Meiji era, and a prolific writer. Although chiefly known fo…

The Common Reader

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Virginia Woolf


A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, some of which originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement or the Dial, and others were or…

Historical Newspaper Articles, Volume 1

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Various


Public Domain newspaper articles in the US span a period of nearly two and a half centuries. Subjects, styles, period, publisher, and length…

The Uses of Diversity

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G. K. Chesterton


A collection of 35 essays by G.K. Chesterton originally published in his weekly columns in "The Illustrated London News" and the &…

The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing

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Joseph Trienens and Joseph Triemens


Written in 1910, this "cyclopedia" is full of information that was quite useful at the time. A hundred years later, its text is mo…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 045

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Various


Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.

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