Politics
The Home and the World
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo religionist, visual artist, playwright, nov…
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Henry Morgenthau
Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important prima…
Twenty Years at Hull House
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Jane Addams
Jane Addams was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer settlement worker…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 001
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Various
A collection of ten short essays or other short nonfiction works in the public domain read by LibriVox volunteers.
John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works
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Various
This biography is actually a series of essays by prominent personalities of the time that shed light on John Stuart Mill's life and areas of…
Offences Against One's Self: Paederasty
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Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He was a political radical and a leading theor…
Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
This satire on the U.S.A.'s myth of being the "Home of the Oppressed, where all men are free and equal", is unrelenting in its pur…
The Westminster Alice
Read by Ruth Golding
Saki
Published five years before John Kendrick Bangs had the same idea with Alice in Blunderland, Saki, in his 1902 series of satirical articles,…
A Yellow Journalist
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Miriam Michelson
Rhoda Massey is a young, sharp reporter for a daily newspaper in San Francisco. After proving herself an astute and fearless investigator on…
Samuel the Seeker
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Upton Sinclair
What would happen to you if you tried to make your way in the world believing all the clear, simple things you had ever been taught growing …
Felix Holt, The Radical
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George Eliot
"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is …
Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the premier movers in the original women’s rights movement, along with Susan B. Anthony, her best friend f…
Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart
Read by James K. White
Maria W. Stewart
Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery a…
Areopagitica (Version 2)
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
The noblest and most extensive defense of freedom of the press in English. Although Milton was sufficiently practical to serve as a censor o…
The Free Press
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Hilaire Belloc
I propose to discuss in what follows the evil of the great modern Capitalist Press, its function in vitiating and misinforming opinion and i…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 003
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Various
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…
Bacon
Read by Bill Boerst
Richard William Church
This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days and progresses to his relationships with Que…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 007
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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…
The Masque of Anarchy
Read by Phil Benson
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Masque of Anarchy was Shelley's response to the Peterloo massacre at St Peter's Fields, Manchester, where 18 died and hundreds were inju…
A Cry From An Indian Wife
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E. Pauline Johnson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of A Cry From an Indian Wife by E. Pauline Johnson,. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for…