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Lorelei of the Red Mist (Version 2)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Leigh Douglass Brackett
Published in Planet Stories in 1946, this story is a great mix of Golden Age Sci Fi and Swords & Sorcery. The first half was written by…
Die mißbrauchten Liebesbriefe
Read by Karlsson
Gottfried Keller
Victor (Viggi) Störteler betreibt ein einträgliches Speditions- und Warengeschäft und hat ein "hübsches, gesundes u…
The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont
Read by Czechchris
Robert Barr
Short stories by a colleague of Jerome K. Jerome, and friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Barr probably wrote the first parody of Sherlock Hol…
The Interplanetary Notes of Ambassador B
The Interplanetary Notes of Ambassador B By Ed Harris Ambassador B should be inspecting minor planets of far-away suns for the peaceful Inte…
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (version 2)
Read by Jothi Tharavant
Patanjali
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief, less than ten pages of large type in the original. Yet they contain the es…
Practical Mysticism (Version 2)
Read by Owlivia
Evelyn Underhill
I write only for the larger class which, repelled by the formidable appearance of more elaborate works on the subject, would yet like to kno…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 042
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Various
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include biographies of astronomer Fiammett…
The Column of Dust
Read by Josh Mitteldorf
Evelyn Underhill
Evelyn Underhill, the preeminent scholar of mysticism, wrote 3 novels in her youth, of which this is #3. Constance Tyrrel, a poor but liter…
A History of Astronomy
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Walter W. Bryant
In this book, Walter W. Bryant traces the history of astronomy through the ages. We start at the very beginning, where astronomy was an occu…
The Sonnet
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Richard Watson Gilder
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 readings of The Sonnet by Richard Watson Gilder. This was the weekly poetry project for October 5, 2014.
Tremendous Trifles
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
“None of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don't let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us ex…
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
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Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
This book is a popular science book written in the late 1600s. It is written as a series of conversations between a gallant philosopher and …
Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's ''Leaves o' Grass''
Read by Scotty Smith
Bill Nye
There can really be no excuse for this last book of trite and beautiful sayings. I do not attempt, in any way, to palliate this great wrong.…
An Introduction to the History of Science
Read by Steven Seitel
Walter Libby
A highly accessible introductory history of the development of scientific thought, method, and application from the first practical concepts…
Abraham Lincoln: The Practical Mystic
Read by Tim Rowe
Francis Grierson
A knowledge of the influences which ruled the life of Lincoln, the greatest of practical mystics, is essential now that a new form of pagani…
Practical Talks by an Astronomer
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Harold Jacoby
The present volume has not been designed as a systematic treatise on astronomy. There are many excellent books of that kind, suitable for se…
New Adventures of Alice (version 2 Dramatic Reading)
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John Rae
After reading and re-reading the book many time as a boy and wishing that Lewis Carroll would have written another Alice In Wonderland Book,…
Philosophical Essays
Read by Landon D. C. Elkind
Bertrand Russell
Six out of seven essays appearing here were reprinted from other publications; indeed, this 1910 collection went out of print, so that two o…
