Essays & Short Works
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…
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…
Stage Land
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Jerome K. Jerome
A comic look at the curious habits and customs of the inhabitants of 'Stage Land'. Dedicated to 'that highly respectable but unnecessarily r…
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 &…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 009
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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 these collecti…
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.…
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…
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. 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…
Leo Tolstoy
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G. K. Chesterton
Three men of letters give insightful essays on the work of Leo Tolstoy. (Summary by Larry Wilson)
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…
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. 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…
Shadowland: October, 1919
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Various
Shadowland was an American monthly magazine about art, dance, and film published from 1919 to 1923 before being absorbed by Motion Picture C…
The Penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Issue 1
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Charles Knight
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was published in competition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which …
The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 2
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Charles Knight
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was published in competition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which …
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 3
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Charles Knight
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was published in competition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which …
Shadowland: September, 1919
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Various
Shadowland was an American monthly magazine about art, dance, and film published from 1919 to 1923 before being absorbed by Motion Picture C…
Shadowland: November, 1919
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Various
Shadowland was an American monthly magazine about art, dance, and film published from 1919 to 1923 before being absorbed by Motion Picture C…