Essays & Short Works

Selected House of Commons Speeches

by Winston S. Churchill Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 – 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during W…

The National Geographic Magazine

by National Geographic Society Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 2 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Africa, its Past and FutureReports on:Geography of …

Walden

by Henry David Thoreau Read by Nick Bulka 4.4
Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, a refl…

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…

The World’s Story

by Eva March Tappan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This is the first volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…

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…

Hidden Treasures

by Harry A. Lewis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Hidden Treasures offers a collection of inspiring mini-biographies that illuminate the journeys of notable figures who rose from humble begi…

Obesity and Diabetes

by Various 4.5
Obesity and diabetes are increasingly a burden in modern populations, and whilst the contributions of our lifestyles are well-known, other a…

The World as Will and Idea

by Arthur Schopenhauer Read by Expatriate 4.6
In this work, Schopenhauer explains his fundamental idea that at the root of the reality we see around us is a Will that eternally, insatiab…

The Sins of Hollywood

by Ed Roberts and Edward Roberts Read by Chuck Williamson 4.2
Exacerbated by several high-profile Hollywood scandals, a wave of anti-Hollywood rhetoric tried to paint the movie capital as a veritable ho…

Little Wars

by H. G. Wells Read by Mark F. Smith 4.2
A Game for Boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books…

Beyond Good and Evil

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
First published in 1886 at Nietzsche’s own expense, the book was not initially considered important. In it, Nietzsche denounced what he cons…

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 “…

Neighbors

by Jacob A. Riis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…

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…

The National Geographic Magazine

by National Geographic Society Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 1 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Announcement by the National Geographic SocietyIntr…

A Tale of a Tub

by Jonathan Swift Read by Edmund Bloxam 3.6
A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, composed between 1694 and 1697, that was eventually published in 1704. I…

The Complete Book of Cheese

by Bob Brown Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Bob Brown, after living thirty years in as many foreign lands and enjoying countless national cheeses at the source, returned to New York an…

The Miracle Mongers

by Harry Houdini Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Miracle Mongers offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of stage performers and the extraordinary feats they claim to accomplish. Wr…

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