Essays & Short Works

Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling

by William Healy Read by Mary Schneider 3.8
This work describes and analyzes several cases of pathological behavior. The interest comes not only from the cases themselves, but also fro…

Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution

by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Read by Christian Pecaut 3.5
In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with …

Signs of Change

by William Morris Read by Deborah Brabyn 4.4
In the 1880s William Morris, the artist and poet famously associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, left the Liberal Party and threw him…

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory

by Publius Cornelius Tacitus Read by Leni 4.8
The scene of the Dialogus de Oratoribus, as this work is commonly known, is laid in the sixth year of Vespasian, 75 a.D. The commentators ar…

The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex

by Charles Darwin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Part 2 of 3 of a book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great boo…

American Psychology

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
This is the first of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an academ…

The Compleat Angler

by Izaak Walton Read by Nicole Lee 3.9
The Compleat Angler is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. Walton did not profess to be an expert with the fl…

The Ego and His Own

by Max Stirner Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
In this book, his most famous, Max Stirner presents a philosophical case for a radical egoism that shuns the socially-oriented outlooks of b…

A Personal Anthology of Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare Read by Martin Clifton 4.4
This personal anthology is my choice of speeches from Shakespeare that I enjoy reading (that I would like to have had by heart years ago!) a…

Magna Carta Commemoration Essays

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
On 15th June 1215 the Magna Carta was sealed under oath by King John at Runnymede, on the bank of the River Thames near Windsor, England. 20…

The Book of Lies

by Aleister Crowley Read by P. J. Taylor 3.8
The Book of Lies, or Liber 333, is a holy book in the Western occult tradition of Thelema, consisting of 91 short chapters of poems, aphoris…

The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment

by Élisabeth Celnart Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment by Élisabeth Celnart is a comprehensive guide to the social g…

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
A neat book on dream analysis by the founding father of psychoanalysis. This book is about the inner theater and the workings of the mind in…

The Coming of the Fairies

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
After a number of deaths in his close family, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned to spiritualism in hope of finding proof of the afterlife. Being…

The Phenomenology of Mind

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.3
Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's fi…

The Sunny Side

by A. A. Milne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The Sunny Side is a collection of short stories and essays by A. A. Milne. Though Milne is best known for his classic children's books, espe…

Omens and Superstitions of Southern India

by Edgar Thurston Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Omens and Superstitions of Southern India explores the rich tapestry of beliefs and practices that shape the psychical life of the people in…

Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule

by Mahatma Gandhi Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
First written in Gandhi's native language Gujarati, this booklet advocates for Indian non-violent self-rule during the struggle for Indian i…

The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

by Thomas Henry Huxley Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.5
Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist and essayist, was an advocate of the theory of evolution and a self-proclaimed agnostic. A talented w…

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…

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