Essays & Short Works
- Philosophical Travelogues
- Essays on Society and Culture
- Essays for Personal Growth
- Explorations in Science and Thought
- Explorations in Psychology
- Political Essays and Reflections
- Political Essays and Manifestos
- Philosophical Essays on Existence
Water
This is the twenty-fifth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes …
Coffee Break Collection
A collection of short public-domain stories and essays about animals, with pieces on creatures of land, sea, and air. Each selection runs ab…
The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States hist…
Short Nonfiction Collection
"It seemed as if a total dissolution of nature was taking place" is the way 15-year old Alexander Hamilton described living throug…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the November Number. It includes the following articles:* The Witwatersrand and th…
From the Easy Chair
George William Curtis was a writer and public speaker. He was editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the American Republican p…
Moral Letters
This is the second volume of the Letters, Epistles LXVI-XCII. Among the personalities of the early Roman Empire there are few who offer to t…
Synthetic Marmalade
Poems, Song Lyrics and Magic Spells written by Mike Luoma over the past 20 years. Luoma's poems and lyrics range from idylls on Vermont (&qu…
Shall I Pray or Watch TV?
Shall I Pray or Watch TV? looks at the history of TV and its effect on our culture all from a Christian worldview perspective. My hope is th…
Homogenic Love and Its Place in a Free Society
This pamphlet by LGBT pioneer and philosopher Edward Carpenter was originally intended to form part of his work "Love's Coming of Age&q…
Vassar Studies
Published in 1899, Vassar Studies is a collection of twelve realistic glimpses into the character of attending students at Vassar College. I…
Five Lectures on Blindness
The [five] lectures were written primarily to be delivered at the summer sessions of the University of California, at Berkeley and at Los An…
Essays on Modern Novelists
A collection of essays on 19th century novelists, both famous ones and those largely forgotten now. Among the writers presented most wrote i…
Mother Earth
"Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literat…
Visits To The Dead In The Catacombs Of Rome
This essay of a cultured observer, for many years United States consul in Rome, appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 10, issue 59,…
Smoke Bellew
Smoke Bellew, or really Jack London, leaves his less than satisfying writing job in San Francisco for the opportunity to search for gold in …
An Essay on Criticism
The title, An Essay on Criticism hardly indicates all that is included in the poem. It would have been impossible to give a full and exact i…
The Difficult Task of Loving Atheists
In 2006, the author found the newly released Richard Dawkins’ book, The God Delusion at the library. Shaking his head in disbelief that anyo…
Trivia
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) was an American-born British essayist who was known for his epigrams and aphorisms, often humorous. This re…
On Pelican Wings
Rick Hoover has been writing for most of his life while working in radio, television and public relations. "On Pelican Wings" is a…